“It’s good to get ACTs out there, but we mustn’t neglect the need to get a confirmed diagnosis in the rush to lower prices for the medicines" - Dr. Martin DE SMET, MSF Malaria Working Group An experimental scheme to subsidise malaria treatment gets off to a shaky start Cost is the main reason why...
“There are funding gaps across global health that could be plugged with money from a financial transaction tax. It’s time to invest in real lives – real futures.” - Sharonann LYNCH, HIV/AIDS Policy Advisor, MSF Access Campaign Progress in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria under threat as health...
Dr Unni Karunakara, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) In the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria, we should be dealing a knock-out blow. The Global Fund must call an emergency donor conference so countries can reverse these killer epidemics. When the Global Fund to Fight AIDS...
MSF response to the funding crisis at the Global Fund In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to support treatment programmes because of a...
MSF response to unprecedented decision to cancel funding round of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, taken at board meeting in Accra, Ghana, November 21-22, 2011 Because donor funding for global HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund has been declining, the Fund is in the most dire financial...
Last year, MSF adopted a new approach to tackling malaria in the Gueckedou region of Guinea. Patients are given drugs with proven effectiveness, and community health workers raise awareness among the population. Gueckedou is about 700 kilometres from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, and one must...
Promising news from the field of malaria research in 2010 shows that treating children suffering from severe malaria with injections of artesunate could save many more lives. Malaria kills around one million people every year, with nine in ten deaths being in young African children. Severe malaria...
MSF teams in Niger are particularly on alert in the period between July and November. Malnourished children are at risk of contracting malaria and many who are already suffering from it become extremely vulnerable as a result of the combination. Malaria further reduces appetite among these children...
by Dr. Martin De Smet, Malaria expert, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) The commemoration of World Malaria Day on April 25th will be of utmost importance this year. The review in September of progress made towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goals will reveal the tragic toll malaria still takes...
