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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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In 2024, approximately 725,000 migrants were present on Libyan soil, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). While some come seeking work, others attempt to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean. In Libya, migrants and refugees live in precarious conditions and are subjected to various forms of violence and abuse, both inside and outside the country's detention centers. Kidnapped, subjected to extortion and trafficking, assaulted or sexually abused, their access to healthcare is severely hindered despite their desperate need for it.
Libya

Migrants face extreme violence and exclusion from healthcare in Libya

MSF teams assist migrants who have been subjected to a range of violence and abuse in Libya. Project Update - 12 Feb 2025
 
An MSF vehicle passes in front of ruined buildings in Jabalia.
Gaza-Israel war

Four questions about the situation in north Gaza

Caroline Seguin shares photos and answers about what it's like in north Gaza, Palestine. Interview - 12 Feb 2025
 
An aerial view of the temporary tents of displaced people who fled the fighting in northern Aleppo governorate to the city of Tabqa, in northeastern Syria, with the Tabqa Dam showing in the background.
Syria

Syrians share stories of violence and displacement from temporary shelters in the northeast

Hear from Syrians who have been displaced by violence and are staying in temporary shelters. Project Update - 11 Feb 2025
 
MSF health promotion officer Abdullatif Bokay provides patients at the waiting area of the mobile clinic in East Ghouta, Syria, with essential information on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This awareness helps patients better manage their conditions, promotes early detection, and improves overall health outcomes.
Syria

MSF mobile clinics bring care to Syria’s neglected region of east Ghouta

For the first time in over a decade, MSF teams have returned to east Ghouta, Syria. Project Update - 6 Feb 2025
 
After the 9-day incursion that took place in Jenin from 28 August to 6 September, MSF teams resumed their psychological first-aid activities in the refugee camp. Salwa and Rahma visit the camp weekly to meet the residents and make assessments on their mental health and evolution. “The level of destruction keeps becoming bigger, and the psychological impact is huge” explains Rahma, “residents believe that what is happening in Gaza will happen as well in the camp. Many people, and especially women and children, suffer from symptoms of psychological trauma, and develop eating and sleeping problems like recurrent nightmares and anxiety due to the fear of incursions which often happen at night” People cannot feel safe given the brutality of the incursions and the impossibility to foresee when the next one will come. In this context, psychological treatment is challenging as the trauma is ongoing.
Gaza-Israel war

“Inflicting harm and denying care” in the West Bank: MSF report on escalation of attacks and obstructions of healthcare

A new report by MSF details how Israeli forces and settlers are obstructing healthcare in Palestine's West Bank. Press Release - 6 Feb 2025
 
After the 9-day incursion that took place in Jenin from 28 August to 6 September, MSF teams resumed their psychological first-aid activities in the refugee camp. Salwa and Rahma visit the camp weekly to meet the residents and make assessments on their mental health and evolution. “The level of destruction keeps becoming bigger, and the psychological impact is huge” explains Rahma, “residents believe that what is happening in Gaza will happen as well in the camp. Many people, and especially women and children, suffer from symptoms of psychological trauma, and develop eating and sleeping problems like recurrent nightmares and anxiety due to the fear of incursions which often happen at night” People cannot feel safe given the brutality of the incursions and the impossibility to foresee when the next one will come. In this context, psychological treatment is challenging as the trauma is ongoing.
Gaza-Israel war

“Inflicting harm and denying care” in the West Bank

A new MSF report details how Israeli forces and settlers are obstructing healthcare in Palestine's West Bank. Report - 6 Feb 2025
 
After 15 months Israel‘s war on Gaza, Palestine, and the implementation of the ceasefire on 19 January 2025, displaced Palestinians are attempting to return home to the southern city of Rafah. While people try to rebuild the ruins, Rafah is totally destroyed, with homes, shops, streets and healthcare facilities in ruins and electricity and water systems damaged – and unsafe due to scattered unexploded ordnance in the ruins of buildings. In May 2024, Rafah had the largest concentration of displaced Palestinians in the Strip with an estimated 1.5 million Palestinian living in tents and makeshift shelters. People were living in inhumane conditions, facing disease outbreaks, malnutrition, and the psychological impact of being forcibly displaced multiple times. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders teams working in Rafah were providing primary health care, mental health support in the Shabboura clinic and supporting pediatric and maternity care in the Ministry of Health Emirati hospital in Rafah. Eventually, MSF teams were forced to close activities and evacuate the area after continuous bombings and evacuations orders by Israeli forces, as the looming threat of a ground invasion by Israeli forces, which began on May 6, 2024. The military operations by Israeli forces led to the emptying of Rafah, mass destruction of the city, and to the closure of the Rafah crossing, severely hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Strip. Rafah was also the home to many of MSF colleagues, many who had fled other parts of the Gaza Strip.
Gaza-Israel war

Destruction of life and homes leaves people unable to return safely to Rafah

Nearly 70 per cent of all structures in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged. Now, people are attempting to return home in the southern city, Rafah. Project Update - 27 Jan 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF mourns the killing of our ninth colleague in Gaza

Bilal Okal was killed by an Israeli airstrike, along with members of his family, in December 2024. Statement - 24 Jan 2025
 
Doctor Azhar, gynaecologist talks with Altaf al Wahidi and Noria al Wahidi, midwives and sisters, about the patients they have cared for today.
Yemen

A lifeline for mothers-to-be on Yemen’s west coast

Around 250 women give birth every month at our maternity ward in Mocha General hospital. Project Update - 21 Jan 2025
 
In the Shujaeyya neighborhood on Baghdad Street in Gaza City, a woman is carrying her child back home through the rubble.
Gaza-Israel war

North Gaza’s destruction is a “sight that cannot be described”

While a ceasefire in Gaza has been announced, north Gaza remains devastated and destroyed by Israeli forces' relentless bombardments. Project Update - 20 Jan 2025
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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