New Delhi/ New York, July 28, 2016 – Tomorrow Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will defend the rights of millions of children around the world to be protected against pneumonia at a hearing at India’s Patent Office. In March the organisation filed a ‘patent opposition’ to prevent US pharmaceutical company Pfizer from … Read more
“As of 15th July, MSF’s team in Kashmir has successfully reached several medical facilities to assess needs and provide relevant support. Despite ongoing movement restrictions, we have been able to donate medical materials in the much affected South District, Pulwama, and we have begun delivering psychological first aid to patients in need at the Bone and … Read more
Integrated and decentralised prevention, care and treatment programme urgently needed Jammu and Kashmir: Nearly 1.8 million adults (45% of the population) in the Kashmir Valley show symptoms of significant mental distress according to a comprehensive mental health survey conducted by the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) between October and December 2015. … Read more
Name : Designation : This article first appeared in Express Healthcare Dr Kalyan Krishna Velivela, Medical Coordinator, MSF specialises in TB, especially drug resistant TB and has recently returned from Uzbekistan which is one of the many countries in Asia with a high burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). In an email interview with Viveka Roychowdhury, … Read more
Name : Designation : (This article first appeared in The Hindu) Dr Bhavna Chawla, a surgeon, recently returned from her first mission with MSF in Lankien, South Sudan. In this letter, she recounts her experience of delivering emergency surgical care in a conflict situation. In the beginning, my struggles were different. A strange but extremely … Read more
Name : Designation : “Home is the sailor, home from the sea” (Robert Louis Stevenson) Madeleine Habib ran away to sea in her early twenties and found a perfect blend of physical work and mental challenges. She worked from boat to boat, following her love of the sea and passion for environmental and social activism. … Read more
Jahangirpuri (Delhi), November 5, 2015 – The international medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), inaugurated a treatment centre for survivors of sexual and gender based violence, today in New Delhi. MSF SGBV clinic located at Mahendra Park, Jahangirpuri (North District, Delhi) will provide medical assistance to the survivors of sexual assault … Read more
Name : Designation : In school in Benin we learned about the map of the world: Africa, Asia, Europe, America. But how could we know that Italy was so far away? In Libya they lied to us, they said Italy is seven hours away from the Libyan shore. We had no choice but to believe … Read more
MSF calls for greater political will and commitment towards Bihar’s malnourished children Patna/New Delhi, August 24, 2015: After a successful collaboration with the State Health Society in Bihar, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is handing over its Nutrition and Kala Azar programmes to the State government. While MSF has … Read more
