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05 December 2018

MSF PULSE: Big Pharma vs. children with HIV

HIV/AIDS

December 1 is World AIDS Day. In this episode of MSF PULSE, we look at one particularly vulnerable category of HIV-positive patients which continues to be almost completely neglected by pharmaceutical companies: children.

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Olena Melnikova, 42-years-old, taking a viral load test in the process of hepatitis C treatment. She is one of the patients who underwent the hepatitis C treatment provided by MSF in Mykolaiv.

Photograph by Aleksandr Glyadyelov

Feature story

Feature story |

01 December 2018

Hepatitis C HIV/AIDS

Ukraine

HIV-hepatitis C co-infection in Mykolaiv, Ukraine

7 min

Civil society demonstration against IP provisions in RCEP that can block access to affordable medicines. Protest was done during 6th RCEP negotiationin India, 2014.

Photograph by Siddharth Singh

Opinion article

Opinion article |

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Intellectual property and trade

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Fernanda Rick is a medical doctor from Brazil, who specializes in infectious diseases and has been working with MSF since 2014. She currently is the Medical Team Leader for MSF’s HIV project in Dawei, Tanintharyi region.

Photograph by Phyu Sin

Feature story

Feature story |

30 November 2016

HIV/AIDS

Myanmar

Adolescents with HIV: Don’t let them slip away

7 min

Alice Otiato, MSF’s Project Coordinator at the Epworth Clinic on Harare’s outskirts, talks to a mother at Epworth Clinic. Her child is severely handicapped and the mother is upset that people have told her she is to blame. Alice encourages the mother to be strong and not to listen to unfriendly words from other people. ‘The only thing that matters is your child,’ Alice reassures her.

Photograph by Rachel Corner

Feature story

Feature story |

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HIV/AIDS

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6 min

Photograph by Rachel Corner

Feature story

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HIV/AIDS

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Stop Stock Outs (SSP) activists at the Stop Stock Outs (SSP) activist meeting in Soshanguve, a township outside of Pretoria on April 16, 2015.

Photograph by Stefan Heunis

Press release

Press release |

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HIV/AIDS

South Africa

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4 min

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Press release

Press release |

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HIV/AIDS

Kenya

HIV: Despite better access to treatment, many AIDS patients in African hospitals still die

4 min

Opinion article |

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