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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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1390 Results
 
Noora is ten years old girl that is diagnosed with thalassemia. The MSF team in Syria met Noora and her mother, Jawhara, in Tal Abyad hospital. Noora’s mother said: "We started doing blood transfusion for Noora when she was two months old." "We fled from Deir ez-Zor to Tal Abyad. It takes us 15 minutes to arrive to the hospital for the blood transfusion sessions. Noora has a blood transfusion session once every 14 days, but it’s still quite a challenge. The most worrying part is not finding the medication to reduce the iron in her blood. There is limited awareness about the disease in the country and due to conflict in the country sometimes the medication or the blood units are not available." "Noora couldn't play like other kids, sometimes she used to come back home crying." "We hope we will find a bone marrow transplantation donor but so far we haven’t and we can't afford it." MSF has started providing chelation treatment to children with thalassemia in Tal Abyad national hospital.
Syria

Treating patients with chronic conditions in a war context

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started providing chelation treatment to children with thalassemia in Tal Abyad national hospital, northeast Syria. After seven years of war, patients with this chronic disease have not received the regular treatment or blood transfusions they need. Project Update - 16 May 2018
 
L’équipe médicale MSF réfère un patient depuis Bani Walid vers une structure de soin secondaire. Il souffre d’une fracture ouverte et infectée du tibia. La très grande majorité des patients pris en charge à Bani Walid ont réchappé de prisons clandestines présentes dans la région. Ils ont été kidnappés, torturés, et retenus captifs par des réseaux criminels qui leur font vivre un calvaire pour obtenir d’eux une rançon. Ces rescapés sont profondément affaiblis, avec des plaies qui se sont infectées, et de multiples traumatismes. MSF medics refer a patient from Bani Walid to a secondary health facility. The patient suffers from open and infected fracture of the shin. The vast majority of patients taken care of in Bani Walid manage to survive and escape secret prisons in the region. They were kidnapped, tortured, and held captive by criminal networks which make them live an ordeal to obtain ransom from them and their relatives. These survivors are profoundly weakened, with infected wounds and multiple traumas.
Libya

The dangers refugees face fleeing

Trafficking, clandestine prisons and intercepted boat journeys – the dangers refugees face fleeing
 Interview - 14 May 2018
 
Gaza, 14 mai 2018, Manifestation contre l'ouverture de l'ambassade à Jérusalem à gaza, dans la zone de Malaka. 52 palestiniens ont été tués et environ 2410 blessés sont à déplorer. Gaza, in May 14th, 2018, Demonstration against the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem in Gaza, in the zone of Malaka. 52 Palestinians were killed and approximately 2410 wounded persons are to regret.
Palestine

Violence on demonstrators in Gaza is 'unacceptable and inhumane'

MSF statement on violence on protestors in Gaza strip. Statement - 14 May 2018
 
Qalaat al-Madiq buses
Syria

Newly displaced Syrians face multiple challenges in Idlib and northern Hama

Over the past two months, huge numbers of Syrians have been displaced from formerly besieged areas to northwest Syria, with more than 60,000 of them arriving in the governorate of Idlib and in northern Hama. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing assistance throughout the area, and has strengthened the medical response in Qalaat al-Madiq in northern Hama, a location known as ‘zero point’ where new arrivals descend from buses. Project Update - 14 May 2018
 
A patient injured by gunshot during the March of Return is being operated by MSF teams in PFBH
Palestine

“In half of the injured we received… the bone has literally been turned into dust.”

Thierry Saucier is an orthopedic surgeon for MSF in Gaza. He explains the complexity of caring for the hundreds of people injured during the March of Return protests in recent weeks. Very serious injuries pose significant challenges for the surgeons, and will require months or even years of care. Voices from the Field - 10 May 2018
 
Hussein, a 30-year-old cafeteria worker, suffered shrapnel wounds to his head, hand and back. “I came to collect my transportation allowance from work. On my way, the airstrike hit and I got injured. I do not know what happened to the rest of my colleagues,” he said.
Yemen

MSF-supported hospitals treat mass casualties caused by airstrikes in Sana'a

A series of airstrikes on Monday morning by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition struck near a busy street in the heart of Sana'a, Yemen. The airstrikes targeted the Yemeni presidential office, which is located near a hotel, pharmacies, a bank and shops, and resulted in a mass casualty influx of at least 72 injured and 6 dead at two hospitals supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 8 May 2018
 
A nurse vaccinates a young Syrian girl against measles and pneumonia in Al-Atareb, Syria. MSF conducted a vaccination campaign targeting tens of thousands of children in partnership with the Syrian Immunization Group and Health Directorate of Aleppo, Syria. -Al-Atareb-14-4-2018 Roaa Hasan.
Syria

Thousands of displaced kids in Aleppo catch up on vaccinations

Since 2016, the countryside west of Aleppo, in northern Syria, has been one of the main destinations for internally displaced people (IDPs) evacuated from besieged areas, including East Aleppo City, Homs, South Hama and, recently, East Ghouta.
 Project Update - 7 May 2018
 
View across the rooftops in the city of Zwara, Libya. The health situation has deteriorated sharply in Libya since 2011. Before, the health care system was efficient. Yet today, hospitals are closed or at reduced because they are damaged and have few resources. MSF is now one of the very few international organizations present. But it was not easy to set up such operations. Libyans discovered humanitarian aid in 2011 and there is a great mistrust of NGOs. The coexistence of three governments also complicates matters for transport medicines, medical supplies and sending teams on the ground. We try to meet the needs of health facilities in the east and the west. MSF works in the Jedi Ibrahim clinic in Zwara as well as in the center of Abu Kammah. MSF also conducts drug donations to the marine hospital Zwara.
Libya

Time running out for 800 migrants and refugees in Zuwara detention centre

MSF is highly concerned about the fate of around 800 migrants and refugees held in a dangerously overcrowded detention centre in the port city of Zuwara, Libya around 100 kilometres west of Tripoli. Some of the men, women and children inside have been detained in inhumane conditions for more than five months without adequate food or water. Statement - 4 May 2018
 
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Paediatrics

Lebanon: MSF provides specialised paediatric care in Bekaa Valley

MSF opened a paediatric ward in Elias Hraoui governmental hospital in Zahle in March 2017 to provide specialised care to vulnerable children of all nationalities, free of charge. www.msf-me.org - 30 Apr 2018
 
Raqqa, the west side of the city. People are slowly returning to their homes to find in either damaged of fully destroyed. The fights subsided in Raqqa in mid-October
Syria

The cruel legacy of conflict

Michael Shek is an MSF nurse from Dumfries, Scotland. He worked in MSF’s trauma stabilisation unit in the east of Raqqa in late 2017. Voices from the Field - 27 Apr 2018
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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