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Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

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MSF Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

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Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

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Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field.

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UREPH

Based in Geneva, UREPH (or Research Unit) aims to improve the way MSF projects are implemented in the field and to participate in critical thinking on humanitarian and medical action.

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ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based in Brussels, MSF Analysis intends to stimulate reflection and debate on humanitarian topics organised around the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates.

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MSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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MSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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Amsterdam Procurement Unit

This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.

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Southern Africa Medical Unit

SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Brazilian Medical Unit

BRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Epicentre

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

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Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

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LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Health Settings

MSF works with LGBTQI+ populations in many settings over the last 25-30 years. LGBTQI+ people face healthcare disparities with limited access to care and higher disease rates than the general population.

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The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.

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Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

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The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF and the humanitarian sector as a whole.

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DNDi

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

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The 'wheelbarrow' ambulance braved the worst in Liberia's conflict

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Project Update4 September 2003

Mark was bringing the injured to the MSF facility. When he ran back into the city, he was often carrying medical supplies, such as bandages, to other health facilities in the area. He tells us about his experience.

"During the war, I was the only one who was from the very beginning which is on Saturday by hour of one o clock, and I was the only one who worked along with MSF and there were no doctors, (I was) the only person. So I decided to help the people in the community because there were no tablets, no drugs or anything was in there.

"So I decided to haul the wounded people from the beginning of this war from Saturday, the morning, and I took the wounded people and I sent them to (MSF) clinic. There was 72 persons were sent to the MSF clinic and I decided to do that because there was no-one at that time to help - again there was nobody, there was no vehicles. I transferred people in the 'push-push' and I pushed some in the wheelbarrow and I transferred them to (MSF).

"And from Monday to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday to Friday, I transferred [...] 30 persons per day from West Point. 30 persons who were wounded by the bullet wounds. Some were wounded by the Government or the rebels which was in West Point.

"And I decided to transfer them to (MSF) and I went as far as Seti borough in Clara Town which was of course a little mistake of coming to die on that day as [...] I went there to do my own thing and I almost died from that. And I transferred - there was a fellow I transferred from Seti there was an injured man, was wounded, his foot was broken, they hand over to my brother and I transferred him to (MSF).

"And I went so far, I went so far as in Clara Town and I collected 30, the amount of people from Clara Town and I transferred them to West Point ..... which was for cholera and diarrhoea related because there was no treatment for them. However the boys (were) shooting, I say Almighty God, thank you and I transferred then there under the power of God. And nothing happened to me up to this time and so I thank You."