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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...

The financial transaction tax (FTT), due to be discussed at this week’s G20 Summit in Cannes, could help save millions of lives if a percentage were allocated to global health, according to Five Lives, an issue brief released by the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).   Read the briefing paper “We’ve seen through our work how key health interventions can change lives as well as the trajectory of pressing health needs,” said Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director at MSF’s Access Campaign.  “It’s time global health got its bailout.”   A tax implemented on...

Life 2: Carmen Mozambique. Photo: MSF What I would say to people who are living with HIV is don't be afraid. It doesn't mean the end of your life." Carmen is 32 years old. She lives in Tete, a town on the Zambezi river in northern Mozambique, with her husband, Victorino, and two children. She found out she was HIV-positive in 2007 and started on antiretroviral treatment in 2009. Today she is alive and healthy, looking after her family and going to evening school to improve her qualifications. Today, more than six million people living with HIV are alive because they are receiving life-saving antiretroviral treatment. But nearly nine million more are still waiting to get...

To raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and the challenges in treating the epidemic in southern Africa, MSF hosted the INTERVALO! sporting event in Maputo, Mozambique on 14 September, midway during the 10th All Africa Games. The event brought together 24 athletes, made up of patients living positively with HIV along with MSF staff involved in HIV care from 5 Southern African countries – Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. INTERVALO! highlighted the determination and commitment of people on the frontlines of the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and demonstrated the positive impact of antiretroviral drugs in fighting a disease that wipes out 2 million people worldwide each year. Each of the fun sporting events...