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MSF and partners hold national level medical symposium to lay out action plan for comprehensive medical care in cases of sexual and gender-based violence

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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with Kasturba Medical College and Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre organised a two-day national level medical symposium on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) on December 10-11, 2022 at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.  Previous Next The symposium focused on establishing a survivor-centric model of … Read more

Between life and living: Patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) share stories of strength, support and suffering

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India has the highest burden of both tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) based on estimates in the WHO Global TB Report 2022. The country accounts for 28 percent of the global TB burden.   In its clinic in Mumbai, MSF provides free, comprehensive diagnostics and treatment services to people with severe forms of drug-resistant … Read more

Emerging resistance to new anti-tuberculosis drug bedaquiline warrants urgent action: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Policy Brief

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Background: Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and the main cause of mortality from a single infectious agent. In 2019 alone, approximately 1.4 million people died, and 465,000 fell ill with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), a complex form of TB that is costly and difficult to treat. Drug-resistant TB remains a significant … Read more

MSF responds to UK’s disastrous proposal on intellectual property in UK-India Free Trade Agreement

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UK IP demands contain provisions that would drastically harm access to affordable, lifesaving generic medicines from India, upon which millions of people around the world rely Negotiations between the United Kingdom (UK) and India on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) were formally launched in January 2022 and are currently accelerating, with high-level meetings between the … Read more

World Mental Health Day 2022: It’s time to break the stigma

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We realise that survival goes beyond treating visible injuries. For people who have lived through humanitarian crises, psychological wounds often remain hidden even after proper treatment. For more than two decades, MSF professionals have been there to listen and provide support, with our staff providing over 380,000 individual mental health consultations in 2021. But MSF’s … Read more

Mental Health: The community connect

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In Kashmir valley, better mental health is sought. Community outreach is reducing stigma and increasing care seeking behaviour. Every week from Monday to Friday, 30 year-old Mudasir Lone in Sopore, Kashmir, spends eight hours daily interacting with locals and talking to them about mental health. He is part of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / … Read more

The healing touch

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MSF has been working in Bihar since 2007. Our activities have seen a gradual transition to focus on people living with advanced HIV and life-threatening opportunistic infections at Guru Gobind Singh Hospital in Patna, Bihar. For the unversed, patients with advanced HIV have an extremely high mortality rate, with complex treatment needs covering nutrition, infection, … Read more

New WHO treatment guidelines offer hope for people co-infected with HIV and visceral leishmaniasis

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NEW DELHI  – Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released its new guidelines for the treatment of people co-infected with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and  HIV.  The new guidelines are based on results of one study conducted in India by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and partners, and another in Ethiopia by the Drugs for Neglected … Read more

Near zero healthcare seeking behaviour among gender-based violence survivors: MSF stresses for community linked, survivor centric care model after latest data in India

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New Delhi, India – The Government of India’s latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-V) data reflects a dismal state in the practice of seeking medical care post gender-based violence, including sexual violence, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF). Current estimates reflect that healthcare-seeking behavior (HSB) among survivors is still near zero. The new survey data, … Read more

Which COVID-19 patients can safely be managed in the community?

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In regions where few people have received COVID-19 vaccines, health systems remain vulnerable to surges in SARS-CoV-2 infections. During the second wave of COVID-19 in India, healthcare facilities and staff across the country struggled to cope with the surge in the number of cases of COVID-19 due to a shortage of hospital beds for people … Read more