In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.
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.
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.
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.
Honduras has experienced years of political, economic and social instability, and has one of the highest rates of violence in the world. This has great medical, psychological and social consequences for people.
We treat victims of violence, including sexual violence. We work with the Honduran Ministry of Health on our servicio prioritario, or priority service, project which offers emergency medical and psychological care to victims of violence; we advocate for access to comprehensive care for victims of sexual violence, in a country where emergency contraception is banned.
In Choloma, we assist births, and offer family planning and ante- and postnatal consultations; health promotion teams raise awareness of these services to adolescents in the area.
In 2020, MSF teams responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing medical care in an adapted centre for severe patients in Tegucigalpa, the capital. We also provided mental health and health promotion activities; all activities had come to an end by mid-October.
Featured
International Activity Report 2018
The broken American dream: Violence on the Central American migration route
20 Jun 2019
In 2019
42,500
42,5
outpatient consultations
5,170
5,17
individual mental health consultations
350
35
people treated for sexual violence
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"I feel guilty"
"I'm 13 years old and I'm pregnant"
"The MSF psychologist explained to me that what I suffered was a sexual attack"
The story of 13-year-old Estela*, from Choloma, Honduras, is representative of many of the young patients we care for in our projects in Tegucigalpa and Choloma, in Honduras, and Reynosa, Mexico.
1974
1974
Year MSF first worked in the country
Honduras
MSF steps up medical care in response to humanitarian crisis in Honduras
Press Release16 Dec 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
Caring for COVID-19 patients in Tegucigalpa
Project Update13 Jun 2020
Central American Migration
Report: No way out - The humanitarian crisis for Central American migrants and asylum seekers
Report11 Feb 2020
Honduras
More than 5,000 patients treated during MSF response to dengue fever emergency
Project Update8 Nov 2019
Honduras
Emergency contraceptive pill vital for sexual assault victims
Project Update19 Jul 2019
Honduras
MSF expands efforts to control dengue epidemic in northern Honduras
Project Update29 May 2019
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In Focus
Central American Migration
An estimated 500,000 people a year flee violence and poverty in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, heading north through Mexico to find safety. The levels of violence in the region are comparable to that of war zones MSF has worked in for decades.
Medical Activities
Sexual violence
Sexual violence affects millions of people, brutally shattering the lives of women, men and children. It is a medical emergency, but there is often a dire lack of healthcare services for victims.
Medical Activities
Mental health
Where we work, we may see people with a mental illness or confronting distressing situations, such as violence, loss or displacement. Mental health support can be crucial to help people cope.
Medical Activities
HIV/AIDS
Nearly 700,000 people died from AIDS, while 1.7 million people became newly infected with the HIV virus in 2019.
