Reports
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Ten Stories that Mattered in Access to Medicines in 2011
Last updated 20 December 2011
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10 Years of Antiretrovirals: Treatment in Malawi by MSF
A special report created for World AIDS Day 2011 that gives an overview of MSF's 10 years of work to provide treatment for HIV+ people in Malawi. The report includes patient testimonies, a timeline of MSF's work in Malawi, a special report on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and, importantl, the challenges that lie ahead.
Last updated 29 November 2011
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Out of the Dark: Meeting the Needs of Children With TB
This report will outline the current state of paediatric TB care, looking at current practices, new developments and research needs – in paediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention. It intends to act as a guide to treatment programmes for implementation of the best standard of care currently available to children with TB, and to raise awareness of the need to continue to push for improvements in the management of childhood TB.
Last updated 26 October 2011
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Five Lives: How a Financial Transaction Tax Could Support Global Health
‘5 Lives’ are the stories of people that MSF works with every day, whose health and lives often hang on a simple medical intervention. These personal experiences are a snapshot of the unnecessary suffering MSF medical staff see first-hand daily in places where people can’t get adequate medical care and that could be avoided with proper, sustainable funding and investment.
Last updated 20 October 2011
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Towards Lab-Free Tuberculosis Diagnosis
Tuberculosis (TB), fuelled in part by the HIV epidemic, remains a major challenge to public health. Despite the potential for most cases of tuberculosis to be curable, TB causes around two million deaths per annum. These deaths are in part due to late or missed diagnosis. Improving the performance of diagnostics and their availability are key to reducing global morbidity and mortality.
Last updated 22 August 2011
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Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions: 14th Edition
The latest edition of Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions (UTW) released at the IAS 2011 in Rome demonstrates a growing and deadly divide in antiretroviral (ARV) prices offered to the poorest countries versus lower and middle-income countries that are still grappling with the scale-up of life-saving HIV treatment.
Last updated 18 July 2011
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An Evaluation of Drug-Resistant TB Scale-Up
Last updated 6 July 2011
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Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations
Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations explores how the particular style of humanitarian action practiced by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has stayed in line with the standards in scientifically advanced countries while also leading to significant improvements in the medical care delivered to people in crisis.
Last updated 3 June 2011
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Getting Ahead of the Wave: Lessons for the Next Decade of the AIDS Response
"Getting Ahead of the Wave: Lessons for the Next Decade of the AIDS Response" details MSF’s experience implementing treatment strategies to improve care and policies needed to make massive scale-up of treatment more affordable.
Last updated 11 May 2011
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Making the Switch: Ensuring access to improved treatment for severe malaria in Africa
Malaria continues to be the leading cause of death in African children. Of an estimated 781,000 malaria-related deaths reported in 2009, 91% occurred on the African continent, and 85% were among children under the age of five.
Last updated 19 April 2011
www.msfaccess.org/content/making-switch-ensuring-access-improved-treatment-severe-malaria-africa
