HIV/AIDS

19 April 2012 - This week, 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...

Web article – Last updated 19 April 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/msf-opens-new-hivaids-clinic-india-myanmar-border

In 2002, the Zambian government took an important decision to provide low cost, antiretroviral triple therapy (ART) to respond to the high burden of disease caused by HIV/AIDS: around...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 06 February 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/past-present-and-future-affordable-antiretroviral-therapy-africa

The development, evaluation, and implementation of new and improved diagnostics have been identified as critical needs by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis researchers and clinicians...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 10 April 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/clinical-research-and-development-tuberculosis-diagnostics-moving-silos-synergy

Excerpt: "To the Editor: The World Health Organization (WHO) issued the first evidence-based treatment guidelines for cryptococcal meningitis in December 2011.1 Although its incidence has decreased...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 02 April 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/responding-evidence-improved-treatment-cryptococcal-meningitis-resource-limited-settings

In its 2006 revision of the Guidelines on Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection in Adults and Adolescents, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that countries...

Briefing – Last updated 02 April 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/rationale-tenofovir-first-choice-first-line-treatment-hiv-0

Strong international mobilization and political will drove a golden decade for global health. Key initiatives over the last decade include setting of health-related Millennium Development Goals; the...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 29 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/access-medicines-resource-limited-settings-end-golden-decade

Geneva, 27 March 2012 – The recent cancellation of the Global Fund’s Round 11 is endangering the historic advances already made in the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, stated the...

Press Release – Last updated 10 April 2012
www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/losing-ground-struggle-against-hivaids-and-tuberculosis

MSF, Solidarité thérapeutique hospitalière en réseau (Esther), Solidarité thérapeutique contre le sida (SOLTHIS) convened a meeting in September 2011 of...

Report – Last updated 21 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/antiretroviral-sequencing-meeting-report

Improved access to care and treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in resource-limited settings is receiving international concern.  This viewpoint article, published in Clinical...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 21 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/expanding-access-treatment-hepatitis-c-resource-limited-settings-lessons-hivaids

MSF is expanding medical activities in three prisons in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to include basic primary health care in addition to providing ongoing TB/HIV screening and treatment support. MSF has...

Web article – Last updated 19 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/improving-tb-detection-and-treatment-cambodian-prisons