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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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Photo taken by Jean-Pierre Amigo, MSF emergency coordinator, who went to support the team in Leer after he was evacuated from Benitiu. Here MSF’s medical team treats wounded people in an overcrowded outpatient department. Very few other health centres were running, and less than two weeks later the team were forced to evacuate from Leer. They have not yet been able to return.
South Sudan

Medical care under fire in South Sudan

Medical care has come under fire in Malakal and Leer, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without lifesaving assistance. Press Release - 26 Feb 2014
 
In June 2010, MSF opened a hospital on the outskirts of Al-Mazraq, in the north of Yemen’s Hajjah governorate, close to the region of Sadaa, with the aim of providing care to the displaced people living in the area. For nearly three years, MSF provided primary and specialist care to the displaced and local populations. The project closed in June 2013 because the IDP situation has stabilized.
Yemen

MSF suspends activities in Ad Dhale following security concerns

MSF suspends its support to the Al Nasser Hospital in Ad Dhale due to an increase in insecurity. Press Release - 15 Feb 2014
 
A lady stands with her daughter in the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic set up at the camp for displaced people in the grounds of the United Nations Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Juba, South Sudan, on January 12, 2014.
South Sudan

Attacks on MSF health facilities obstruct aid efforts

Assault on Malakal compound is second looting of an MSF facility in one week Press Release - 17 Jan 2014
 
Dar al Shifah hospital *** Local Caption *** Aleppo (eastern part of the city held by the armed opposition), December 2012, after several months of intense fighting.
Syria

MSF calls on all parties to end targeting of schools and hospitals

MSF calls on both sides in the Syrian civil war to cease targeting schools and hospitals Press Release - 17 Dec 2013
 
Taking care of the injured in the triage zone, red zone. First aid is delivered on benches or on the floor, before patients are hospitalised or transported to the surgical block. Violent armed clashes took place in Bangui. In a few hours, MSF teams have joined the Community Hospital to cope with the influx of wounded. Our medical teams are working now in emergency departments, surgical and hospitalization. Most people have supported injury by firearms or knives (machetes and knives). A second operating theater was opened, and several tents to receive the wounded and increase hospital capacity.
Central African Republic

Violence in Bangui Hospitals

MSF calls for a ban on any armed presence in healthcare facilities following summary executions inside Bangui hospitals. Press Release - 9 Dec 2013
 
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Syria

MSF surgeon killed in Syria

A Syrian surgeon working for MSF, Dr Muhammad Abyad, has been killed in northern Syria. His body was found on 3 September in Aleppo province. Press Release - 5 Sep 2013
 
Patient on stretcher being carried to ward. Many international staff were based here in previous years. But due to the insecurity, the hospital is now completely run by Somali staff paied and employed by MSF. It is MSF general policy to have all its structures ‘weapon free’. At the entrance of the Guri-el Hospital, all persons entering the hospital compound are checked with a metal detector. As a result of the ‘weapon free’ policy, the MSF structures are recognized as neutral places where patients feel safe in a country where weapons abound. Nearly all children arrive at the hospital with severe or moderate malnutrition. The paediatric wards are completely full. On top of the malnutrition, many have measles. Infectious diseases like watery and bloody diarrhea have recently become more common. The other main issues in children are lower respiratory tract infections, gastroenteritis and malaria. Because of the collapse of the healthcare system, a large proportion of the population has not been vaccinated against measles and other diseases. The combination of acute malnutrition and measles can be deadly for children in Somalia. Several camps for displaced people are located around the town of Guri-el. People have been fleeing violence (and more recently the iolence (and more recently the drought). They have abandoned everything and live in very basic makeshift shelters. An MSF teamcarries out medical and nutritional consultations several times a week in the camps. Somalia’s humanitarian crisis continues to be one of the worst in the world. This year, Somalis have faced the system. Throughout 2011 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ran medical projects in up to 22 different locations in south-central Somalia, the epicenter of the crisis, as well as large-scale programs in the Somali refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. In the period from May to December 2011, MSF treated over 95,000 patients for malnutrition, and treated over 6,000 patients for measles and vaccinated almost 235,000 children against the disease. Within its various health care structures MSF assisted in over 5,500 deliveries and provided over 450,000 consultations. However, despite intense negotiations with armed groups, access to the most affected regions inside south-central Somalia has remained difficult. MSF first worked in Somalia in 1979 and has been present in the country with few interruptions since 1991, when a civil war erupted following the downfall of the country's dictator, Siad Barre. MSF has worked in several locations: Baidoa, Dinsor, Huddur, Jamaame, Jowhar, Kismayo, Marere, and the capital, Mogadishu, in the south; Galcayo and Guri El in the north-central area; and Belet Weyne in central Somalia. Teams have addressed a host of different crises in their many projects, focusing in particular on nutrition, emergency care for people wounded in conflict, mother and child healthcare, and treatment of infectious diseases, including cholera, measles, kala azar, and tuberculosis (TB). MSF is the only international organization providing medical and nutritional care in Guri-el town in Galgaduud region of South Central Somalia..Previously, more than 15 international staff were based here but they had to be withdrawn due to security threats. Somalis employed and trained by MSF now run the hospital, regional MSF staff from Somali origin ran the emergency projects. Access to health care is a major issue in Somalia. In a circle of 150km around Guri-el, there are no medical doctors except for those at the MSF supported hospital.
Somalia

MSF forced to close all medical programmes in Somalia

MSF today announced the closure of all its programmes in Somalia after working continuously in Somalia since 1991. Press Release - 14 Aug 2013
 
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South Sudan

MSF condemns the killing and wounding of its team members near Juba, South Sudan

On Monday, 5 August, a group of armed men attacked a car belonging to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a main road outside Juba, South Sudan. Press Release - 9 Aug 2013
 
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Attacks on medical care

MSF aid workers freed from Somalia arrive in Spain today

Families ask for privacy at this sensitive time Press Release - 19 Jul 2013
 
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Project Update

MSF vaccination used as bait in unacceptable attack on civilians

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces this clearly unacceptable abuse of humanitarian aid for military purposes. Press Release - 6 Nov 2009
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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