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MSF opens new HIV/AIDS clinic on India Myanmar border
19 April 2012 - This week, MSF opened a new clinic in Moreh, a small rural town in Chandel district in the Indian state of Manipur that is on the border with Myanmar. The specialised clinic offers...
Last updated 19 April 2012
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Novartis’s Day in Court Set for 10 July
Hearings in the case opposing Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and the Indian government are now set to start on 10 July. The Novartis Supreme Court case is the final act in a legal battle that...
Last updated 28 March 2012
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Improving TB detection and treatment in Cambodian prisons
MSF is expanding medical activities in three prisons in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to include basic primary health care in addition to providing ongoing TB/HIV screening and treatment support. MSF has been...
Last updated 19 March 2012
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Lives in the Balance: the story of Maung Myint, a TB and HIV patient struggling to get lifesaving treatment in Myanmar, as donors slash future funding.
Maung Myint, “I believe ART will be able to give me a normal life. I dream to be healthy again, to own a flip-flop making business. I don’t know what will happen if I can’t get ART. I don’t know...
Last updated 22 February 2012
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Photos from Global Actions Ahead Of EU-India FTA Summit
Affordable medicines from India under two-fold attack ! February 2012: This month sees a double attack on India’s role as ‘the pharmacy of the developing world’ that could stop people in developing...
Last updated 10 February 2012
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MSF steps up TB support in Cambodia
MSF is scaling up its tuberculosis support in the Cambodian province of Kampong Cham while continuing to help shape the nation’s national TB programme. Cambodia 2011 © Eddy McCall With a prevalence...
Last updated 21 December 2011
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Photos from World AIDS Day Action at Novartis offices in Mumbai
Novartis has been pursuing a legal case aimed at gutting India’s patent law of important public health safeguards since 2006. The law allows companies in India to produce affordable generic medicines...
Last updated 7 December 2011
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The thinnest of lifelines: An interview with MSF President, Dr. Unni Karunakara on MSF’s response to the funding crisis at the Global Fund
In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to...
Last updated 1 December 2011
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Novartis case: New date and the government's defence
An update on the on-going Novartis case in India from the Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+). "Today, looking at the sensitivity of the Novartis Case and the time required to hear the matter...
Last updated 29 November 2011
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Myanmar: HIV/AIDS is still a taboo subject
Myanmar 2011 © Veronique Terrasse/MSF Dr Calorine Mekiedje specialises in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and has worked in Mozambique and Cameroon, among other places. She talks about her experience...
Last updated 24 November 2011
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