Bihar: A deadly cocktail

April 16, 2018

Treating kala azar-HIV co-infection in Bihar Kala jwar. Black fever. Dumdum fever. Visceral leishmaniasis. These are the many names by which kala azar is known. The disease spreads through the bite of a sandfly or balu makkhi and is almost always fatal if...

Renewed hope- Stories of four patients fighting drug-resistant-TB in Mumbai

March 24, 2018

Name : Designation : Interviews conducted & written by DVL Padma Priya for MSF For World TB Day 2018, we celebrate the courage and endurance of four MSF patients who are currently undergoing treatment for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). Pooja,...

Delhi: Bringing medical care to victims of sexual and domestic violence in one of city’s biggest slum areas

March 8, 2018

Shailja was three months pregnant when she first came to MSF SGBV project, a community-based clinic run by Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in North West Delhi’s densely populated Jahangirpuri area. She looked anxious and confused. Like...

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...

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...

Bihar: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visits MSF project in Patna

February 15, 2018

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been fighting kala azar in Bihar since 2007 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar recently visited the MSF-run HIV–kala azar co-infection ward at the Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (RMRIMS)...

Antibiotic Resistance: Drug-resistant infections are a looming challenge around the world

November 15, 2017

Since 2015, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working on antibiotic resistance in collaboration with the health authorities in West Bengal, India. As the world discusses this growing challenge during the Antibiotic Awareness Week (November 12 to 18),...

MSF observes World Antibiotic Awareness Week

November 13, 2017

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will observe World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) from November 13th - 17th in collaboration with Ministry of Health and Asansol District Hospital in West Bengal. As part...

Delhi: “There needs to be a shift in the individual and in society to say no to violence”

October 10, 2017

Virginia Lee is a counsellor from Australia who recently spent seven months working as a mental health coordinator in a community clinic in Delhi. The clinic offers medical and psychological care to survivors of domestic and sexual violence Incidents of...

Chhattisgarh: Medicine on the margins

August 30, 2017

How doctors take healthcare to people who would otherwise struggle to access it Nearly 400km south of Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh, lies a town called Bijapur. It is the kind of town that now survives only as a memory...

Antibiotics: Handle with care

May 4, 2017

Name : Designation : Imagine a world where a small finger prick can get fatally infected or an elective caesarean surgical wound fails to heal at all. One may immediately connect this with the pre-antibiotic era though some experts...

Médecins Sans Frontières raises awareness on violence against women

December 12, 2016

Delhi, 8 December 2016: The international medical humanitarian organisation- Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) organised an awareness-raising event on violence against women for the women and girls from the Jahangirpuri community today. Participating in support of the 16 days of...