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
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
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
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
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
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
This week, final hearings began in Chennai, India, in the appeal that German pharmaceutical company Bayer has filed against India’s first-ever compulsory licence (CL). In a related development, India is currently identifying other patented drugs on which CLs are needed. Bayer case The patent on the cancer drug sorafenib tosylate (marketed as Nexavar) was granted … Read more
The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called upon the Union health ministry and the drug regulators in the country to work together to ensure that multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients, who are left with few options, benefit from new TB drug bedaquiline, which has been approved by the US FDA for the first time since … Read more
Ahead of Verdict in Novartis Vs. India Supreme Court Case MUMBAI, 21 December 2012 – As the Supreme Court considers its verdict in the case of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis vs. the Indian government, people living with HIV, Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, health groups and the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested outside … Read more
4 December 2012 – Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders is completing distribution of Non Food Items (NFI) kits to communities impacted by recent violent clashes in Assam. Riots between two communities were first reported in July 2012 and soon flared into a major humanitarian crisis which left more than 90 people dead and over 400.000 … Read more