Why is hepatitis C an invisible emergency in India?

April 19, 2018

It is estimated that 71 million people have chronic hepatitis C infection globally and India accounts for approximately 17 percent of the total number of cases recorded. Once in the body, the hepatitis C virus attacks the liver and if...

Uttar Pradesh: "Hepatitis C is more than a disease"

March 2, 2018

Name : Designation : Sevantee Ghosh, a medical doctor from Kolkata, has been working with MSF’s hepatitis C project in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, since January 2017. In this piece, she looks back on a year of treating hepatitis C. I...

MSF’s hepatitis C project in Uttar Pradesh: One year, 1,198 patients

March 2, 2018

In January 2017, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF), in collaboration with the National Health Mission in Uttar Pradesh, started a pilot hepatitis project in Meerut city. Uttar Pradesh is one of the largest Indian states and has an estimated...

“When they are diagnosed with HepC, patients think they will die”

March 10, 2016

Name : Designation : Dr Muhammad Khawar Aslam, medical doctor for Médecins Sans Frontières in Karachi. Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started its programme focusing on Hepatitis C in Karachi in April 2015. Pakistan has the second...

On this World Hepatitis Day (28 July 2014) support MSF India’s #TestnTreatHCV Campaign

July 28, 2014

#TestnTreatHCV Why the campaign? Hepatitis C (Hep-C or HCV) is a virus that can cause liver disease, and if untreated, can be fatal. Chronic HCV is a “silent killer” as usually people do not have any symptoms until they have...