RuMSS and other participants of the 5th Russian Congress of Patients signed the Declaration Universal Access to Affordable Medicine. During the last 10 years global spending on medicine increased almost two times. Meanwhile, even the citizens of the wealthiest countries of the world cannot afford many new medical products.

Read more: 27.11.14. Moscow. Declaration of Universal Access to Affordable Medicine.

On the 7-11 of July, the 2014 Annual Ministerial Review was convened in New York as part of the ECOSOC High-level Segment, UN. On the first day, attendees heard a statement, prepared by President of the Russian MS Society (RuMSS) Dr. Yan Vlasov that suggests initiating under the auspices of the UN a discussion platform between NGOs in the ECOSOC consultative status from all over the world to discuss the RuMSS’ initiative of establishing public control in healthcare.

Read more: Russian MS Society heard in UN

 Today at the Meeting of the Presidium of the Council on Priority National Projects, Dmitri Medvedev

(FEDERAL NEWS) Today at the meeting of the Presidium of the Council on priority national projects, Dmitri Medvedev stated that next year, some 300 billion rubles (€8.3 billion) will be allocated by the Federal budget alone on the national projects. The priority programmes per se should be integrated in the programme of the nation development until 2020.

‘Additional funds to finance the national projects (Note: the national projects include Worthy Housing, Quality Education, Accessible Health Services, and Agriculture Development) over the period of their implementation came up to almost 400 billion rubles (€11 billion)’, Dmitri Medvedev mentioned. In his words, the experience of implementing the national projects proved ‘investments in the human capital as ones of the most effective’. ‘A free, educated and healthy human is the key to defining the nation’s development and its prospects,’ said the First Vice Prime Minister.The national projects were investment efficient for the development of not only these branches but the economy and society on the whole’, stated Medvedev, also adding the healthcare, education and agricultural system will keep their priority for the state in future.