MSH at AIDS 2012: LIVE UPDATES 

Over 40 Management Sciences for Health (MSH) staff from around the world have joined the twenty thousand health workers, activists, researchers, donors, and policy makers at the XIX International AIDS Conference, "Turning the Tide Together". Read the latest from MSH staff at the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

Comfort Abu: Improving Health of People Living with HIV & AIDS in Kogi State, Nigeria 

Until recently, people living with HIV & AIDS in Isanlu Community in Nigeria's Kogi state had difficulty accessing health services to manage their illnesses. Today things are very different, and much of that is credited to the persistence and perseverance of one woman, Comfort Omadu Abu.  Read More.

MSH Expanding HIV Services in South Sudan for Pregnant Women 

In South Sudan, HIV prevalence hovers at an estimated 3% -- significantly lower than neighboring countries like Kenya, Uganda, and the Central African Republic. Read More.

New ARV Clinic Serves Thousands of HIV-Positive Residents in Southern Haiti 

The USAID-funded project, Santé pour le Developpement et la Stabilité d'Haiti (SDSH), led by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), recently opened a new antiretroviral (ARV) center in southern Haiti.
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Reducing HIV Prevalence and Risk Among Female Sex Workers in Guyana 

USAID's Guyana HIV AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project, led by MSH in phases one and two, is providing HIV prevention services and reducing the risk of HIV among most-at-risk populations in Guyana, including female sex workers.
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"HIV is Never the End," Says HIV-Positive Nigerian Woman 

Once stigmatized, abandoned, and mistreated, forty-year-old Rabi Suleiman enrolled in antiretroviral therapy (ART) through the Prevention Organizational Systems AIDS Care and Treatment (ProACT) project, and now supports other HIV-positive ART patients through peer counseling.
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New Pharmacy Assistant Program in Swaziland 

With a population of over a million, landlocked Swaziland faces a shortage of skilled healthcare workers, including pharmacy personnel.
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MSH South Africa and the HIV & AIDS Movement: A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Sallet, Jackie Sallet, and Donald Harbick 

 

MSH has been working in South Africa for 15 years, strengthening the health care delivery system by supporting integrated primary health care services at the district, provincial, and national levels. We spoke with three MSH representatives working to improve HIV & AIDS prevention, treatment, or care in the country: Jean-Pierre Sallet, Jackie Sallet, and Donald Harbick. Read More.

Rights, Choice, Equity: World Population Day and The London Summit on Family Planning  

On July 11, 2012, World Population Day, over one hundred high-level decision makers convened at The London Summit on Family Planning in hopes of securing a better future for women and girls globally through safe and equitable access to family planning and sexual and reproductive health.
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Maintaining a Low HIV Prevalence Rate in Angola: A Closer Look  

Kathryn Reichert, monitoring and evaluation director and Angola Country Lead for MSH's Building Local Capacity Project blogs from Luanda, Angola: The country "has an excellent opportunity to keep the HIV prevalence rate low now, rather than having to work uphill later on."
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From Sex Worker to Food Seller in Sierra Leone 

PMTCT and 5th Birthdays: Not Without the Mothers 

Funded through the Global Health Bureau's Office of HIV/AIDS, AIDSTAR-Two contributes to stronger and more sustainable, country-led HIV & AIDS programs, organizations and networks by offering systematic institutional capacity building assistance to local organizations. Led by MSH, AIDSTAR-Two is supported by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Save the Children, and the Human Sciences Research Council.

AIDSTAR-Two: Addressing Challenges for Most-at-Risk Populations around the World
Although Vilma and Chaker live on two different continents, come from two different cultures, and face their own unique challenges as persons at greater risk of being infected or affected by HIV, they have more in common than they might think. Both of them have faced stigma and discrimination, and both are now finding support through local organizations providing services to vulnerable populations and people living with HIV.
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AIDSTAR-Two: Advancing Evidence-Based Research on Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Launched in January, 2012, What's New in Research? is collecting, organizing, documenting and disseminating relevant research to support more evidence-driven programming for children affected by the HIV & AIDS epidemic.
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Managing Drug Supply, Third Edition, Now Available Online
Published in 2012, the third edition of MSH's Managing Drug Supply, MDS-3: Managing Access to Medicines and Health Technologies reflects political, scientific, and technological changes of the past 14 years -- and includes input from nearly 100 experts from a wide range of disciplines around the world.

Download SCMS Six Year Report (PDF)
With a foreword by Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and Dr. Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator, this new report marks six years of efforts to strengthen supply chains to meet the care and treatment needs of people living with or affected by HIV & AIDS.

Download new HIV & AIDS brochure (PDF)

Download the 2011 MSH Annual Report (PDF)