Global attention needed to prevent and treat AIDS in antiretroviral era, with 50% of hospital admissions in MSF hospitals already on treatment and showing clinical signs of failure. An unacceptably high number of people continue to develop and die of AIDS 1 -related diseases across sub-Saharan...
Trade agreements and pressure on India’s ‘pharmacy of the developing world’ pose major threats to access Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released the 18th edition of its HIV drug pricing report, Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions, at the International AIDS Conference in...
So called “key populations” such as sex workers and men who have sex with men have both a higher risk of contracting HIV (*1) and a lower access to antiretroviral care due to stigma and discrimination as well as, in many instances, their illegal status and high mobility. New medications to prevent...
In the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, more than 1,300 people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, around half of them in the capital, Sana’a.
The call by UNAIDS to "close the gap" around access to HIV services will not be met unless the delivery of antiretroviral treatment (ARV) is radically reshaped into community-led approaches that adapt to the realities of those living with HIV, warns Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders...
Following months of intense conflict, an increasingly alarming humanitarian situation is unfolding in eastern Ukraine, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said. Hospitals have been shelled, tens of thousands of people are displaced from their homes, and thousands of casualties have been reported. "The...
Reduction in pricing still needed to ensure wider access to treatment During the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that for the first time in Myanmar, patients have begun receiving oral treatment for Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis...
Drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is on the rise in Southern Africa, fueled on the one hand by high HIV prevalence, and on the other by its highly contagious nature. The disease reaches deep into rural Zimbabwe where MSF runs a DR-TB project. Steps need to be taken urgently to curb transmission...
Visit “See What We See” multimedia website The fight against HIV/AIDS has been hailed as one of the most successful public health projects in human history, but teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) see the revolution as unfulfilled for millions of people excluded from treatment. MSF launches a...
More steps need to be taken to secure access to one-pill-once-a-day HIV treatment The recent invalidation by China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of one of the patents on tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), an essential medicine to treat HIV and hepatitis B, is a welcome step to...
![](https://msf.hk/sites/default/files/MSB14391.jpg ""I want to get ARVs when I need them and not be at the clinic all the time even when I’m not sick" says Merjury from Zimbabwe. © Munyaradzi Makari/MSF")
