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People living with hepatitis C and HIV challenge evergreening patents on lifesaving hepatitis C drugs in India

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes two patent oppositions filed by Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) before the Indian patent office, challenging additional patent claims by US pharmaceutical corporation-Gilead Sciences for the hepatitis C medicines sofosbuvir and velpatasvir. These oppositions challenge Gilead’s patent applications for the tablet formulation of the fixed-dose combination of … Read more

National Doctors’ Day: “Treating the most vulnerable in the most critical situations”

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Name : Designation : 1 July is observed in India as National Doctors’ Day. To mark the occasion we asked three MSFers how they became doctors, and what it means to be a doctor without borders.     Shazeer Majeed  As a kid, I grew up listening to people say I had to be a doctor … Read more

Doctors Without Borders organises Regional Emergency Response Workshop in Thailand

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Emergency preparedness and response has evolved into a specialised area of intervention with dedicated international and local organisations, departments in Ministry of Health set up exclusively for this purpose, and the increasing use of technology and innovations. Timely and efficient coordination of various actors has been a need of the times, as well as building … Read more

MSF hands over Ebola response activities in DRC

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After a two-month emergency intervention in Equator Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we begun handing over our Ebola response activities to the Congolese Ministry of Health and other non-governmental organisations in Mbandaka, Bikoro, Itipo, and Iboko. “This Ebola outbreak is not yet officially over but we are very pleased with the progress that has … Read more

Unforgettable stories

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Our doctors treat hundreds of people everyday while working in some of the toughest places in the world. They deliver lifesaving medical care in settings where they have to quickly adapt to different cultures, different living conditions, and stressful environments. Along the way, they meet people who inspire them. On National Doctors’ Day, three MSF … Read more

Mediterranean crisis: European government policies condemn people to be locked up in Libya or drown at sea

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European governments must come to their senses and end policies which trap extremely vulnerable people in Libya or leave them to die at sea, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), as governments gather for the European Council Summit today. Last week was the deadliest so far this year on the Mediterranean, as at least … Read more

Northeast Syria: MSF Hassakeh hospital seeing an increase in casualties of airstrikes

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A surge in airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Hassakeh and Deir ez-Zor governorates, in northeast Syria, is bringing in an increasing number of patients to the MSF-supported hospital in Hassakeh. In the 10 days between June 4 and 14, the hospital received 17 survivors of airstrikes, including 6 children and 3 women. All … Read more

Central Mediterranean: European governments must put people’s lives before politics

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Amsterdam/Valencia, 17 June 2018 – Following this week’s political stand-off over the fate of people rescued in the Mediterranean, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces Italy’s closure of its ports to prevent 630 rescued people from disembarking and European governments’ choice of political point-scoring over saving lives at sea.  “The … Read more

Bihar: MSF conducts orientation programme on kala azar-HIV co-infection for care coordinators, ART counsellors and PLHIV+ group members

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Kala azar Elimination is not possible without addressing the emerging issue of kala azar-HIV coinfection. As a disease that affects the most vulnerable and poorest in society, the deep-rooted stigma and the inadequate state of health facilities make this coinfection an urgent public health concern. The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins … Read more