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 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...

World AIDS Day: Why are people living with HIV still dying of AIDS in India?

December 1, 2021

It is unacceptable that people living with HIV are still dying because the tests, treatment and care for life-threatening infections are not available Today on World AIDS Day, we mark four decades when mysterious illnesses started to take lives that...

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...

UNAIDS update: High ongoing AIDS mortality reminds us that the fight against HIV is far from over

July 16, 2019

Brussels / Geneva / Johannesburg - 770 000 people died of HIV worldwide in 2018. These are disturbing figures in the UNAIDS Global Aids Update 2019 released today in Eshowe, South Africa. Timely use of effective diagnostic tools and medicines 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...