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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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Untreated Violence
South Africa

Sexual violence in platinum mining belt a major driver of HIV

MSF's 2015 survey of more than 800 Rustenburg women aged between 18 and 49 established that one in four have been raped in their lifetime. Press Release - 20 Feb 2017
 
Fatima Zara, 26 years old, is admitted at Am Timan hospital with hepatitis E symptoms including jaundice. Jaundice, also known as icterus, is the yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes. She is 6 months pregnant. Hepatitis E has no cure and is particularly dangerous for pregnant women. It is estimated that one in 25 patients with Hepatitis E is at risk of death, but for pregnant women in their third trimester, the risks of maternal and fetal mortality are higher. Salamat Region of Chad_09/01/2017
Chad

MSF calls for assistance to curb hepatitis E outbreak in Am Timan

"MSF is calling on all the humanitarian and development agencies present in Chad to step up the size and speed of their efforts to ensure an effective response to the hepatitis E outbreak in Am Timan", says Rolland Kaya, MSF's head of mission in Chad. Press Release - 9 Feb 2017
 
Footage of the market in Wau Shilluk after shelling on 28/01. Courtesy of Marta Cazorla.
South Sudan

Fleeing civilians cut off from emergency healthcare in Wau Shilluk

MSF is calling on all sides to ensure that the right of civilians to access emergency healthcare, clean water and food is guaranteed, and that medical facilities, staff and transport are not targeted. Press Release - 3 Feb 2017
 
TB doctor Irma Davitadze at work at the Regional Center of Infectious Pathology, AIDS and Tuberculosis in Batumi, a beach resort town on the Black Sea. MSF has worked here since 2014.
Access to medicines

Public health groups welcome agreement for development of promising new TB drug

While deal marks a critical step in the fight against TB, health groups warn that the deal lacks safeguards that would ensure worldwide affordability. Press Release - 26 Jan 2017
 
Daily dose of TB antibiotics and side effect drugs of the patient with MDR-TB. Every day this patient takes at the same time ten 2nd-line TB drugs, including PAS, notorious for severe side effects such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness. On the top of that she receives a painful injection of another TB antibiotic. The pills on the left side are to help her cope with the many side effects of the TB drugs, such as stomach pain, burning feeling in the chest and other.
Access to medicines

Pioneering clinical trial for drug-resistant tuberculosis starts

A pioneering clinical trial aiming to find a radically improved course of treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) began on 17 January 2017, when the first patient took the first pill in Uzbekistan. Press Release - 19 Jan 2017
 
Women stand in line to receive donations of rice, beans,oil, salt and sugar from MSF teams.
Central African Republic

MSF distributes food to 10,500 displaced and vulnerable people in the north

Some 10,500 people in northern CAR have received emergency food supplies from MSF. Press Release - 12 Jan 2017
 
In late March 2014, MSF inaugurated a post-operative care unit in Zaatari refugee camp, northeast of Amman. The space was opened as a step-down overflow facility for war-wounded Syrians referred from MSF’s Ramtha surgical project and other Jordanian hospitals to receive long-term rehabilitative and convalescent care. Jordan’s stringent decision to seal its borders with Syria completely on 21 June denied war-wounded Syrians access to Jordan. Despite the intensification of fighting between warring parties in southern Syria, Jordanian borders remain tightly sealed, leaving the severely-wounded Syrians and lifesaving cases with very slim chances to survive. Today, MSF’s facility in Zaatari stands nearly empty despite the growing medical needs at the other side of the Jordanian borders. To this end, MSF has regrettably decided to end all operations in its Zaatari facility while the number of war-wounded mounts behind the closed borders.
Jordan

Border closure forces MSF's clinic for war-wounded Syrians in Zaatari refugee camp to shut

Press Release - 7 Dec 2016
 
In June and July 2016 MSF has been conducting vaccination campaigns in several refugee camps and settlements in Greece, targeting more than 4,600 children under fifteen years of age. This campaign aims at protecting refugee children with 10 antigens and preventing diseases such as pneumonia, which is the leading cause of childhood death. MSF calls on Pfizer and GSK to drop the price of the pneumonia vaccine (PCV) for governments and humanitarian organizations in emergency contexts.
Access to medicines

MSF welcomes Pfizer's pneumonia vaccine price reduction for children in humanitarian emergencies

Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) should extend their price reduction to all developing countries. Press Release - 14 Nov 2016
 
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff and Bourbon Argos crew, start the operation to recover the bodies of those who died. Staff wear protective clothing to protect themselves from fuel inhalation and chemical burns that could be caused by the mixture of sea water and petrol that remains in the rubber boat.
Mediterranean migration

29 people found dead by MSF search and rescue ship Bourbon Argos

Press Release - 26 Oct 2016
 
Nanyanyiso Baloi holds her treatment regimen for pre-XDR-TB, which includes delamanid and bedaquiline. Khayelitsha, Western Cape. Nonyanyiso Baloi, a 32-year-old mother of three lives with her children and aunt in Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa. After reacting very badly to first-line TB treatment, doctors desperately searched for alternative treatment options, before discovering her full diagnosis of pre-XDR-TB, which required a whole new treatment regimen. There’s a critical need for clinicians to have newer, improved drugs to treat extensively drug resistant strains of TB. Current treatment regimen: bedaquiline, delamanid, linezolid, clofazimine, levofloxacin, ethambutol, terizidone Nonyanyiso Baloi: “I’ve lived in this house since 1989, and how live here with my aunt and three children, ages 8, 6 and 4 years. I’m a full-time mum. Earlier this year, I lost weight, had no appetite and was vomiting a lot. I was always tired. I was diagnosed and have been on this journey since. I’m happy I got this treatment, because I couldn’t even walk back then – but if I see myself now, I’m doing everything I couldn’t do before.”
Access to medicines

MSF reports on use of the new tuberculosis drugs bedaquiline and delamanid

Press Release - 25 Oct 2016
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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