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How we work

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Accountability

Read the policies, reports, and plans on how we address issues like racism and reduce our carbon footprint, ensuring our actions align with the highest ethical standards.

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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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Children play in the ruins of the Baath Party headquarters in Nazariyah.
Iraq

Mental healthcare helps Iraqis rebuild their lives

Decades of conflict, political instability and social upheaval have left many Iraqis vulnerable to psychological stress, mental health disorders and in need of mental health care says MSF in a new report launched in Baghdad today. Press Release - 29 Apr 2013
 
Malnutrition is endemic in Niger one of the world's poorest countries. Each year, hundreds of thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. This critical situation is aggravated during the hunger gap which usually goes from June to September. In Madaoua region, MSF runs a nutrition project to prevent and treat malnutrition. The organization supports the district hospital, focusing its activities in the pediatric ward and the inpatient stabilization center where malnourished children with complications are treated. In addition, MSF also supports several health centers in the rural area where malnourished children can be treated in ambulatory ways.
Niger

Impending threat of deadly malaria and malnutrition combination

Diseases must be tackled together in order to pre-empt another crisis. Press Release - 24 Apr 2013
 
Ben-Dahi of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assiting with the vaccination of recently arrived Malian refugee children at a transit camp in Fassala in southeastern Mauritania on 4 March 2013. As of January 2012, the Malian crisis has resulted in population movements. Nearly 150,000 refugees now live in refugee camps in Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger, where MSF teams are providing maternal, primary and secondary health care. Since the beginning of 2013, MSF has recorded nearly 12,000 consultations and 5,000 vaccinations in these three countries. Mauritania is the country with the largest number of refugees. Mbera camp nearly 70,000 refugees who have fled for fear of reprisals or lack of access to food since the beginning of the conflict. In February 2013, the border post of Fassala (Mauritania) recorded an average of 300 arrivals per day. They are mostly women and children from Timbuktu, Lere, Goundam Larnab and Nianfuke. These Malian refugees continue to live in precarious conditions with no future prospects.
Project Update

Global vaccines community must cut costs of new vaccines

MSF calls on GAVI and pharmaceutical companies to extend discounts so more children can be reached Press Release - 23 Apr 2013
 
Bagega gold processing site. Hanafi Sami, 25 years old from Bagega village. Hanafi is newly married to his first wife. He has heard about lead poisoning and is always very careful to leave his tools in the compound where it is safer, he does not want any negative effects for any future children. The stones containing the gold are being put through a grinder after they are crushed, what is left is sand. This man is sifting out any small stones that might still be there.
Nigeria

MSF starts treating lead poisoned children in Bagega

MSF has finally been able to start medical treatment for children suffering from lead poisoning in the village of Bagega. Press Release - 23 Apr 2013
 
A child contemplating the future outside a makeshift shelter that her parents are trying to put up after being displaced from their home in Chewele location.
Kenya

Help needed for people displaced by flooding

MSF calls for more concerted efforts in assisting populations displaced by floods in Tana River Delta region, Kenya Press Release - 19 Apr 2013
 
The Mbera refugee camp for Malian refugees on 2 March 2013. As of January 2012, the Malian crisis has resulted in population movements. Nearly 150,000 refugees now live in refugee camps in Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger, where MSF teams are providing maternal, primary and secondary health care. Since the beginning of 2013, MSF has recorded nearly 12,000 consultations and 5,000 vaccinations in these three countries. Mauritania is the country with the largest number of refugees. Mbera camp nearly 70,000 refugees who have fled for fear of reprisals or lack of access to food since the beginning of the conflict. In February 2013, the border post of Fassala (Mauritania) recorded an average of 300 arrivals per day. They are mostly women and children from Timbuktu, Lere, Goundam Larnab and Nianfuke. These Malian refugees continue to live in precarious conditions with no future prospects.
Mauritania

Refugees stranded in desert

Some 70,000 refugees from Mali are living in difficult conditions in the middle of the Mauritanian desert, with ethnic tensions in northern Mali quashing any hopes of a swift return home. A report released today by MSF entitled 'Stranded in the desert' calls on aid organisations to urgently renew efforts to meet the refugees’ basic needs. Press Release - 13 Apr 2013
 
*** Local Caption *** Bangui avril 2013, Intervention d'urgence de MSF dans l'Hopital Communautaire de Bangui, après le coup le coup d'Etat survenu le 24 mars en RCA<br> MSF emergency operation in the Hopital Communautaire in Bangui, after the March 24 coup.
Central African Republic

Lootings and armed theft against humanitarian response

MSF, targeted by armed groups, calls on the new government to take responsibility and restore order in the Central African Republic. Many people remain without medical care due to the evacuation of humanitarian teams. Press Release - 10 Apr 2013
 
Activists from across Europe stage flashmob in front of the European Parliament calling on Europe to drop harmful provisions. As European Commission (EC) pressure mounts on India to rush into signing a free trade agreement (FTA) by mid-April, activists from across Europe mobilised in Brussels today to demand the EC withdraw provisions that will harm people’s access to medicines in India and across the developing world. Civil society organisations have learnt through leaked texts that the EC, in closed-door negotiations, is aggressively pushing for stronger industry control at the expense of public health, threatening millions of lives.
Project Update

EU-India free trade deal puts millions of lives at risk

Activists from across Europe stage flashmob in front of the European Parliament calling on Europe to drop harmful provisions. Press Release - 9 Apr 2013
 
Novartis has been pursuing a legal case aimed at gutting India’s patent law of important public health safeguards since 2006. The law allows companies in India to produce affordable generic medicines on which MSF and other care providers in developing countries heavily rely to do our work. A protest was organised by Indian civil society on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2011, in front of Novartis' Mumbai Office.
India

Indian supreme court delivers verdict in Novartis case

The landmark decision by the Indian Supreme Court in Delhi to uphold India's Patents Act in the face of the seven-year challenge by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is a major victory for patients' access to affordable medicines in developing countries. Press Release - 1 Apr 2013
 
As the opposition group Seleka took power in CAR in March 2013, MSF teams support surgery activities at the community hospital in Bangui where victims of violence receive medical treatment. OCP, OCA and OCBA and present in the country.
Central African Republic

Patients cut off from healthcare in Bangui

Press Release - 25 Mar 2013
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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