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Burkina Faso
International staff: 10 MSF has been active in Burkina Faso since 1995 This year, MSF added antiretroviral therapy to its HIV/AIDS program in the urban district of Pissy, north of the capital Ouagadougou. Around 600 people get regular follow-up, including treatment of opportunistic infections, and around 100 more have begun ARV treatment since April 2003; 700 people are followed in the program as a whole. MSF offers them comprehensive care, including home-based care, voluntary HIV counseling and testing and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. Medical and psychosocial health care to street children continues in the capital. Support to rural health centers is ongoing in Sindou, near the borders with Mali and Côte d'Ivoire. In October 2002, to prepare for a possible influx of refugees fleeing civil war in Côte d'Ivoire, MSF sent medicines to Banfora, Bobo, Yendéré and Koupela, and implemented a preparedness plan in the capital with the capacity to support up to 10,000 people.
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