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.
New Delhi (India), 27 January 2017 – In a letter to the Ministry of Health, drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) survivors, networks of people living with HIV and public health organisations have called on the Government of India to incorporate the life-saving anti-TB drug delamanid into its Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (TB Programme). The letter states that … Read more
Delhi, 8 December 2016: The international medical humanitarian organisation- Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) organised an awareness-raising event on violence against women for the women and girls from the Jahangirpuri community today. Participating in support of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence campaign by UN Women, that started on 25 November (the International … Read more
Increasingly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) are on the rise in India, particularly in hotspots such as Mumbai. Two new TB drugs, bedaquiline and delaminid, show promising results and offer renewed hope to patients whose TB strains are resistant to nearly all drugs available. But access to these new life-saving drugs in India remains greatly … Read more
Two new drugs, bedaquiline and delamanid, are proving to be the very last lifeline for tuberculosis (TB) patients with the most extreme forms of drug resistance. While a few patients benefit from these new drugs in India, many die before being able to access them as they are not widely available. Nischaya, eighteen years old, receives the … Read more
Name : Designation : What does it take to deliver healthcare to a neglected population in a remote region? Dr Ram Kovelamudi, working with MSF in Bhadrachalam, Telangana, explains. I have worked as a doctor in different settings before. But I always felt something was missing. The patients I was treating would always have other … Read more
Srinagar, 8 October 2016: The international medical humanitarian organisation – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) in collaboration with Institute of Mental and Neuro Sciences (IMHANS) Kashmir conducted on 8 October 2016 at the Community Centre – a training workshop on psychological first aid (PFA) for nurses and paramedical staff to commemorate World Mental Health Day 2016. … Read more
In the month since a new wave of unrest began in Kashmir, MSF teams have suspended their regular mental health activities in order to support health facilities treating wounded. In the immediate aftermath of the violent outbreak, our teams re-established regular contact with Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Bemina, SKIMS Soura, Bone and Joints … Read more
Name : Designation : Australian Nurse Nicole Campbell has recently returned from her second field assignment with Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Jordan. She talks about her experiences in MSF’s maternity hospital in Irbid, where she spent three mo Tell us about MSF’s project in Irbid The Irbid project in Jordan … Read more
Gaurab Mitra is a medical activity manager at Kala Azar ward of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Vaishali District Hospital of Hajipur in Bihar. MSF used to provide free care to kala azar patients and managed a ward in the Vaishali District Hospital till 2015. Now, they only treat kala azar patients co-infected with HIV. … Read more