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.
We provide medical and psychological assistance to people affected by the ongoing conflict in Palestine.
During the Great March of Return protests in Gaza in 2018 and 2019, thousands of people were shot – mostly in the legs – by the Israeli army, resulting in often horrific and complex injuries. Our teams provide surgical and post-operative care, including rehabilitation and mental health support, to people who were injured during the protests.
Our patients have been exposed to critical events, such as witnessing violence, raids on their homes, arrests and deaths of family members, and consequently, they have developed anxiety, stress and sleeping problems. We run mental health programmes in Hebron, Nablus, Qalqilya and Tubas offering psychological and social support to victims of political violence.
In our burns and trauma centres in the Gaza Strip, we treat patients, most of them children, the majority of them having burns from domestic accidents.
Treating complex gunshot wounds in Gaza - an overwhelming challenge
Gaza
What future for the thousands shot in March of Return protests?
Ana Nery, medical coordinator for Palestine, tells us about the overwhelming challenge of treating patients shot by the Israeli forces during the March of Return protests which began in March 2018 at the border fence in Gaza.
Our teams have seen over 3,000 people in its clinics and continues to follow a massive cohort of patients. Many are unable to find proper treatment for their wounds and risk developing bone infections which, without proper treatment, could result in amputation.
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Mental health in Nablus, Palestine
Mental health
The invisible scars of Palestinians in the West Bank
The Israeli occupation and political in-fighting that have lasted for so many years have profoundly affected, both directly and indirectly, the physical and mental health of Palestinians.
In the West Bank, our teams of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists are working to support and restore the mental health of a people shattered by many years of occupation, violence and restrictions..
Palestine
Gaza’s numbing routine of injury and death
Voices from the Field4 Apr 2019
Palestine
March of Return protestors abandoned after year of suffering
Project Update28 Mar 2019
Palestine
The challenge of filling gaps in the legs of Gaza’s wounded
Occupied Minds: Dealing with one child arrested and then another
Voices from the Field10 Oct 2018
Mental health
Occupied Minds: Allowing people to regain control of their lives
Voices from the Field10 Oct 2018
Palestine
“When I sleep, it feels like knives moving through my leg”
Voices from the Field2 Oct 2018
Palestine
“Nothing can prepare you for this”
Voices from the Field2 Oct 2018
1989
1989
Year MSF first worked in the country
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In Focus
Great March of Return
Nearly every Friday between 30 March 2018 and December 2019, protestors in the ‘Great March of Return’ demonstrations in Gaza, Palestine were met with hails of bullets from the Israeli army.
Medical Activities
Surgery & trauma care
Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing surgical care for people in precarious contexts for decades.
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.
Crisis Settings
War and conflict
Around one-quarter of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict.
