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Issue
11, February 2006
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Welcome
to the eleventh issue of.  ,
the monthly newsletter from the MSD Interpharma HIV Team.
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HIV@MSD is the monthly newsletter from the MSD Interpharma
HIV Team who provides support for the development and implementation
of comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategies that
are conducted in partnership with many different national
programs, with private sector entrepreneurs, and
with bilateral organizations. Through our newsletter,
we would like to share
with you the lessons we have learned from these projects and
activities.
Overweight,
cholesterol and diabetes are the current health concerns
of the Western countries. Poverty, malnutrition and devastating
HIV/AIDS characterize the developing world.
BENIN,
previously known as Dahomey, a prominent West African kingdom
that rose in the 15th century is now one of the eighteen
poorest countries in the world. Despite its location on
the busiest trade route in West Africa, its economy remains
underdeveloped and dependent on agriculture, cotton production
and regional trade.
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Even
with a relatively low HIV prevalence rate at 2%, the Government
cannot afford to cover all the HIV-related costs. NGOs often
come to the patients' rescue, filling up the gaps of the health
and social systems.
This
is the story of Action Plus Sida Santé (APSS),
an NGO based in Porto Novo which identified "Communication
& Nutrition" as the two missing parts of the
Benin Antiretroviral Treatment Initiative. Since then,
they have informed, supported and counseled infected and affected
populations, fed HIV-infected people to allow them to take
their medicines properly, in other words, giving hope to those
who had lost it.
NGOs
like Action Plus Sida Santé are operating successfully
on the ground, showing that they are part of the solution
to HIV/AIDS. Find
out more !!!
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