India: From Stigma to Strength- My HIV Story
November 29, 2025My name is Rakesh*, and my journey with HIV began in early 2004. It started with small signs—loose motions, itching on my skin—but soon, my right leg began to tremble uncontrollably. It felt like the earth beneath me was shaking....
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India: Power of Social Vulnerability Assessment (SVA)
November 29, 2025At Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we believe that understanding our patients goes far beyond their medical symptoms. That’s why we introduced the Social Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) in our Advanced HIV project in Patna, Bihar, in April 2023, a...
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India: World Pharmacists Day 2025 celebration at MSF Advanced HIV Project, Patna
September 25, 202525th September 2025: MSF Advanced HIV Project in Patna observed World Pharmacists Day with a formal program held under the theme “Think Health, Think Pharmacist.” The event aimed to acknowledge and celebrate the indispensable contributions of pharmacists in advancing healthcare and ensuring the...
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National Doctor’s Day: Bringing hope to advanced HIV patients in Patna
July 1, 2025Patna, India- Every day in the Garima ki Kiran, advance HIV clinic at Guru Gobind Singh Hospital in Patna, Dr Rajesh Durairaj witnesses both struggle and triumph. As we mark National Doctors ' Day, his story offers a window into...
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The healing touch
October 11, 2022MSF has been working in Bihar since 2007. Our activities have seen a gradual transition to focus on people living with advanced HIV and life-threatening opportunistic infections at Guru Gobind Singh Hospital in Patna, Bihar. For the unversed, patients with...
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India: On the frontline against COVID-19
August 7, 2020In mid-June, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) opened a 100-bed COVID-19 treatment centre in Patna, the capital of Bihar state in northeast India. As coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country (1,6 million cases as of 31 July),...
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Bihar: To the one fighting against all odds
July 10, 2020Currently working in Bihar at a COVID-19 treatment centre, Dr Nimrat Kaur, Regional Deputy Project Coordinator - Asia at Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has been treating patients under harsh, often unhygienic and overcrowded conditions, where...
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Bihar: MSF to set up COVID-19 treatment facility in Patna
May 25, 2020To fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will soon launch its response to coronavirus in Patna, Bihar. The teams are working to set up a 100-bed COVID-19 treatment facility in the indoor stadium of Patliputra...
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Bihar: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visits MSF project in Patna
February 15, 2018Doctors 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)...
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