MSF project was first in country offering ART at the primary health care level. The survival rate is 90%. 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

Honduras

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

Access to medicines

Access denied to essential medicines in developing world

The WHO has warned that, although access to essential drugs has improved remarkably since the introduction of its model list of essential drugs in 1977, one third of the world's population still lacks access to these drugs. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Malawi

Malawi/ART: MSF increases numbers of patients each week

Huge numbers of orphans one of the more shocking consequences of the AIDS davastation. 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

Angola

Tragic mine accident leaves 7 dead and 6 wounded in Angola

In addition to the vaccination team, the small convoy was transporting a number of patients to the hospital in Mavinga. Press Release - 30 Nov 2002

Cambodia

Scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment jeopardized by WTO negotiations

MSF and other NGOs can never reach all the people in need. Governments need to implement national ART programmes. Treatment needs to be free or patients need to be able to afford it. Press Release - 28 Nov 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

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

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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South Africa/ART: Inaugural programme reaps rewards