MS Treatment Journey: Key Barriers and Opportunities

People living with MS often face complex treatment decisions throughout their care journey. To better understand the challenges patients and healthcare providers encounter, a multistakeholder summit in May 2025 brought together individuals with lived experience, patient advocates, and MS healthcare experts to discuss critical gaps in MS care and ways to improve communication, shared decision-making, and access to information.

The resulting summary infographic outlines common barriers that can impact care and offers actionable recommendations to help patients, care partners, and providers work together more effectively. Topics include:

treatment discussions
disease progression
personal and cultural considerations
finding educational resources that meet diverse needs

Explore the document to learn more about the opportunities identified that can strengthen collaboration and support individualized MS care.

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MS Treatment Journey: Key Barriers and Opportunities infographic

Content stems from MS Multi-stakeholder Summit, convened by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, at CMSC in Phoenix, AZ, on May 27th, 2025. Patient Advocate and Medical Expert attendees were compensated for their participation by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.