MEDSF Lesotho

AIDS death toll stagnates due to lack of community-level testing

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:57:00 +0000

Hundreds of thousands of people still die from AIDS because countries are ill-equipped to detect and treat them, new MEDSF report "No time to lose" reveals.

MEDSF report examines the fight against AIDS in 15 countries

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:01:46 +0000

In a new report, "No time to lose", MEDSF reveals how the AIDS deaths toll is stagnating due to a lack of basic testing at a community level.

Lesotho: Free maternal care has an impressive return on investment

Tue, 03 Nov 2015 10:43:53 +0000

Free maternal healthcare is a relatively cheap measure that has a large impact in saving lives of women and newborns.

Gallery: Family Planning in Lesotho

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:28:42 +0000

Portraits of women from Lesotho attending MEDSF family planning clinics

HIV/AIDS: Community models of care explained

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:42:59 +0000

Explaining patient-centred care of HIV/AIDs, and the community models of care that support it.

Lesotho: We see pregnant women dying from HIV

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:19:25 +0000

Mamotsieleli Molofotsane from Lesotho is around 20 years old. She has three children and is pregnant with her fourth. Mamotsieleli has been tested HIV positive and is on ARV treatment. Her three children have been tested HIV negative.

Lesotho: Maternal mortality in the mountain kingdom

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:50:18 +0000

MEDSF supports maternal services in Lesotho

Coping with health worker shortages: lessons and limits

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

"In Lesotho there are only 89 of us doctors in the entire country. The whole process of decentralisation of HIV care - taking it down to the people in the clinics - depends on nurses. Many lives have been saved because ARV treatment is in the clinics and nurses are taking over most of the responsibilities."
- Dr Pheello Lethola, Field Doctor, MEDSF Lesotho

HELP WANTED: Confronting the health care worker crisis

Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This report focuses on the impact of human resource shortages witnessed by MEDSF teams in four southern African countries - Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa. While the focus is largely on nurses in rural areas, it should be acknowledged that health staff is lacking across the spectrum - from doctors to laboratory technicians to pharmacists - at all levels of care.

Lesotho's painfully slow fight to treat HIV

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Despite all the money and attention, the rollout of treatment in Lesotho has been glacially slow. This raises some alarming questions, because in many ways, this ought to be a comparatively easy country in which to respond to AIDS: It's tiny; it's culturally, ethnically and linguistically homogeneous; and it's peaceful and democratic.