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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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Samar is 3 years old. She is in the arms of her uncle as her father is receiving wound care. Samar and her father came to the MSF medical point to receive wound care. They both were going out of their building on the day of the explosion and the steal gate caused her facial injuries and burns. She already had reconstructive plastic surgery. MSF has established a fixed point in the Mar Mikhael and Karantina neighborhoods in Beirut, two of the areas most impacted by the blast, to provide medical support to the people affected by the explosion. The team provides wound care (dressings), rapid consultations for people with non-communicable diseases, as well as psychological first aid.
Lebanon

MSF provides medical and mental health support to Beirut's most affected communities

A week after the blast in Beirut, Lebanon, MSF’s emergency response focuses on three main areas of intervention to help the most affected communities. Project Update - 12 Aug 2020
 
General view of Sinjar region. September 1st, 2019. ©Emilienne Malfatto
Iraq

Yazidi community suffers one crisis after another

Restrictive measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic are profoundly impacting the already vulnerable Yazidi community in Sinjar, northwest Iraq. Project Update - 9 Aug 2020
 
Severely damaged building in the historic neighborhood of Gemmaye in Beirut. Thousands of apartments and shops in Beirut were damaged due to the explosion which caused shattering to the glass windows and wooden doors. Beirut's streets were covered by debris and broken glass.
Lebanon

MSF supporting Beirut’s health services in wake of massive blast

Teams from MSF are supporting the health system in Lebanon in the wake of a massive blast in Beirut, which has left many dead and injured, and much of the city damaged. Project Update - 6 Aug 2020
 
Infection prevention and control in MSF COVID-19 facility. MSF enhanced its infection control and medical protocols to face the COVID-19 pandemic in Mosul. MSF has responded quickly to the pandemic by temporarily repurposing its center for post operative care into a 62 bed facility for isolation and treatment of COVID-19 patients. So far the facility has received over 700 patients. On the other hand, MSF is maintaining most of its regular healthcare in the city including emergency, maternity and paediatrics.
Iraq

Mosul: MSF works on dual front of COVID-19 and lifesaving medical care

MSF teams in Mosul, Iraq are supporting a healthcare system severely impacted by years of conflict that now faces the COVID-19 coronavirus. Project Update - 5 Aug 2020
 
The Souq al Khamis detention centre, located by the sea in the city of Khoms, illustrates the violence and blurred lines between official authorities, militias and criminal networks that pollutes some detention centres. Our teams have been working there since 2017. In 2019, Khoms became the main landing point for people intercepted at sea and brought back by the Libyan coastguard. It is also the starting point for many crossing attempts, including the one on 25 July 2019 which tragically ended with the deaths of at least 110 people. Our team assisted 135 survivors brought back to Khoms. They were in a state of shock after spending several hours in the water and seeing so many people, including family members, drown before their eyes. At first, it seems as though refugees and migrants detained in Souq Al Khamis have better conditions and more access with the outside world than in other detention centres. Here, some go to work outside, they can buy food in the city, speak to family on the phone, and, following recent IOM renovation work, hygiene conditions are no longer as dire as before. There are showers and access to safe drinking water. However, below the surface, lie stories of violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.
Libya

Libya: “They were shot and killed as they fled arbitrary detention”

Three people were killed and two others injured as they were shot at trying to flee arbitrary detention in Khoms, Libya, where they had been returned after trying to leave the country. Project Update - 31 Jul 2020
 
A medic waits for patients in a dedicated space set-up to identify potential COVID-19 symptomatic patients, to place them in observation if needed and call an ambulance for them to be tested, at a hospital supported by MSF in Northwest Syria.
Syria

COVID-19 provokes fears over further health system decline in northwestern Syria

With the first people diagnosed with the new coronavirus in northwestern Syria in early July, MSF is concerned over the impact the COVID-19 pandemic will have on the already-depleted healthcare system in the region. Project Update - 21 Jul 2020
 
The family of Ibrahim, 60-years-old, who live in Laylan camp. "My name is Ibrahim. I am 60 years old and am living with a disability. I’m from the town of Abbasi in Hawija but have been displaced since ISIS attacked in 2017. First I moved to Haj Ali camp and then later to Laylan Camp. I got injured in the Iraq-Iran war. "I’ve been living in Laylan camp for about a year. I have several children, some of them are married. We live as five in each tent. Each four tents use a joint bathroom. "My first wife died because of the grief she felt for her son who died. I’m suffering from high blood pressure and my current wife has kidney disease. Last year our family lost a 5-month-old baby because of the cold. After that there was blanket distribution and kerosene for heating. Two of my sons work so we can eat. They work outside of the camp as daily workers. One of these sons is married and has children of his own. "With the curfew (imposed after corona), my sons are not able to find work. But we manage, we get some onions and tomatoes from here and there. "Cleanliness in the camp depends on each family cleaning habits. A month ago, we were given us bars of soap but that’s not for cleaning toilets. For that we get no cleaning liquids. Also, the amount of soap is not enough for my big family. Now I cannot bathe."
Iraq

Displaced people are extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 in Iraq

Over 1.3 million people are displaced in Iraq, with more than 300,000 living in camps across the country. The unhygienic living conditions in camps can exacerbate the spread of COVID-19.
 Press Release - 14 Jul 2020
 
A patient receiving treatment lying in the male IPD room of the MSF-supported Sheikh Zayed COVID-19 center in Sana’a.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

As COVID-19 spreads, fear drives people away from hospitals in Yemen

As COVID-19 spreads through Yemen, widespread fear of the coronavirus is preventing people from seeking medical care. MSF is supporting a new COVID-19 treatment centre in Sheikh Zayed hospital in the capital Sana’a. Press Release - 9 Jul 2020
 
Dr Kate Goulding and colleagues assist a patient from an ambulance outside the Sinuni General Hospital in Sinjar Province, north western Iraq.
Iraq

2019 MSF Iraq annual report

The 2019 MSF Iraq annual report provides an overview on all MSF activities in Iraq during the year. Report - 6 Jul 2020
 
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Lebanon

COVID-19 and economic downfall reveal migrant workers’ mental health crisis in Lebanon

In the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown and the economic crisis in Lebanon, the mental health and well-being of migrant workers has severely deteriorated. Report - 3 Jul 2020
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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