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HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries: The battle for long-term survival has just begun
Over three million people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world receive antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, the medicines and diagnostic tools available are inadequate to respond fully to their needs...
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Increasing Access to Antiretroviral
Care in Rural Malawi
Malawi is among the ten countries of
the world with the highest prevalence of HIV. Despite
a dire shortage of health workers and high levels of
poverty, the Malawian government has introduced
a ‘public health’ model of care that relies on non-physician
clinicians to deliver antiretroviral drugs
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A patient-centred approach to drug resistant tuberculosis treatment in the community: a pilot project in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Increasing numbers of patients are being diagnosed with drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Khayelitsha.
Diagnosing and providing effective treatment to sufficient numbers of patients, the majority of whom are also HIV-positive, are central to reducing further disease spread...
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Comprehensive TB/HIV Services at Primary Health Care Level
Khayelitsha Annual Activity Report
Khayelitsha, a large township with around 500,000 inhabitants located on the outskirts of Cape Town, has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in South Africa...
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Nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment at the primary health care level in rural Lesotho
Lesotho has the third highest HIV prevalence in the
world. An estimated 270,000 people are living with
HIV/AIDS in the country, and 18,000 people die
annually of AIDS-related complications...
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Tuberculosis: The Big Challenge "We are Talking, People are Dying"
A booklet about Médecins Sans Frontières effort in fighting HIV/TB co-infection in Swaziland. |
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A preventable fate: The failure of ART scale-up in Myanmar
The situation for many people living with HIV in Myanmar is critical due to a severe lack of lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ART). MSF currently provides ART to more than 11,000 people. ..
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Cough Up For TB! The Underfunding of Research for Tuberculosis and Other Neglected Diseases by the European Commission
New analysis from international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières shows how the European Commission is failing to pay its fair share towards discovering and developing new tuberculosis (TB)...
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Running in place: Too many patients still in urgent need of HIV/AIDS treatment
MSF briefing document on HIV/AIDS presented to the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, 3-8 August 2008.
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Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions
MSF first published Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions as a pricing guide for the purchase of ARVs for developing countries, in October 2001...
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Achieving and Sustaining Universal Access to antiretrovirals in Rural Areas: The primary health care approach to HIV services in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
The chronic shortage of health care workers is recognized as a major bottleneck to scaling up antiretroviral therapy, and this has the biggest impact in rural areas where the human resource crisis is most acute.
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HELP WANTED! Confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment
The chronic shortage of health care workers is recognized as a major bottleneck to scaling
up antiretroviral therapy, and this has the biggest impact in rural areas where the human
resource crisis is most acute.
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2009 © MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES / DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF)