admin 
Governments meeting at the World Health Organization’s Executive Board (WHO EB) this week must seize the opportunity to improve serious shortcomings in the ‘Decade of Vaccines’ blueprint that will drive the global community’s vaccines response in the next few years. If they fail to do so, key reasons why children continue to be missed by … Read more
A study on generic antiretrovirals ignores fact that patents prevent use of more affordable patient-friendly combination drugs. The just-released study led by Massachusetts General Hospital in the Annals of Internal Medicine stating that switching patients from the branded combination antiretroviral ‘Atripla’ to generics could be therapeutically ‘less effective’ is misleading and misses a big part … Read more
I came to know about MSF in 2005 while doing a community assessment in a remote village in Afghanistan. At the time, MSF was no longer working there, but the community still remembered their effort. I was surprised and did a Google search and found MSF. I was really moved by the mission and vision … Read more
Hello Ajoy, This is Farhat. How are you? I am fine. Whats up? Hmmm… are you interested in South Sudan? They need a water and sanitation expert in Malakal, for an emergency kala azar response. Farhat is the overseas Recruitment Coordinator of MSF India. I didn’t think twice, but said YES straight away. I was … Read more
I arrived in Pakistan in January 2011. After a short briefing in the capital office, I took a plane to Quetta, to my project site, where I met my team. In fact I had met the project coordinator (or PC) already in my previous mission in Nigeria. I also knew many of the national staff, … Read more
I accepted my posting to Tari with a lot of apprehension. But the reality was quite unique. Tari seemed like a hill station – beautiful, lush green, unexplored, unspoilt and wild. It was a pleasure to snuggle into soft blankets at night after a hot shower and wake up gazing at misty mountains. Very unlike … Read more
Natural bounty and manmade poverty: that sums up my experiences in Ivory Coast. This was my second mission with MSF, working as a Medical Doctor. Postconflict Abidjan, where my plane landed, was a wasteland of deserted streets and shut-down shops, as if it was in mourning for the loss of lives and the struggles that … Read more
After working for almost a decade as a general physician in various public and private health organisations, I wanted to do something new. I had worked in a government hospital, on private projects supported by international donors, in the city, as well as in remote areas. I had been a clinician and a manager. But … Read more
“I have learnt to make a difference with little resources”, Ashok Sankpal, Medical Doctor with MSF. Dr. Ashok as his colleagues call him, is from Mumbai, and has spent the last two years in Ethiopia and South Sudan, where he was working with the international medical humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Q. Ethiopia and … Read more
As I was getting ready for my mission to Papua New Guinea to work as a logistician, I had so many thoughts racing through my mind about the place, people, culture, work and how to cope living away from my family for 12 long months. This was to be my first mission as an international … Read more