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  • FILE: Figures show the virus has claimed the lives of more than 30 million lives in the past 35 years. Picture: Masego Rahlaga/EWN.

    Prices of newer HIV drugs too high, according to MSF

    Poor people living with the virus struggle to get their hands on newer HIV drugs.

    2174 days ago
  • "More than 18,000 delegates are attending the conference in Durban; which has brought together scientists, policy makers and charities, dedicated to fighting the HIV pandemic to coordinate the global response to the virus. Picture: Kgothatso Mogale/EWN.

    Govt to boost community healthcare worker numbers in bid to fight Aids

    The government plans to end the HIV and Aids pandemic in the country by 2030.

    2175 days ago
  • FILE. Health workers observing World Aids Day. Picture: AFP.

    'People living with HIV continue to suffer needlessly & die silently'

    A medical watchdog has warned goals to curb HIV won’t be met unless the response is accelerated.

    2266 days ago
  • FILE: In this photograph released by MSF on 3 October, 2015, fires burn in part of the MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz after it was hit by an air strike. Picture: AFP.

    ‘Attack on MSF clinic was result of human error’

    At least 30 people were killed in the October attack, including patients and medical staff.

    2413 days ago
  • FILE: An MSF medical worker wearing protective clothing at an Ebola treatment facility. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola relief group welcomes decrease in new cases

    MSF says the decrease is an opportunity to fix response and treatment programmes.

    2714 days ago
  • Residents of Blantyre queue for safe drinking water on 21 January 2015 after floods contaminated the local water supply. Picture: Aletta Gardner/EWN

    Malawi floods: Govt to roll out response plan

    Around 50 people have been killed & 153 others are still missing following six days of torrential rain.

    2720 days ago
  • Liberian health workers in a burial squad carrying the body of an Ebola victim in Monrovia in September 2014. Picture: EPA.

    Doctors describe Ebola experiences in West Africa

    The doctors described their encounters and challenges in treating patients diagnosed with the virus.

    2820 days ago
  • A member of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) putting on protective gear at the isolation ward. Picture: AFP.

    Experts: Ebola spreading fast, aid not enough

    The US alone has pledged more than $1 billion to help curb the outbreak.

    2833 days ago
  • Patients suffering from Ebola sit at the French NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without borders) Elwa hospital in Monrovia, on 21 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola: Health experts to meet

    Health experts are meeting in Geneva to get a global strategy on how to stop the transmission of Ebola.

    2859 days ago
  • Rwanda soldier from the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA), gestures as he patrols on 22 January, 2014 in the Pk 13 district, north of Bangui, after after an attack by anti-Balaka fighters. Picture: AFP.

    CAR: Killing of children angers MSF

    Doctors without borders says almost 3,000 people have been killed in the CAR.

    2904 days ago
  • A protester holds a placard reading "No to the injustice of Samba Panza, No to partiality, Equality and freedom for all" as residents demonstrate in the 'Muslim enclave' of the PK5 district in Bangui to express their anger on 31 May, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    CAR death toll rises as violence escalates

    Doctors Without Borders says the death toll is nearing 3,000.

    2905 days ago
  • FILE: A man disinfects protection material stored at a warehouse of the Swiss branch of Doctors Without Borders in Conakry before being used on areas plagued with the Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Picture: AFP.

    Resources dampen fight against Ebola

    West African states lack the resources to battle the world's worst outbreak of Ebola.

    2923 days ago
  • FILE: Young girls carry luggage in a United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) IDP camp on June 20, 2014 in Juba. 20 June marks the World refugee day, according to statistics over 1.3 million people have been displaced from their homes due to the current conflict. Picture: AFP.

    S.Sudan refugee children face illness, death

    Children dying from preventable diseases is a daily occurrence in the congested UN camp.

    2935 days ago
  • A protester holds a placard reading "No to the injustice of Samba Panza, No to partiality, Equality and freedom for all" as residents demonstrate in the 'Muslim enclave' of the PK5 district in Bangui to express their anger on 31 May, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Muslims march in Central African Republic

    A tense calm has returned to Bangui following two days of violence ignited by an attack by Muslim gunmen.

    2956 days ago
  • FILE: Health specialists prepare for work in an isolation ward for patients at the Doctors Without Borders facility in Guékedou, southern Guinea. Picture: AFP.

    MSF: Guinea Ebola cases in decline

    The group however says Ebola hemorrhagic fever is still being treated as an epidemic.

    2988 days ago
  • Health specialists prepare for work in an isolation ward for patients at the Doctors Without Borders facility in southern Guinea. Picture: AFP.

    At least 80 confirmed Ebola deaths

    Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola outbreak in Guinea is unprecedented and hard to control.

    3016 days ago
  • French troops in Bangui on 16 January, 2014. Picture: AFP

    CAR’s people in ‘pure survival mode’

    Doctors Without Borders says the CAR is in desperate need of meaningful intervention.

    3030 days ago
  • FILE: MSF led over 1,500 people in a march to Parliament to hand over a memorandum on Thursday afternoon. Picture: EWN.

    MSF takes patent fight to parliament

    The group is demanding the CIPC put stricter measures in place for the awarding of drug patents.

    3035 days ago
  • Doctors Without Borders say more needs to be done in the fight against the HIV epidemic.

    MSF: Too soon to celebrate HIV fight

    Doctors Without Borders say more needs to be done in the fight against the HIV epidemic.

    3136 days ago
  • Medical activists handed over recommendations on the Draft National Intellectual Property Policy.

    Groups want stricter medical patent measures

    Medical activists handed over recommendations on the Draft National Intellectual Property Policy.

    3182 days ago
  • Medical group Doctors Without Borders opens a wellness hub in Khayelitsha.

    Doctors Without Borders in Khayelitsha

    The medical group have opened a wellness hub in the disadvantaged community of Khayelitsha.

    3229 days ago
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