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MSF provides ambulatory and door to door testing for HIV. This man was born with aids, he led a normal life thanks to his medicine until he got to the university. People made fun of him for taking pills, so he stopped taking them. He his now deaf and blind. His uncle communicates with him by writting on his arm.

Photograph by Guillaume Binet

Press release |

01 April 2016

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reaction to the United Nations Secretary General Report on HIV/AIDS ahead of the June UN High Level Meeting on HIV

2 min

Sinethemba takes her daily regimen for XDR-TB at 10am each day. She also takes two additional delamanid tablets at night. She is 16 years old, lives with her grandmother, Vuyisiwa Madubela, and four other family members in a two-bedroomed home in Zone C29, Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa. Her grandmother’s determination and love, combined with receiving a six-month trial of one the newest DR-TB drugs on the market likely saved her life this year.

Photograph by Sydelle Willow Smith

Report series

DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope

Nearly 2,000 People Living With HIV along with MSF & other civil society organisations rallied in the streets of New Delhi at the start of the EU-India summit. They warned that harmful provisions in a trade deal being negotiated between the EU and India could severely hinder access to affordable medicine for people in developing countries.

Photograph by Siddharth Singh

Press release |

29 March 2016

Intellectual property and trade

European UnionIndia

At EU-India Summit, India must defend its ‘pharmacy of the developing world’

Statement |

28 March 2016

3P submission to UN High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines

A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) health promoter holds a health education information session for mothers in Aragata village, Chhattisgarh, India.

Photograph by MSF

Press release |

24 March 2016

India

MSF responds to Indian Health Ministry’s notification on ban of 344 Fixed Dose Combinations Drugs

2 min

MSF drug-resistant TB treatment in India

Video |

24 March 2016

India

MSF drug-resistant TB treatment in India

PEP Drugs for children at Angau Memorial General Hospital, Lae/ Morobe Province in Papua New Guinea. The MSF Family Support Centre provides medical and psychological services for survivors of child abuse, sexual and intimate partner violence. MSF started providing care at the centre in November 2007.

Photograph by Fiona Morris

Press release |

23 March 2016

Intellectual property and trade

India

MSF welcomes Ministry of Commerce clarification on compulsory licensing: warns US pressure on India will continue

3 min

ReportCover-DRTBDrugsUnderTheMicroscope-2016-4thEdition

Report |

21 March 2016

DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope, 4th edition