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What we do

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

In Focus Rohingya refugee crisis Mediterranean migration DRC Ebola outbreaks Discover our projects by country

Where we work

In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

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MSF Access

MSF Access pushes 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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CRASH

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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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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MSF Medical Guidelines

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experiences, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals.

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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

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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LUXOR

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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MSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare.

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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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MSF Paediatric Days

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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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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Geo MSF

The GeoMSF platform is a dynamic one-stop-shop website for all of MSF's GIS related services and products. Access maps and applications through the catalogue, request geographical support, or produce a map on GeoMSF.

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Republican Reference Laboratory at the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and TB in Minsk, Belarus. Culture samples used for TB diagnosis and drug sensitivity testing.
Memoria internacional 2019

Bielorrusia

Cultivo de muestras para el diagnóstico de la TB y la identificación de resistencias a medicamentos en el Centro Científico y Práctico de Enfermedades Pulmonares y Tuberculosis de la República, en Minsk. Bielorrusia, agosto de 2018.
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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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CONTENIDOS

MSF teams descend the High Plateau area on their way back from Numbi. Numbi is a small town located 2,000 meters above the sea level, in one of the most remote areas of the South Kivu province. All the provisions for the local community have to be carried on foot or delivered by motorbikes. During the rainy season roads become impassable, even for off-road vehicles.
Países
Anka General Hospital entrance. MSF is running a 135-bed pediatric ward, mainly treating children suffering from malaria or malnutrition. Several are referred from the nearby IDPs camps. Malaria patients are treated in two separate malaria units. During the rainy season, when malaria cases are peeking, the hospital is often overbooked with patients.
Presentación
Bardarah Refugee Camp, Iraq. October 31, 2019. Syrian Kurdish refugees gather to receive winter clothes being distributed by inside the Bardarash refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as of November 6th more than 14,000 Syrian Kurds have fled their homes in Rojava, the Syrian-Kurdish enclave along the Turkish border in north-east Syria, and have taken refuge in camps inside Iraqi-Kurdistan. Bardarash camp houses over 12,000 Syrian-Kurdish refugees.
Resumen del año
Medical and hygienist staff get dressed with the PPE to get into the high risk zone of the Ebola Transit Center in Bunia
La respuesta al Ébola en República Democrática del Congo
“We were seven women in the courtyard when we understood, by seeing the smoke coming from the burned houses, that massacres were happening. We ran away in the bush with our children to hide behind trees and we staid there 3 days. We walked more than 50km to arrive up to here. The village? I don’t want to hear about it anymore. Our husbands were killed. Our children’s notebook were all burnt.” Haibata / « Nous étions sept femmes dans la cour lorsqu’on a compris que des massacres avaient lieu, à cause de la fumée qui venait des maisons brûlées. Nous nous sommes enfuies en brousse avec nos enfants pour nous cacher derrière des arbres, nous y sommes restées 3 jours. Nous avons marché plus de 50 km pour arriver jusqu’ici. Le village ? Je ne veux plus en entendre parler. Nos maris ont été tués. Les cahiers d’école de nos enfants ont tous été brûlés ». Haibata
Sahel: poblaciones atrapadas en una mortífera espiral de violencia
Daily life in one of the squats near Velika Kladusa where migrans and asylum seekers stay. Migrants and asylum seekers are concentrated around Bihac and Velika Kladusa in Bosnia attempting to cross the border to Croatia. People there have to face extremely harsh living conditions and violence allegedly caused by border authorities. MSF in collaboration with the local medical authorities provide medical and mental health services to the people living in Vucjak camp. Our medical team sees in this clinic around 30 patients per day. MSF runs another small clinic in Velika Kladusa for people who stay in squats. The main morbidities our teams are treating are wounds, skin infections, upper and lower respiratory tract infections, hypothermia and frostbites. All symptoms are results of violence and bad living conditions.
Menos que seres humanos: las políticas europeas perjudican a las personas refugiadas, migrantes y solicitantes de asilo
Protesters demonstrate outside Supreme Court in Pretoria, South Africa Monday March 5. 2001 as the pharmaceutical industry faced off in court against the South Africa government in what AIDS activists say is a landmark in developing world's efforst to get cheap AIDS medication. Drug companies are suing the the government to try to overturn a 1997 law they argue would allow the health minister to arbitrarily ignore patents on medications (Christiaan Schwetz)
Campaña de Acceso: 20 años en acción
Inside the operating theatre of Maroua hospital.
2019 en cifras

