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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People displaced by the conflict in Cabo Delgado, a northern province in Mozambique, wait next to a truck on the outskirts of Mueda. They had previously been resettled in other areas of the province but are now aiming to reach Palma, a coastal town that was attacked earlier this year and where some people have already gradually returned.
Mozambique

Displaced by the conflict in Cabo Delgado

Patient and Staff Stories 22 Dec 2021
 
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