There are more than 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, the majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Doctors Without Borders began treating people living with HIV in the 1990s and started antiretroviral treatment programs in Cameroon, Thailand, and South Africa in 2000. MSF now operates HIV/AIDS programs in 32 countries and provides ARV treatment to more than 100,000 HIV-positive patients—including 7,000 children.
Doctors without borders rejects the idea that poor countries deserve third-rate medical care and strives to provide high-quality care to patients and to improve the organization's practices. Through the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines and, in recent years, in partnership with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, this work has helped lower the price of HIV/AIDS treatment and has stimulated research and development for medicines to treat malaria and neglected diseases like sleeping sickness and kala azar.
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