MSF in the media
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07 February 2012
About 25 HIV-Aids activists gathered outside the Indian consulate-general's headquarters in Johannesburg to voice their concern over India and the EU setting up a trade deal that would results in cheap anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) suddenly becoming inaccessible to millions of HIV-positive people...
"The EU is pushing India to accept particularly harmful provision in the agreement that go beyond what international trade rules require," says Sharon Ekambaram of...
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02 February 2012
Doctors Without Borders will be the first global medical humanitarian organisation to adopt South Africa's Triage Score (SATS) emergency response system in several countries where their teams provide emergency medical care.
"It is something South Africa can be proud of. Taking the system and implementing it across the world is a major accolade for the country," says South African MSF emergency doctor Mohammed Dalwai....
"A triage...
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29 December 2011
Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (MSF) celebrated the launch of its Mobile 1-Stop-Shop (M1SS) in eShowe park, Tuesday. The M1SS is a mobile unit consisting of several tents that offer comprehensive services around HIV testing and counselling as well as TB screening...
Katy Pepper, Project Coordinator for MSF in KZN said new science has shown that HIV treatment not only saves lives but also helps prevent new...
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20 December 2011
While most nations are dependent to some extent on the world’s 214 million migrants for skills and labour, few ensure these migrants have access to their health systems, something that could have dire public health consequences, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...
Meanwhile, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and several other organizations have raised concerns about the poor access to medical services for migrants detained in...
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04 December 2011
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has introduced a stop-gap measure to keep essential services going, but has cut off a lifeline for civil organisations counting on new grants. The stop-gap, called the transitional funding mechanism, will provide emergency funds to continue essential prevention, treatment and care services that are now financed by the body...
Civil society organisations are sorely disappointed, as they were counting on "round 11...
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02 December 2011
As South Africa, on the cusp of World Aids Day, celebrates its new national strategic plan for HIV/Aids, tuberculosis (TB) and sexually transmitted infections for 2012 to 2016, other countries in Southern Africa have little reason to be equally celebratory, given the massive HIV funding cuts that threaten to take the region back to where it was 10 years ago...
All of us should be shocked and appalled by the announcement to cancel this round of grants. It is not about fiscal...
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29 November 2011
As die krisis oor internasionale skenkings nie gou opgelos word nie, kan Suid-Afrika terugkeer na die "slegte ou dae" to anti-retrovirale middles (ARM) gerantsoeneer moes word. Dit kan die MIV-oordragkoers laat styg...
Dr. Eric Goemaere van MSF Suid-Afrika het gese tien jaar gelede was die situasie baie erg, maar sedert 2001 het dit verbeter en die wereldfonds het die situasie verander...
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29 November 2011
The Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and malaria is in financial crisis, HIV groups warned yesterday. They said this is expected to have a severe impact on southern African HIV programmes for treatment and prevention. The groups, which include the Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders, met in Braamfontein to highlight the extent of the problem.
Doctors Without Borders described the recent announcement by the...
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29 November 2011
The Global Fund for HIV/Aids, TB and Malaria, one of the most important and influential donor organisations, has cancelled its 11th round of funding for HIV/AIDS. Aymeric Peguillan, Head of Mission for MSF in Swaziland talks about the potentially disastrous impact these funding cuts could have on those with HIV/Aids in the southern African region.
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28 November 2011
A young Rylands doctor who implemented the South African Triage Score (SATS) while working at a Pakistani hospital for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) received such success that MSF will now adopt the score (which helps to reduce waiting time for emergency patients) as its own in its projects worldwide...
"I think it's really cool that a system that was adopted for South Africa in South Africa is now going to be used by...
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