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Spotted: At the Capitol

Passed the Washington Monument

Across the National Mall

To the gate of the White House

Our mobile billboard spent two days driving around the nation’s capitol as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed U.S. Congress and met with President Barack Obama. We wanted to make sure our message was seen - Millions of people rely on affordable medicines made in India. Prime Minister Modi, stand strong against U.S. pressure to change your policies. Don’t Shut Down the Pharmacy of the Developing World! 

Mother, Medical Director, Refugee- Doc Nagham in Amman

Leyan, 19, studying oral medicine, trained professional Dabkah dancer - a traditional Palestinian dance. “It is one of my dreams to become a dentist. I want to help my people and I hope to take up an important role in society.”

After several weeks of being sick and missing school, 15-year-old Naina in India waits excitedly with her mother to receive the intravenous infusion at MSF-run Kala Azar ward. She returned home a few hours later.

Irene. a medical coordinator with MSF says goodbye to refugees and migrants as they disembark the Bourbon Argos search and rescue ship.

Celebrate International Women’s Day - and shoutout to our amazing female patients and staff who continue to show immense strength and inspire us all!

MSF relies heavily on Indian generic medicines to carry out its medical work in more than 60 countries. As President Barack Obama meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, let’s make sure they protect India’s patent law from being a target of the multi-national pharmaceutical industry: handsoff.msf.org

Millions depend on affordable medicines produced in India to stay alive. More than 80% of the medicines MSF uses to treat HIV are affordable generics from India. Help us send a strong message to make sure profit does not reign above people’s lives: http://handsoff.msf.org

Thanks to #IncredibleIndia’s progressive patent laws, MSF can treat people in every corner of the world with quality affordable generic medicines. However, international pressure to change these laws is mounting. For millions of people this is a matter of life or death. http://handsoff.msf.org

In 2015, we are asking the EU to grant safe passage through Europe for generic medicines that are so critical to our work. http://ow.ly/G38a8

In 2015, join us in urging India to stand strong in the face of U.S. pressure to roll back policies designed to protect public health and promote access to affordable generic medicines.  Together, let’s make sure that no moves are made that could harm the ‘Pharmacy of the Developing World’. http://ow.ly/G38a8

Dr. Unni Karunakara started biking the entire length of India, from Srinagar in Kashmir to Thiruvanathapuram in Kerala, in October 2013. The former international president of MSF has now biked more than 3290 miles or 5300 km, having made many stops along the way to talk to medical students about health and humanitarianism. See photos and his blog UnniCycles:https://www.cycleformsf.in/unnicycles/

Damaging intellectual property rules in the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) would give pharmaceutical companies longer monopolies over brand name drugs. Companies would be able to charge high prices for longer periods of time. And it would be much harder for generic companies to produce cheaper drugs that are vital to people’s health. We need your help:http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/take-action/tpp/

MSF’s outgoing international president, Dr. Unni Karunakara, left Sunday on a journey by bicycle from one end of India to the other. It’s a 3,000+ mile (5000 km) journey that Unni will use to spark a dialogue on health, healthcare, and humanitarianism. You can follow his progress here: https://www.cycleformsf.in/unnicycles/

Illustration: This is in Bandra again, in a slum. This is a drug-resistant TB patient with HIV as well. He was happy to have us there and let us draw him and talk to him, and the stigma wasn’t an issue for him. This is really a description of the outside of the house where he lives with his mum and his other brother. She’s raised six children here; he sleeps outside as a sort of precaution, she sleeps inside, and this is his bed which is covered up by bits of plastic bags and propped up by pillars and corrugated iron. It gives you an idea of the sort of places that [MSF’s patients] are living in, and living in when they’ve got this horrible disease. India 2013 © George Butler

MSF’s HIV/TB Project in Mumbai

MSF invited illustrator George Butler to visit our HIV and MDR-TB project in Mumbai, India to capture our activities there. He returned with images and stories of families affected by multidrug-resistant TB, their care givers, and the MSF team responsible for their treatment.

Illustration: India 2013 © George Butler

MSF’s HIV/TB Project in Mumbai

MSF invited illustrator George Butler to visit our HIV and MDR-TB project in Mumbai, India to capture our activities there. He returned with images and stories of families affected by multidrug-resistant TB, their care givers, and the MSF team responsible for their treatment.