MSF

Beat It! 2000 Episode 4 - Red Ribbon and Red Noose

In this episode the Red Noose was awarded to doctors who shamelessly benefit from the HIV/AIDS epidemic and are silent on the exorbitant prices of laboratory services and medication. The Red Ribbon went to Doctor Eric Goemaere and MSF.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 8 - Special Report

In this Beat It! episode the economic implications of not rolling out an antiretroviral treatment plan were looked at. Clem Sunter of Anglo American spoke about the true cost of having an ailing workforce that might need to be replaced on an ongoing basis because of AIDS not being treated.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 9 - Special Report

In this episode we again look at how access to the antifungal drug Diflucan could have saved Christopher Moraka's life. In line with this we followed Zackie Achmat to Thailand where he bought 3000 tablets of generic fluconazole as part of the Christopher Moraka Defiance Camapign against Patent Abuse.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 7 - Special Report

In the Special Report insert the Beat It! team looked at the success of the MSF ARV pilot programme in Khayelitsha. The episode made an impassioned call for the roll-out of antiretroviral therapy nationally.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 8 - Special Report

In this Special Report we accompanied Zackie Achmat, Mathew Damane and others to Brazil to learn more about generic drugs.

Lusikisiki ARV programme - Interview with Dr Hermann Reuter

On this source tape we conducted and interview with Dr Hermann Reuter of Medecins Sans Frontieres in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. Dr Reuter and the MSF team set up a ARV clinic in this rural community to show that ARVs could be administered in resource poor communities with limited infrastructure.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2005 Episode 25 - Prophylactics and Vaccines to prevent and treat infections

Today we are discussing prophylactics and vaccinations. Prophylaxis means to prevent and that is what prophylactics and vaccines do they prevent illness. Antiretrovirals can be used to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV. They can also be used to prevent infection after rape or needle stick injuries to healthcare workers. But what other preventable methods are there that we should know about especially when we start antiretrovirals. With us to discuss this issue is Ullah Mothibi. Doctor Mothibi is from the HIV Unit in the Western Cape Department of Health.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 Episode 23 - ARV resistance and new regimens

This episode was about understanding drug classes and how ARVs work. Dr Majoro, an HIV clinician and traditional healer joins our support group and helps us to better understand our drug regimens and the importance of adherence. We head out to Khayelitsha where Médecins Sans Frontières help Monwabisi Bikwana make a special application for an antiretroviral which is not yet registered in South Africa.