MSF opens new HIV/AIDS programme in Lesotho

The MSF programme will be the first in Lesotho to decentralise comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment, including ART, to the primary health care level and provide it for free to patients. The challenges of doing so will be enormous. Project Update - 28 Feb 2006

Access to medicines

Gilead's tenofovir 'access program' for developing countries: A case of false promises?

Tenofovir is now an important option for antiretroviral treatment for both AIDS patients starting therapy for the first time, and those that require access to newer drugs a few years down the line, particularly because it has fewer side effects than older antiretrovirals. As Gilead is the sole producer of tenofovir (no generic versions have been internationally validated), MSF and others are dependent on the willingness of the company to make this urgently needed drug widely available. Press Release - 7 Feb 2006

Honduras lacks ARVs: Civil society organizes and MSF quickly provides supplies

In the face of imminent interruption of supplies of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for HIV/AIDS patients in Honduras, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) must again "lend" necessary medicines to ensure continuity of care. The Honduran government, which did not order the medications in a timely fashion, has offered a vague response on the issue, leaving patients and medical and humanitarian groups in an untenable position. Project Update - 26 Jan 2006

Cambodia

Waiting for a miracle

From the Sunday Times Authors Series: novelist Jim Crace travels to Cambodia where tourism is booming. But behind the veneer of success, life is fraught with danger Ã¢â‚¬" Aids and malaria are rife, and the countryside is littered with landmines. Saddled with chronically inadequate health care, many depend on charities to survive. In the Media - 23 Jan 2006

Zambia

Guardian in Zambia: The lake where locals say it's easier to catch HIV than fish

Poverty and war divide families and create the perfect conditions for disease to flourish. There's a saying in the villages that these days it is is easier to catch HIV/Aids on Lake Mweru than fish. Project Update - 7 Jan 2006

South Africa

Guardian in South Africa: A new hope

This series of articles and audio/video files was researched and written by Guardian newspaper journalists and was a feature series running in the UK publication and website throughout the Christmas season. Click logo to acces the full series on the Guardian website
In the latest in his Aids in Africa series, photographer Gideon Mendel now focuses on a remote rural project that is not only treating the sick - but may be a model for the continent. Voices from the Field - 29 Dec 2005

Zambia

Zambia struggles with power of witchdoctors

This series of articles and audio/video files was researched and written by Guardian newspaper journalists and was a feature series running in the UK publication and website throughout the Christmas season. Click logo to access the full series on the Guardian website
MSF is educating southern Africans about the cause of Aids and effective treatment. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005

South Africa

Where the stigma of Aids became the killer

This series of articles and audio/video files was researched and written by Guardian newspaper journalists and was a feature series running in the UK publication and website throughout the Christmas season. Click logo to access the full series on the Guardian website
A new frankness has replaced darkly ironic euphemisms as Khayelitsha battles to overcome epidemic. Project Update - 24 Dec 2005

HIV/AIDS

Nolist - surviving AIDS and TB in South Africa

When I was sick, I wished that God could take me and I did not wish to be in this world. Now I'm going to spend many more years here because I am fine. Project Update - 22 Dec 2005

Kenya

How an Aids widow is filling the care gap in Kenya

This series of articles and audio/video files was researched and written by Guardian newspaper journalists and was a feature series running in the UK publication and website throughout the Christmas season. Click logo to access the full series on the Guardian website

In African villages ravaged by HIV, volunteers are taking the pressure off MSF doctors by giving advice. In the Media - 21 Dec 2005

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