India under pressure from Europe to sign off on trade deal that will harm access to medicines

DNP+, MSF urge India to reject EU demands before April deadline, protest at European Commission in Delhi New Delhi, 13 March 2013 – Pressure is mounting on India to quickly sign off on a free trade agreement which still contains provisions that will harm people’s access to medicines in India and across the developing world, … Read more

Bayer loses cancer drug patent appeal

MUMBAI: Patent regulatory authority, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), on Monday upheld the country’s first compulsory licence issued to Hyderabad based Natco Pharma on Bayer’s cancer drug Nexavar, setting an important legal precedent and paving the way for more generic companies to challenge patents. “Affordability” and “access” are said to be the major reasons … Read more

The road (more like dust-track!) thus far… – Alan de Lima Pereira

Name : Designation : Alan de Lima Pereira, a medical doctor, has worked with MSF in the state of Chhattisgarh in India, Abder Rafi in Ethiopia and Leer in South Sudan. He shares his experiences of these places. When I first heard about Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as a 14 year … Read more

EU-India trade deal could cut medicines lifeline for people in developing countries

Nearly 2,000 People Living with HIV Rally in Streets of Delhi as EU-India Summit Starts New Delhi, February 10, 2012—As India and the European Union (EU) meet for a summit in New Delhi today to iron out the differences over a free trade agreement (FTA), nearly two thousand people living with HIV and the international … Read more

Rotary International honors Doctors Without Borders

Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has been given the honor in lieu of its services for the contributions in providing accessible healthcare to those in need The global humanitarian organization, Rotary International has presented its World Community Excellence award to the International Medical Organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without … Read more

Humble start – Aravind Swaminathan

Name : Designation : © MSF Planning to work in an unaccustomed and entirely new context with security concerns is definitely not the first thought for any doctor soon after completing three strenuous years in post graduation. I was interested, but at the same time was a bit hesitant, because of the varied challenges it … Read more

CAR: civilians, hospitals affected by extreme violence in Bangui

PARIS/NEW YORK December 30, 2013 – Despite the presence of international armed forces in the capital of Central African Republic (CAR), fighting, lynchings and violent attacks remain a daily occurrence in Bangui, where the situation appears to be out of control, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Since … Read more

South Sudan: aid urgently needed for 70,000 displaced by fighting in Jonglei State

Some 70,000 people fleeing fighting in Bor, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, have already arrived in the town of Awerial, in neighbouring Lakes State, seeking shelter, and thousands more are arriving each day. The area has nowhere near the capacity to absorb all the new arrivals, however. Living conditions are verging on the catastrophic, and … Read more

Syria: All parties to the conflict must respect medical facilities

NEW YORK, January 26, 2013 – Amid growing insecurity in Syria’s Aleppo region, all parties to the conflict must respect patients, medical staff, and health facilities, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders said today. On January 24, a missile landed 800 meters from an MSF field hospital in the Aleppo … Read more