director of policy advocacy Michelle Childs of MSF said "An important precedent, not just for the people living with HIV within its country, who have been campaigning for this, but also for other developing countries. As medicines for HIV and hepatitis B are increasingly under patent in developing counties, Indonesia has shown that countries can and should take action to enable the production of low-cost versions of essential life-saving medicines for their citizens" Humanitarian Mechanism In 2017, MSF, WHO, UNICEF, and Save The Children reached an agreement with Pfizer and GSK, called the Humanitarian Mechanism. This allows humanitarian groups and UN agencies to purchase pneumonia vaccines at a greatly reduced price. MSF continued to advocate for expansion of this mechanism to other vaccines and customers, and called for generic manufacturers to produce them and lower the market price. See also Essential medicines WHO Model List of Essential Medicines World Health Organization Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Universities Allied for Essential Medicines References External links MSF Access Campaign website Untangling the Web of ARV Price Reductions, MSF Access Campaign Resource Guide Charities based in Switzerland Health activism Tuberculosis organizations Malaria organizations Pharmaceuticals policy