HIV

Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must improve its failing access strategy for lifesaving HIV prevention drug

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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

Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must make ground-breaking HIV prevention injection affordable and available

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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

HIV/AIDS in the DRC: Behind the progress, huge challenges remain

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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

The healing touch

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MSF has been working in Bihar since 2007. Our activities have seen a gradual transition to focus on people living with advanced HIV and life-threatening opportunistic infections at Guru Gobind Singh Hospital in Patna, Bihar. For the unversed, patients with advanced HIV have an extremely high mortality rate, with complex treatment needs covering nutrition, infection, … Read more

World AIDS Day: Why are people living with HIV still dying of AIDS in India?

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It is unacceptable that people living with HIV are still dying because the tests, treatment and care for life-threatening infections are not available Today on World AIDS Day, we mark four decades when mysterious illnesses started to take lives that we know now were due to the HIV virus that dramatically lowers the body’s immune … Read more

Cryptococcal meningitis: This World AIDS Day, it’s time to recognise an outsider

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By Amir Shroufi, MSF South Africa Outsiders seldom get the attention they deserve. When it comes to conservation, for example, a few popular species attract most of the available funding – the rhino overshadows riverine rabbit. In the arts, jazz and blues struggle to attract the attention given freely to catchy pop, and it’s rare to … Read more

Breakthrough in treatment of HIV-related cryptococcal meningitis gives Gilead another opportunity to fulfil its promise to scale up access to lifesaving drug

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Today, as preliminary AMBITION trial results demonstrated a breakthrough in treatment of HIV-related cryptococcal meningitis, simplifying and shortening treatment by using a single dose of liposomal amphotericin B (L-AmB) in combination with existing oral therapy, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on the US pharmaceutical corporation Gilead Sciences, the world’s key supplier of quality-assured … Read more

HIV is in a state of silent crisis in Central African Republic

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Some 38 million people in the world are living with HIV/AIDS, over two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. While Central African Republic (CAR) is considered a low HIV prevalence country compared to many southern African countries, it is in a particularly critical situation, fuelled by extreme poverty, pervasive violence, a dire shortage of health facilities and health staff, … Read more

Manipur: Working with HIV and TB patients in remote areas

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By Edoardo Nicolotti, Project Coordinator, Manipur After working in Nepal for several years when I got the opportunity to work in Manipur, I was really excited. In my mind, I had the impression that Manipur would be very similar to Nepal but six months into the project, I realized I couldn’t be more wrong. Culturally … Read more

HIV/AIDS: AIDS death toll stagnating due to lack of testing at community level

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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