# \[e-drug\] MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [October 10, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-msf-campaign-for-access-to-essential-medicines/36204 "2011-10-10T05:39:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Neil\_Pakenham-Walsh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ec9cab/32.png) [@Neil\_Pakenham-Walsh1](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/Neil_Pakenham-Walsh1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-msf-campaign-for-access-to-essential-medicines/36204/1 "2011-10-10T05:39:01Z")
E-DRUG: MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines -------------------------------------------------- Dear Michelle and e-druggers, Does MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines have plans to start a global campaign discussion forum to engage all stakeholders around this issue? We (HIFA2015) are a global network campaigning for access to healthcare information in LMICs and we want to identify and collaborate with a similar network on access to medicines, but we cannot find one. There is an IP-Health forum (thanks to Joanna Keenan MSF for notifying me about this) and of course there is e-drug itself. IP-Health forum appears to be specialised to IP issues. e-Drug is currently a community of interest, although it does I think have potential to become a dynamic campaign forum as well. By way of introduction, HIFA2015 (Healthcare Information For All by 2015) is a global campaign and knowledge network administered by the Global Healthcare Information Network, a non-profit organisation working to improve the quality of health care in developing countries. HIFA2015 brings together more than 5000 health workers, librarians, publishers, researchers and policymakers in 2000 organisations across 158 countries worldwide, all committed to a common goal: By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed health care provider. One-third of members are based in Africa, one-third in Europe, and one-third in the rest of the world. Together we are working for a future where people are no longer dying for lack of basic healthcare knowledge. We interact on five forums: 1. HIFA2015 2. CHILD2015 in collaboration with ICHG/RCPCH 3. HIFA2015-Portuguese in collaboration with WHO, Geneva 4. HIFA-EVIPNet-French in collaboration with WHO, Geneva 5. HIFA-Zambia in collaboration with the Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance HIFA2015 has received financial support from the British Medical Association, British Nursing Index, ePORTUGUESe/World Health Organization, International Child Health Group, Lancet, Network for Information and Digital Access, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Nursing, THET Further information: www.hifa2015.org Join HIFA2015, CHILD2015, HIFA-Portuguese, HIFA-EVIPNet-French, HIFA-Zambia: www.hifa2015.org "Healthcare Information For All by 2015: By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider" With thanks to our 2011 financial supporters: British Medical Association, CABI, Global HELP, International Child Health Group (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health), Joanna Briggs Institute, Network for Information and Digital Access, Public Library of Science, Rockefeller Foundation (Monitoring & Evaluation), Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Nursing, THET, and UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative. Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh MB,BS, DCH, DRCOG Coordinator, HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 Co-director, Global Healthcare Information Network 16 Woodfield Drive Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3SE, UK Tel: +44 (0)1608 811338 Email: \neil.pakenham-walsh@ghi-net.org HIFA2015: [http://www.hifa2015.org](http://www.hifa2015.org)