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.
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.
Read through case studies where we openly examine and analyse all our actions and decision-making processes during humanitarian emergencies that have led us to speak out.
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.
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.
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.
Since 25 August 2017, a massive exodus of over 700,000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar.
The Rohingya people are one of the most persecuted minority groups in the world. Following a concerted campaign of extreme violence by the Myanmar authorities against Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in August 2017, over 700,000 Rohingya fled over the border into the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh.
In December 2017, surveys we conducted in the refugee camps found that at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed by violent means in Myanmar between 25 of August and 24 of September 2017. At least 730 were children under five years of age.
Living conditions in the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh are dire. Many people lack access to clean water, sanitation, health care and shelter. Outbreaks of multiple vaccine-preventable diseases are springing up among the population.
We have significantly scaled up our existing medical, water and sanitation efforts in support of the growing needs.
MSF surveys estimate that at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed during the attacks in Myanmar
12 Dec 2017
Rohingya refugee crisis
Crisis update – May 2018
Crisis Update23 May 2018
Photo Story
A living nightmare (part one): To leave or die
14 Dec 2017
Photo Story
Bangladesh
“We had to learn around the clock how to treat diphtheria”
Voices from the Field22 Feb 2018
Photo Story
Rohingya trauma and resilience
8 Oct 2018
Photo Story
Rohingya refugee crisis
Crisis update – September 2018
Crisis Update1 Oct 2018
Bangladesh
Shanti Khana: Bringing peace to Rohingya refugees
Project Update28 Sep 2018
Rohingya refugee crisis
One year on, Rohingya refugees live in dire camps, facing an uncertain future and legal limbo
Project Update24 Aug 2018
Rohingya refugee crisis
A Rohingya story in Malaysia: “We are always under threat of being arrested”
Voices from the Field24 Aug 2018
Rohingya refugee crisis
Abu Ahmad: “I always have so many worries; worries about the future.”
Voices from the Field23 Aug 2018
Rohingya refugee crisis
Crisis update – August 2018
Crisis Update16 Aug 2018
Myanmar
Independent humanitarian agencies and access to healthcare still blocked in northern Rakhine
Press Release15 Aug 2018
Bangladesh
“This feels more like an emergency room than a normal delivery room”
Project Update23 May 2018
Research & Analysis
Rohingya refugee crisis
‘No one was left’ - Death and Violence Against the Rohingya
Report9 Mar 2018
Rohingya refugee crisis
Rohingya crisis - a summary of findings from six pooled surveys
Project Update9 Dec 2017
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Asia & Pacific
Myanmar
We work with the Myanmar Ministry of Health to provide care for HIV and TB patients, primary healthcare, and vaccinations.
123,400
outpatient consultations
34,700
patients treated for HIV
1,000
patients started on treatment for TB
Asia & Pacific
Bangladesh
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are living in Bangladesh after fleeing targeted violence in Myanmar.
309,900
outpatient consultations
30,800
antenatal consultations
10,600
individual mental health consultations
Crisis Settings
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move
There are many reasons for flight, including war, persecution, conflict, natural disaster, destitution and repression. With health and well-being jeopardised, the lives of the most vulnerable can be at risk.
Crisis Settings
War and conflict
Around one-third of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict.
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Since 25 August 2017, over 706,000 Rohingya have fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh
