Councelor Celina Beatriz Chinhaja conducts an HIV pre-test and counseling with a truck driver inside the MSF car at a remote parking area outside Beira City, Mozambique
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Patients – not all HIV positive – in the waiting area of Munhava health centre on 09 April, the first day of the full re-opening of MSF’s HIV program after Cyclone Idai. The MSF-supported Munhava health centre covers one of Beira’s broadest catchment areas where there are some 8,000 patients with HIV.
HIV/Aids

"It was a strength that came from within, that motivated me to fight"

Patient and Staff Stories 14 Dec 2021
 
Detail of the methadone syrup and single-use cups with which beneficiaries of the heroin substitution programme take their dosage. The dosage is set by a doctor at the Alto-Mae health centre.
Mozambique

"I was alive, but felt dead"

Patient and Staff Stories 14 Dec 2021
 
Vials of Amphotericin B and related supplies which is used to treat Cryptococcal Meningitis Aisha Diabate 30 years (background) arrived at Donka Hospital with the husband of her sister who is a doctor from Coleah health centre in Conakry.
HIV/Aids

Three considerations to treat or manage cryptococcal meningitis

Patient and Staff Stories 30 Nov 2021
 
MSf, Doctors Without Borders, South Africa, Word AIDS day, Cryptococcal meningitis
HIV/Aids

"I started having headaches, not just normal headaches… serious headaches. I couldn’t even sit or sleep."- Zikhona Mboto

Patient and Staff Stories 30 Nov 2021
 
With approximately 5.3 million people infected with HIV, South Africa has the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS of any country. In November 2003, the South African government approved a new national HIV/AIDS plan that added life-extending antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to the existing protocol and set a goal of treating 600,000 people with ARVs by 2008.
HIV/Aids

Cryptococcal meningitis: This world AIDS Day it’s time to recognise an outsider

Op-Ed 30 Nov 2021
 
Switzerland, COVID-19 response in Intensive care unit of HUG. April 14, 2020.
Access to medicines

What's next for the world and South Africa?

Patient and Staff Stories 16 Nov 2021