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Read the policies, reports, and plans on how we address issues like racism and reduce our carbon footprint, ensuring our actions align with the highest ethical standards.

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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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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Over 30,000 people who were forced to flee to the town of Monguno following clashes that erupted in Nigeria’s Borno state in late December are in acute need of shelter, water, sanitation, food, protection, medical care and mental health support. MSF is running a 10-bed emergency room for adults in a ministry of health facility in Monguno as well as providing people with mental health support. MSF teams have also set up 100 tents and are ready to put up 700 additional shelters. People in Borno state are caught up in a cycle of violence, which has forced tens of thousands from their homes, fields and livelihoods, and left them struggling to survive with very little means.
Nigeria

Over 30,000 people in acute need in northern Borno state

Displaced people in Monguno, northern Borno State, Nigeria are living in poor conditions, with little sanitation, and a lack of safe drinking water and adequate shelter as the rainy season approaches. Press Release - 4 Apr 2019
 
MSF logistics coordinator, Guillaume Malin makes an assessment to check if the MSF vehicle can pass through the river. MSF teams are conducting outreach programs to reach inaccessible areas in Chimanimani, eastern Chimanimani to provide medical supplies for survivors of cyclone Idai.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

The first six days after Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe

Medical team leader Marthe Frieden went from working on her 'quiet' MSF project in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province, to the emergency of Cyclone Idai. Here she recounts the first six days of the response. Voices from the Field - 29 Mar 2019
 
In Makhanga district, a huge number of houses have collapsed. Many thousands remain in displacement camps and makeshifts sites such as schools and churches. Big reconstruction efforts will be required in coming weeks. Following heavy rains that affected the southern region of Malawi, an MSF team of 18 people is supporting the health ministry to cover the needs of an estimated 18,000 people in Makhanga on the eastern bank of the Shire river, with health, sanitation, NFI needs.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Malawi: “This time, the flooding has destroyed houses, not lives”

Parts of Malawi have been submerged by floods from rains that later turned into Cyclone Idai. MSF logistician Labana Steven is part of the emergency response and explains the difference between these floods and those of previous years. Voices from the Field - 29 Mar 2019
 
View of the slum of Praia Nova in Punta Gea after Cyclone Idai hits the city of Beira, Mozambique. MSF is running mobile clinics to areas of Beira hard hit by Cyclone Idai. During these clinics our staff provide care for patients suffering for infected cuts and small wounds, respiratory tract infections, skin conditions as well as diarrhea. Importantly, they also go door to door looking for cases of diarrhea that may need treatment at the local health centres. Diarrhea can be easily treated with oral or IV rehydration as well as antibiotics. During the mobile clinic, if the team finds a patient in need of in patient care they are transferred to the health centre or hospital by MSF.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Mozambique flooding and response: both enormous in scale

MSF has massively scaled up the response in Beira, Mozambique, after Cyclone Idai and flooding struck the city on 14 March. Project Update - 27 Mar 2019
 
Scenes of destruction in Beira city. MSF response to flooding in Mozambique after the flooding that affected Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

“A lot of water” - on the ground after Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

MSF emergency coordinator Gert Verdonck, shares his first impressions of the scene of devastation in Beira, Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai.
 Voices from the Field - 20 Mar 2019
 
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Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Humanitarian response in wake of devastating Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai has ravaged parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flooding and damage. Our teams are responding to the medical and humanitarian needs. Project Update - 19 Mar 2019
 
Patients and caretakers waiting to see MSF doctors during a mobile clinic set up in Diafarabé, west of Tenenkou. MSF runs mobile clinic in Diafarabé to provide basic healthcare, distribute essential items and arrange for the most severely ill patients to be transferred to Ténenkou hospital. Hundreds of displaced people have settled in Diafarabé since November 2018 following an armed attack on the village of Mamba in which some 11 people were killed. Des patients et des accompagnants qui attendent une consultation à la clinique mobile de MSF organisée à Diafarabé, à l’ouest de Ténenkou. MSF organise une clinique mobile à Diafarabé pour y fournir des soins primaires, distribuer des biens de première nécessité et organiser la référence des patients les plus sévèrement malades vers l’hôpital de Ténenkou. Des centaines de déplacés se sont installés à Diafarabé depuis le mois de novembre 2018 fuyant l’attaque sur leur village de Mamba, qui s’est soldée par une dizaine de morts.
Mali

Conflict, curfew and floods put healthcare out of reach in Mopti

Learn more about the situation in Mopti, Mali, where conflict with armed groups and between communities has increased, leaving people without access to medical care.
 Project Update - 12 Mar 2019
 
Health workers move a patient to a hospital after he was cleared of having ebola inside a MSF supported Ebola Treatment Centre(ETC) on November 04, 2018 in Butembo.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola response failing to gain the upper hand on the epidemic

MSF International President Dr Joanne Liu highlights contradictions, shortcomings and the need to restore patients’ and communities’ faith in the response to the largest ever Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Press Release - 7 Mar 2019
 
Recently, an upsurge in threats from armed groups operating between the borders of Mali and Niger has caused a new wave of displacement. More than 8,000 people have been forced to settle in improvised camps around the village of Kongokiré, Tillabéry region, where they live in appalling conditions, in a zone also considered as insecure. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has intervened with essential relief items, medical aid and water and sanitation activities to cover the most pressing needs.
Niger

Over 8,000 people displaced by armed group on Mali border

Press Release - 1 Mar 2019
 
On Wednesday, 31 October 2018, violent clashes in Batangafo, in the northern Central African Republic, led to 10,000 people fleeing to seek shelter in an MSF-supported hospital. Violence also affected Bambari, in the centre of the country. In total 32 wounded people received treatment at MSF facilities.
Central African Republic

Unprotected: Report on violence and lack of protection for civilians in CAR

Six years of conflict in Central African Republic has offered little respite to citizens. An MSF report outlines the extreme violence our teams have witnessed and the ineffectiveness of MINUSCA, the UN’s peacekeeping mission in CAR. Report - 19 Feb 2019
Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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