Sluggish Response Risks Squandering Historic Opportunity To Tackle Global Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

March 22, 2013

People living with MDR-TB and their healthcare providers call for urgent action New Delhi, 22 March 2013—If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly stepped up, including addressing barriers that prevent both research into better drug combinations and...

Rotary International Honours MSF/Doctors Without Borders For Its Lifesaving Work Around The World

March 20, 2013

Pune/Mumbai, 3 Feburary 2013 – The global humanitarian organisation Rotary International has presented its World Community Excellence award to the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders. The award was presented at the annual conference of Rotary International...

India: No End in Sight to Cyclone Aila Misery

March 19, 2013

Name : Designation : In the wake of Cyclone Aila, daily flooding in both Bangladesh and India prevents families like this one from rebuilding their homes and communities. © Bangladesh 2009 Veronique Terrasse/MSF Nearly two months after Cyclone Aila devastated...

My Life with HIV: Ivone

March 17, 2013

Name : © Brendan Bannon Designation : Mozambique: a mother looking after four kids and a husband, in a village in northern Mozambique, under the baking sun - and baking is the way she has chosen to push the family...

Morocco: Sharp Increase In Violence Against Migrants

March 14, 2013

RABAT, MOROCCO/ MADRID/NEW YORK, MARCH 14, 2013—Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are suffering a sharp increase in violence at the hands of security forces in Morocco and at border areas, resulting in serious health problems, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors...

India under pressure from Europe to sign off on trade deal that will harm access to medicines

March 13, 2013

DNP+, MSF urge India to reject EU demands before April deadline, protest at European Commission in Delhi New Delhi, 13 March 2013 – Pressure is mounting on India to quickly sign off on a free trade agreement which still contains...

Bayer loses cancer drug patent appeal

March 5, 2013

MUMBAI: Patent regulatory authority, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), on Monday upheld the country's first compulsory licence issued to Hyderabad based Natco Pharma on Bayer's cancer drug Nexavar, setting an important legal precedent and paving the way for more...

The road (more like dust-track!) thus far… – Alan de Lima Pereira

March 1, 2013

Name : Designation : Alan de Lima Pereira, a medical doctor, has worked with MSF in the state of Chhattisgarh in India, Abder Rafi in Ethiopia and Leer in South Sudan. He shares his experiences of these places. When I...

EU-India trade deal could cut medicines lifeline for people in developing countries

February 10, 2013

Nearly 2,000 People Living with HIV Rally in Streets of Delhi as EU-India Summit Starts New Delhi, February 10, 2012—As India and the European Union (EU) meet for a summit in New Delhi today to iron out the differences over...

Rotary International honors Doctors Without Borders

February 5, 2013

Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has been given the honor in lieu of its services for the contributions in providing accessible healthcare to those in need The global humanitarian organization, Rotary International has presented its World...

Humble start – Aravind Swaminathan

February 1, 2013

Name : Designation : © MSF Planning to work in an unaccustomed and entirely new context with security concerns is definitely not the first thought for any doctor soon after completing three strenuous years in post graduation. I was interested,...

Afghanistan: MSF reopens Khost maternity hospital

January 2, 2013

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has resumed medical activities at its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April, 2012. 02/01/2013 The reopening follows the demonstration of strong support to...