First-Ever Medical Conference by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in New Delhi on May 8

Medecins Sans Frontieres debuts in India with a one-day event to throw spotlight on neglected diseases like TB, AIDS and Typhus, among others, in South Asia.

AIDS, TB, Typhus and Leishmaniasis are some of the diseases that scholars and academics will cover in their presentation at the first-ever medical conference organized by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also called as Doctors Without Borders. Held on May 8 the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi, this one day event will feature research from South Asia on neglected diseases and health concerns.

Besides researchers from MSF, eminent scholars from across the country like Sripriya Pandurangan from The Union, George M. Varghese from Christian Medical College, Padma Deosthali from Center for Inquiry into Health and Allied Themes, Rama Prosad Goswami from Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, and others will present their medical research.

WHO's 'End Tuberculosis Strategy' Shaping Up
The 67th World Health Assembly adopted WHO's global strategy that set targets to tackle tuberculosis through prevention, care and control.

The conference seeks to connect audiences, stimulate analysis and initiate debate on the state of healthcare within the region. The event will also be streamed live online.

Addressed throughout the agenda is the issue of neglect: how is medical care provided to the vulnerable, stigmatized and marginalized? How is a disease identified as ‘neglected’? In a region comprising approximately one-fifth of the world’s population, questions on this subject require serious consideration and discussion.

Explaining the importance of the conference, Martin Sloot, General Director, MSF India, said, “We decided to organize MSF Scientific Day here because in India — and South Asia — a lot of medical research is happening. MSF in South Asia works on many medical issues such as tuberculosis, kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis) and childhood malnutrition in Bihar among others. We hope that the exchange of medical research would lead to improved medical action.”

New Approach Discovered to Beat Tuberculosis
Scientists from Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with new strategies in order to beat tuberculosis.

The keynote speech will be delivered by N. Kumarasamy, Chief Medical Officer, Y.R. Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and Education on, ‘The long term impact of antiretroviral therapy in resource limited settings’.

World AIDS Orphan Day 2015
Public policies and strategies on AIDS seldom take into account the collateral damage as a result of the disease. Find out what needs to be done about children who are orphaned due to AIDS.

Source-Medindia

Treatment For 4,000 AIDS Patients Uncertain As Hospital In Jeddah Awaits Shutdown
Government hospitals in Jeddah do not have enough facilities such as isolation rooms and have asked the King Saud Hospital to contact the directorate.