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MSF Frontline Podcast - In Cambodia, Improving TB Care

Cambodia has one of the highest tuberculosis burdens in the world, according to the World Health Organisation. TB and its drug-resistant forms can be extremely difficult to diagnose and treat, especially in resource-poor countries, where the disease takes advantage of immune systems weaken by malnutrition and HIV, and people have limited access to health care. MSF has been working to improve TB diagnosis, treatment, and training in southeastern city of Kampong Cham.
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HIV/AIDS

There are more than 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2007, 2.5 million children under 15 years old were living with HIV/AIDS, with 1,150 becoming infected every day. Without treatment, half of all infants with HIV will die before their second birthday. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is transmitted between humans through the exchange of bodily fluids such as blood, breast milk, vaginal secretions and semen. HIV is most commonly spread by sexual contact, but can also be transmitted through childbirth, breastfeeding and sharing needles. HIV gradually weakens the immune system, usually over a three to ten...
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The Star: Fund to fight disease open for business again

11 May 2012
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HIV activists marching to the US Consulate in Sandton. Photo: MSF
THE GLOBAL Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria estimates that more than $1.6 billion (R12.7bn) in additional funding will be available in the next two years. ..."It's very good news that the Global Fund is reopening for business. Now we can stop wasting time, which is the most precious resource in this fight against HIV, TB and malaria, because wasting time is wasting lives. The new funding window at the Global Fund needs to be opened as soon as possible, be as big as possible, and be open to all affected countries to support treatment scale up. Now is not the time to be conservative and keep money in the bank that could go toward getting life-saving pills into people's bodies," said Sharonann Lynch, the HIV/...
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Star Africa: Together they can

23 April 2012
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MSF Counselor Thandiwe Mlala tests a PPTCT couple for HIV. Photo: Joanna Stavropoulou
New testing guidelines offer fresh hope for couples who are affected by HIV EVV international HIV testing guidelines are encouraging couples to test together and recommend immediate initiation on antiretrovirals for the person testing positive... ...Doctors Without Borders' Access Campaign medical director Nathan Ford welcomed the guidelines "as a major advance in the fight against HIV and puts us on the road toward reversing the epidemic. It's time for policymakers to ensure these recommendations translate into more people put on treatment to both save lives and prevent infections. Now governments need to stop the drastic decline in support for global HIV that is already having a negative impact in countries where we work....
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Global Funding Rally

22 March 2012
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With a US$2billion funding shortfall the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – the world’s largest funder of  HIV and tuberculosis programmes – faces a crisis along with the nations heavily dependent on its support.   On March 22 a group of 1,000 health activists marched on the US Consulate in Sandton, Johannesburg, to demand that the US, the UK and Australia lead the way for an Emergency Donor Conference as an urgent response to plug the funding deficit .   The Global Fund last year had to cancel a funding grant round because its international donors did not contribute enough, despite pledges to do so. MSF has highlighted how these funding cuts will impact many southern African countries...
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Sandton Chronicle: Appeal for world's help in fighting epidemics

30 March 2012
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22 March 2012 over a thousand health activists took to the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa to protest the recent global funds cuts. Photo: MSF
A CROWD of protestors gathered outside the American Consulate to appeal for more international funding in fighting HIV, tuberculosis and malaria... The protest was organised by the Aids and Rights Alliance of South Africa, Doctors Without Borders, Section 27, He-Tic, World Aids Campaign, Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum and Cosatu...   Read full article below.
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Pretoria News: Bad news for Africa as fund to fights Aids is plugged up

29 March 2012
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22 March 2012, over a thousand health activists took to the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa to protest the recent global funds cuts. Photo:MSF
THE WORLD is losing ground in its efforts to improve the treatment of Aids and tuberculosis victims because of a $23 billion (R17bn) global health fund's termination of new grants, the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Tuesday... "New treatments for patients have been put on hold," said MSF general director Bruno Jochum, whose group has been providing antiretroviral HIV treatment. "In some cases, treatment clinics have simply been shut down."... Read full article below.
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Business Report: India grants generic cancer drug licence to local firm

14 March 2012
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a 38 year old semi-literate woman living in Mumbai. She has been living with HIV and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) for the past 5 years. Photo: Bithin Das
INDIA'S move to strip German medicine maker Bayer of its exclusive rights to a cancer treatment has set a precedent that could extend to other treatments, including modern HIV/Aids medication, in a major blow to global pharmaceutical firms, experts say...Doctors Without Borders said the ruling meant that new medicines in India that are still under patent, including some of the latest HIV/Aids treatments, could potentially have generic versions produced for a fraction of the cost...Read full article below.
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M&G: Swazi Aids Response in Cash Crisis

24 February 2012
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An MSF nurse hands over ARV drugs to a patient on a refill day at the Hluthi clinic, Swaziland. Photo: Jonathan Heyer
Swaziland’s problems have been further compounded by the cancellation of round 11 of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malaria.  It has withdrawn funding worldwide because a lack of donors – money that, in Swaziland’s case, would have funded a 10% increase in nurse numbers and other badly needed human resource development.Elias Pavlopoulos, the head of mission at Medecins Sans Frontieres in Swaziland, said the combination of the government’s cash problems, poor management of supplies and the global fund withdrawal could be a lethal combination. Read full article below.
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1,000 HIV activists take to JHB streets for US$2 billion needed to save millions of lives

22 March 2012
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US, UK & Australia have to maintain Global Fund support to avert crisis       JOHANNESBURG, 22 March –Today over 1,000 southern African activists from a coalition of organisations take to the streets of Johannesburg in a march to demand key international donors lead an urgent response to plug a US$2 billion treatment funding gap, so that countries across Africa can scale up their HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria programmes and avert countless unnecessary deaths. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria faces this dangerous funding shortfall of more than US$2bn because donors did not contribute enough at the Global Fund replenishment conferences...
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