The Experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

CAMPAIGNS FOR ACCESS IN ESSENTIAL MEDICINES

World Health Organization

In MSF:
Editorial Advisory Group:
Suerie Moon
Bernard Pécoul
Carmen Perez-Casas
Jacques Pinel
Raffaella Ravinetto
Ellen 't Hoen
Text:
Sophie-Marie Scouflaire
Cécile Macé
Daniel Berman
Managing Editor:
Laura Hakokongas
Special thanks to MSF staff in Cambodia,
Cameroon, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya,
Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa,
Thailand and Ukraine and to Pascale Boulet and Julia Double
In WHO:
Marthe Everard
Peter Graaff
Jonathan Quick
Hans Hogerzeil
Kath Hurst
Also:
Paula Munderi
DART Project Leader
Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS,
Uganda
In UNAIDS Secretariat:
Françoise Renaud-Théry
Julian Fleet
MSF is an independent, international medical relief organization that aids victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and others who lack health care due to geographic remoteness or ethnic marginalization. MSF has been caring for people living with HIV/AIDS since the early 1990s.
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Patients and staff celebrating the 2nd anniversary of MSF's ARV programme in Khayelitsha, a township near Cape Town, South Africa, in May 2003.
© Eric Miller