Médecins Sans Frontières - 50 years of Humanity in collaboration with The Quint (ENG)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB117320

Date taken / Date Recorded 27/01/2022 9:12 PM

Country India

Commissioning section MSF-INDIA

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Additional Information / Shotlist 00:00 – 00:02 - Every other hospital was turning me away.

00:03 – 00:04 - Hospitals refused treatment and sent me elsewhere.

00:05 – 00:08 - They kept referring me to other hospitals.

00:09 – 00:12 - I started feeling that I’ll never get better.

00:14 – 00:19 – Text - “People are excluded from accessing new medicines for Drug-Resistant TB”

00:20 – 00:27 – Because of the stigma and discrimination these patients are unable to get basic tests done outside.

00:28 – 00:33 – Text - “Discrimination kills more people than advanced HIV”

00:36 – 00:38 – This is one of those topics that people refrain from talking about.

00:39 – 00:41 – They think they will be defamed if they talk about it.

00:42 – 00:45 – Most of our survivors live with their perpetrators on daily basis.

00:46 – 00:54 – Text - “Stigma limits survivors of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) from seeking care.”

00:55 – 01:01 – Text - “We work amid war, conflict, natural disaster.”

01:02 – 01:07 – Text - “People still die due to lack of affordable medicines, basic healthcare”

01:08 – 01:14 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders 50 years of humanity

01:17 – 01:33 – Siddhesh Gunandekar, Advocacy and Communications Manager - “At the MSF Mumbai clinic, we are treating patients who don’t have any other treatment option left. They have taken TB treatment from public and private sectors and failed and somehow reached MSF in the end.”

01:36 – 01:43 – Dr Samsuddin Khan, Medical Doctor, MSF -“MSF was founded 50 years ago with the belief that everyone should receive equal medical care irrespective of “

01:44 – 01:47 – Dr Nimrat Kaur, Project coordinator, MSF - “gender, race, religion, creed or political affiliation.”

01:48 – 01:50 – Text - “Tuberculosis stigma kills millions every year.”

01:51 – 01:57 – Yasmin Chaudhary, DR-TB survivor - “As a TB patient, there are many things that come to your mind. You lose your confidence completely.”

02:01 – 02:07 - “When I came here, my condition was very bad. They told me they had no guarantee I would survive.”

02:08 – 02:20 – Text – “DR-TB patients do not have access to new drugs, bedaquiline & delamanid, due to lack of availablity, accessibility, afforrdability”

02:21 – 02:28 – Roopesh Kale, DR-TB survivor - “After coming to MSF, my life has changed in six months, I feel that I got a second life.”

02:37 – 02:48 – Text - “Barriers to care for SGBV survivors are fear of stigma, lack of family support, lack of dignified care.”

02:49 – 03:07 – Archana, Community Health Worker, MSF - “Most people don’t even know that their wounds need to be treated. If their husbands abuse them, they think they should not talk about it outside. The main issue is that there is no one to support them. So, they think they have to endure the abuse.”

03:09 – 03:28 - Dr Nimrat Kaur, Project coordinator, MSF - “So from the time that they speak out in the community to the time that they reach out to our ASHA worker, we assure them about the medical confidentiality. They don’t have to repeat their trauma. Our goal is to make them understand that what is happening to them is not normal. They are not be blamed and it is okay to talk about it and seek help.”

03:29 – 03:32 – Text - “People living with HIV fear stigma more than pain.”

03:33 – 03:44 - “He used to get frequent fevers. We got some tests done and found he had an infection. He got very weak because of all this. After we came here, we found out he had HIV.”

03:45 – 03:59 – Dr Shreyas Murali, Medical Activity Manager, MSF - “Bihar is one of the most densely populated states in the eastern part of India. The total number of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) living in the state is around 135,000. And the number of people who are dying because of AIDS and AIDS-related complications is more than 2,500.”

04:00 – 04:10 – Dr Saumya, Doctor, MSF - “We deal with stage-IV advanced HIV patients in our facility. And most of our patients are from a rural background.”

04:11 – 04:24 - Dr Shreyas Murali, Medical Activity Manager, MSF - “So, MSF felt that there is a need to target this neglected population. People who live with HIV are being denied care. People don’t want to talk to them, touch them or live with them.”

04:25 – 04:34 - Dr Saumya, Doctor, MSF - “We are here not only to give them the medical help they need but also to counsel them, to counsel their families.”

04:35 – 04:53 - “To show improvement in 18 days is very significant. Because they take care of us here like a family, we smile, play and eat together. They don’t make us feel that we are sick.”

04:57 – 05:01 – Text – “In 2020, MSF treated 29,300 people for sexual violence.”

05:02 – 05:06 – Text - “In 2020, MSF started the first-line of TB treatment for 13,800 people”

05:07 – 05:11 – Text - “63,500 people started on first line HIV treatment.”

05:12 – 05:16 – Text - “13,800 people started on second line HIV treatment.”

05:24 – 05:27 - Dr Shreyas Murali, Medical Activity Manager, MSF - “The satisfaction that we get in treating people who are neglected.”

05:28 – 05:32 - Dr Saumya, Doctor, MSF - “When they come in sick, get treatment and they survive”

05:33 – 05:34 - Dr Shreyas Murali, Medical Activity Manager, MSF - “That is the most satisfying thing.”

05:35 – 05:37 - Siddhesh Gunandekar, Advocacy and Communications Manager - “Our daily work is a mission it is intensely medical”

05:38 – 05:39 - Dr Nimrat Kaur, Project coordinator, MSF - “and intensely personal.”

05:40 – 05:54 – Text - “MSF continues to provide emergency medical care to those who are

- ravaged by life-threatening infections

- dying because of lack of affordable medicines

- stigmatised and discriminated

05:55 – 05:58 – MSF 50 years of Humanity logo and MSF logo

05:59 – 06:01 – Quint logo with website

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