World Hepatitis Day: Persistence reaps rewards in overcoming hepatitis C in Karachi
July 28, 2024“I felt as if I was on the brink of death. I had no idea what was happening to me,” recalls Muhammad Ahsan, sitting anxiously outside the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hepatitis C facility in Machar Colony, Karachi, in Pakistan, awaiting his third...
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Lack of hepatitis C care means most Rohingya refugees cannot be cured amid alarming prevalence rates in camps in Bangladesh
June 13, 2024A study carried out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) indicates that almost 20 per cent of the Rohingya refugees tested in the Cox's Bazar camps in Bangladesh have an active hepatitis C infection.A blood-borne virus, hepatitis C is a disease...
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Launch of public health partnership to tackle the silent epidemic of hepatitis C in low- and middle-income countries
July 28, 2021The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, and the Treatment Action Group are joining forces to tackle a ‘silent’ public health injustice: the continuing disparities in access to diagnostics and...
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What is Hepatitis C? – A comic book by MSF
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Manipur: Providing patient-centered HIV, TB, and hepatitis care to patients
July 30, 2019When Thongsei Lupho, 44, first started feeling unwell, he suspected he had contracted Tuberculosis. He visited MSF’s clinic in Moreh, on the Indo-Myanmar border, where he was diagnosed with HIV. Lupho had used drugs in the past to gain social...
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Ukraine: Effective drugs and patient support to combat Ukraine’s hepatitis C epidemic
July 27, 2019A combination of generic drugs coupled with a comprehensive patient support model has shown promising results in a pilot project run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Ukraine. When scaled up, it can substantially accelerate hepatitis C treatment in a country...
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World Hepatitis Day: preventive measures, a way forward for the fight against Hepatitis C
July 27, 2019Uttar Pradesh: MSF observes World Hepatitis Day in MeerutMSF team observed World Hepatitis Day at the PL Sharma District Hospital in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh where MSF runs a pilot project for the treatment of Hepatitis C providing patients with free...
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Uttar Pradesh: MSF observes World Hepatitis Day in Meerut
July 26, 2019Meerut: The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today observed World Hepatitis Day at the PL Sharma District Hospital in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh where MSF runs a pilot project for the treatment of Hepatitis C...
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Hepatitis C
February 6, 2019Worldwide, an estimated 71 million people are infected with the hepatitis C virus, double the number living with HIV. While hepatitis C can be cured, few people have access to treatment. A blood-borne virus that attacks the liver, hepatitis C...
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People living with hepatitis C and HIV challenge evergreening patents on lifesaving hepatitis C drugs in India
July 10, 2018Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes two patent oppositions filed by Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) before the Indian patent office, challenging additional patent claims by US pharmaceutical corporation-Gilead Sciences for the hepatitis C medicines sofosbuvir and velpatasvir....
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Why is hepatitis C an invisible emergency in India?
April 19, 2018It is estimated that 71 million people have chronic hepatitis C infection globally and India accounts for approximately 17 percent of the total number of cases recorded. Once in the body, the hepatitis C virus attacks the liver and if...
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MSF’s hepatitis C project in Uttar Pradesh: One year, 1,198 patients
March 2, 2018In January 2017, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF), in collaboration with the National Health Mission in Uttar Pradesh, started a pilot hepatitis project in Meerut city. Uttar Pradesh is one of the largest Indian states and has an estimated...
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