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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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MSF teams assessing the medical and humanitarian needs in Al Mishlab. east of Raqqa. 2 November. “When we first visited Mishlab, east of Raqqa, it was a ghost town, but on our latest visit, some people had returned to check on their houses, Some found their homes in ruins; others found dead bodies and explosive devices in their houses, gardens and in the streets.” says Craig Kenzie, leader of MSF’s Raqqa response team
Syria

Booby-traps and landmines in Raqqa

Six weeks after fighting subsided in Raqqa city in Syria and surrounding villages, former residents are returning home to find their houses in ruins and their streets and fields littered with unexploded remnants of war, including booby-traps, landmines, ammunition and rockets.
 Voices from the Field - 30 Nov 2017
 
Men detained in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

When France becomes accomplice to the very crimes it condemns

All these people who find themselves trapped in the Libyan snare, which was partly set by France and the European Union, must be afforded all possible means of escape. Opinion - 30 Nov 2017
 
A burnt skeleton of wood and metal is all that remains of the pediatric ward at Al Khansaa hospital in Mosul, northern Iraq. The hospital suffered severe damage when Mosul was retaken from Islamic State group in 2016 and 2017. Sixty percent of the hospital remains destroyed. The healthcare system in Mosul is still in tatters following months of conflict. Hospitals and clinics were bombed and now only a handful are left to service a large city. MSF has been working at Al Khansaa hospital to rebuild the emergency room, paediatric in-patient facilities, a nutrition unit and the intensive care unit (ICU).
Iraq

Crisis update – November 2017

More than 2.2 million people have now returned home but years of conflict have severely impacted the health sector and the needs are great. Crisis Update - 30 Nov 2017
 
The last two functional ambulances in Al-Marj neighbourhood (in the East Ghouta besieged area near Damascus) were destroyed beyond repair in an aerial bomb attack on Monday 05 December 2016. They were parked in the hospital’s warehouse/garage, very near to the makeshift hospital’s location. Two hospital cars, used to transporting supplies and medical personnel, were also destroyed in the blast. The lack of ambulances will have an impact on the ability to quickly treat wounded when there is bombing or shelling in the area, but above all it will affect the capacity to refer the most sick patients to larger secondary referral hospitals. The makeshift hospital in Al-Marj is not equipped for complex or long-term in-patient hospital care, and this could have a big impact on the ability to refer patients for appropriate secondary care.
Syria

Medical services stretched beyond limit after shelling in East Ghouta

MSF calls for due precautions to be taken by all belligerents, in accordance with International Humanitarian Law, to avoid hitting civilians and civilian infrastructure including hospitals and residential areas. Statement - 27 Nov 2017
 
Old hospital beds lay abandoned in the grounds of Al Khansaa hospital in East Mosul, northern Iraq. The hospital suffered severe damage when Mosul was retaken from the Islamic State group in 2016 and 2017. Sixty percent of the hospital remains destroyed. The healthcare system in Mosul is still in tatters following months of conflict. Hospitals and clinics were bombed and now only a handful are left to service a large city. MSF has been working at Al Khansaa hospital to rebuild the emergency room, paediatric in-patient facilities, a nutrition unit and the intensive care unit (ICU).
Iraq

From chaos to the provision of care

It is crucially important for this work to continue. The rebuilding of essential medical services is of life-saving significance during this phase of Mosul's post-war recovery. Voices from the Field - 23 Nov 2017
 
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Syria

MSF teams respond to car explosion in Al-Hasakah, north-east Syria

MSF teams responded over the weekend to a mass casualty incident after a car exploded late on Friday near Al-Hasakah, in north-east Syria, killing and injuring people fleeing the fighting in Deir ez-Zor. Statement - 20 Nov 2017
 
¨David Noguera, President of MSF Spain, meets with people who live in a camp for internally displaced people near Abs, Yemen. Most were driven from their homes by the war, and have lived in the camp for more than two years without sufficient shelter, access to water, or proper healthcare.¨
Yemen

Misery deepens as borders close

"Coalition leaders must immediately grant unhindered access to and within Yemen, so that humanitarian assistance can reach those most in need." Op-Ed - 20 Nov 2017
 
Mohammad Ahmed, Doctor, Rural Hospital in Abs
Yemen

MSF statement on Saudi-led coalition blockage

"Yemenis are already struggling with massive increases in food, water and fuel costs, as well as access to medical care" Statement - 17 Nov 2017
 
Tabqa, Syria, September 2017. Taqba Hospital. The city was taken control end of April by the Syrian Democratic Army, an Kuridish-Arabo alliance support by the international coalition. During the fight, the ISIS fighters were taking refuge inside. Tabqa, Syrie, septembre 2017. Hôpital de Tabqa. La ville a été prise fin avril par les Forces Démocratiques Syriennes (FDS), une alliance de combattants kurdes et arabes soutenue par la coalition internationale. Lors des combats, les soldats du groupe Etat islamique se sont retranchés à l'intérieur de l'hôpital.
Syria

“During the battle for Raqqa, nobody cared about the civilians”

"People described how many inhabitants who were forced to go out into the street to find water ended up wounded or dead." Voices from the Field - 15 Nov 2017
 
Babucar Njie, 25, Gambia I left Gambia due to the conditions at home. I went from Senegal to Mali, then to Burkina Faso, then Niger. From Niger some smugglers brought us to Algeria. There we were taken to a house and told we had to pay 15,000 in Gambian money [approx 300 euros]. They made us call our family to send the money. Some of my Gambian brothers they knew a way to escape so I followed them and we made it to Tamanrasset [in Algeria]. There we were kidnapped again, and again we had the same problem; they wanted money. This time we had no way to escape so my family had to pay. They beat people if they don’t call their family. If your parents don’t pay they beat you and call them so they can hear the way you’re crying. After that, I was taken to Sabratah, in Libya: that place is more wicked than any other place. They didn’t even give us proper water to drink and the Libyans were rude. Sometimes they would go and drink [alcohol] and come and start beating everybody. I was living in a connection house with two or three hundreds people. It was horrible, there was no window and we slept on the floor. I had to work to receive food, then my parents sent the money for the boat. One morning they said, “Your boat is ready.” When I saw it, it was a plastic boat and I thought, ‘I’m not getting in this,’ but there are guys with guns so you just go. There’s no way back. We were packed into it, the fuel was making everyone sick. The boat was going up and down some people were crying, at any minute we could have died. For us Europe is better than everything. There is hope there, but I have a younger brother and if he wants to come this way I will tell him no. If I had known all I had to pass through I would have stayed in Gambia.
Mediterranean migration

"The Crossing", night portraits on the rescue boat Prudence

"The Crossing" is a photographic project by Andrew McConnell/Panos Pictures based on night portraits and testimonies from people rescued by the search and rescue Prudence boat in international Mediterranean Sea waters in July 2017. Photo Story - 15 Nov 2017
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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