Uttar Pradesh: MSF observes World Hepatitis Day in Meerut

July 26, 2019

Meerut: 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...

Providing medical care for hepatitis C in Meerut

February 6, 2019

What We Do MSF implements a pilot project in Meerut in collaboration with the National Health Mission (NHM), Uttar Pradesh. The project aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of decentralised and simplified hepatitis C treatment and care by providing free testing,...

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...