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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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An elderly woman displaced from Lebanon’s south receives care from MSF’s mobile medical unit in a collective shelter near Saida, 60 km from the southern border. MSF’s mobile unit provides primary healthcare, medication and follow-up for non-communicable diseases, as well as psychological first aid and health promotion sessions in three locations in south Lebanon.
Lebanon

MSF responds to Israeli bombing in Lebanon

MSF teams - themselves impacted - are assisting people affected by Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, providing medical care to displaced people. Project Update - 24 Sep 2024
 
Amman, Jordan. 27 August, 2024. Karam, 17, from Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza, during a physiotherapy session at MSFÕs Reconstructive Surgery Hospital in Amman, Jordan. Karam nearly died after his familyÕs house was leveled by an Israeli airstrike. He suffered severe burns to his face and other areas of his body, and also suffered a serious injury to his arm. He is receiving comprehensive reconstructive surgery and physiotherapy at the MSF hospital in Amman.
Jordan

The long road to recovery for war-wounded children from Gaza

After being medically evacuated from Gaza, a few children with life-altering injuries have arrived at MSF's reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan, where they are receiving comprehensive and long-term care. Project Update - 20 Sep 2024
 
During the last incursion, Israeli forces destroyed a significant amount of road infrastructure as well as cutting off access to electricity and water. One week after military forces withdrew, people still struggled to access clean water as many of the pumps were cut and water tanks had been shot and ruptured. Many houses in Jenin refugee camp are marked by bullet holes. Residents talk about recurrent house occupations from Israeli soldiers who also occupy strategic positions to dig a hole for snipers.
Gaza-Israel war

Jenin after nine days of military incursion

A nine-day-long military incursion in Jenin, Palestine, caused extreme destruction to homes and infrastructure, captured in photos. Photo Story - 18 Sep 2024
 
An MSF team is doing an assessment round in Jenin camp with the camp committee members and volunteer paramedics to evaluate the damages and needs following the brutal Israeli military incursion on May 21-23, 2024.
Palestine

Access to medical care at risk in West Bank as Israeli incursions intensify

Military incursions and attacks on medical facilities and personnel by Israeli forces in Palestine’s West Bank are severely hindering people’s ability to access medical care. Press Release - 5 Sep 2024
 
As hundreds of patients evacuated Al Aqsa hospital and less and less hospitals are functional, MSF prematurely opened the field hospital with IPD and ER departments and started accepting the first patients. Field hospitals are not a solution but only a response to the dismantlement of the health system from Israeli forces, it is the last resort to alleviate the pressure from the few existing medical facilities.
Gaza-Israel war

With Al-Aqsa hospital under threat, MSF opens field hospital in central Gaza

MSF has opened a field hospital in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, Palestine, in response to the increasing military threat to Al-Aqsa hospital. Press Release - 28 Aug 2024
 
For over 10 months, the war on Gaza forced more than 90% of the population (over 1.9 million people) to be displaced. Often forced to move often within minutes of the announcement of an evacuation order by Israeli forces, many have now been displaced numerous times. In Mawasi, Khan Younis, the Agriculture Development Association (PARC) with the support of MSF is providing water and sanitation activities including construction of emergency latrines in the informal sites, supply of domestic water through powering the water wells with solar systems, provision of drinking water through the installation of desalination plant and logistical support to displaced people arriving to Khan Younis. As evacuation orders by Israeli forces is cramping people in a small area in the coastal area of Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis, the living conditions in Mawasi are getting worse. OCHA estimates that from the 22 July to 26 of July alone, more than 190.000 Palestinians were forced to move to the western parts of Dair al Balah and Mawasi, The IDPs in Mawasi Khan Younis, southern Gaza, are living in dilapidated tents, overcrowded with many members of the family, without proper access to food, water, and essential services such as sanitation and health care. People are queuing for latrines for hours and are unable to regularly shower.
Gaza-Israel war

Displaced people struggle without sanitation services in Khan Younis, Gaza

As the war in Gaza, Palestine, continues, MSF is supporting the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association in providing water and sanitation services to people displaced multiple times. Project Update - 27 Aug 2024
 
Palestinian teenager finding shelter from the sun after his home was suddenly demolished without warning in Umm al Kheir, Masafer Yatta, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Palestine

Restrictions and violence block Palestinians in Hebron from medical care

Psychological trauma and lack of access to healthcare are part of the everyday reality for many Palestinians in Hebron governorate, Palestine, making life often unbearable. Press Release - 6 Aug 2024
 
Nasser Hospital maternity department is providing some 25-30 safe deliveries a day. This is more than before the pre-war, as it is now one of the few operational maternity facilities in southern Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

Nasser hospital must be protected as south Gaza hospitals receive waves of deadly influxes

Hospitals in southern Gaza have struggled under successive waves of mass casualty influxes in July, as fighting inches closer to Nasser hospital. Press Release - 29 Jul 2024
 
Nasser hospital
Gaza-Israel war

A day in the life at the last remaining hospital in southern Gaza

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim, MSF medical team leader, describes a day in the life at the last remaining hospital in southern Gaza as relentless Israeli bombings and airstrikes continue. Voices from the Field - 22 Jul 2024
 
MSF midwife providing care for two newborns at Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

Living conditions threaten the lives of pregnant women and newborns in Gaza

MSF is tackling critical medical challenges in southern Gaza, where living conditions and a lack of access to care are endangering the lives of pregnant women and newborns. Project Update - 18 Jul 2024
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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