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HIV/AIDS

Denied funding puts HIV patients in low-income countries at risk of death

Several low-income countries, highly affected by HIV, risk being entirely or partly disqualified from the current funding round by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, warns the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). Project Update - 8 Dec 2010
 
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Malawi

Health workers, government and civil society at joint MOH and MSF conference address health professional gaps in Malawi

Like many countries in Africa, South Asia and Asia-Pacific, Malawi has been facing a critical shortage of healthcare workers, with an average ratio of two doctors for every 100,000 people. This low number of physicians, as well as nurses, in the health care system means that treating Malawi’s 920,000 people living with HIV, of whom 59% are women, is a massive challenge. Project Update - 6 Dec 2010
 
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Ethiopia

Improving care for TB patients, Wardher, Somali Region, Ethiopia

“Besides all the coughing, I had a lot of pain on the right side of my ribs and I could not sleep in the night,” Farhan, a patient at the new tuberculosis (TB) centre in Wardher explained. Project Update - 25 Mar 2010
 
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Eswatini

TB and HIV/AIDS in Swaziland

The small kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa is on the brink of a major health crisis due to the killer twin-epidemic of HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), which is decimating the population and now sees Swaziland as the state with one of the highest Aids death rates in the world today. Project Update - 28 Oct 2009
 
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Global

'Top Ten' humanitarian crises reveal growing insecurity, neglected health needs

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) releases 11th annual list Press Release - 22 Dec 2008
 
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Sudan

Human suffering in the shadows of Darfur

A visit to this region is like travelling far back in time, to the point when civilisation first began. Project Update - 28 Mar 2008
 
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Zimbabwe

Health of Zimbabwean migrants at risk after raid at Johannesburg Methodist Church

Although basic health care is granted to all in South Africa, including undocumented migrants, lack of information and fear of arrest and deportation hinders Zimbabwean migrants' access to health care. Press Release - 5 Feb 2008
 
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Kenya

Innovative measures to ensure AIDS and TB treatment during Kenya's post-election violence

Special times call for special measures and 290 patients have missed their appointments in the first two weeks of the year. A free hotline has been set up and advertised in newspapers countrywide. MSF hopes to reach patients who are at risk of interrupting their treatment. Project Update - 24 Jan 2008
 
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Tuberculosis

MSF presentation to the IGWG on the need for development of TB drugs and techniques

We also see that progress is slow. This is perhaps to be expected, given that the issues that need to be resolved are both controversial and complex - and will perhaps require more time than the allocated six days to resolve. Rome was not built in a day. Interview - 8 Nov 2007
 
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Global

MSF issues 'Top Ten' most underreported humanitarian stories of 2006

The ten countries and contexts highlighted by MSF accounted for just 7.2 minutes of the 14,512 minutes on the three major U.S. television networks' nightly newscasts for 2006. Press Release - 9 Jan 2007
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