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International Activity Report, 2009 According to a 2007 national report 14 per cent of the Zambian population aged between 15 and 49 are HIV positive. Here the pandemic has affected mostly women and, in 2008, world development indicators estimated life-expectancy at birth to be only 46 years. The pandemic has laid a heavy burden on the country, but the Zambian government has taken significant steps to deal with the problemin the last few years.   MSF has worked since 2004 to provide treatment and care to thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia, through free antiretroviral therapy (ART) and medical care. MSF has also worked to raise awareness about the reality of HIV/AIDS in Kapiri M...
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Global Fund cuts spell more AIDS deaths, more HIV infections, & rationing lifesaving treatment

25 November 2011
South Africa’s Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum warns *NOTE: The Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum [BEMF] is a group of civil society organisations concerned with HIV/AIDS funding in South Africa and the Southern African region. BEMF includes SECTION27, the Treatment Action Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières South Africa, the Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa, the Free State AIDS Coalition and World Vision.   JOHANNESBURG –The shock announcement by the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria that financial shortfalls forced the cancellation of its Round 11 of new grants threatens to run back the clock on the gains made in the fight against HIV. The Global Fund financial...
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HIV Global Fund: an interview with Dr Unni Karunakara

30 November 2011
antiretroviral treatment
Lusikisiki, South Africa. Patient taking her antiretroviral treatment
In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to support treatment programmes because of a catastrophic drop in donor funding.  MSF international president, Dr Unni Karunakara The Global Fund, financed largely by governments, was set up ten years ago as a ‘war chest’ to fight the spiralling AIDS pandemic and tackle malaria and TB, the other two infectious diseases that claim millions of lives each year in developing countries. In many countries, MSF works alongside the national health authorities who rely on Global Fund support to...
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Access to HIV treatment must speed up to match political promises

21 November 2011
MDR-TB patient takes her pills
MDR-TB patient in Khayelitsha, South Africa, takes her pills
Latest UNAIDS treatment numbers show progress, but funding crunch is major threat   The growing number of averted HIV/AIDS deaths according to data released by UNAIDS represents important progress, but the number of people put on treatment must increase dramatically in order to reap the benefits of the new science showing that HIV treatment both saves lives and helps prevent new infections, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors WIthout Borders (MSF) said today. This will require significant additional funding for HIV treatment, yet, as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria’s Board meeting opens today in Accra, Ghana, AIDS funding has now declined for two years...
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Zambia: Measles vaccination campaign to immunise 600,000 children

24 May 2011
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams are currently working with the Zambian health authorities to vaccinate almost 600,000 children against measles. MSF launched an emergency intervention in response to an epidemic that has affected thousands of Zambian children this year, especially in the north of country. Vaccination campaign Through the provision of training to Ministry of Health staff, technical assistance and medical material and vaccines, MSF is supporting the vaccination of children aged six months to 15 years against measles, a highly contagious disease. The teams have begun work in both the Luapula and Northern Provinces, the two areas where children have been most affected by the...
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Getting Ahead of the Wave: Lessons for the next decade of the AIDS response

12 May 2011
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
  Open publication - Free publishing - More aids   "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. The report also presents results of a survey conducted by MSF teams in 16 countries on progress in implementing WHO treatment guidelines as well as other important strategies to increase access to antiretroviral treatment (ART). While many countries have adopted improved protocols and policies, most HIV-prevalent countries are still struggling to reach more than 50% of people in need of ART or provide ART in more than...
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MSF Report: Fragile progress as several countries upgrade to better AIDS treatment

11 May 2011
Top Donor Countries Oppose Crucial Treatment Target Ahead of UN AIDS Summit   New York, 11 May 2011– A report released today by the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) revealed that several countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic are improving HIV treatment to reduce deaths and illness – but a lack of support from donors prevents many from making vital changes.  This fragile progress needs sustained support, but the two biggest AIDS donors, the US and UK, are opposing a critical HIV treatment target ahead of next month’s AIDS Summit in New York at a time when mounting evidence shows that HIV treatment can also prevent HIV infections.   “Our...
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Zambia: MSF responds to worst cholera outbreak in years

09 April 2010
Zambia: MSF responds to worst cholera outbreak in years
Zambia: MSF responds to worst cholera outbreak in years
In Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the worst cholera outbreaks in the country for many years. Over the last five weeks the number of cholera cases has risen dramatically to more than 4,500, while more than 120 people have lost their lives. Despite hopes that the outbreak has reached its peak the previous week and that the number of cholera cases will start decreasing, heavy rains that continue to cause severe floods in the city could potentially worsen the situation in the coming weeks. Zambia. Photo: Robin Meldrum /MSF MSF teams are working around the clock to treat people affected by cholera and try to contain the spread of the outbreak. MSF has set up three cholera...
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