6-18 | With continued tension and unrest in Rakhine Sate, Myanmar, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is seriously concerned that those people most affected by violence and deep communal divisions, are unable to receive medical treatment.
MSF was forced to suspend most of its medical activities in Rakhine State on June 9 when violence erupted, which put its clinics and staff in danger.
4-23 | MSF opens new HIV/AIDS clinic on India Myanmar border
Last week, Médecins Sans Frontières （MSF） opened a new clinic in Moreh, a small rural town in Chandel district in the Indian state of Manipur that is on the border with Myanmar.
The specialised clinic offers free medical treatment and counselling for people living with HIV/AIDS and drug resistant tuberculosis.
2-22 | In a report released today Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar (1), highlights the critical need for increased HIV and Tuberculosis (TB), including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), treatment in the country.According to the report, 85,000 people in urgent need of lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in Myanmar are today unable to access it. Of an estimated 9,300 people newly infected with MDR-TB each year, so far just over 300 have been receiving treatment.
11-24 | Dr Calorine MEKIEDJE specialises in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and has worked in Mozambique and Cameroon, among other places. She talks about her experience as a medical advisor at the Dawei clinic in the south of Myanmar, where MSF has been treating patients infected with HIV/AIDS and co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) since 2000.Can you describe the main activities of the Dawei clinic?
11-23 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is currently treating patients in its HIV programmes in Myanmar for tuberculosis (TB). The organisation is providing diagnosis, treatment and counselling to around 2,540 TB patients in the country, where it has been working since 1992.
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