HIV/AIDS and children

In the western world, mother-to-child transmission can be avoided in more than 99% of cases. This is far from being the case in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, yet this is where the crushing majority of HIV infected children are found. In Mbagathi, 95% of children infected by HIV contracted the virus during pregnancy, birth or breast-feeding. Project Update - 1 Dec 2005

Kenya

The dilemma of HIV pediatrics

The figures show that 33% of children with HIV positive mothers are born with the disease and 50% of suspected HIV positive children are dead by the time they reach two years of age. Project Update - 1 Dec 2005

Kenya

HIV does not mean a death sentence

"HIV is not a death sentence. It's a new life that starts" - Portrait of Siama Musine, 30 years old, on antiretroviral treatment since April 2004. Project Update - 1 Dec 2005

Uganda

Kibera: one of 1.4 million Aids orphans

"My friends would avoid me if I told them I have HIV/Aids" - Hawa, 13, on antiretroviral treatment since 2003, and her grandmother, Hamida Project Update - 1 Dec 2005

HIV/AIDS

This HIV-positive girl is lucky. 99% of Mozambican children get no treatment

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Latest estimates from the Mozambique government show 1.5 million Mozambicans with HIV, with only 15,000 on ARVs as the government attempts to build up a national programme of treatment. It is a race against time Photo Story - 30 Nov 2005

World AIDS Day

Children under two and AIDS

Across the globe last year, 700,000 children were newly infected with HIV – half a million of them live in Africa, compared to only 250 in Europe and North America. But there are no affordable AIDS tests that work in babies or medicines that kids can take easily. Project Update - 28 Nov 2005

Tuberculosis

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: no tools to properly treat people

The very costly and complex treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is only accessible to a very small minority of the millions of people with the disease worldwide. What is worse, those who have started taking the medicine are subjected to devastating side effects, and barely half of them end up recovering. Project Update - 15 Nov 2005

Ethiopia

Kala azar complicates HIV/AIDS treatment in Humera

The MSF project in Humera is the only programme in Ethiopia, and one of very few in the world, which is treating people co-infected with kala azar and HIV. As such, it is breaking new ground in terms of developing the best medical approach for tackling the problem. Project Update - 28 Oct 2005

HIV/AIDS

MSF hands over Ukraine HIV/Aids programme

After a presence of six years in the Ukraine, the international medical aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is now handing over its HIV/Aids programme to the Ukraine Ministry of Health and national NGOs as LifePlus, Alternativa, UNITAS and Time to Live. Press Release - 27 Oct 2005

Ukraine

After six years, MSF hands over its HIV/Aids programme

Diagnosed with HIV that mostly leads to AIDS: for many still a dead sentence. Unacceptable! Especially since treatment is possible, enabling the patient to continue a valuable life in dignity. This is the reason why MSF started working in Ukraine. Project Update - 26 Oct 2005

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