HIV@MSD monthly newsletter - Issue 1, April 2005.

Welcome to the first issue of , the monthly newsletter from the
MSD Interpharma HIV Team.

In the coming months, our newsletter and the HIV@MSD website
will provide you with an update on MSD's contribution to the
development and implementation of comprehensive HIV strategies.
We work in partnership with many different national programs,
with private sector initiatives, and with bilateral organizations.

We wish to share with you the lessons that we have learned through
our support to various HIV/AIDS initiatives in several countries.
Testimonials of people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS will show
how their lives have been impacted by these local initiatives.

The first issue of the HIV@MSD newsletter highlights the early
stirrings of a huge national and multisector prevention program
against the spread of HIV/AIDS in the rural areas of Côte d'Ivoire.

Rural areas have often been left behind in HIV/AIDS programs,
perhaps because reaching villagers is too complicated a mission that
no one dares to initiate. They are fully occupied with their seasonal
activities, scattered all over the country, sometimes living in difficult
to access areas, with no health centers nearby to offer them the basic care that they would need.

"How an HIV risk mapping project in the rural areas of Côte d'Ivoire turned into an integrated program of 23 million US dollars" ? ...Find out more!

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