Third meeting of RCEP Working Group on Intellectual Property begins New Delhi: As the 6th round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement take place in India, people living with HIV are rallying in the streets of New Delhi to warn that harmful intellectual property (IP) provisions – put forth by Japan … Read more
MSF launches web documentary to tell the stories of those who have no choice but to leave Visit Exodus at exodus.msf.org Barcelona, 2 December 2014 — No matter where they are sheltering, they need help now. Today the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders launches Exodus, a web documentary about the refugees, displaced … Read more
BRUSSELS — The international response to Ebola in West Africa has so far been patchy and slow, and has left local people, national governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to do most of the practical, hands-on work. The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today that the international community must not fail … Read more
Patna/New Delhi : The international, medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), calls for a fast-tracked development of integrated Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) or kala azar and HIV guidelines to ensure a multidisciplinary approach towards treating those affected by this coinfection.While commending the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and the National Vector Borne Disease Control … Read more
New Delhi, The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) India, organised a one day cycling event “Cycle For MSF” on Sunday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. The event supported by Firefox Bicycles, Delhi Dynamos Football Club (DDFC) saw over 26 teams register and cycle around the national capital … Read more
New Delhi, 25 November 2014—As US Trade Representative Michael Froman meets high-ranking Indian officials to likely pressure the government to weaken its pro-public health patent law, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urged the new Indian Prime Minister to take a strong stand against weakening a law that has helped millions of people in … Read more
Johannesburg, 19 November 2014 –The call by UNAIDS to “close the gap” around access to HIV services will not be met unless the delivery of antiretroviral treatment (ARV) is radically reshaped into community-led approaches that adapt to the realities of those living with HIV, warns the international medical organization Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) … Read more
Brussels/Madrid, 21 November 2014 – The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins SansFrontières / Doctors Without Borders ( MSF) confirms that one of its international staff members, a Spanish national, has been evacuated from Mali to Spain as a precautionary measure following an exposure incident. The staff member, a Spanish national on assignment in Bamako , was … Read more
Patna/Vaishali District : From this day on, treatment for kala azar will only take two hours. Single-dose liposomal amphotericin B, commonly referred to as Sd LAmB, has now been made available in select primary health centres in Bihar as the preferred treatment for kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis – VL). Bihar is one of the states … Read more
Bangui/Paris, 11/11/14. On 7 November a transport truck with medical supplies and clearly identified as operating for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was stopped and held captive by an armed group on the route linking Paoua in the North to the capital Bangui, between the towns of Yaloké and Bossembélé. A sum of money was demanded … Read more