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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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Kawkab Al Sarafi works as a nurse in the Emergency Room of the Al Koweit university hospital in Sana’a since 1 year. Since she started her job, she hasn’t been paid a cent. Kokab explains that she lives far away and has to walk to go to the hospital as most of the time she can’t pay for the transportation. When she doesn’t work at the hospital, she goes to the khat market to try to buy large quantities to resell it. « We are really poor, i live with my sister and sometimes we haven’t money to buy food », she added. Kokab is one out of thousands health workers who haven’t been paid since a year, when the government stopped paying the salaries of the civil servants.
Yemen

Government health staff are saving lives without salaries

“People don’t understand that we don’t always have drugs; we need to use our own money to buy the medication. People shout at us ‘Why are you here?!’” Report - 28 Sep 2017
 
A woman receives surgery to remove a piece of shrapnel from her heel in an injury she sustained weeks earlier. She fled Mosul with her injury.
Iraq

Crisis update – September 2017

The battle for Mosul has taken a staggering toll on the people of Iraq’s second largest city. Health needs are shifting from war injuries to medical cases and long-term rehabilitation care. Crisis Update - 21 Sep 2017
 
"When an airstrike hit my house in the middle of the night I suffered shrapnel wounds and my legs were so badly damaged that one had to be amputated. I only found out about the amputation when I regained consciousness in a field hospital in Dara’a, Syria. Just two hours after waking up, I was discharged from hospital. As my home had been destroyed, I was taken to my relative’s house, where my children were staying. They had been there during the night of the bombing too, so they were safe. Seeing my children again was the hardest part. I felt weak, disabled. The kids were frightened of me without my leg. My little boy was afraid of me. He’s just one and a half years old – I used to hug him and feed him, but the last time I saw him, he was scared and went to his aunt instead. After the amputation in Syria, I was taken across the border, to Ramtha, where I’ve had more surgery. I’m also currently undergoing physiotherapy for a prosthesis. I have three children, aged nine, eight and one and a half. Their father died, and now I’m in Ramtha, Jordan being treated, while my children are still in Syria. I can’t stop thinking about getting back to them, I don’t know how they are doing or if anything will happen to them. I am improving with physiotherapy and getting stronger everyday, but I will only return home when I am strong enough to walk and take care of my children. People ask me where I find my strength, but my body is more than just my leg. I must be strong for my children. I must not give in to despair – this injury will not destroy me. I promised my children I’d come home, and I will." (This patient’s name has been changed)
Syria

Syrian war wounded look forward to returning home

Here are three testimonies highlighting the resilience and ongoing needs of patients. Voices from the Field - 7 Sep 2017
 
Men detaineed in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

5 Reasons not to block migrants & refugees in Libya

5 Reasons not to block migrants & refugees in Libya Project Update - 7 Sep 2017
 
Men detaineed in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

European governments are feeding the business of suffering

"The detention of migrants and refugees in Libya is rotten to the core. It must be named for what it is: a thriving enterprise of kidnapping, torture and extortion." Open Letter - 6 Sep 2017
 
Men detaineed in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

MSF International President to speak on Libya detention centres

Dr Joanne Liu, International President of MSF, will describe horrific conditions inside Libyan detention centres and challenge the complicity of European States Project Update - 5 Sep 2017
 
A guard is closing the door of a cell in Abu Salim detention center, in Tripoli, Libya.
Libya

Human Suffering: Inside Libya's migrant detention centres

For more than a year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical care to refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants held inside Tripoli detention centres in conditions that are neither humane nor dignified. Photo Story - 1 Sep 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

Arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants must stop

“Detainees are stripped of any human dignity, suffer ill treatment, and lack access to medical care.” Press Release - 1 Sep 2017
 
July 2017 - Syria - Kurdish province - Aïn Issa displaced camp. MSF Clinic. Patients registration. Juillet 2017 - Syrie - Province kurde - Camp de déplacés d'Aïn Issa. Clinique MSF. Enregistrement des patients.
Syria

Conflict brings new arrivals every day to Ain Issa camp

“We are worried because we don’t have any information about what’s going on inside Raqqa. The main issue for us is the welfare of the wounded.” Press Release - 31 Aug 2017
 
“When we visit a patient and she welcomes us with a smile on her face, and a twinkle in her eyes, this is success for me. It is very important that the patient feels happiness, security and trust with us.” Rached, 32, is a MSF nurse. He has been helping Amina.
Lebanon

Home-based care for refugees in Burj el-Barajneh

“When they visit me I feel better. They visit me two or three times a week. I tell them that I’m out of my medication and they get it for me.” Photo Story - 30 Aug 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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