India: The War of Vaccines
Pneumonia in newborns can be fatal. A simple vaccine could save them, and it already exists: but for many parents in India, they just don’t have the money to pay for it. Click here to know more
Medical research
Practising medicine, under fire
My family worried about me every time they heard somebody exclaim: “Nishanth has gone to Yemen? Of all the places in the world to work, why did he choose to go there?” My parents never told me this when I was there but I got to know from others in the family that this was … Read more
मुफ्त राशन और यात्रा भत्ता बन रहा टीबी के इलाज में बेहतर विकल्प
चौबीस वर्षीय इमरान को टीबी की दोहरी मार पड़ी थी। साल भर पहले उन्हें एक्सडीआर-टीबी (सबसे घातक टीबी संक्रमण) हो गया है। साथ ही नौकरी से भी हाथ धोना पड़ा है। इमरान बताते हैं कि एक्सडीआर-टीबी का मुफ्त इलाज उन्हें नजदीकी स्वंयसेवी संस्था की मदद से उपलब्ध हो रहा है। लेकिन इससे ज्यादा बड़ी समस्या … Read more
Trump policy puts women’s lives at risk: MSF
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the reinstatement by US president Donald Trump of the Mexico City Policy that prohibits nongovernmental organisations receiving US funding from performing or providing counseling or information on abortion will undermine access to safe abortion services and endanger the lives of women. Read more here:
What is the Mediterranean crisis and how doctors from different countries are helping people stuck there
The European migrant crisis, or less precisely European refugee crisis, began in 2015 when rising immigration numbers of illegal foreign migrants arrived in the European Union (EU), travelling across the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean is considered one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes. In 2014, more than 3200 people died in this region. And … Read more
Activists decry Trump’s anti-abortion policy
Activists from international non-profit Medecins Sans Frontiers or Doctors without Borders say that it will undermine access to safe abortion services and endanger the lives of women.
Humanitarian action and public health in India
Leena Menghaney, South Asia Regional Coordinator, MSF’s Access Campaign, explains how the Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation’s work on developing treatment models for DR-TB, kala azar, malaria, and HIV co-infection with other diseases has encourages India’s Ministry of Health to re-evaluate policies which impact access to quality treatment in these disease areas.
‘Future looks promising for MDR-TB patients’
Dr Srinivas Rao Ghattamaneni is a senior MSF MDR-TB/HIV doctor who recently returned from Ukraine after serving there as a tuberculosis (TB) specialist. In Ukraine, MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres or Doctors Without Borders) is providing drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) treatment in a prison setting, which, due to poor ventilation, is considered to be one of the most vulnerable … Read more
Linezolid directly affects the ability of the mitochondria to produce energy
Dr Salil Mehta, Volunteer and Consultant Ophthalmologist with MSF, recently published a paper on optic neuropathy in DR-TB patients in Mumbai. He discusses key takeaways of his research with Sachin Jagdale Click here to read more
Regional trade meet should not pave way for monopoly in drugs: Doctors Without Borders
Negotiators from 16 countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are meeting at Tangerang, Indonesia. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and other health groups, days ahead of the meeting, reiterated concerns about “harmful intellectual property provisions in the proposed agreement that would increase market monopolies for pharmaceutical corporations and delay or block access to … Read more