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M&G: Swazi Aids Response in Cash Crisis

24 February 2012
Swaziland, MSF, HIV/Aids, funding
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  It has withdrawn funding worldwide because a lack of donors – money that, in Swaziland’s case, would have funded a 10% increase in nurse numbers and other badly needed human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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'Losing Ground': How Global Fund Shortages and PEPFAR cuts are jeopardising the fight against HIV and TB

21 March 2012
HIV/TB, Myanmar, Global Fund, health crisis
A monk holds his ART medication at the MSF Tharketa clinic, Myanmar. Photograph: Greg Constantine
  'Losing Ground' focuses on the impact of the cancelation of Global Fund Round 11 on HIV and TB treatment programs in the countries where MSF runs HIV/Aids activities. This MSF issue brief was developed from answers to questionnaires sent to all MSF HIV and TB projects around the world, and was developed by MSF's Access Campaign and Advocacy and Analysis Unit (AAU). 
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Mail & Guardian - Thoughtleader: Donors turn their backs on HIV

02 December 2011
Global Fund, funding cuts, HIV/AIDs
Chamanculo Hospital in Mozambique. HIV funding cuts threaten to take poor countries back to where they were years ago. (Tomas Munita)
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 austerity or political finagling. It is about lives saved, families saved, communities saved... To read this opinion piece by MSF South Africa's Access & Innovation Officer, Mara Kardas-Nelson, click here.  
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TalkRadio 702/Redi Thlabi show: Global Fund Board cancels 11th round of funding

29 November 2011
Global Fund, HIV/Aids, funding crisis, Zimbabwe
MSF provides free HIV care in rural health clinics. decentralized from district hospitals, in order to create access to regular medical care for patients in rural and underserviced remote areas of Malawi. Kenneth Tong/MSF
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.   Listen to the interview below.
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Sunday Times: Funds setback for war on Aids, malaria and tuberculosis

04 December 2011
Global Fund, HIV/Aids, Zimbabwe, funding crisis
The Pharmacy at Overspill clinic in Epworth, Zimbabwe. MSF provides patients ARV medication and care free of chrage. With 14.3 per cent prevalence rate (UNAIDS 2009), Zimbabwe is one of the countries worst affected by the worldwide HIV/Aids epidemic. Brendon Bannon/MSF
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" grants to pay for their projects after missing out on round 10, which disbursed $1.73-billion to 64 countries for 79 disease proposals. A panel of civil organisations, including Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Section27, Treatment Action Campaign and Malawi Network...
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Witness: Global fund - 'No more funds left to save lives'

29 November 2011
HIV/Aids, Global Fund, Zimbabwe, funding cuts
An MSF nurse supervisor consults with an HIV-positive patient and her HIV-negative baby in Epworth, Zimbabwe. Brendon Bannon
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 board of the Global Fund on a shortage of funding as "shocking"... Read full article below. Re ......
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Beeld: Ramp voorspel oor min geld vir MIV-pille

29 November 2011
Global Fund, HIV/Aids, South Africa, MSF
Dr. Eric Goemaere van Dokters Sonder Grense Suid-Afrika gister aan die woord in Braamfontein. Foto: Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld
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... Read full article below.
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HIV hope under threat: Catastrophic donor funding crisis hits Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

01 December 2011
Ten years ago, doctors and nurses working for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) started providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to people living with HIV/AIDS in projects in Thailand and South Africa, where before they had simply provided palliative care as people withered away.  Since then MSF has witnessed the dramatic impact of life-saving treatment which has had for individuals and communities and today our projects now span nearly 20 countries, with 170,000 people receiving HIV drugs. The global HIV response which has seen more than 6 million people receiving treatment would not have been possible without the vital support from international donors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis...
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Malawi: 10 Years of antiretroviral treatment by MSF

30 November 2011
10 Years of antiretroviral treatment in Malawi by MSF
10 Years of antiretroviral treatment in Malawi by MSF
For people living with HIV the greatest battle is having a normal life. Up to a decade ago without readily accessible antiretroviral treatment this was unthinkable and HIV and AIDS was seen as a death sentence. Three MSF’s patients from Chiradzulu share their personal testimonies of living in good health for the last 10 years on treatment two MSF medical staff talking about preventing the transmission of HIV from mother to child, and the future challenges for HIV care in Malawi.   Read MSF’s report: 10 Years of antiretroviral treatment in Malawi by MSF 10 Years of ARVs in Malawi A brief overview of MSF's 10-year HIV treatment programme in Chiradzulu, Malawi...
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World Aids Day: Positive Thinking

30 November 2011
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
  Paul Foreman, MSF Head of Mission, Zimbabwe This is an edited version of a blog by MSF's Paul Foreman, Head of Mission, Zimbabwe World Aids Day – a day on which the slogan ‘Getting to Zero’ is meant to have some resonance: Zero new HIV infections; zero discrimination and zero AIDS related deaths. Let’s have a look at these noble ambitions one at a time in the Zimbabwean context. Start with the last one – zero AIDS related deaths – that would be brilliant for Zimbabwe. It would be quite a journey, because in 2009 (the last year for which figures are available) 83,000 people died from AIDS. Preventing Aids deaths There are two ways to stop...
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