A boy’s courage – trust, struggle and survival in the face of HIV
April 28, 2026Sameer* is a 16-year-old boy from Bihar. At 11, Sameer had already lost both parents to HIV and was losing faith that medicine could save him until a team of doctors and counsellors at MSF showed him that survival was...
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India: My Journey Through Trauma to Hope
April 27, 2026Warning: This article contains references to suicidal thoughts. If you or someone you know is experiencing similar thoughts, please reach out for support. Crisis resources are listed at the end of this article. My name is Anjali*. I am a...
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India: Holding On and Letting Go: The Human Side of HIV Care
April 25, 2026This poem was written by Kaushalya Kumari, a mental health counselor at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Advanced HIV Project in Patna, Bihar reflecting her experience with an 11-year-old patient. The young girl, who struggled with vision problems...
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A Mother’s Courage: Living with HIV and Overcoming Family Rejection
April 24, 2026My name is Nisha*, and I am 31 years old. I live in a large family with my two daughters and many relatives. Living with HIV has been a difficult journey, but it has also taught me a lot about...
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Fareed’s Journey: A Story of Courage and Compassion
April 23, 2026My father used to say, ‘If you can turn someone’s pain into laughter, if you can transform someone’s tears into happiness, you are doing a great deed.’ This has always stayed with me. That’s why I try to make people...
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India: Challenging the persistent stigma around HIV
January 29, 2026In a candid and insightful discussion with Sarwat Fatima on "Lallantop", Dr Himanshu M, a physician and global health expert leading MSF’s advanced HIV project in Patna, sheds light on critical aspects of HIV care, prevention, and the stigma surrounding the...
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MSF Unveils Anti-Stigma Wall Mural in Patna, Bihar to Mark World AIDS Day
December 1, 2025Patna, Bihar – December 1, 2025: This World AIDS Day, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) India, in collaboration with Bihar State AIDS Control Society (BSACS) and Guru Gobind Singh Hospital (GGSH), unveiled a wall mural at Garima Ki Kiran...
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India: From Stigma to Strength- My HIV Story
November 29, 2025My name is Rakesh*, and my journey with HIV began in early 2004. It started with small signs—loose motions, itching on my skin—but soon, my right leg began to tremble uncontrollably. It felt like the earth beneath me was shaking....
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India: Power of Social Vulnerability Assessment (SVA)
November 29, 2025At Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we believe that understanding our patients goes far beyond their medical symptoms. That’s why we introduced the Social Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) in our Advanced HIV project in Patna, Bihar, in April 2023, a...
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A mother’s story: Finding care for her daughter
December 1, 2024"I wish someone had told me about HIV testing from the very beginning, so that my Savita* wouldn’t have ended up in your hospital in such a critical condition. No other child should have to go through the pain she...
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Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must make ground-breaking HIV prevention injection affordable and available
November 30, 2022MSF calls on ViiV to urgently dismantle barriers to access for long-acting cabotegravir Geneva, 29 November 2022 - Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to urgently dismantle the barriers hindering broad access to the...
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Bihar: Meeting medical care needs of people with advanced HIV
January 24, 2020On 25 January 2019, MSF inaugurated Garima Ki Kiran clinic in Bihar with a purpose to reduce the number of deaths among patients with advanced HIV by increasing their access to care for life-threatening infections. On the completion of clinic's...
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