Posts in HIV/Aids

  • 1994 – India signs the World Trade Organization (WTO)‘s Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (...
 

'Evergreening' is what pharmaceutical companies do when they want to increase
profits and it leaves people in developing countries without the...

As European Commission (EC) pressure mounts on India to rush into
signing a free trade agreement (FTA) by mid-April, activists from across Europe...

EU-India Free Trade Deal puts millions of lives at risk 2012 © Siddharth Singh

The landmark decision by the Indian Supreme Court...

Health activists calling on Novartis to drop its legal challenge in India, 2007

Kelly Khabala is a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) Clinical Officer.

MSF Clinical Officer, Kelly Khabala.  Kenya 2013 © MSF

As Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical teams work to reach communities affected by the violence in Rakhine State they...

Myanmar's western state of Rakhine was badly hit by a cyclone in 2010

The International AIDS
Conference is being held this week on US soil for the first time in over 20
years.

Mozambique 2012 © Brendan Bannon

Strategies, tools and policies to get the best HIV treatment to more people, sooner

With continued tension and unrest in
Rakhine Sate, Myanmar, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is
seriously...

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar (Burma) in a makeshift camp in Bangladesh

Irish Times, 28 February 2012 IN THE FIELD: Despite grinding poverty, widespread disease and frequent security threats, the people of Am Timan...

In a report released today MSF, the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar , highlights the critical need for increased HIV and Tuberculosis...

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MSF WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SHARED THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH US. WITHOUT THESE TESTIMONIES THIS REPORT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE....

Nearly 2,000 people living with HIV along with MSF & other organisations took to the streets of New Delhi at the start of the EU-India summit...

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Statement by Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer; Executive Director, Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières

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MSF is alarmed by the situation of HIV/AIDS patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the lack of priority given by the Congolese...

Democratic Republic of Congo 2011 © Mario Travaini MSF

MSF pays tribute to the people fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa and launches “Positive Generation: Voices for an AIDS-free future”. ...

Zimbabwe 2011 © Brendan Bannon

MSF response to Global Fund board meeting

Baby looking over shoulder of MSF doctor in Zimbabwe

MSF's Health Policy and Practice Advisor, Bev Skinner, discusses medical anthropology in MSF's projects around the world. 

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MSF's Health Policy and Practice Advisor, Beverley Skinner, spoke to "Under the Sun" on NEAR FM about medical anthroplogy in MSF's programmes.

Médecins Sans Frontières is deeply concerned about the implications of the current economic crisis in Swaziland on people living with HIV/AIDS....

An MSF doctor treating a child in Swaziland

Irish Times July 5, 2011A diagnosis of HIV is just more bad news for a widow, writes Dr.
John Morris.

Sunday Business Post 29 May 2011

Irish Times 10 May 2011 IN THE FIELD: The work is tiring and stressful but very rewarding, writes
Dr John Morris

Top Donor Countries Oppose Crucial Treatment Target
Ahead of UN AIDS Summit

© Brendan Bannon

A report released today (11 May 2011) by the international medical humanitarian organisation
Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (...

Irish Times 22 March 2011 IN THE FIELD: The first in a series of dispatches from Chad where medical intervention is achieving some remarkable...

A refusal to educate in the 1980s has left a mournful legacy.

A refusal to educate in the 1980s has left a mournful legacy.

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A doctor from Rahoon Road in the city is heading to Chad in central Africa to set up an HIV/Aids project.  This piece was published in...

Licenses just agreed between three generic drug manufacturers and pharmaceutical company Tibotec, owned by Johnson & Johnson, will keep a...

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India should resist pressure from the European Union to accept, as part
of a Free Trade Agreement, harmful provisions...

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In the week before Christmas, Pat Kenny interviewed three of MSF's Irish doctors on his RTE show.  He asked them to describe their project...

I have been a supporter of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for quite a while, but after taking a year out from my pharmacy...

Hospital in Arua, Uganda