Burma's neglected Aids babies given new hope

One child's salvation is a symbol of the stark ethical and economic choices facing doctors and scientists as they gather in Bangkok this weekend for the world's 15th International Aids Conference. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004

HIV/AIDS

Challenges of AIDS treatment are no excuse: treat now

The AIDS virus has spread with lightning speed across the world since 1983. 40 million people are now living with HIV and AIDS is the major cause of mortality in Africa. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004

China

FDCs: fixing access problems

FDCs simplify treatment by significantly reducing the number of pills that need to be taken daily. As they are often made by generic companies, FDCs are also generally much cheaper than the single pills sold by originator companies. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004

Tuberculosis

TB in an HIV setting: double trouble

More effective and affordable diagnostic tests able to detect TB in HIV positive patients, including extra-pulmonary cases and among children. These tests need to be easy to use even where there is little infrastructure or training. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004

Malawi

Hidden from view : monitoring ARV treatment failure

The problem is that detecting treatment failure at the proper time depends on sophisticated laboratory equipment often not available or affordable in poor countries like Malawi. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004

Thailand

In Thailand, patient activism is crucial to expanding treatment

In December 1999, over 300 people with HIV/AIDS demonstrated outside the Public Health Ministry for three days, in support of a request by GPO for a compulsory license to allow it to make generic versions of the ARV didanosine (ddI). It was the first time in Thailand that HIV positive people had braved stigmatisation to stage public demonstrations and it proved to be a watershed event. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004

South Africa

Second-line ARV treatment: unaffordable luxury?

Xolani has been on antiretroviral treatment at MSF's clinic in Khayelitsha, South Africa, for three years - but now tests indicate that his treatment is failing. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004

Kala azar

Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi): matching needs and opportunities

Neglected diseases such as leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease and malaria have a devastating impact on the world's poor. Project Update - 2 Jul 2004

Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of refugees from DRC gather on border Burundi

Project Update - 28 Jun 2004

Sudan

West Darfur: "We are looking at a second catastrophe"

"The situation will deteriorate both in terms of the logistics for food supply, but also in terms of epidemics - the seasonal malarial peak is around the corner, and with no latrines, there could be cholera, dysentery, any type of major epidemics. When you think of the global magnitude of the problem - we are talking about one million displaced people - we are afraid tens of thousands of lives could be lost." - Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol. Project Update - 25 Jun 2004

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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