HIV/Aids
Press Release - 25 Nov 2011
Global Fund cuts spell more AIDS deaths, more HIV infections
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.Press Release - 25 Nov 2011
HIV/Aids
Press Release - 23 Nov 2011
MSF responds to unprecedented Global Fund cuts in HIV treatment funding
Because donor funding for global HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund has been declining, the Fund is in the most dire financial situation it has ever seen since its creation ten years ago.Press Release - 23 Nov 2011
DRC - New attack on MSF team
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) strongly condemns an attack on the team it has working in Masisi, North Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Press Release - 22 Nov 2011
Humanitarian challenges
Briefing Document - 21 Nov 2011
Report: Certificate in humanitarian assistance
The Wits School of Public and Development Management, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Doctors Without Borders Certificates in Humanitarian Assistance, Certificates in Humanitarian Practice and Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance programme.Briefing Document - 21 Nov 2011
HIV/Aids
Press Release - 21 Nov 2011
Access to HIV treatment must speed up to match political promises
The growing number of averted HIV/AIDS deaths according to data released by UNAIDS represents important progress, but the number of people put on treatment must increase dramatically in order to reap the benefits of the new science showing that HIV treatment both saves lives and helps prevent new infections.Press Release - 21 Nov 2011
Malnutrition
Latest News - 10 Nov 2011
Knysna Plett Herald: Sedgefield makes good in Somaliland
Garrett Barnwell of Segdefield is currently helping to coordinate Doctors Without Borders medical activities in the autonomous north-western Somaliland region of Somalia.Latest News - 10 Nov 2011
Malnutrition
Press Release - 2 Nov 2011
Ethiopia: Surge in the number of Somali refugees demands increased capacity
Unless the capacity to deliver aid is rapidly increased, there will be significant problems in meeting the needs of Somalis fleeing to Ethiopia, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today.Press Release - 2 Nov 2011
HIV/Aids
Briefing Document - 1 Nov 2011
Five Lives : How a financial transaction tax could support global health
‘5 Lives’ are the stories of people that MSF works with every day, whose health and lives often hang on a simple medical intervention.Briefing Document - 1 Nov 2011
HIV/Aids
Briefing Document - 31 Oct 2011
Antiretroviral treatment outcomes from a decentralised ART programme in rural Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has an adult HIV prevalence of 14.3% and an estimated 582,000 people requiring antiretroviral treatment.Briefing Document - 31 Oct 2011
HIV/Aids
Press Release - 31 Oct 2011
G20 leaders should bail out global health with a financial transaction tax
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 briefing paper: "Five Lives", an issue brief released by the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF).Press Release - 31 Oct 2011