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Eswatini

In Eswatini we are engaging with communities to provide comprehensive sexual health services, including HIV testing and prevention. We have a dedicated clinic for sexual and reproductive health in Matsapha Industrial Area.

Our activities in 2023 in Eswatini

Data and information from the International Activity Report 2023

MSF in Eswatini in 2023 In 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a new project in Eswatini, aimed at tackling sexual health-related illnesses through innovative practices and community engagement.
Eswatini IAR Map 2023

MSF had been providing health services in Shiselweni region since 2007, focusing on HIV, drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and, during the pandemic, COVID-19. After successfully decentralising HIV and DR-TB care by bringing treatment closer to people’s homes, and lowering HIV incidence, all these activities were handed over to Ministry of Health and local partners, and the project closed in 2023.

Sexual health-related diseases, such as HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and cervical cancer, as well as the complications of unsafe abortions, remain significant health issues in Eswatini. An STI study conducted by MSF in Shiselweni showed that one-third of the patients attending outpatient consultations in six general healthcare facilities have at least one STI.

Based on this research and a detailed assessment, we opened a new sexual health project in Manzini region in the last quarter of 2023. The project provides comprehensive sexual health services, including STI testing and treatment; HIV testing and prevention; screening, prevention and treatment for hepatitis B and C and cervical cancer; and family planning at a dedicated MSF clinic in Matsapha Industrial Area and in the communities.

The project brings multiple practices to the country, such as laboratory-based diagnosis and treatment of STIs; molecular screening for cervical cancer; injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV; screening and treatment of hepatitis B and C, as well as hepatitis B vaccination; and online HIV counselling and self-testing.

The project implements MSF’s ‘Patients and Populations as Partners’ approach, through close engagement with communities.
 

In 2023
 
Successful treatment MDR-TB, Mankayane, Swaziland
Eswatini

First group of MDR-TB patients celebrate end of treatment

Project Update 7 Aug 2013
 
Treating multi drug resistant TB and HIV/AIDS in Manipur, India
Project Update

Historic opportunity to tackle drug-resistant TB demands fast response

Project Update 19 Mar 2013
 
Swaziland - Figthing HIV and TB dual epidemic
Eswatini

Trying out new approaches to treat HIV

Voices from the Field 28 Nov 2012
 
Eswatini

A new ward to treat patients with drug resistant tuberculosis

Project Update 29 Sep 2011
 
South Africa

HIV patients refuse to be sidelined by international community in unique football tournament

Press Release 2 Jul 2010
 
Eswatini

TB and HIV/AIDS in Swaziland

Project Update 28 Oct 2009

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