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MSF, Doctors without borders, Eshowe Rural COVID-19 Response
Global health

How the upcoming Global Fund replenishment decides who will be saved in the face of the HIV, TB and malaria pandemics, and why the pledges on September 21 matter.

Op-Ed 16 Sep 2022
 
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Access To Medicines

TRIPS non-waiver outcome highlights urgent need for domestic IP reform in South Africa

Op-Ed 6 Sep 2022
 
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Exclusion from Healthcare

A Dangerous Prognosis: Vulnerable migrants obstructed from getting essential maternal and child healthcare services due to Gauteng hospital payment policies and politics

Op-Ed 6 Sep 2022
 
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, Counter Terrorism
Armed conflict

Civilians and culprits: the impact of counter-terrorism measures on stigmatised populations

Op-Ed 1 Jun 2022
 
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, Malnutrition
Malnutrition

Fighting malnutrition it’s about funding and sound strategies, not rocket science

Op-Ed 10 Dec 2021
 
The rapid addition of inexperienced staff in an emergency situation, as happened in many hospitals during South Africa’s second COVID-19 wave, can produce challenges, which MSF witnessed first-hand in the field hospital at Ngwelezana Tertiary Hospital in northern KwaZulu-Natal. In this 113 bed COVID-19 facility MSF and Department of Health staff worked side by side from 11 January. To bring order to a potentially chaotic situation, the appointment of an experienced nurse activity manager to organize the fac
COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)

In an unequal world, our response to COVID-19 cannot be one size-fits-all

Op-Ed 8 Dec 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
 
An MSF ambulance seen outside MSF compound gate in Dagahaley
Armed conflict

Our medics treat everyone, don’t punish them for that

Op-Ed 21 Oct 2021
 
A fieldworker prepares HIV test kit which forms part of MSF's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Vulnerable populations can be screened for COVID-19 and other diseases like HIV and Diabetes.
Vaccination

J&J's slow vaccine delivery stagnates South Africa's vaccination rollout

Op-Ed 23 Aug 2021