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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) frequently publishes updates, press releases, and other forms of communication about its work in more than 60 countries around the world. See the list below for the most recent updates or search by location, topic, or year.

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Press release

MSF Response to New WHO Guidelines for HIV-Related Cryptococcal Disease

March 07, 2018

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the launch of updated guidance by the World Health Organization (WHO) this week on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of cryptococcal disease, an opportunistic infection mainly affecting people living with advanced stages of HIV/AIDS.
In the News

DEVEX: In the Year of TB, Advocates Want More Than a Political Commitment

March 01, 2018

HIV and tuberculosis (TB) policy adviser for Médecins Sans Frontièrs/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Sharonnan Lynch, discusses the new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization for preventing and treating TB. View External Media.
Video

Treating AIDS Patients in Guinea

December 01, 2017

Only 1 in 4 people living with HIV are receiving treatment in Guinea; without treatment, they can easily develop AIDS. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports a hospital in Conakry, Guinea, that treats those who have developed AIDS. Patients arrive very ill, often with opportunistic infections.
Field news

South Sudan: Treating HIV-Positive People Affected by Conflict

December 01, 2017

For many people in rural South Sudan, HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) is nearly impossible to obtain, partly because war has forced many to flee to isolated locations where treatment options are limited or nonexistent. But in Yambio County—in the southwest—things are different as a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) pilot project is providing same-day care to many people living with HIV.
Video

"Look at Me Well": World Aids Day 2017

November 30, 2017

For World Aids Day on December 1, 2017, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is launching a national multimedia awareness campaign "Zwa Nga Bien" (Look at Me Well) aimed at young urban audiences in Democratic Republic of Congo to address the stigma still associated with HIV there. Music by Lexxus Legal and Sista Becky.
Voice from the Field

Central African Republic: “The only people left in Zemio are those who couldn’t run away”

September 11, 2017

Recent attacks on Zemio, in southeast Central African Republic, have closed the hospital and forced the city’s population, including MSF staff members, to flee. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical coordinator Wil van Roekel describes the ramifications of the violence for patients, including on some 1,600 HIV patients who need daily medication to survive.
In the News

NPR: There's Great News—and Grim News—in The Fight Against HIV/AIDS

August 01, 2017

Following the International AIDS conference, UNAIDS released a report that indicates more than half of the 36.7 million people with HIV have access to treatment for the first time. Despite this encouraging statistic, both HIV and AIDS death rates are increasing in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. NPR spoke with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) HIV and TB policy adviser, Sharonann Lynch, about the most recent HIV/AIDS trends. 
Slideshow

The Changing Face of AIDS in Africa

July 25, 2017

At a time when life-saving antiretrovirals are more widely available than ever, an unacceptably high number of people are still dying of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
Press release

MSF Sounds Alarm Over High Numbers of People Dying from AIDS in Africa

July 25, 2017

Greater global attention is needed to prevent and treat AIDS, as too many patients are dying despite the availability of antiretroviral treatment.
Video

Dying of AIDS in 2017

July 21, 2017

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