12-19 | In 2003, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Guinea started treating HIV patients with antiretrovirals by opening free HIV testing and treatment centres in Conakry. In 2003, Guinea was not an obvious choice of location to open an HIV/AIDS project. In contrast to countries in the epicentre of the pandemic, like those in Southern Africa, where up to one in four adults were living with HIV, just 1.7% of Guineans were HIV-positive.
9-28 | Governments must now turn words on paper into practice and take the necessary steps to save more lives of people with TB.
9-19 | Ahead of the global tuberculosis High-Level Meeting at the United Nations, MSF calls on Johnson & Johnson not to enforce any secondary patents for bedaquiline in any country with a high burden of TB.We also call on Cepheid to drop the price of the GeneXpert TB test from US$10 to US$5 in order to save lives.
9-7 | In mid-May this year, Hammanskraal in South Africa’s Gauteng Province became the epicentre of the second biggest cholera outbreak in the country this century, resulting in approximately 900 cases and 34 deaths.Cholera is not endemic to South Africa but according to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water, sanitation and hygiene expert, Danish Malik, climate change and other pressures are driving increased human mobility, “with the result that the frequency and scale of cholera outbreaks is rising.”
8-10 | In July 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its longest standing projects in Malawi, launched some 25 years ago in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.