HIV/AIDS

Médecins sans Frontières Operational Centre Amsterdam (MSF OCA) has been working in Uzbekistan from the beginning of 1998 with a profile 
of running vertical, specialised medical projects, sometimes on a very advanced technical level. MSF runs its programme in close collaboration with the relevant institutes within the Uzbek Ministry of Health (MoH). MSF in Uzbekistan mainly works through the MoH in an advisory and supportive capacity.

Mozambique is one of the most severely affected countries by the HIV pandemic. The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – Operational Centre Brussels (OCB) HIV project in Beira started in 2014 as a project for migrants and key populations (KPs). This led to insights into the magnitude of the Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) issue that needed to be addressed. In 2018, MSF introduced an AHD component in the Beira Central Hospital (BCH) and in two health centres (Munhava and to a lesser extent, Ponta Gea). The AHD component covered MSF-run laboratory diagnostics and in-facility case management circuits. During the evaluation period, Cyclone Idai and COVID-19 restrictions were important external factors.

HIV/AIDS is still a widespread epidemic, where the DRC has an average adult HIV prevalence of 1.2%, with an HIV prevalence of 1.6% in Kinshasa. 
MSF OCB works to care for people living with HIV, with activities in Kinshasa since 1993. Since 2002, to address the problem of access to HIV services, MSF launched an HIV project at Kabinda Hospital, a referral hospital southwest of Kinshasa (AIDS project), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
In 2022, MSF commissioned a second evaluation of the decentralization component of the project, covering the period 2017 to 2022.

MSF in Latin America has a history of more than 40 years of implementing a wide range of programs, including neglected diseases (HIV, Tuberculosis and Chagas), urban violence as well as regular emergency responses to acute epidemic and natural disasters.

MSF-OCB requested the Stockholm Evaluation Unit to conduct the evaluation of the introduction of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in Kabinda HIV Hospital (

Community based perception of HIV and AIDS, Testing, counseling and ARV treatment Shiselweni region, Swaziland

This study was conducted to help identify factors for improving compliance to the programme, linkage and retention to care. The objectives included

Integration of HIV/TB services is one of the priorities for the MSF movement since 2010 and in particular for OCBA that started hand over of the so-called ve

This evaluation finds that the Kibera Project has had a tremendous impact at the patient, community and policy level. Additionally, the report points out tha

The example of Shishelweni demonstrates that in the context of high prevalence of HIV/TB infections and limited resources available decentralisation of HIV a