Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis heads to the Indian Supreme Court today in New Delhi, in a final bid to undermine a key public health safeguard in Indian patent law specifically designed to prevent drug companies from abusive patenting practices which keep medicine prices high. If successful, the move would have a devastating impact on access … Read more
KABUL/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012—Following a major explosion today in the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, more than two dozen people arrived at a surgical hospital run by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders. Thirteen people who suffered severe blast injuries were dead on arrival at the … Read more
WASHINGTON, DC/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012 – The Fulbright Association presented its 2012 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international medical humanitarian organization. The formal award ceremony took place on September 8, 2012, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The award, a $50,000 prize, … Read more
First Time Prize Awarded to Organization, Rather Than to an Individual WASHINGTON, DC/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012—The Fulbright Association will present its 2012 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders. The formal award ceremony is scheduled for September 8, 2012, at … Read more
Geneva/New Delhi, September 3, 2012 – German pharmaceutical company Bayer today heads to India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board in Chennai in a bid to overturn a compulsory licence that has allowed more affordable generic versions of sorafenib tosylate, a cancer drug patented by Bayer, to be produced in the interests of public health. International humanitarian … Read more
When I was offered the opportunity to work in Papua New Guinea (PNG), I wondered why MSF wanted to send me to a remote Pacific island where there is no war or recent natural calamity. Being a first-timer with MSF, I wondered whether it was a joke on me. I wanted to know more about … Read more
I had just come back to my room after the morning meeting, and was preparing myself to go to the hospital, when I heard footsteps approaching. Our new project coordinator (PC) entered my room, took a shallow glance at me and quietly said, “Hemant, you are being medically vacuated to Nairobi and you have to … Read more
Do or die!…………….Experience of an Indian Medical Doctor, Animesh Sinha, working in an MSF mission in Lankein, South Sudan. Dr Animesh Sinha did his MBBS from AFMC, Pune, India and worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in 2011-2012. He shares one of the situations while he worked there. As I enter the room I see a … Read more
“Acts of service should come out of compassion and not from the ego; it is not enough to feel compassionate – this must be translated into action!” Anonymous The Ideal seat of work: I live my ideals in MSF, I extend my arms through the global arms of MSF for all the needy ones in … Read more
19 April 2012- This week, MSF opened a new clinic in Moreh, a small rural town in Chandel district in the Indian state of Manipur that is on the border with Myanmar. The specialised clinic offers free medical treatment and counselling for people living with HIV/AIDS and drug resistant tuberculosis. People living with HIV/AIDS and … Read more