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Wellness Practices and Complimentary Therapies

May 5, 2025 | Aids, Life with MS, Support, Symptoms, Treatments

Photo by Jared Rice on Unsplash Symptom management is an important component of living well with MS. Wellness practices or complementary therapies, can often reduce life limiting symptoms such as pain, fatigue, muscle stiffness and tightening. Certain therapies might help […]


1News Report – Medsafe Approves 10 Minute Ocrevus Injection

April 30, 2025 | Advocacy, Life with MS, Media, News, Treatments

Watch Graham Walker, person with MS, President of MS Taranaki and Co-Vice President of MSNZ discuss the life-changing news that Medsafe has approved the 10 minute Ocrevus injection, accompanied with comments from Amanda Rose, MSNZ National Manager on 1News, 29th […]


Medsafe Approves 10 Minute Ocrevus Injection; TVNZ Breakfast Interview with Graham Walker

April 29, 2025 | Life with MS, Media, Treatments

Watch Graham Walker, President of MS Taranaki and Co Vice-President of MSNZ, discuss the newly approved 10 minute Ocrevus injection with Jenny-May on TVNZ’s Breakfast show. Click here: https://youtu.be/powx9Ukm3Dw We encourage those with lived experience to provide their stories to […]


Pharmax Sativex

February 29, 2024 | Treatments

In December 2023, Pharmac proposed to decline funding for inactive applications, this included an application to fund Sativex for MS spasticity. MSNZ has written to the Pharmac Board to ask that this application remain live and we be permitted to […]


Media Release: “Relief” over Pharmac Decision to Fund First-Ever Treatment for Debilitating Form of Multiple Sclerosis

September 4, 2023 | Advocacy, Media, Progressive, Treatments

A seven year battle on behalf of hundreds of people living with the most debilitating form of Multiple Sclerosis has been won – with Pharmac agreeing to fund Aotearoa New Zealand’s first ever treatment for the disease variant  from October […]