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What we do

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

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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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Sosthene Arakaza works as Vector Control Technician for MSF in Nduta camp. He arrives at a refugee's home where he will install a mosquito trap. "I work on a vector control project within Nduta camp aiming to prevent malaria more effectively by trapping and analysing mosquitoes around the camp. The people living here are very susceptible to getting malaria. We think it may be because malaria rates in their home regions in Burundi are low, so people do not build up an immunity, meaning they are particularly vulnerable when living in a higher risk zone, such as the camp here in Nduta. I work in a team of six people. We go out to houses and families in the camp, covering around 150 houses a week. We trap and collect mosquitoes, setting traps in houses and surrounding areas. Only female mosquitoes carry the virus. Therefore, we document the female mosquito density per trap, so we can identify the zones most prone to Malaria. That way we can work out where an outbreak is most likely to occur and put into place preventative measures. Since the start of this programme the number of Malaria cases in our medical facilities is significantly lower than before. Our work has really helped MSF to identify the number of mosquitoes and see when they are rising and falling. Between this and the last year levels of malaria have decreased in camp. Working together with a Tanzanian university we have been able to further analyse the collected mosquitoes. We have been able to target breeding sites to eliminate mosquito larvae and prevent them reaching maturity. This programme is unique and very comprehensive. We hope to replicate it in many more MSF projects."
Memoria Internacional 2018

Tanzania

Sosthene Arakaza, técnico de control vectorial, se dispone a instalar una trampa para mosquitos en una vivienda del campo de refugiados de Nduta, en junio de 2018.
© Ellie Kealey/MSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Índice

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
People disembark search and rescue vessel Aquarius, operated by SOS Méditerranée in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in Valencia, Spain. The disembarkation is the end of a terrible ordeal for the men, women and children who spent multiple days at sea.
Presentación
A health worker waits to receive a new unconfirmed ebola patient, at a newly build MSF supported ebola treatment centre(ETC) on November 07, 2018 in Bunia.
Resumen del año
Palestinians who have been wounded from Israeli live ammunition as they arrive for post-operative care at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Gaza City on June 6,2018. According to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) who operate in Gaza, the Israelis have been using ammunition that causes fist-sized wounds of “unusual severity”.The clinic also treats burn victims such as the little girl who is seen . (Photo by Heidi Levine/Sipa Press).
Gaza: desbordados por las heridas de bala
Migrants also use the shelters to gather information on routes to continue on their way through Mexico.
El sueño americano se ha roto: violencia en la ruta migratoria de Centroamérica
A Rohingya man carries wood through the Kutupalong- Balu Khali mega camp. Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh.
Los rohingyas: hogar en ningún país
After losing her mother to MDR-TB five years ago, Ankita Parab learned that she too was infected with the disease, and endured years of arduous treatment. Later, her brother also fell ill with MDR-TB. In 2016, when her brother’s condition worsened, his doctor referred him to MSF’s TB clinic in Mumbai, India, where he was quickly started on a treatment regimen that included newer TB drugs. Ankita was also tested for TB through contact tracing, one of the preventive services MSF offers to all family members living with people with TB. The results were a terrible shock for her. Despite her earlier treatment, Ankita had developed XDR-TB – the most severe form of the disease. With support from her family, friends and MSF medical staff and counsellors, Ankita completed her two years of XDR-TB treatment with MSF in May 2018 and was declared cured. Follow-up testing in November 2018 confirmed there was no relapse or recurrence of TB.
Tuberculosis: de la desesperanza a la cura
MSF Hospital in Mocha. The hands of Said Abdallah. The man manipulated an explosive object found in a field. Hôpital MSF de Mocha. Les mains de Said Abdallah. L'homme a manipulé un objet explosif trouvé dans un champ.
2018 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 Tanzania en 2018 Médicos Sin Fronteras sigue siendo el principal proveedor de atención médica de los casi 100.000 refugiados burundeses acogidos en el campo de Nduta, en el noroeste de Tanzania.
Tanzania

332,600

332,6

consultas externas

67,500

67,5

personas con malaria tratadas

12,700

12,7

consultas individuales de salud mental

6,450

6,45

partos

Para finales de 2018, Tanzania albergaba a 326.942 personas llegadas tanto de Burundi como de República Democrática del Congo. La mayoría estaban en tres campos: Nyarugusu, Nduta y Mtendeli.

En Nduta, dirigimos un hospital de 151 camas y cuatro puestos de salud, así como actividades de promoción de la salud a través de una red de agentes de la comunidad. Los servicios ambulatorios comprenden atención materno-infantil, apoyo nutricional, salud mental y atención a víctimas de la violencia sexual. En 2018, también rehabilitamos el quirófano y la sala de esterilización del hospital de distrito de Kibondo, y donamos equipos especializados para cirugías vitales, de los que se beneficiará tanto la población refugiada como la tanzana.

La malaria siguió siendo un problema médico importante en el campo de Nduta, en particular durante la temporada de lluvias. Desde 2016, tenemos actividades integrales de prevención y control, que comprenden la aplicación de un larvicida biológico y la distribución masiva de mosquiteras tratadas con insecticida. Se ha comprobado que estas medidas son eficaces; en 2018, llegaron a nuestros centros menos de la mitad de personas enfermas que el año anterior.

En marzo, los Gobiernos de Burundi y Tanzania, junto con el Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Refugiados (ACNUR), confirmaron su intención de facilitar la repatriación voluntaria a Burundi de más de 70.000 personas para finales de año; esto supuso un motivo más de incertidumbre para muchas de ellas.

Nuestros equipos en Nduta registraron un aumento considerable en las necesidades de salud mental; los diagnósticos principales fueron depresión, ansiedad y también trastornos psiquiátricos. Además de la sensación de impotencia por lo que depara el futuro, muchos pacientes dijeron haber vivido eventos traumáticos y perdido a seres queridos. 

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Mental health in Nduta camp

MSF/Ellie Kealey

311

311

Trabajadores en 2018

7.7

7.7

Millones de euros de gasto

1993

1993

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