MSF is in the process of adapting its approach to AIDS treatment to better fit the real-life conditions faced in developing countries. Project Update - 1 Dec 2003

Democratic Republic of Congo

A drop of hope

The scale of the problems that we neglect and the number of victims who will not be reached will endlessly frustrate MSF in DRC Report - 1 Dec 2003

World AIDS Day

MSF welcomes WHO support of twice-a-day pill for AIDS, but more ambition needed to bring prices down

Getting AIDS medicines to the millions who need it requires treatment models that are much better adapted to resource-poor settings. Press Release - 1 Dec 2003

Diarrhoeal disease

Treating diarrhoea in emergency settings

Diarrhoea will have claimed 92 million lives by 2025. Sally Hargreaves from the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières takes a look at the treatment of diarrhoea in emergency settings. Project Update - 1 Dec 2003

Malaria

Letter to Roll Back Malaria regarding guidelines for 2004-08

The latest guidelines to combat malaria, presented for consideration by the Roll Back Malaria, have presented what is considered by many experts and health workers to be a major step backwards in malaria control. A collection of experts in the field have lent their support to the following letter critiquing the draft proposal. Project Update - 28 Nov 2003

Italy

MSF expands activities in 'Hotel Africa', Rome

"Since I arrived in Italy I've lived in this place and I feel to have less dignity than when I was in my Sudanese village with a lack of everything. I don't see any positive prospect for my future," said a refugee from Sudan. Project Update - 28 Nov 2003

HIV/AIDS

To reach millions in need, AIDS treatment must be adapted to poor countries

"Our experience convinces us that treatment must be free for patients," said Christine Jamet, head of mission in Kenya. "If there was a fee, many of those who desperately need these lifesaving drugs would not be able to get them." Project Update - 27 Nov 2003

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF reacts to ferry disaster in the DRC

Dr Bompange, an MSF staff member, was part of a helicopter search for survivors, 222 of whom have so far been accounted for. Seven more bodies have been discovered in the course of this morning, bringing the total number of confirmed dead to 110. The number of people still missing is unclear since such ferries regularly exceed their capacity. Project Update - 27 Nov 2003

Afghanistan

Dr Jonathan Tomlinson's First Mission with MSF, in Western Afghanistan

Dr Jonathan Tomlinson is on his first mission with MSF, in western Afghanistan. Project Update - 27 Nov 2003

Republic of Congo

MSF responds to Ebola outbreak in Congo Brazzaville

It is distressing that five trained healthworkers have now died of Ebola in Cuvette Ouest since 2002, and yet there has been very little effort to improve access to healthcare, train new staff or care for the victims of this and other sicknesses in the Republic of Congo. Project Update - 25 Nov 2003

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