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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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MSF staff member talks to men detained in Abu Salim detention centre, in Tripoli, Libya.
Libya

MSF continues to provide medical care to migrants and refugees detained in Tripoli

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continued to provide lifesaving and primary healthcare to refugees and migrants detained in the capital Tripoli during the first quarter of 2017. More than 4,000 medical consultations took place in seven different detention centres nominally under the control of the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM). Project Update - 19 May 2017
 
Besam’s child is 7 months old. She brought him to the health center because he keeps vomiting and has diarrhea and fever. The child is malnurished and according to the doctor, such cases happen very often: « mothers stop breastfeeding and replace their milk with powder one but the water isn’t clean and the children get sick. We have to cure the sickness and they get immediately healthy again ».
Yemen

MSF calls for increased response to cholera outbreak

"We are very concerned that the disease will continue to spread and become out of control." Press Release - 9 May 2017
 
The strike on Tafas field hospital, some 12 km from the Jordanian border, took place on the night of 5 February. It caused partial damage to the hospital building, and put its heavily-used ambulance service out of action. In fear for their lives, more than 20,000 people from Tafas town fled to the surrounding countryside. The hospital is the latest medical facility to be hit in a series of airstrikes in southern Syria, which have been escalating over the past two months.
Syria

"MSF adapts to respond to the needs of a war-afflicted population"

Omar Obeid has been working as Project Coordinator for an MSF South Syria project, managing it remotely for the last 14 months. Over the past few weeks, fighting has intensified in southern Syria, as opposing forces contest to retake the city of Dara’a. As bombings and aerial attacks in Eastern Dara’a increased, hospitals and medical structures in the area have been forced to announce their closure to avoid being targeted Voices from the Field - 8 May 2017
 
MSF staff member Patricia, changes 5 year old Faten's bandages. She was injured when she was playing in a garden. At the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Post Op Hospital South of Mosul, Iraq. Told by her father: “When our neighbourhood in West Mosul was retaken by the Iraqi army we went back to our house. Faten was playing in the garden when a mortar bomb fell in the garden and exploded. Faten was injured in the leg by shrapnel from the bomb. First we took her to MSF in Hammam Al Alil where she received the first aid. From there she was referred to another field hospital in Bartella for further treatment. Now she is here in the post-operative ward in Hamdanyia hospital. Every day the staff here clean her wounds and puts new bandages on. Faten is a brave girl, she likes to play and laugh butt she misses her brothers and sisters at home and at night she cries. All her 7 siblings are doing well, praise to God”.
Iraq

Crisis update Mosul - May 2017

“Most hospitals in Mosul have been damaged or destroyed.” Crisis Update - 8 May 2017
 
In the ER section of an MSF hospital in Syria, the aftermath of an emergency case, where the patient was stabilised and then immediately rushed into surgery.
Syria

MSF condemns incursion by armed men into supported hospitals in East Ghouta

Reports from doctors MSF supports in the area outline grave incidents on 29 and 30 April in which armed groups showed absolutely no consideration for the special protected status of patients, medical facilities and health workers. Statement - 1 May 2017
 
An ambulance awaits at the entrance of the Haydan hospital. A pregnant woman who had arrived with complication is being referred to the main hospital in Sa’ada city.
Yemen

MSF statement at Geneva donor conference

A pledging conference for Yemen is being held in Geneva, providing the opportunity to highlight the risk of a health system collapse in Yemen, the key health needs, and the urge to handle them. Statement - 25 Apr 2017
 
Almost all of the roughly 40 female inmates had medical complaints. More than half complained about scabies, followed by general body pain, often associated with mental trauma. They said the group left Nigeria with 120 people but many got separated by force during the journey.
Libya

From Misrata to Tripoli, a first-hand account from Dr Tankred Stoebe

The fighting continues in Libya, a country fragmented by a multitude of power centres. Doctor Tankred Stoebe spent the month of January in the country coordinating a medical assessment that took him from Misrata to Tripoli. Voices from the Field - 24 Apr 2017
 
The transit camp in Al-Hajjaj Silo is a site where people undergo security screening before being moved to regular IDP camps or, if they obtain a sponsorship, to be accommodated in the host community. However, several families have lived here for months. MSF brings a weekly mobile clinic with doctors and nurses to the site. The team provide primary health care with special focus on chronic diseases, mother and child care as well as mental health support.
Iraq

“We walked all night, staying away from roads for fear of being caught”

Al Alam camp, near Tikrit, is home to about 8,000 women, children and men who have been displaced from their homes to the north by the ongoing conflict. Project Update - 11 Apr 2017
 
During the distribution, there was bombing nearby. MSF teams say children have become accustomed to the violence. ¨The strangest thing is that people are adapting to the violence. We saw children looking up at the sky, watching the airplanes as they bombed Dara´a City. It is really strange,¨ an MSF pharmacist said.
Syria

A family returns to a village battered by war

Mohammed Ali Aboud speaks about his family's plight and the daily difficulties they endure. Voices from the Field - 11 Apr 2017
 
The village of Al Nuaymah was once home to 10,000 people. During the past six years of war, many families left, but without resources or safer options to live, they returned to the village. Virtually the entire town relies on some degree of humanitarian aid for survival. Many structures house more than one family, often with young children. Some have relied on aid for more than five years.
Syria

Instability in the south

MSF recently responded to this crisis with an emergency distribution of 893 kits of essential relief items, distributed to families in two areas. Project Update - 11 Apr 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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