![Portrait of John * and Jean * in the CHK. Jean was diagnosed with HIV in 2010.[Photo: Pablo Garrigos/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf283917_medium.jpg?itok=_r6ZtWUu "Portrait of John * and Jean * in the CHK. Jean was diagnosed with HIV in 2010.[Photo: Pablo Garrigos/MSF]")
HIV/AIDS
A few weeks ago, the countries of the world gathered in Lyons to announce their contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. At the event, almost $14 billion were pledged to support the fight against these diseases over the next three years. While this is a respectable sum, it is far from enough to meet the growing needs faced by the worst-affected countries. An illustration of this is in the Congolese capital Kinshasa, at one of the few facilities to treat patients with advanced HIV/AIDS. Article - 30 Nov 2019
In Kinshasa, HIV-positive people wait until ‘death’s door before coming to receive treatment’
Francois Sennesael*A few weeks ago, the countries of the world gathered in Lyons to announce their contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. At the event, almost $14 billion were pledged to support the fight against these diseases over the next three years. While this is a respectable sum, it is far from enough to meet the growing needs faced by the worst-affected countries. An illustration of this is in the Congolese capital Kinshasa, at one of the few facilities to treat patients with advanced HIV/AIDS. Article - 30 Nov 2019
Access to medicines
MSF and TB activists disrupt opening of TB conference to protest drug corporations keeping life-saving medicines from people
Newer medicines for DR-TB are desperately needed, but barriers to access, including high prices, keep them out of reach for most people around the world. Press Release - 31 Oct 2019
Access to medicines
Panic over scarcity of life-saving HIV drug in hospitals
By Angela Oketch MSF in the news - 16 Oct 2019
Access to medicines
MSF launches global campaign urging Johnson & Johnson to reduce price of life-saving TB drug
Bedaquiline was developed using taxpayer money and contributions from the global TB community, those who contributed to bedaquiline’s development should have a say in how the drug is priced Press Release - 11 Oct 2019
![Grâce M’Gazio is a young mother about to give birth. She is doing the HIV – AIDS test with Adeline Ouaboua, psychosocial advisor at the Castors maternity, Central African Republic [© Elisa Fourt/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf243219_medium.jpg?itok=AoLgXVKg "Grâce M’Gazio is a young mother about to give birth. She is doing the HIV – AIDS test with Adeline Ouaboua, psychosocial advisor at the Castors maternity, Central African Republic [© Elisa Fourt/MSF]")
HIV/AIDS
The fight against HIV and TB is at a critical juncture
After a decade of strong commitments to fight HIV and TB, we are witnessing a decline in donor and domestic funding Project Update - 7 Oct 2019
Access to medicines
Oped by Edi Ferdinand ATTE, Medical Coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières, (MSF), Doctors Without Borders Opinion - 26 Sep 2019
Striking back at Snakebite
Access to antivenom – let alone access to antivenom that is effective against the species of poisonous snake – is a problem not just in Baringo but across most of Africa.Oped by Edi Ferdinand ATTE, Medical Coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières, (MSF), Doctors Without Borders Opinion - 26 Sep 2019
Access to Healthcare
South Sudan: MSF hands over adult inpatient services of Malakal Teaching Hospital to the Ministry of Health
After rehabilitating Malakal Teaching Hospital in 2017, MSF is now handing over the adult inpatient services to the South Sudan Ministry of Health Press Release - 24 Sep 2019
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