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  • Learn from others
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  • Awards, grants and fellowships
  • McDonald Fellowships
  • Du Pré Grants
  • Charcot Award
  • Global MS research fellowships
  • Young Investigator Award
  • Key topics in MS research
  • Clinical research and trials
  • Epstein-Barr virus and MS
  • MS registries
  • Patient Reported Outcomes for MS
  • Quality of life research in MS
  • Stem cell therapy for MS
  • Research
  • Atlas of MS
  • Key topics in MS research
  • Awards, grants and fellowships
  • Progressive MS Alliance
  • Relationships
  • Family life
  • Intimacy
  • Caregivers
  • Living with MS
  • Find MS support near you
  • What influences quality of life?
  • Keeping healthy
  • MS and menopause
  • Smoking and MS
  • Relationships
  • Telling people you have MS
  • Ageing and MS
  • Education and employment
  • COVID-19 advice
  • Symptoms of MS
  • Pain
  • Vision
  • Bladder and bowel
  • Fatigue
  • Emotion and cognitition
  • Sexual problems
  • Movement and coordination
  • Treatments and therapies
  • Rehabilitation
  • Complementary therapies 
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Access to MS healthcare

Supporting national efforts to improve access to healthcare through evidence, tools, case studies and peer-support

Improve MS diagnosis

Many people with MS experience delays in diagnosis and are often misdiagnosed. Consider what can be done to improve awareness and improve early diagnosis.

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Improve access to MS treatment

Access to treatment is a high priority for most people with MS. Convince decision-makers that MS treatments should be available in all health systems.

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Learn from others

Advocacy examples from the global MS movement to inspire you today.

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Get the evidence

Provide information on the number of people with MS and barriers to accessing healthcare to key decision-makers in your country.

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How to get started in advocacy

Your guide to successful advocacy. Tools and resources for healthcare professionals, MS organisations and people affected by MS to support their advocacy efforts to improve access to MS healthcare.

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MSIF’s work on access to MS healthcare

Addressing barriers to accessing MS healthcare at a global, regional and national level.

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People with MS share their challenges in accessing MS healthcare

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The WHO Intersectoral Global Action Plan for epilepsy and other neurological disorders

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Essential medicines for MS

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Off-label treatments for MS

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Contact us for advice

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Relevant publications

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