Patna, Bihar – December 1, 2025: This World AIDS Day, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) India, in collaboration with Bihar State AIDS Control Society (BSACS) and Guru Gobind Singh Hospital (GGSH), unveiled a wall mural at Garima Ki Kiran Clinic, the advanced HIV centre within GGSH. The mural carries a message to dispel myths … Read more
My name is Rakesh*, and my journey with HIV began in early 2004. It started with small signs—loose motions, itching on my skin—but soon, my right leg began to tremble uncontrollably. It felt like the earth beneath me was shaking. I was scared and confused. When I went to AIIMS in Delhi for tests, the … Read more
At Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we believe that understanding our patients goes far beyond their medical symptoms. That’s why we introduced the Social Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) in our Advanced HIV project in Patna, Bihar, in April 2023, a powerful tool that helps us see the whole picture of a patient’s life, challenges and … Read more
Kigali, Rwanda: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the release of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) HIV prevention guidelines for lenacapavir at the International AIDS Society Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. Lenacapavir has the potential to transform the HIV prevention landscape. Current medical HIV prevention options include oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the dapivirine vaginal ring … Read more
The decision by the US government to temporarily freeze funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) alongside all other foreign aid for at least a 90-day period has had immediate effects on people living with HIV (PLHIV), said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. Although the US has since clarified that … Read more
In July 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its longest standing projects in Malawi, launched some 25 years ago in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The MSF Saturday Teen Club in Chiradzulu on 7 March 2020 begins with a general presentation of the day’s activities. ©Francesco Segoni MSF first began HIV/AIDS … Read more
With affordable generics likely years away, ViiV must make information public on supply of long-acting cabotegravir and global distribution plan to ensure access for people in high HIV burden low- and middle-income countries Geneva, 30 March 2023 – Today Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on the pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to immediately provide transparency … Read more
MSF calls on ViiV to urgently dismantle barriers to access for long-acting cabotegravir Geneva, 29 November 2022 – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to urgently dismantle the barriers hindering broad access to the most effective form of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) that exists, long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA), which could … Read more
In 2002, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams opened the first outpatient treatment centre offering free care to people living with HIV in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Twenty years later, while great progress has been achieved in the country, major gaps remain in testing and treatment, causing thousands of preventable deaths each year. … Read more
KIGALI/BRUSSELS – 1 DECEMBER 2019 — Hundreds of thousands of people continue to die from advanced HIV, also known as AIDS, because countries are still ill-equipped to detect and treat people suffering through advanced stages of the disease, according to a new report released today by MSF. Delays in responding quickly to treatment failures and interruptions jeopardise … Read more