In one year, the clinic did 1,000 HIV tests - 200 of which were positive.

In one year, the clinic did 1,000 HIV tests - 200 of which were positive. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Thailand

Thailand/ART: Close monitoring to ensure success

Since the start of the epidemic, one million Thais have been infected, of which one third have died. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Uganda

Uganda/ART: Developing programmes to assist in HIV care

MSF runs a Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS programme and offers HIV testing for pregnant mothers in collaboration with the Arua Hospital AIDS Programme. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

South Africa

South Africa/ART: Inaugural programme reaps rewards

MSF project was first in country offering ART at the primary health care level. The survival rate is 90%. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Ukraine

Ukraine/ART: Developing an affordable and viable ART programme

MSF includes training for medical staff to emphasize psychological care. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Kenya

Kenya/ART: Battling the national catastrophe

Triple therapy is now one Euro a day but even that is still too expensive for many. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Sierra Leone

MSF provides health care for 30,000 Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone

The MSF clinics are located in the nearby villages so as to provide equal access to health care for both refugees and the Sierra Leoneans. This is meant to ease possible frictions between the refugees and the host community. Project Update - 26 Nov 2002

Access to medicines

World Trade Organization wrestles with access to cheap drugs solution

The USA has proposed that there simply be a long-term waiver against bringing disputes to the WTO for breach of TRIPs in these circumstances. However, waivers are inherently unreliable and on this basis drug firms are unlikely to produce drugs in large supplies. Project Update - 23 Nov 2002

South Sudan

Health organisation warns that kala-azar has returned to South Sudan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that a new outbreak of kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, could wreak havoc among the population of southern Sudan, whose nutritional status is severely compromised by 20 years of war and famine. Project Update - 23 Nov 2002

Access to medicines

Access Campaign accomplishments 1999-2002

There has been a collection of high quality posters designed specifically for the Access Campaign in the MSF offices worldwide over the past three years. This collection shows some of the range for the posters. Project Update - 18 Nov 2002

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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