Lipi Upadhyay 
No humanitarian organization can deliver assistance at full capacity without female staff Yesterday the IEA notified the UN that no Afghan woman is permitted to work for the UN in Afghanistan, and that this measure will be actively enforced. This decision extends the directive previously announced on 24 December 2022, banning Afghan women working for … Read more
With affordable generics likely years away, ViiV must make information public on supply of long-acting cabotegravir and global distribution plan to ensure access for people in high HIV burden low- and middle-income countries Geneva, 30 March 2023 – Today Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on the pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to immediately provide transparency … Read more
MSF teams in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh are overwhelmed by the ongoing outbreak of scabies and are calling on other health actors to take their responsibility. Ajmot Ullah is a 26-year-old Rohingya refugee living in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, since 2017. Rohingya refugees cannot legally work in … Read more
Emergency alert In late 2022, MSF’s team in Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia received an alert about an usually high number of deaths in the south Omo Valley among an isolated group of people from the Mursi Tribe, living in what is now a national park. The Mursi are a small … Read more
Mumbai, 23 March 2023 – Today, the 2019 patent challenge by two tuberculosis (TB) survivors, Nandita Venkatesan and Phumeza Tisile, was successful: the Indian Patent Office rejected the US pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) attempt to extend its monopoly in India on the TB drug bedaquiline beyond the primary patent’s expiry this July. Médecins … Read more
Delhi, 22 March 2023 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on governments and donors today to speed up access to new, shorter, safer and more effective treatments* for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), as well as the diagnostic tests needed to implement the new treatment regimens. MSF joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and other … Read more
Noting that merely 2.4% of women survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), disclosing to someone, sought medical care (NFHS-V) (1), a national medical symposium was organized to understand barriers to access health care for the survivors of SGBV. The symposium sought to lay out an action plan to support requisite changes in policy and … Read more
14 March 2023 – Cyclone Freddy hit the southern region of Malawi on 12 March 2023 with heavy rains and strong winds causing damage to infrastructure such as roads, buildings and electricity lines. The districts of Blantyre, Chikwawa, Chiradzulu, Mulanje, Mwanza, Neno, Nsanje, Thyolo, Phalombe, Zomba are the areas most affected by the devastation and … Read more
The story of Fatima, the first woman e-rickshaw driver in the Jahangirpuri area of North-west Delhi, is one of resilience and hope. Her effervescent smile takes us by a surprise. She has such a strong personality that even the aura around her seems to be radiating with positivity and hope. She speaks calmly even as … Read more
At midnight on Thursday, a Russian missile struck a five-story residential building in Zaporizhzhia city, in Zaporizhzhia oblast (province), southeastern Ukraine. The building housed approximately 300 people in 70 apartments. In collaboration with local authorities, emergency teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are at the scene of the attack to provide psychological first aid and essential relief items … Read more