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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MSF wants to buy groundbreaking HIV prevention drug. Why won’t Gilead sell?
March 31, 202630 March 2026 - Today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sent an open letter to the US pharmaceutical corporation Gilead Sciences, calling on the company to immediately sell to MSF, lenacapavir, an HIV medicine that is one of the...
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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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Rwanda: MSF welcomes the release of WHO guidelines for HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir
July 15, 2025Kigali, Rwanda: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the release of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) HIV prevention guidelines for lenacapavir at the International AIDS Society Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. Lenacapavir has the potential to transform the HIV prevention...
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Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
February 13, 2025The decision by the US government to temporarily freeze funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) alongside all other foreign aid for at least a 90-day period has had immediate effects on people living with HIV (PLHIV),...
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Malawi: “In 2001, when the counsellor said ART could prolong my life, I thought it would be two to three years but here I am, 22 years later”
August 7, 2023In July 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its longest standing projects in Malawi, launched some 25 years ago in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The MSF Saturday Teen Club in Chiradzulu on 7 March 2020...
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From Nhlangano to the Future, MSF’s legacy in Shiselweni region: 5 key facts about MSF in Eswatini
May 31, 2023As Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) prepares to leave the Shiselweni region after 16 years of work, its project in Nhlangano draws to a close. However, to ensure the continued success of the Shiselweni HIV & tuberculosis (TB) programme,...
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Access to point-of-care tests for people with advanced HIV under threat as diagnostics corporations to stop production
May 11, 2023MSF calls on US based corporations Abbott and BD to ensure adequate supply of CD4 tests and equipment. Geneva, 11 May 2023 – In a new report released today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that access to point-of-care...
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