DNDi diseases focus

DNDi plans to spend around US$250 million over 12 years to develop 6-7 drugs and several drugs in the pipeline to combat sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease - three killer diseases that threaten a combined 350 million people every year.

Read about these diseases below. Project Update - 3 Jul 2003

Liberia

MSF teams fight cholera and malnutrition in Monrovia IDP camps despite ongoing fighting

Clinics are being opened and camps reached in efforts to stem the spread of cholera, malnutrition, malaria and other illnesses suffered by the displaced citizens in the Liberian capital. Project Update - 3 Jul 2003

Kala azar

Drugs for neglected diseases

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative comes amid accusations that the west has ignored the plight of poor patients by either minimising funding or failing to do research on new drugs for diseases that affect them. Project Update - 1 Jul 2003

Peru

Peru's jail population at far higher risk to HIV/AIDS infection

In Lurigancho Penitentiary's medical facilities, MSF treats 65 cases of HIV/AIDS. However, the prison's seroprevalence index of 2.6 indicates that there are at least 180 possible carriers of the HIV/AIDS in the facility. In this particular prison, inmates are seven times more likely to acquire an infection of HIV / AIDS than on the street. Project Update - 26 Jun 2003

Malawi

Life continues - in spite of HIV

"Africa is dying! Protect yourselves against HIV!". This is how the President of Malawi campaigns for the use of condoms. But already almost a million of the near ten million inhabitants of this country are HIV-positive. The educational programs are not helping any longer. They need medical help to survive. In July 2001, Médecins Sans Frontières began to treat HIV/Aids patients with antiretroviral medicines in the Chiradzulu hospital. Dr Norbert LÃƒÂ¼neborg reports from this pilot project. Project Update - 24 Jun 2003

South Africa

Townships hold breath for HIV decision

Hundreds are being helped by the MSF programme. Around a quarter of the half million people living in the ramshackle houses and shacks of Khayelitsha township are HIV positive. Project Update - 6 Jun 2003

Neglected diseases

Evian G8 - MSF calls for promises to be kept

14 million people die each year from infectious and parasitic diseases. That is 19,000 people per day, or 6 people every 30 seconds. Can we accept this? The MSF teams will symbolise the urgency of the current situation through the spectacle "Suspended Life". Every 30 seconds an MSF volunteer will try to reach a giant pill from the top of a 6-metre structure. Unable to reach the pill, the volunteer falls into the void... This new MSF exhibit premieres at the G8 conference.

Médecins Sans Frontières will be present at the Evian G8 summit from May 30 to June 3. Project Update - 30 May 2003

Malaria

Malaria - what works

To reduce mortality linked to malaria, MSF has introduced new first line therapy treatment in 12 of its programmes . MSF is also helping governments to change their treatment protocols to include artemisinin-combinations. Project Update - 30 May 2003

HIV/AIDS

G8 retreating from disease commitments: activists

A series of draft statements on health, obtained by MSF and shared with The Globe and Mail, shows progressively weaker language about AIDS and the killer diseases afflicting the poorest countries. Project Update - 30 May 2003

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS - What works

Today, MSF treats 2,600 patients, including more than 100 children, with ARVs in 10 countries MSF is going to double the number of patients treated in already existing programmes this year, and to start similar programmes in another nine countries. Project Update - 30 May 2003

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