Health service delivery
- Making the Switch: Ensuring access to improved treatment for severe malaria in Africa
- Médecins Sans Frontières , 2011
- Malaria continues to be the leading cause of death in African children. Severe malaria has traditionally been treated with quinine. The latest scientific evidence shows that many more children’s lives...
- Getting ahead of the wave: Lessons for the next decade of the AIDS response
- Médecins Sans Frontières , 2011
- This report details MSF’s experience in implementing treatment strategies to improve care and reduce costs for patients and health systems. It provides a snapshot of the global AIDS response by ...
- Nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment at the primary health care level in rural Lesotho: 2006-2008 programme report
- Médecins Sans Frontières , 2009
- Lesotho has the third highest HIV prevalence in the world, with an estimated 270,000 people living with HIV and AIDS in the country, and 18,000 deaths annually of AIDS-related ...
- Help wanted: confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment
- Médecins Sans Frontières , 2007
- This Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) report examines the impact of human resources shortages witnessed by MSF teams in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, focusing largely on nurses in r...
- Fatal imbalance: the crisis in research and development for drugs for neglected diseases
- Médecins Sans Frontières , 2001
- The human suffering caused by infectious diseases could be reduced; with billions of dollars dedicated to health research and development (R&D) it should be possible to develop effective treatments fo...
- Pills and pocketbooks: equity pricing of essential medicines in developing countries
- E. Hoen 't / Médecins Sans Frontières , 2001
- This paper, adapted from a presentation made at the WHO/WTO Workshop on Differential Pricing and Financing of Essential Drugs, Hosbjor, Norway, April 2001, argues that there will not be one single mea...
- Persecution, intimidation, and failure of assistance in Darfur
- Médecins Sans Frontières , 2004
- In the context of the civil war being waged in Darfur, Sudan, this paper seeks to convey what has happened to the health of people in Darfur based on data emerging from MSF clinics and surveys. The ob...
- The crushing burden of rape: sexual violence in Darfur
- Médecins Sans Frontières , 2005
- This graphic testimonial document highlights the horrific issue of rape as a form of warfare in Darfur, Sudan. It includes numerous first hand accounts of women who were abused and raped, and uses the...
- Patents, access to medicines and the role of non-governmental organisations
- N. Ford / Médecins Sans Frontières , 2004
- This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of th...
- Running out of breath: TB care in the 21st century
- Médecins Sans Frontières , 2004
- This paper, produced by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), examines current TB control efforts, focusing on the internationally recommended DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course) programme stra...
