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A combination of high costs, poverty, social exclusion, and an overburdened public health system prevents people from seeking medical assistance.

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Our work in India

We fill gaps in India’s health system and provide specific medical care to neglected people who would otherwise struggle to access it.

MSF staff Ganpat distributing soap and masks to hawkers on the street

What's happening in India?

India is a country of vast size and inequality, with considerable disparity in the level of medical treatment available, depending on a person’s income and where they live.

Despite improved access to health care in India, a combination of high costs, poverty, social exclusion, and an overburdened public health system prevents people from seeking medical assistance.

COVID-19 in India

How we're helping in India

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has a number of long-standing projects in India, which we run in conjunction with the state authorities to address specific health care needs and emerging public health concerns.

We also run mobile clinics in remote areas of the country, where even preventable, treatable conditions such as malaria can assume life-threatening proportions.

Our teams are currently responding to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

MSF works to fill some of the gaps in services for the most marginalized communities, including mental health support in hospitals in four districts of Kashmir. We also treat victims of sexual and gender-based violence in our clinic in New Delhi, where we provide round-the-clock, confidential services for people of all ages. When COVID-19 restrictions were imposed, we switched to phone-based counseling services and digital health promotion activities to guarantee continuity of care.

Treatment for infectious diseases

In our HIV centers in Manipur, we implement a model of care that is tailored to patients’ needs. We also support the antiretroviral treatment center and inpatient management of HIV in a district hospital, and distribute food coupons and dry rations to homeless intravenous drug users.

MSF has been working with the government to increase access to holistic care for HIV patients with life-threatening opportunistic infections. In 2020, in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, we focused on antimicrobial resistance stewardship to guide the prescribing and use of antibiotics. Palliative care, nutrition, mental health support, and advocacy are also important components of our model of care.

In Mumbai, we continued to offer care for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), with pediatric care a priority in 2020. The first patients were enrolled in the EndTB clinical trial using the new generation of drugs, aimed at finding shorter, more tolerable, injection-free treatments for multidrug-resistant TB.

Handing over projects

India has the world’s highest rate of childhood malnutrition, and in Jharkhand, one of the worst-affected states, MSF has contributed to shaping the treatment protocol. Although we discontinued our project providing community management of acute malnutrition in early 2020, we continued to follow up with children with severe acute malnutrition discharged from the program.

In 2020, we handed over to the health authorities the general health care services that we had been running via mobile clinics in the conflict-affected border areas of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana states for 14 years.

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How we're helping in 2020

21,900

People on first-line ARV treatment in MSF-supported programs

1,180

People started on treatment for TB, including 770 for MDR-TB

400

People treated for sexual violence

64

People started on treatment for hepatitis C

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