Malawi: “In 2001, when the counsellor said ART could prolong my life, I thought it would be two to three years but here I am, 22 years later”

August 7, 2023

In July 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its longest standing projects in Malawi, launched some 25 years ago in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The MSF Saturday Teen Club in Chiradzulu on 7 March 2020...

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

March 31, 2023

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...

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

November 30, 2022

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...

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

November 25, 2022

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...

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

December 1, 2019

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...

Manipur: “Don’t give up, be positive”

December 1, 2019

Images by Jan-Joseph Stok It was in the year 2013, when 33-year-old Sinruwng Bejoy Anal learnt he was HIV positive. At first he had problems coping with his illnesses and was full of fear, but now he knows how to...

HIV/AIDS

February 6, 2019

Confronting the deadly pandemic An estimated 1 million people die each year from HIV/AIDS, while nearly 2 million people become newly infected with the virus. Approximately 36.9 million people were living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at the end...