Offering lessons for treating HIV/AIDS to Pepfar

MSF statement on Pepfar: Testimony submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services for the meeting of the International Subcommittee of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS Project Update - 16 Dec 2003

South Africa

We Are Alive - Mandela inaugurates ART site near his birthplace

"Siyaphila La will set an example for other rural HIV treatment sites that will be established in the Eastern Cape and across the country," said Mandela. Project Update - 15 Dec 2003

South Sudan

Bicycle teams are key in controlling malaria outbreak in South Sudan

Floods have brought a five-fold increase in cases and the bicycle teams provide life-saving treatment to stranded areas. Of the over 70,000 people who have been treated so far, nearly 50,000 have been cared for by these teams. Project Update - 12 Dec 2003

South Africa

Window of opportunity opens for South Africa to access affordable antiretrovirals

The agreement reached between the Treatment Action Campaign and two pharmaceutical companies covers both public and private sectors and - importantly - also allows generics produced in South Africa to be exported to the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Project Update - 12 Dec 2003

Ethiopia

In Ethiopia's malaria war, weapons are the issue

Project Update - 9 Dec 2003

Ethiopia

Malaria epidemic in Ethiopia: effective treatment needed now

MSF is requesting permission to use an artemisinin combination therapy as recommended by the WHO and considered to be the most effective treatment against malaria in such circumstances. Project Update - 5 Dec 2003

Malaria

Deaths from malaria in Africa

Donors are not sticking to their promises. In April 2000, the World Bank, for example, pledged $500m for controlling malaria in Africa.3 Yet three years after that pledge, Eritrea is the only country to have received a new loan from the bank that expressly includes malaria control. Project Update - 1 Dec 2003

HIV/AIDS

The challenge of simplifying and scaling up

MSF is in the process of adapting its approach to AIDS treatment to better fit the real-life conditions faced in developing countries. Project Update - 1 Dec 2003

HIV/AIDS

Some lessons from MSF's ARV experience

MSF has learned some clear lessons from treating patients in diverse settings in developing countries and believe these observations could be useful for governments' efforts to scale-up: Project Update - 1 Dec 2003

Democratic Republic of Congo

A drop of hope

The scale of the problems that we neglect and the number of victims who will not be reached will endlessly frustrate MSF in DRC Report - 1 Dec 2003

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