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World AIDS Day

Put your HIV drug patents in the pool

The ‘Make It Happen’ campaign is calling on pharmaceutical companies to put their HIV drug patents in the UNITAID patent pool. The pool could mean that people in developing countries can get the life-saving antiretroviral medicines they need. Project Update - 30 Nov 2009
 
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HIV/AIDS

The Positive Ladies Soccer Club

Watch an MSF documentary about a group of women with HIV who decide to form a football team in Epworth, one of the poorest township’s of Zimbabwe. Documentary - 20 Nov 2009
 
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Eswatini

TB and HIV/AIDS in Swaziland

The small kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa is on the brink of a major health crisis due to the killer twin-epidemic of HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), which is decimating the population and now sees Swaziland as the state with one of the highest Aids death rates in the world today. Project Update - 28 Oct 2009
 
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Access to medicines

MSF calls on drug companies to pool HIV patents

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on nine of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to help accelerate the availability of new treatments for millions of people living with HIV/AIDS by pooling their patents on a list of key HIV medicines. Press Release - 30 Sep 2009
 
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Thailand

MSF welcomes promising HIV vaccine trial with cautious optimism

An HIV vaccine trial in Thailand involving 16,000 volunteers showed potentially promising results as transmission of the virus was cut by a third. MSF welcomes the initiative as it opens up a new chapter in HIV vaccine research. Project Update - 28 Sep 2009
 
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India

MSF response to India's rejection of patents on key HIV/AIDS drugs

India has rejected patents on two life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs, tenofovir and darunavir. Press Release - 2 Sep 2009
 
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Malawi

In southern Malawi, decentralizing care to HIV/AIDS patients compensates for a lack of medical staff

Thanks to MSF's program, more than 4,377 new patients received ARV treatment in Chiradzulu district in 2008. Since the project was initiated in 2001, MSF has monitored and treated about 13 000 patients. Project Update - 20 Aug 2009
 
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Zimbabwe

I thought I was going to die

Dennis Taronga is receiving antiretroviral therapy at Murwira Clinic, a decentralised clinic in Buhera district, southeastern Zimbabwe, with the help of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This is his story. Voices from the Field - 17 Aug 2009
 
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Malawi

Universal access to HIV treatment in Malawi is feasible and affordable but threatened by high prices of newer drugs

Marielle Bemelmans, MSF head of mission in Malawi, explains how universal access to HIV treatment in Malawi works and why the high prices of newer AIDS drugs put this great achievement in peril. Project Update - 22 Jul 2009
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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