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WATCH AND LISTEN - Why People Are Still Dying of Advanced HIV

Hundreds of thousands of people continue to die from advanced HIV, also known as Aids, because countries are ill-equipped to detect and treat people suffering through advanced stages of the disease, according to a new report from Doctors Without Borders. The report, No Time to Lose , spans 15 countries in Africa and Asia and says that despite the existence of WHO guidelines since 2017 on advanced HIV, governments have been slow to include them in national guidelines, while meaningful implementation and funding lag even further behind.

VIDEO: Why People Are Still Dying of Advanced HIV

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What is Advanced HIV?

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Medecins Sans Frontieres

Publication Date:

1 December 2019

Florence Anam, MSF HIV/TB Advocacy Coordinator for the Africa Region, explains. see more »
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The Importance of WHO's HIV Care Guidelines

Publisher:

Medecins Sans Frontieres

Publication Date:

1 December 2019

Florence Anam, MSF HIV/TB Advocacy Coordinator for Africa Region, speaks on advanced HIV in Malawi and Mozambique. see more »

Africa: Aids Death Toll Stagnating Due to Lack of Testing at Community Level

MSF, 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… Read more »
Malawi: Empowering Patients to Reach an HIV-Free Malawi

MSF, 2 December 2019

Despite having taken huge steps to reduce the prevalence of HIV and the numbers of people dying from it, many people in Malawi still get sick and develop advanced HIV. But a new… Read more »

Photo: Isabel Corthier/MSF

MSF clinician Kingsley Makwale examines Aisha at the Mbenje Health Centre in Malawi.

Photo: Isabel Corthier/MSF

Obert Symon, a Ministry of Health medical assistant, and MSF clinical officer, Christopher Banda, examine Austin at the Ndamera Health Centre, Nsanje District, Malawi. Banda is mentoring Symon in sklls to diagnose and manage advanced HIV patients

Photo: Isabel Corthier/MSF

Friends and relatives welcome Austin back home after he was discharged from Nsanje District Hospital in Malawi. He was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with advanced HIV.

South Africa: Town Surpasses UN Targets to Drive Down HIV

Deutsche Welle, 30 November 2019

Eshowe, a small town at the center of the world's AIDS epidemic in South Africa, is a beacon of hope in the bid to reduce the AIDS virus. It has beaten the 90-90-90 target deadline… Read more »

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No Time to Lose: Detect, Treat and Prevent Aids

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MSF

Publisher:

MSF

Publication Date:

1 December 2019

According to our Doctors Without Borders new report, 'No Time to Lose, launched to mark World AIDS Day, delays in responding quickly to treatment ... see more »