2003 Report: Laos | Doctors Without Borders

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Publications International Activity Report 2003 Laos MSF in Laos, 2003 MSF Activity Reports on Laos: 2008, 2007, 2006/2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 All articles on Laos » MSF has worked in the Laos since 1990 HIV infection seems to be on the rise in Laos, a country with a poorly maintained and largely inaccessible public health system. In response, MSF's HIV/AIDS project offers medical care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the southern province of Savannakhet. MSF supports the provincial hospital in Savannakhet city by delivering care to HIV patients, supplying needed medicines and providing technical assistance and training for local physicians and nurses. MSF also treats opportunistic infections and carefully monitors admitted HIV patients, with antiretroviral therapy for approximately 40 patients beginning in September 2003.	International Activity Report 2003 Humanitarian Medicine, One Person At a Time by Thomas Nierle, MD, Director of Operations, MSF-Switzerland Not So Benign: when lofty political goals have bad humanitarian consequences by Nicolas de Torrenté, General Director, MSF-United States The Year in Review Dr. Morten Rostrup President, MSF International Council Rafael Vilasanjuan MSF Secretary General Invisible: Do sick people with no money need to become rich before we see that we can keep them alive? by Jean-Hervé Bradol, MD, President, MSF-France Enough is Enough: Why Sexual Violence Demands a Humanitarian Response by Tine Dusauchoit, MD, General Director, MSF Operational Center Brussels MSF Projects 2003
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