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HIV/Aids

Pushing the envelope

Since the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GF) cancelled its funding round in 2011, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), governments, and people affected by the three diseases have all called for international efforts to scale up HIV, TB and malaria programmes to be put back on track.
 Briefing Document - 6 Aug 2014
 
Attacks on medical care

Gaza: MSF condemns attack on Al Shifa hospital

Attack on Al Shifa hospital, where nearly 2,000 people are sheltering, demonstrates how civilians have nowhere safe to go and shows the current difficulties of providing emergency aid in Gaza.
 Press Release - 29 Jul 2014
 
Bombing

Syria: Car bombs in northern Syria target Eid shoppers

Two car bombs exploded in towns in northern Syria on 26th July – one in Atmeh and the other in Azaz – causing large numbers of civilian casualties, including a Syrian staff member of MSF.
 Press Release - 29 Jul 2014
 
South Sudan - Juba cholera vaccination campaign
Hepatitis

World Hepatitis Day: Organisations call on SA government to protect infants

On World Hepatitis Day, 25 organisations and individuals from around the world have called on the South African Department of Health and Department of Trade and Industry to address the public health threat of hepatitis.
 Press Release - 28 Jul 2014
 
Iraq, Domeez refugee camp - Nurse Jessica Lovel
Airstrikes

Iraqis left without medical care as hospitals destroyed by repeated airstrikes

Intense shelling and aerial assaults in northern and central Iraq have hit hospitals and other medical facilities, some supported by MSF, depriving civilians of much needed medical care.
 Press Release - 24 Jul 2014
 
HIV/Aids

Motsoaledi announces earlier ARV initiation in budget speech - MSF response

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced in his health budget vote speech delivered in Parliament on 23 July 2014 that South Africa will move to treating HIV-positive patients with anti-retrovirals (ARVs) at an earlier stage.
 Press Release - 24 Jul 2014
 
Lake Tchad Crisis: Responding to the humanitarian consequences of violence (Extreme North Cameroon)
Cholera

PLAY YOUR PART: Dr Vanessa Naidoo: On the frontlines with Doctors Without Borders

Galvanised by the images of the injured in the 2011 Libyan uprising, Dr Vanessa Naidoo decided to put her passion for people and medicine to good use; she volunteered with international medical and humanitarian aid organisation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
 Latest News - 23 Jul 2014
 
Gaza, MSF Support to Al Shifa hospital
Airstrikes

Gaza Strip: Israel must stop bombing trapped civilians

Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, the majority of the dead and wounded in Gaza are civilians and medical workers are also coming under fire.
 Press Release - 21 Jul 2014
 
Violence

CAR: Mortality survey reveals extreme violence and high death tolls

A retrospective mortality study conducted by MSF among Central African refugees in Sido, Chad, reveals extreme levels of death during a violent crackdown against the Central African Republic’s (CAR) Muslim minority.
 Press Release - 17 Jul 2014
 
HIV/Aids

Getting to Undetectable: Volume 5

This issue brief is the fifth in a series produced by MSF to equip policymakers, people living with HIV/AIDS, and communities with information on the products, costs, and operational strategies to help realise scale-up of viral load monitoring, which we believe is an essential tool, along with adherence support, to help as many people on ART as possible to reach and maintain viral suppression.
 Briefing Document - 15 Jul 2014