A year in pictures 2020

Jharkhand: fighting malnutrition alongside local communities

MSF Community Health Educator Subashini Deb Mahto shares her first-hand experience of malnutrition.

MSF urges wealthy countries not to block COVID-19 patent waiver

Ahead of the next round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss a proposal by South Africa and India to waive monopolies on COVID-19 medical tools during the pandemic, MSF called on the wealthy countries opposing the proposal not to block it and ruin its lifesaving potential for billions of people in the rest of the world.

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Tuberculosis: Policies should ‘help facilitate access to life saving treatment not create barriers.’

Jharkhand: fighting malnutrition alongside local communities

MSF Community Health Educator Subashini Deb Mahto shares her first-hand experience of malnutrition.

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The knock-on effects of COVID-19

From Latin America to Africa and from Asia to Europe, the pandemic has cost millions of lives. At the same time, it has affected people’s ability to access essential health services. In many places, the devastating knock-on effects of the pandemic have left people without life-saving assistance.

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A year in pictures 2020

Jharkhand: fighting malnutrition alongside local communities

MSF Community Health Educator Subashini Deb Mahto shares her first-hand experience of malnutrition.

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Delhi: MSF supports survivors of sexual violence in the aftermath of coronavirus lockdown

In March 2020, to curb the spread of COVID-19, India joined several other countries around the world in imposing strict lockdown measures and redirecting health resources to meet the needs arising from the pandemic. Globally, such measures resulted in limited access to sexual and reproductive health care including safe abortion, contraception, and treatment for sexual violence.

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Projects in India

Maharashtra

Mumbai: Responding to COVID-19 in slums of M-East ward

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Bihar

Responding to COVID-19 pandemic in Bihar

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India

Mental health helpline for people affected by COVID-19 pandemic

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Manipur

Delivering specialist care for HIV, TB, and Hepatitis in Manipur

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Maharashtra

Providing medical care for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai

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Jharkhand

Providing medical care for severe acute malnutrition in Jharkhand

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Jammu and Kashmir

Meeting mental health needs in Jammu and Kashmir

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Bihar

Acting against kala azar-HIV co-infection and advanced HIV in Bihar

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Delhi

Treating survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Delhi

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Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh & Telangana

Essential healthcare in remote areas of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana

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Access Campaign

Medicines shouldn’t be a luxury

MSF launched Access Campaign with a purpose to push for access to, and the development of life-saving and life prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for patients in MSF programmes and beyond.

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