Swaziland: MSF rolls out innovative medical approach to prevent mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission
Since February 2013, an innovative approach, commonly referred to as PMTCT B+ (prevention of mother-to-child transmission, option B+), is being rolled out by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Ministry of Health in the Nhlangano area, in the south of the country. It aims to place 2,000 HIV-positive pregnant women on treatment over the next four years, as soon as possible after their diagnosis. So far, more than 200 women have joined the programme.
2013 Swaziland © Yasuhiko Okuno/MSFA MSF Community Testing Counsellor explains what is HIV, how it is transmitted, and how it is prevented.
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Source: MSF News - October 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Swaziland HIV / AIDS NEWS Source Type: news
Swaziland: MSF rolls out innovative medical approach to prevent mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission
Stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS from mothers to their children is an essential step in curbing the disease’s epidemic in Swaziland. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - September 26, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nick Source Type: news
Swaziland shows signs of turning corner on world's highest HIV rates
MBABANE (Reuters) - Swaziland, the country hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, appears to be stemming the pace of new infections thanks to increased funding, more efficient treatment and greater international help, public health workers said. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Swaziland Turning Corner on World's Highest HIV RatesSwaziland Turning Corner on World's Highest HIV Rates
Swaziland, the country hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, appears to be stemming the pace of new infections thanks to increased funding, more efficient treatment and greater international help. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HIV/AIDS News Source Type: news
Swaziland: MSF Rolls Out Innovative Approach to Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV/Aids Transmission
[MSF]Since February 2013, an innovative approach, commonly referred to as PMTCT B+ (prevention of mother-to-child transmission, option B+), is being rolled out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Ministry of Health in the Nhlangano area, in the south of the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - September 18, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
[Slideshow] A New Approach to Fighting HIV/AIDS in Swaziland
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Swaziland 2013 © MSF
In Swaziland, 26 percent of the population aged between 15 and 49 is HIV-positive. In 2007, Swaziland approached Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to ask for help in the fight against HIV and Tuberculosis and MSF started a project with the Ministry of Health (MoH). In February 2013, MSF started rolling out an innovative approach called PMTCT B+ for HIV-positive pregnant and breastfeeding women. #
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Swaziland 2013 © Yasuhiko Okuno
Gift Mumanga, Senior Nurse at Tfokotani Clinic, talks to a patient. &ldq...
Source: MSF Multimedia - September 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Innovative approach prevents mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission
An innovative approach to preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS is being rolled out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Ministry of Health in the Nhlangano area of southern Swaziland. It will place 2,000 HIV-positive pregnant women on treatment over the next four years, as soon as possible after their diagnosis. So far, more than 200 women have joined the program.
The program is called prevention of mother-to-child transmission B+, or PMTCT B+.
Swaziland © Yasuhiko Okuno. An HIV-positive breastfeeding patient at home with her second and third children who do not have the virus.
“In Swaziland, ...
Source: MSF News - September 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Swaziland NEWS Frontpage HIV / AIDS Source Type: news
First MDR-TB patients celebrate end of treatment
“I feel like jumping and dancing and shouting,” said Linda Vilakati. “It has been a long and difficult journey, but I’ve reached the end.”
Linda is one of 55 people celebrating with songs, smiles and tears at Mankayane hospital in Swaziland. Linda is 48, but the youngest at the party is just three years old. They are the first group to complete two years of gruelling treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at MSF’s project in Mankayane, run in partnership with Swaziland’s Ministry of Health.
Swaziland © Zanele Zwane/MSF. 48-year old Linda Vilakati is one of 55 patients who have just su...
Source: MSF News - August 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Swaziland NEWS Tuberculosis Frontpage Source Type: news
Nigeria: Not Yet Uhuru in Swaziland
[Daily Trust]Many abuses are hurled at Swaziland. Top company and government leaders in Scandinavia who take major policy decision while bathing in total nudity inside sauna pools will turn around to make insulting remarks about young Swazi girls proudly showing their young breasts while being initiated into womanhood by older women. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 1, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Malaria resistance - it's in the parasite's genes
Tracking malaria resistance is imperative if it is to be prevented, say scientists who have been genotyping the parasites, while former Global Fund head Sir Richard Feachem talks of the malaria "end-game" in which adult men become more vulnerable than the under-5sWorld Malaria Day this last week has brought a flood of stories. One of the more interesting concerns a scientific detective hunt in Cambodia, to find much-needed clues to the development of resistance in the malaria parasite to the life-saving artimisinin drugs which are key to continuing progress against the disease.The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, re...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 28, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Blogposts Malaria Infectious diseases guardian.co.uk Drug resistance Global development Society Source Type: news
Swaziland: The Search for Swaziland's TB-Infected Mine Workers
[IPS]Mbabane -For more than a decade after 1992, when Swazi gold miner Benson Maseko, 50, fell ill with chest pains and a nagging cough, he did not seek treatment. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - April 9, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Historic Opportunity to Tackle Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis at Risk
GENEVA/NEW YORK, MARCH 19, 2013—Two new drugs effective against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) must be introduced to improve treatment regimens in countries with a high burden of the devastating disease, a group of people living with MDR-TB and the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced in a public manifesto issued today.
Saw Naing from Myanmar was diagnosed with MDR-TB in October 2012. He is currently taking a cocktail of six drugs and is being closely monitored by Dr. Pyae Phyo Aung, in the MSF project in ...
Source: MSF News - March 19, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Swaziland: So Poor, Woman Has to Eat Cow Dung
[Swazi Media]Poverty is so grinding in Swaziland that some people, close to starvation, are forced to eat cow dung in order to fill their stomachs before they can take ARV drugs to treat their HIV status. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 1, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: A Story of Survival
[ThinkAfricaPress]A video obtained by Think Africa Press reveals the hardships faced by a woman suffering from HIV/AIDS and poverty in Swaziland under the reign of King Mswati III. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - January 31, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: U.S. Government Announces USAID and Mothers2mothers (m2m) Partnership to End Pediatric Aids
[U.S. Embassy Pretoria]In a response to the high rate of AIDS deaths and pediatric HIV in Southern and Eastern Africa, the United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and mothers2mothers (m2m) launched a five-year regional partnership today at an event in Manzini, Swaziland. The partnership, which is the first of its kind in the region, is part of USAID's Southern Africa Regional HIV/AIDS Program (RHAP) and is designed to strengthen country-led programs to prevent mother-to-chi (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - January 24, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
