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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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Tents and debris litter the site of a the refugee camp in Grande Synthe near Dunkirk in northern France. Some 2,500 refugees have settled here whilst they attempt to cross to the United Kingdom to seek asylum. Grande Synthe, Dunkirk: A Gill visits the refugee camps of Calais and Grande Synthe in Dunkirk.
France

Measles vaccination campaign launched in Calais and Grande-Synthe camps

Press Release - 29 Jan 2016
 
The Shiara hospital, an MSF-supported facility in Razeh district (Northern Yemen), was hit by a projectile in northern Yemen on January 10thm resulting in five deaths, eight injured and the collapse of several buildings of the medical facility. One of the critical injured victim, passed away on Sunday 17th after being transferred to the ICU at the MSF hospital in Saada. More than 130 health centres and hospitals have been affected by the conflict ravaging the country in the last ten months.
Yemen

Health facilities under attack - MSF wants answers

MSF medical activities in Yemen have come under attack four times in less than three months, each incident more serious than the last.“Four of our medical facilities have been attacked in four months in Yemen and Afghanistan,” Press Release - 25 Jan 2016
 
A rapid detection test (RDT) indicates a patient is positive for malaria. Four-year-old Agok, was being carried by his mother, Akuot Yel, when MSF outreach manager and nurse Abdifatah Mohamed encountered them walking from their village of Maluil to the nearby private clinic in town. Yesterday, Akuot took her son to the government-run primary health care unit (PHCU) nearby but they found nobody there. It was closed. PHCUs have no trained personnel to administer quinine intravenously, and often have no oral ACT medication in stock, so they do not open at all, thinking that there is nothing for them to do for patients that come in, the vast majority of which suffer from malaria. The private clinic in town would have cost Akout 15 SSP for the test, and 80 SSP to purchase the medicine needed. Akuot has two twins at home who are also ill, but Agok's state was most serious. Akuot can't afford medication for three sick children all at once so she tried to take care of Agok first. She could have received free medicine at the the government-run health care center in Panthui, but the walk will take about two hours, and there was no guarantee that they will have medicine in stock. The PHCU has a car to provide free transportation for patients that need to be referreed to Panthou health care center for treatment, but that wasn't an option for Agok since they found the PHCU closed. Later, Abdifatah also found Agok had symptoms of severe anemia. Abdifatah, en route to Panthui, offered Akuot and Agok a ride to the health care center there. At home, they use a mosquito net that they received from an NGO who distributed them in the area two years ago. It is old now and tearing.
Disease prevention

Five epidemics to watch

Five diseases with the potential to become epidemics in 2016 are being highlighted by MSF. “We know that thousands of lives will be at risk in the year to come. Press Release - 25 Jan 2016
 
Consultations in the malnutrition ward at the MSF hospital in Mweso, North Kivu, DRC.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF forced to close major humanitarian project in Mweso following abduction of staff

MSF announces the closure of its project in Mweso, Masisi territory, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, after armed actors attacked one of our convoys and abducted two of our staff members from 15-16 December 2015. “We’ve been forced to take this painful decision because our staff cannot continue to work in a situation where they are targeted or attacked,” says Annemarie Loof, MSF Operational Manager in Amsterdam. Press Release - 20 Jan 2016
 
MSF assists the South Sudanese population displaced by the conflict in the Upper Nile State. MSF runs a hospital inside the POC (protection of civilians) UN site in Malakal, where approximately 50,000 are currently living, and a clinic in Wau Shiluk, a village on the West Bank of the Nile that has become an IDP settlement with nearly 20,000 persons. MSF assists the South Sudanese population displaced by the conflict in the Upper Nile State. MSF runs a hospital inside the POC (protection of civilians) UN site in Malakal, where approximately 50,000 are currently living, and a clinic in Wau Shiluk, a village on the West Bank of the Nile that has become an IDP settlement with nearly 20,000 persons.
South Sudan

Fighting in Malakal site leaves at least 18 dead, two of them MSF staff

MSF teams treated dozens of wounded people after last night’s violence Press Release - 18 Jan 2016
 
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Syria

Five more starvation deaths in Madaya since humanitarian convoy arrival

MSF urgently calls for medical evacuations for eighteen patients whose lives are in the balance Press Release - 15 Jan 2016
 
The mayor of Grande-Synthe sought the assistance of MSF to bring dry and warm conditions to the migrant since the State did not respond to its requests. In this perspective, MSF identified, a month ago, a site with an area of 25,000 m². The objective for MSF is to install on the new site 500 tents, each tent accommodating five people. Priority is also to provide adequate sanitation by installing a sufficient number of toilet, showers and latrines facilities. For example, while there are 32 latrines for 2,500 people in the current camp of Grande-Synthe, it is planned to have on the new site a ratio of one latrine for 20 people.
France

MSF prepares new site for refugees in Grande-Synthe

“There are now more than 2,500 people in Grande Synthe sleeping rough in the mud, wet and cold and in appalling, unsanitary conditions. They must be offered shelter and a more acceptable living environment,” says André Jincq, deputy programme manager at MSF. MSF began work today on a new site for refugees in Grande-Synthe. Press Release - 13 Jan 2016
 
This preventive vaccination campaign is the largest ever launched by MSF in CAR, and one of the first in the world to protect children under five years against so many diseases. Cette campagne de vaccination préventive est la plus importante jamais lancée par MSF en République Centrafricaine, et l’une des premières au monde visant à protéger les enfants de moins de cinq ans contre autant de maladies.
Central African Republic

MSF launches vaccination campaign of unprecedented scale

The percentage of immunised children in the Central African Republic (CAR) has fallen sharply since the crisis began in 2013. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is now planning to vaccinate one quarter of all the country’s children against the principal childhood killer diseases. Press Release - 13 Jan 2016
 
The Shiara hospital, an MSF-supported facility in Razeh district (Northern Yemen), was hit by a projectile in northern Yemen on January 10thm resulting in five deaths, eight injured and the collapse of several buildings of the medical facility. One of the critical injured victim, passed away on Sunday 17th after being transferred to the ICU at the MSF hospital in Saada. More than 130 health centres and hospitals have been affected by the conflict ravaging the country in the last ten months.
Yemen

MSF-supported hospital bombed in Yemen: death toll rises to six

An MSF-supported hospital has been hit by a projectile in northern Yemen resulting in at least six deaths, 9 injured and the collapse of several buildings of the medical facility. Three of the injured are MSF staff, two in critical condition. Press Release - 10 Jan 2016
 
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Syria

Siege and starvation in Madaya immediate medical evacuations and medical resupply essential to save lives

Immediate medical evacuations and medical resupply essential to save lives Press Release - 7 Jan 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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