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MSF India Newsletter
OCTOBER 2019
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| Meet Bhakti & Goodman. They live in different continents but they are fighting together to make new & better DR-TB drugs affordable for all. This killer disease infects 10 million people every year, amongst them over half a million are resistant to treatment. New treatment exists but they are in the hands of big pharmaceutical companies. |
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| MSF halts 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health |
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| MSF joined tuberculosis (TB) activists to disrupt the opening ceremony of the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Hyderabad on 30th October 2019, urging pharmaceutical corporations to make improved drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) treatment affordable and available for hundreds of thousands of people around the world who desperately need it. |
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| Treating TB in the remote jungles of Chhattisgarh |
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| Reaching out to tuberculosis patients in a megacity like Mumbai is not an easy task. But what if the patients live in a jungle where access to health is hindered by insecurity & long travels? |
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| This is how MSF mobile clinics bridge this gap between the healthcare providers and patients living in jungles of Chhattisgarh. |
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World Mental Health Day
Our teams across the world often see people confronting distressing situations such as violence and displacement, or we see them going through emotionally and physically taxing diseases like tuberculosis and HIV. To mark World Mental Health Day on October 10, we had a candid discussion with MSF field workers on the importance of mental health care in different contexts, and how mental health has now become an integral part of our work.
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| Airtel Delhi Half Marathon - #WalkInTheirShoes |
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At this year’s Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, MSF decided to highlight the plight of refugees around the world. Through messages written on placards and t-shirts, we highlighted the extreme measures refugees are forced to take to find safety for themselves and their families. Because for some running is a passion, but for refugees, it is a matter of life and death.
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| south sudan
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| The only way to move around the hospital now is by boat.
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| Syria |
Multiple casualties
from shelling on a village in northwestern Syria |
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| Central American Migration |
| More people kidnapped, abused on migration route in southern Mexico |
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| Yemen |
| No true accountability three years after bombing of MSF-supported hospital |
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Meet our Doctors Without Borders
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| Abhishek Agarwal |
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A doctor from Rajasthan, Abhishek Agarwal recently completed his first assignment in Mosul, Iraq as a paediatrician. There he worked with our team for four months in the paediatric ward of the community centre in Mosul.
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Anita Victor |
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Meet Anita Victor. She is a public health professional from Chennai and recently left for Uzbekistan to work with MSF teams at our HIV project. There she will work on the gaps in HIV treatment.
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| Shazeer Majeed |
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Every time is a first time for Shazeer Majeed. This surgeon from Mangalore recently completed his 12th assignment with MSF in Yemen. There he worked with the MSF team to provide essential medical care to people affected by conflict and fractured healthcare system in the country.
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Doctors Without Borders India / Medecins Sans Frontieres
AISF Building, First floor
Amar Colony, Lajpat Nagar-IV
New Delhi-110024
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