Doctors Without Borders: some key issues
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/kenya.cfm
In the East African nation of Kenya, an estimated 1.24 million of the country's 32 million people are HIV-positive. More than 200,000 people are in urgent need of treatment....
Thirty-three percent of children with HIV- positive mothers are born themselves with the disease and 50 percent of suspected HIV- positive children are dead by the time they reach two years of age..."Avoiding transmission is possible, but it requires a basic health-care system which many parts of Kenya lack"....(November 1, 2005)
Being afraid of HIV/AIDS testing is commonplace amongst women in Kenya and especially with those who are married for fear of being abandoned by their husbands who are the sole breadwinners....(November 1, 2005)
MSF runs HIV/AIDS-prevention and treatment programs in three parts of the country: Western province, Nyanza province and Nairobi, the capital....(2001)
What has become a chronic disease in Europe and America, where advanced treatments have reduced mortality by 80%, remains a death sentence in Africa. The antiretrovirals (ARVs) and other essential medicines now used to treat AIDS in the West have been too expensive in countries like Kenya, and legal barriers have prevented the import and production of affordable medicines....(2001)
MSF has also embarked on an extensive grassroots effort, eliciting the support of parents, village elders, religious leaders and others to encourage prevention of HIV/AIDS through the formation of school-based anti- AIDS clubs....(2002)
Because AIDS often strikes the young and economically active, key economic sectors – including agriculture and education – suffer directly from the consequences of the epidemic. ARVs can do much to reverse this loss of productivity: not only do patients feel better, but they can often resume employment and provide for themselves and their families....(2003)
the Kenyan government signed a patent law permitting importation and local manufacturing of more affordable generic ARVs....the government announced that it would strive to provide ARV treatment to 20% of AIDS patients by 2005, hoping to reach 50-60% of those in need by 2008....(2003)
In the East African nation of Kenya, an estimated 1.24 million of the country's 32 million people are HIV-positive. More than 200,000 people are in urgent need of treatment....
Thirty-three percent of children with HIV- positive mothers are born themselves with the disease and 50 percent of suspected HIV- positive children are dead by the time they reach two years of age..."Avoiding transmission is possible, but it requires a basic health-care system which many parts of Kenya lack"....(November 1, 2005)
Being afraid of HIV/AIDS testing is commonplace amongst women in Kenya and especially with those who are married for fear of being abandoned by their husbands who are the sole breadwinners....(November 1, 2005)
MSF runs HIV/AIDS-prevention and treatment programs in three parts of the country: Western province, Nyanza province and Nairobi, the capital....(2001)
What has become a chronic disease in Europe and America, where advanced treatments have reduced mortality by 80%, remains a death sentence in Africa. The antiretrovirals (ARVs) and other essential medicines now used to treat AIDS in the West have been too expensive in countries like Kenya, and legal barriers have prevented the import and production of affordable medicines....(2001)
MSF has also embarked on an extensive grassroots effort, eliciting the support of parents, village elders, religious leaders and others to encourage prevention of HIV/AIDS through the formation of school-based anti- AIDS clubs....(2002)
Because AIDS often strikes the young and economically active, key economic sectors – including agriculture and education – suffer directly from the consequences of the epidemic. ARVs can do much to reverse this loss of productivity: not only do patients feel better, but they can often resume employment and provide for themselves and their families....(2003)
the Kenyan government signed a patent law permitting importation and local manufacturing of more affordable generic ARVs....the government announced that it would strive to provide ARV treatment to 20% of AIDS patients by 2005, hoping to reach 50-60% of those in need by 2008....(2003)
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