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 displaced For months the … Read more
© MSF Vanlalsiam, a teenage boy, recovers from a complex HIV and TB infection. Fiona Fisher, MSF’s doctor in Manipur where the boy was treated, tells about the fight put up by the boy and her medical team for his health. Vanlalsiam’s grandmother takes care of him as his parents and two siblings have all … Read more
NEW DELHI/GENEVA/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012—The 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 that keep medicine prices high, the international medical humanitarian organization … Read more
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
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
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
Groundbreaking Move Sets Precedent for Overcoming Drug Price Barriers Delhi/Geneva – March 12, 2012 – In a landmark case, the Indian Patent Office has issued the first-ever compulsory license in India to a generic drug manufacturer. This effectively ends German pharmaceutical company Bayer’s monopoly in India on the drug sorafenib tosylate, used to treat kidney … Read more
Many patients with drug-resistant TB that arrive at MSF’s clinic in Mumbai have received incorrect or inadequate treatment in the private sector. Although this form of TB is curable if treated early enough, some of the patients, like ‘Shanti’, are in such bad condition that their lives cannot be saved. Like many other sufferers of … Read more
“I have learnt to make a difference with little resources”, Ashok Sankpal, Medical Doctor with MSF. Dr. Ashok as his colleagues call him, is from Mumbai, and has spent the last two years in Ethiopia and South Sudan, where he was working with the international medical humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Q. Ethiopia and … Read more