Why is hepatitis C an invisible emergency in India?

April 19, 2018

It 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...

MSF’s hepatitis C project in Uttar Pradesh: One year, 1,198 patients

March 2, 2018

In 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...

Uttar Pradesh: "Hepatitis C is more than a disease"

March 2, 2018

Name : Designation : Sevantee Ghosh, a medical doctor from Kolkata, has been working with MSF’s hepatitis C project in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, since January 2017. In this piece, she looks back on a year of treating hepatitis C. I...

“When they are diagnosed with HepC, patients think they will die”

March 10, 2016

Name : Designation : Dr Muhammad Khawar Aslam, medical doctor for Médecins Sans Frontières in Karachi. Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started its programme focusing on Hepatitis C in Karachi in April 2015. Pakistan has the second...

On this World Hepatitis Day (28 July 2014) support MSF India’s #TestnTreatHCV Campaign

July 28, 2014

#TestnTreatHCV Why the campaign? Hepatitis C (Hep-C or HCV) is a virus that can cause liver disease, and if untreated, can be fatal. Chronic HCV is a “silent killer” as usually people do not have any symptoms until they have...