Regiones

The old man on the left has had a festering hole in the head for 3 years. He has had his wound cleaned and his bandage dressed every three days for a year at the Old Fangak hospital. A discussion begins between Florence (right) the medical director, the surgeon Gilles (out of frame) and Julie Malcolm Wyzyloski, the nurse of the operating room to know if a surgical intervention is desirable. The conclusion will be that there is nothing to do but cure the symptom for fear of triggering a fatal process. So far, the patient does not suffer. Le vieil homme à gauche a un trou dans la tête suppurant depuis 3 ans. Il vient faire nettoyer sa plaie et refaire son pansement tous les trois jours, depuis une année, dans la clinique de Old Fangak. Une discussion s’engage entre Florence (droite) la responsable médicale, le chirurgien Gilles (hors cadre) et Julie Malcolm Wyzyloski, l’infirmière du bloc opératoire pour savoir si une intervention chirurgicale est souhaitable. La conclusion sera qu’il n’y a rien à faire d’autre que de soigner le symptôme de crainte de déclencher un processus fatal. Jusqu’à présent, le patient ne souffre pas.
Africa
Young girls from low income families in Tondo, Manila, are seen in a Likhaan clinic before ther free HPV vaccinations.
Asia & Pacific
Guests disembark from Vos Prudence in Palermo, Italy. MSF vessel Vos Prudence rescued a total of 726 people from the Mediterranean Sea over 2 days on June 8th and 9th, including 52 children.
Europe & Central Asia
Alan García, psicólogo de MSF, da atención psicológica a una estudiante de la escuela secundaria Cobao 23 de Ixhuatan durante un taller de movilización comunitaria donde se informa de que hacer en caso de seísmo Alan García, a MSF psychologist, gives psychological care to a student at the Cobao 23 secondary school in Ixhuatan during a community mobilisation workshop, where information is given about what to do in the event of an earthquake
The Americas
The newly renovated Intensive Care unit in Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital was opened the 19 November after a complete reconstruction done by MSF. Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospit is the only trauma facility in Sulaymaniyah Governorate treating all people with acute medical and surgical illness. Over the last two years, there has been a significant rise in the hospital’s catchment population (currently over 2.5 million people) due to the influx of internally displaced persons from neighbouring conflict zones. MSF has been working in Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital since January 2016, with the aim to reduce patient mortality rate by improving quality of care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the Emergency Department (ER). This is done through improved quality of patient care and structural renovation of the ER & ICU medical facilities.
Middle East & North Africa

MSF en Bielorrusia en 2019 Médicos Sin Fronteras siguió colaborando con el Ministerio de Salud en la atención a pacientes con tuberculosis multirresistente a los medicamentos (TB-MDR).
Bielorrusia

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personas con TB-DR iniciaron tratamiento

Según el Informe Mundial sobre la Tuberculosis publicado en 2019 por la Organización Mundial de la Salud, Bielorrusia es uno de los países con mayor carga de TB-MDR del mundo.

En 2019, colaboramos con el Ministerio de Salud en cuatro centros de tratamiento de la TB: en Minsk (la capital) y en la localidad de Volkovichi, también en la región de Minsk. Nuestros equipos también visitaron con regularidad una cárcel en Orsha para ayudar en el tratamiento de convictos con TB resistente (TB-DR) y coinfecciones. A finales de 2019, 54 personas con hepatitis C habían sido tratadas con antivirales de acción directa. 

MSF, junto con el Ministerio de Salud, elaboró un programa de mitigación de daños, cuyo objetivo es ayudar a pacientes con TB-DR y problemas de consumo de alcohol y otras sustancias a controlar su dependencia y así poder terminar su tratamiento con éxito. En 2019, nuestro equipo de apoyo psicosocial atendió 4.255 consultas, entre 70 y 80 personas al mes. También iniciamos un estudio para demostrar la eficacia y viabilidad de este programa.

Investigación médica

Minsk es uno de los cinco centros donde se desarrolla el ensayo clínico TB Practecal Dirigido por MSF Reino Unido y en colaboración con la Escuela de Higiene y Medicina Tropical de Londres, así como con otros líderes mundiales en investigación médica y los Ministerios de Salud de Bielorrusia, Sudáfrica y Uzbekistán, TB Practecal es un innovador proyecto de investigación que busca tratamientos sin inyecciones, eficaces, tolerables y cortos para personas con TB-DR. (en el que participamos), que busca nuevos regímenes de tratamiento más cortos para la TB-MDR. Para finales de 2019, 51 pacientes participaban en el ensayo en Bielorrusia.

Minsk es también uno de los 17 lugares del estudio de observación endTB, que evalúa la seguridad y eficacia de los medicamentos más recientes para la TB, la bedaquilina y la delamanida. En 2019, continuamos con el seguimiento de los 122 pacientes inscritos en este estudio.

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Trabajadores en 2019

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Millones de euros de gasto en 2019

2015

2015

Año en el que MSF trabajó por primera vez en el país