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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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More than 300 people arrive each day in Nduta camp, originally designed for 50,000 people but now hosting over 65,000. New arrivals come by bus, first crossing the border point, then to transit camps and and then staying a few nights in the camp reception centre on arrival to Nduta. While they are being registered by UNHCR and before a family shelter is allocated to them, they live in overcrowded communal tents, facing poor hygiene and a high risk of malaria transmission. New arrivals have to queue for hours in the reception centre to receive their daily meals. Some of these people have already been allocated a shelter, but have not received their refugee card and dry food rations. They have to come back every day to the reception centre to get a warm meal. MSF is present at the reception centre to screen all new arrivals. “A lot of them arrive exhausted and in bad health condition. We do their medical check-up and send those in need to MSF clinics or refer them to the hospital. They also get vaccinated and pregnant women are scheduled for antenatal consultations.” Medical teams have seen a big increase in the number of consultations, both at the reception centres and in MSF’s four health posts and hospital. The number of deliveries has risen as well. “When I arrived a few weeks ago, there were around five deliveries per day. Now we have around 12,” says Sally Parker, midwife.
Tanzania

Urgent increase in assistance needed as refugee camps now full

"With total refugee numbers in the three camps predicted to hit more than 280,000 by the end of 2016, this is rapidly becoming one of Africa’s biggest refugee crises," says David Nash, Head of Mission for MSF. Project Update - 16 Nov 2016
 
MSF staff vaccinate children at the MSF-supported health centre in Boguila.
Central African Republic

Testimonies from MSF patients and staff

"I don’t usually travel on the roads due to the security situation. There are often armed men on the roads demanding things from the people who try to pass by. Even if you are on a bike or a motorcycle, they harass you for money. Even if you are trying to transport a sick person," says Zita. Voices from the Field - 16 Nov 2016
 
Nurses Lucien and Enoch change the bandages of a 28-year-old who was attacked with a machete in an attempted robbery not far from Kabo, Central African Republic, where violence is rife. MSF has been working in Kabo since 2006, and runs a health centre in the town, which includes a maternity, an operating theatre, a laboratory, a pediatric centre and a hospitalisation ward.
Central African Republic

A protracted crisis that must not be forgotten

Project Update - 16 Nov 2016
 
People are waiting to get potable water at the water distribution point in Bentiu PoC In Bentiu POC, MŽdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) has been running a secondary level hospital since 2013, providing free quality healthcare to people living in the POC. Although the humanitarian needs have stabilized in the camp in the past months, the humanitarian and medical situation is still fragile and health indicators can quickly worsen.
South Sudan

Testimonies from Bentiu protection of civilians site

People waiting to collect potable water at the water distribution point in the Bentiu protection of civilians site. Voices from the Field - 16 Nov 2016
 
Paediatric ward of the MSF hospital in Bentiu Poc (Protection of Civilians site). In Bentiu POC, Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF) has been running a secondary level hospital since 2013, providing free quality healthcare to people living in the POC. Although the humanitarian needs have stabilized in the camp in the past months, the humanitarian and medical situation is still fragile and health indicators can quickly worsen.
South Sudan

Medical situation remains fragile in Bentiu protection of civilians site

Project Update - 16 Nov 2016
 
The waiting room: Patients wait to be seen at the MSF out patient clinic. MSF is currently seeing between 70-200 people every day. Most people have malaria or other illnesses linked to the poor living conditions in the camp such as respiratory and skin infections.
Uganda

Country overwhelmed as tens of thousands flee violence in South Sudan

Crisis Update - 15 Nov 2016
 
Dr Ilaria Moneta examines a child in the pediatric ward of the MSF-supported Bangassou hospital.
Access to Healthcare

The reality of pneumonia

Voices from the Field - 9 Nov 2016
 
The waiting room of the MSF-supported Mbalazime health centre, Bangassou sub-prefecture, Central African Republic.
Central African Republic

Great humanitarian need, little international attention

Project Update - 1 Nov 2016
 
In Kousseri city, the number of displaced people who have fled violence could reach 40 000. They are scattered around the city and are hosted by local families. MSF is supporting 3 health centers in the city of Kousseri (Madana, Madagascar, Amchidiré) including ambulatory therapeutic treatment centers (ATFC) for severe acute malnutrition. In Madana and Amchidiré, under five OPD and cover up vaccination is also provided by MSF, along with mental health support. Activities are open several times a week (from 2 to 5 times according to the number of patients seeking care). The main illnesses are diarrhea, malaria skin diseases and respiratory tract infections. Complicated cases are referred to Kousseri regional Hospital.
Lake Chad Crisis

Lake Chad: Years of Forgotten Crisis

Located in west-central Africa at the junction of Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon, Lake Chad was once among the continent’s largest bodies of water. Owing to a combination of climate change and overuse, however, Lake Chad’s size has steadily dwindled, putting the region’s population of roughly 30 million people under increasing strain. But diminishing resources are not the only thing they have to fear. Medium.com - 31 Oct 2016
 
Nanyanyiso Baloi holds her treatment regimen for pre-XDR-TB, which includes delamanid and bedaquiline. Khayelitsha, Western Cape. Nonyanyiso Baloi, a 32-year-old mother of three lives with her children and aunt in Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa. After reacting very badly to first-line TB treatment, doctors desperately searched for alternative treatment options, before discovering her full diagnosis of pre-XDR-TB, which required a whole new treatment regimen. There’s a critical need for clinicians to have newer, improved drugs to treat extensively drug resistant strains of TB. Current treatment regimen: bedaquiline, delamanid, linezolid, clofazimine, levofloxacin, ethambutol, terizidone Nonyanyiso Baloi: “I’ve lived in this house since 1989, and how live here with my aunt and three children, ages 8, 6 and 4 years. I’m a full-time mum. Earlier this year, I lost weight, had no appetite and was vomiting a lot. I was always tired. I was diagnosed and have been on this journey since. I’m happy I got this treatment, because I couldn’t even walk back then – but if I see myself now, I’m doing everything I couldn’t do before.”
South Africa

Treating drug resistant TB in the Western Cape

South Africa has one of the highest burdens of Tuberculosis (TB) and (Drug Resistant) DR-TB in the world, with around 20,000 people diagnosed with DR-TB in 2015. Photo Story - 26 Oct 2016
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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