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Africa News Tonight: Access to Critical HIV Tests Under Threat as US Corporations Decide to Stop Making Equipment - MSF & More


Africa News Tonight: Access to Critical HIV Tests Under Threat as US Corporations Decide to Stop Making Equipment - MSF & More
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Africa News Tonight: The international medical aid group Doctors Without Borders – known by its French acronym MSF – says access to critical HIV tests is under threat because US diagnostics corporations Abbott Laboratories and Becton Dickinson (BD) have decided to stop making equipment to run point-of-care CD4 tests. Doctors Without Borders, also known by the French acronym, MSF, is sounding the alarm this week as it treats an unusually high number of sexual assault victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. Plus, the world’s biggest chocolate producers are enjoying record profits – but are failing to pass on the benefits to cocoa farmers, many of whom are suffering falling incomes and worsening poverty, according to a report from the charity Oxfam. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

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