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Lipi Upadhyay

MSF and partners hold national level medical symposium to lay out action plan for comprehensive medical care in cases of sexual and gender-based violence

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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with Kasturba Medical College and Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre organised a two-day national level medical symposium on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) on December 10-11, 2022 at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.  Previous Next The symposium focused on establishing a survivor-centric model of … Read more

The newborn Ali and his family are safe, but the future of the other 249 survivors remains uncertain

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Central Mediterranean, 9 December 2022 – At 11:31 on Wednesday 7th December, little *Ali entered the world on board the Geo Barents, a search and rescue vessel chartered by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). His mother, Fatima*, gave birth in the small medical clinic on board, after hours of difficult labour. The pain began while she … Read more

Afghanistan: The MSF hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB

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Jawahira was referred to the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Kandahar earlier this year from a clinic in Daikundi, central Afghanistan. “I used to visit private clinics, but instead of giving me TB medication, they usually just prescribed me painkillers,” she says. The cost of searching out treatment also took its toll. … Read more

“We see children dying on the way to our clinics”: MSF Country Representative in Nigeria

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Dr. Simba Tirima, MSF Country Representative in Nigeria:  The past few months have been incredibly difficult for the people of northwest Nigeria and our teams have seen unprecedented high numbers of malnourished children in the medical facilities where we work in partnership with the Ministry of health.  This year alone, we have treated more than … Read more

Caught between the frontlines: the babushkas experiencing loss, mental trauma and an absence of medical care

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As the Russian army took control of towns and villages across Ukraine’s Kharkiv region in late February 2022, those unable or unwilling to leave their homes were mostly the elderly and people with disabilities. Caught up in the middle of the fighting, they coped by turning cellars into shelters and sharing scraps of food with … Read more

Between life and living: Patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) share stories of strength, support and suffering

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India has the highest burden of both tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) based on estimates in the WHO Global TB Report 2022. The country accounts for 28 percent of the global TB burden.   In its clinic in Mumbai, MSF provides free, comprehensive diagnostics and treatment services to people with severe forms of drug-resistant … Read more

Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must make ground-breaking HIV prevention injection affordable and available

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MSF calls on ViiV to urgently dismantle barriers to access for long-acting cabotegravir Geneva, 29 November 2022 – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to urgently dismantle the barriers hindering broad access to the most effective form of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) that exists, long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA), which could … Read more

Closed centres for refugees arriving on the Greek islands: one year later, “everyone is suffering from psychological distress”

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Trying to see a doctor; getting hold of insulin treatment for diabetes; seeking legal advice prior to an asylum interview. All of these are a challenge for the refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers stuck in the isolated and highly securitised Zervou centre on the Greek island of Samos. Zervou centre is the result of an aggressive … Read more

HIV/AIDS in the DRC: Behind the progress, huge challenges remain

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In 2002, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams opened the first outpatient treatment centre offering free care to people living with HIV in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Twenty years later, while great progress has been achieved in the country, major gaps remain in testing and treatment, causing thousands of preventable deaths each year.  … Read more