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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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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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Commune of Ranobe, Amboasary District. People in the south-east of Madagascar are facing the most acute nutritional and food crisis the region has seen in recent years. MSF began setting up mobile clinics in Amboasary district in late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care.
Türkiye and Syria earthquake response

MSF delegation in Damascus to deliver additional relief aid

More than two months after the February earthquakes that hit north Syria, an MSF delegation visits Damascus to deliver additional relief aid to people in affected areas. Statement - 18 Apr 2023
 
Ayham Badr, 6 years old, hospitalised in the MSF-run Al-Wahda Hospital to be treated from a bone infection that he got following a fracture in his arm one year ago. It’s the first time he is admitted, and he went through nine surgeries so far. Now he is receiving antibiotic treatment. His mother is struggling to keep him isolated in his room as he is a very active child and would always want to go out.
Iraq

Iraq annual report 2022

The 2022 MSF Iraq annual report provides an overview on all MSF activities in Iraq during the year. Report - 13 Apr 2023
 
Jamla, a resident of Khirbet Al-Fakhit gathering, Masafer Yatta. She says: " My name is Jamla Mohammad Ayoub Abu Sabha, I am 37 years old. I live in Khirbet Al-Fakhit. Here, we had a room for the pigeon. there, we had a shelter that was constructed with Italian rocks for the guests. We rebuilt the shelter again. On 11 May 2022, they came and re-demolished them again. It was very difficult situation for the kids, for everyone. On 1 June 2022, they came back to demolish again. The situation is difficult. We cannot build or do anything. Imagine your son is sick and you want to take him to the doctor, but there is no car, and the road is long. If you want to go on foot, you will need a minimum of 4 hours. Even you, healthy, you end up sick. Imagine how the situation is? Kids get sick or someone gets sick at night. For kids or elderly people, the situation is difficult. We also have no public transportation".
Palestine

Israel’s coercive measures undermine people’s health in Masafer Yatta

Palestinians in Masafer Yatta live in constant fear of eviction and home demolition. We call on the international community to take urgent and necessary measures to protect people living in the area. Press Release - 3 Apr 2023
 
Safa, a resident of Al- Markez gathering, Masafer Yatta. She says: " We were here when the demolition happened. My daughters were here and the little kids. This happened for the first time in December [2021]. Then they came again in May [2022]. They demolished the house, twice in a short period of time [after rebuilding in-between]. They came to demolish some shelters here a month ago, at the beginning of July. They come suddenly. They do not give notice. We only see the bulldozers coming to our place. and they demolish the tents."
Palestine

The health impact of Israeli measures to forcibly evict residents of Masafer yatta

MSF denounces Israeli authorities' coercive measures upon people in Masafer Yatta in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and calls for the international community to ensure human rights are upheld. Report - 3 Apr 2023
 
A nurse measures the blood pressure of a pregnant woman, during an antenatal care consultation in Al Jahmouri Hospital, in Taiz City, Yemen. Between August 2021 and August 2022, MSF medical teams in Al Jamhouri Hospital have conducted more than 17,000 ANC consultations and over 3,000 PNC consultations. According to our medical teams, some of the women attending ANC consultations in Al Jamhouri hospital were attending for the first time, while already in their 8th or 9th month of their pregnancy.
Yemen

Eight years of war create perfect storm for humanitarian crisis 

MSF international president Dr Christos Christou recounts what he saw during a recent visit to Yemen. Voices from the Field - 31 Mar 2023
 
To ensure the continuity of essential services, the MSF team helped a local partner setting up tented wards next to the damaged hospital to offer emergency consultations, pediatrics and reproductive health services in addition to assisting normal deliveries. Over 1,000 patients were treated in this field hospital. (ER: 315 consultations, pediatrics: 452 consultations, SRH: 332 consultations and normal deliveries: 7). Patients in need of specialist care are transferred to hospitals elsewhere.
Türkiye and Syria earthquake response

Northwest Syria: Providing healthcare amongst the rubble in Jindires

In collaboration with local partners, MSF teams continue to provide medical assistance to people affected by the earthquakes in Jindires town, one of the worst affected areas in northwest Syria. Project Update - 27 Mar 2023
 
The city of Malatya, in south central Türkiye, was gravely affected by the earthquakes that hit Türkiye in February 2023. According to official figures, Malatya held more than 800,000 people before the earthquakes and now has more than 120,000 people displaced. As of March 4, more than 1,300 people died and more than 9,000 were injured. Search and rescue activities have come to an end in Türkiye, but people are still in dire necessity of medical assistance, food, shelter, toilets, showers, water, heating systems, hygiene kits and relief items such as winter clothing, generators, blankets, and cleaning products. - At present, MSF is working in partnership with different local NGOs and civil society organisations to provide much needed humanitarian and relief assistance. We focus on neglected areas where our intervention can have an added value. Among our support through partner local organisations in Türkiye, MSF has donated and continues to donate medical, food, water and logistical supplies, as well as tens of thousands of hygiene kits and relief items, including blankets, electrical stoves and thermal undergarments to help people withstand freezing temperatures. We have also supported water and sanitation needs by constructing showers and toilets in makeshift camps and are supporting psychosocial activities for people affected by the earthquake, including survivors, volunteers and search and rescue teams through individual and group work, as well as by donating pedagogical material for psycho-social workshops.
Türkiye and Syria earthquake response

Surviving among the rubble: Syria and Türkiye one month on

One month after the earthquakes that struck northwest Syria and south Türkiye, our project coordinator in Idlib describes the situation on the ground. Interview - 9 Mar 2023
 
As Abs Hospital is the only secondary healthcare hospital in the area, our teams are also managing a referral system for patients requiring further medical care from Abs Hospital to various hospitals in Sana’a, Hajjah and Al Hudaydah cities, in addition to implementing outreach and medical surveillance activities in Abs district.
Yemen

Abs hospital overwhelmed as medical needs surge

Staff and essential services in Abs hospital, Yemen, are overwhelmed. Additional organisations must urgently step up and support the provision of healthcare across Yemen. Press Release - 9 Mar 2023
 
Miriam, 20 years old from Côte d'Ivoire, dries her hair with a towel as she gets out of the shower on the ‘streamer deck’.
International Women's Day

Tales of women at sea

On the occasion of International Women's Day, Tales of Women at Sea aims to amplify the voices of women rescued from the Mediterranean Sea. Voices from the Field - 7 Mar 2023
 
The MSF flag flutters in the wind at MSF’s clinic in Al-Tanideba camp for Tigray refugees, in Eastern Sudan.
Türkiye and Syria earthquake response

MSF remains committed to providing care in all areas of Syria

Two weeks after devastating earthquakes struck northwest Syria, impacting thousands of lives, an urgent scale up of humanitarian assistance is still needed.  Press Release - 22 Feb 2023
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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