Thank you MSJ for featuring this important editorial about the World Health Organization (WHO) decision to add DMTs for #MultipleSclerosis to its Essential Medicines List last year!

Find out more from MS Int'l Federation: msif.org/news/2023/07/2…

#MSTreatmentForAll

📢January issue is now available ▶️ journals.sagepub.com/toc/MSJ/current

...and the cover goes to Joanna Laurson-Doube Dilraj Sokhi MS Int'l Federation with their roadmap of implementation for #MultipleSclerosis disease-modifying therapies entering the #WHO Essential Medicines List ▶️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Helga Weiland Multiple Sclerosis SA (MSSA) explains how digitally collecting standardised PROMS could improve management and care of people with #MultipleSclerosis across the world

#MSATL2023 ⁦MS Int'l Federation⁩ @who #eml #DMT

On this #WorldMSDay , happy to see our efforts to improve care for people with #MultipleSclerosis in #Africa moving forward. Thanks to Dilraj Sokhi for hosting a great meeting in #Kenya to launch #AFRICTRIMS ! Also happy to have a new friend, Yared Z. Zewde!

Everyone should have equal & affordable access to #MultipleSclerosis treatments.
We have endorsed MS Int'l Federation & WHO Collaborating Centre Bologna’s application to add #MS treatments to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Essential Medicines List. #MS TreatmentForAll
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Today at the Indian Committee of Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ICTRIMS Delhi 2023), Dr Lekha Pandit presented on the World Health Organization (WHO) decision to add MS treatments to their Essential Medicines List. Read more about the decision here. 👉msintfederation.org/WHO

Last week at the Association of South East Asian Nations Neurological Association, Dr Viswanathan, a Neurologist from Malaysia, shared advocacy tools for improved #AccessToMedicines for MS, including information on the MS treatments listed on the World Health Organization (WHO)'s EML.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently included MS treatments on its Essential Medicines List (EML). This comment, made by EML Expert Committee regarding our EML application, is a testament the exceptional quality and rigour of the application, made possible by the global collaboration. 🌍

For the first time in its history, MS therapies are now included on the World Health Organization’s Model Lists of Essential Medicines. buff.ly/3Kt7s3X

#multiplesclerosis #msnews #msawareness #mscommunity

Thank you ECTRIMS for your ongoing support for MS Int'l Federation global efforts!

#MSTreatmentForAll #GlobalHealth

We are a proud member of the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF) and today, we celebrate the addition of #MSTreatments to WHO’s Essential Medicines List, which will promote and support #PositiveChange for access to MS treatments worldwide: bit.ly/3YarlSK

Three medicines that can delay or slow multiple sclerosis progression - cladribine, glatiramer acetate and rituximab - are added to the WHO Essential Medicines List, filling an important gap given the large global burden of the chronic, debilitating disease of the nervous system.…

I still remember seeing young patients with demyelinating disorders decompensate due to lack of inexpensive disease modifying therapy in med school. Big step in the direction but a long way to go... #neurotwitter #MedTwitter #globalneurology

Obesity drugs don't make WHO's essential list, but Ebola, MS drugs added reut.rs/3Y6GfJV

Such an important milestone for the global #MS community! Thanks to MS Int'l Federation for leading the way on this important effort! ECTRIMS ACTRIMS® LACTRIMS PACTRIMS

Congratulations to the MS Int'l Federation! 🙌 The future is bright for patients with #MS 🧠

🌍Fantastic news! Today the World Health Organization (WHO) added three disease modifying-therapies (DMTs) 💊for multiple sclerosis (MS) to its Essential Medicines List! It is a significant moment in the history of MS.
Learn more here: msif.org/news/2023/07/2…

#MSTreatmentForAll

The decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) to include #MS treatments on the Essential Medicines List marks an important milestone for the global MS community and our work to facilitate access to MS treatments all over the globe. Learn more👉 buff.ly/44NGKv2

Today is a momentous day for people with #MS globally. Proud to have contributed to this work and thankful to World Health Organization (WHO) for recognizing #access to treatment is essential for everyone. Thanks to MS Int'l Federation for leading this work and so many others!