A Mother’s Courage: Living with HIV and Overcoming Family Rejection

April 24, 2026

My 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...

Fareed’s Journey: A Story of Courage and Compassion

April 23, 2026

My 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...

India: Challenging the persistent stigma around HIV

January 29, 2026

In 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...

MSF Unveils Anti-Stigma Wall Mural in Patna, Bihar to Mark World AIDS Day

December 1, 2025

Patna, 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...

India: From Stigma to Strength- My HIV Story

November 29, 2025

My 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....

India: Power of Social Vulnerability Assessment (SVA)

November 29, 2025

At 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...

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...

Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must make ground-breaking HIV prevention injection affordable and available

November 30, 2022

MSF 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...

Bihar: Meeting medical care needs of people with advanced HIV

January 24, 2020

On 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...

Providing comprehensive care to people living with advanced-HIV in Bihar

February 8, 2019

MSF in South Asia: Projects in South Asia Access campaign Connect with us What We Do 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...

Acting against kala azar-HIV co-infection in Bihar

February 7, 2019

What We Do After treating more than 13,000 patients since 2007 in Bihar’s Vaishali district, MSF began focusing on the treatment of kala azar-HIV co-infection in partnership with the Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (RMRIMS) in Patna in 2016. The evidence base...

Bihar: MSF to provide comprehensive care for people living with advanced HIV

January 25, 2019

Patna, Bihar: On 25th January, international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), together with state authorities in Bihar, inaugurated a specialised ward at the Guru Gobind Singh Hospital (GGSH) in Patna, Bihar, northeast of India. The main purpose...