Access to Healthcare
Affordable healthcare, but not for the most vulnerable
MSF is worried that the current plans for Universal Healthcare Coverage are leaving behind the very people that are now most excluded from access to healthcare. Press Release - 18 Sep 2023
Access to Healthcare
Mozambique: After years of displacement, families returning to Mocímboa da Praia were confronted with total destruction
The coastal town of Mocímboa da Praia and other parts of this district, which were heavily impacted by the violence, now host the largest number of returnees in all Cabo Delgao. Luis Angel Argote, coordinator of Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Mocímboa, explains the challenges of rebuilding life from zero with the ghosts from the past Interview - 13 Sep 2023
Access to Healthcare
Uganda: MSF ends its support to HIV program in Arua after more than 20 years
Huge progress has been made in HIV medical treatment in Arua and MSF will now hand over the project to Ugandan health authorities and their partners Project Update - 11 Sep 2023
HIV/AIDS
Malawi Looking back at the first steps of 25 years of HIV/AIDS care
Videos and Photos - 7 Aug 2023
HIV/AIDS
Malawi: “In 2001, when the counsellor said ART could prolong my life, I thought it would be two to three years but here I am, 22 years later”
55,000 people who tested positive for HIV were enrolled in the Chiradzulu cohort between 2001 and the closure of the project in 2023. Article - 6 Aug 2023
Hepatitis
Inside MSF's Nampula Project: Exploring key interventions in three questions
In Nampula province, current MSF programs focus on providing care for people with neglected diseases. Interview - 29 Jul 2023
Access to Healthcare
Kenya: Everyone is welcome at MSF’s youth-friendly health services in Mombasa
“Key populations”, as they are usually called, have been defined by the Ministry of Health as those who may have unique health needs, including sex workers, people who use drugs, transgender and gender non-binary people, and sexual minority groups (e.g., men who have sex with men, women who have sex with women) and other special vulnerable groups such as street populations. Article - 7 Jul 2023
Malnutrition
Ethiopia: MSF calls for immediate resumption of food distributions
As malnutrition rates surge beyond emergency levels in many areas of Ethiopia, MSF calls for the immediate resumption of food distributions which were suspended across Ethiopia in early June 2023. Press Release - 6 Jul 2023
HIV/AIDS
Central African Republic: MSF hands over the fight against HIV to the Ministry of Health in the region
After seven years of intervention in the health district of Haut Mbomou, Central African Republic, MSF is scaling back its HIV-related activities and transferring the successful differentiated care model to the Ministry of Health. Article - 18 Jun 2023
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