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How we work

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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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3451 Results
 
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India

Kashmir unrest one-month update - MSF donates external fixators for trauma victims, continues psychological first aid

Project Update - 9 Aug 2016
 
Ansongo hospital in Gao region, northern Mali, where MSF carries out consultations and assists deliveries.
Mali

Recent clashes in the north are hampering the deployment of humanitarian assistance

Project Update - 4 Aug 2016
 
Street scene in Aleppo, from April 2013.
Syria

Trapped, under attack and struggling to survive in Aleppo

Fighting has intensified over the past three weeks and the long-suffering people of Aleppo city are bearing the brunt of the devastation. Continuous aerial attacks pound the east of the city, while shelling strikes the west, causing many casualties and injuries. Project Update - 28 Jul 2016
 
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams are working with refugees and migrants in the transit zones of Kelebjia and Horgos in Subotica, Serbia on the Hungarian border. These transit camps have formed because Hungary remains the only legal entry to the EU but the daily quotas reduced to 8-15 people per day per transit zone. This creates back-log accentuated by violent push-backs. Main interventions : MSF Mobile clinics for medical care and mental health. Distribution of non-food items WASH activities as allowed by authorities.
Serbia

Sharp increase in violence against migrants since border closures in the Balkans

Project Update - 22 Jul 2016
 
A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) mobile clinic at St Theresa's Church in Juba, where 2,500 people are taking refuge. The team is focusing on those who are most in need of medical care, and have been treating hundreds people every day, with the main medical needs including malaria, malnutrition, diarrhea and respiratory tract infections. People in parts of Juba remain in urgent need of food, shelter, water and medical care.
South Sudan

MSF treats more than 2,700 people following violence in Juba

Project Update - 20 Jul 2016
 
MSF clinic in Gari Wanzam where thousands of newly displaced people from Bosso district have have sought refuge in the last days.
Niger

There are several thousand displaced people who are isolated and it is difficult for the aid to reach them

Project Update - 19 Jul 2016
 
"I had felt pain for a while and as his brother worked in the hospital, he asked me if I was scared to get tested for HIV. I said no and Faustin and I, we went to together and both received a positive test result." Olga says. Faustin*, 34 years old, tells his story with his wife Olga* next to him. They have three children together. He was transferred from the MSF clinic in Mpoko to Hôpital communautaire as he lives nearby Mpoko in Vara district in Bangui. He is HIV positive and suffers from extra-pulmonaire Tuberculosis. //*NOTE: they don't want their name to be published// 11 July 2016 - Hôpital communautaire, Bangui, Central African Republic.
Central African Republic

Patients stories from Hôpital Communautaire

Project Update - 18 Jul 2016
 
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South Sudan

Activity Update, May 2016

Project Update - 15 Jul 2016
 
Mandera County in Kenya’s North Eastern Region is the latest county to be affected by a cholera outbreak that has been ongoing in the country for approximately 17 months. Since April, almost 800 cases have been reported in Mandera including 11 deaths. The outbreak is mainly concentrated in Mandera Township, home to around 90,000 people. At the same time, an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya is placing further pressure on already stretched health services. There are an estimated 260 suspected cases according to the Ministry of Health, seven of which have been confirmed by laboratory tests. Several health staff are among those affected. Mandera Referral Hospital has been quickly overwhelmed with cholera patients, and teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are now urgently supporting the Ministry of Health to respond. MSF has constructed an 80-bed cholera treatment centre in the grounds of the hospital which started receiving patients on 26 May.
Kenya

Double cholera and chikungunya epidemic in Mandera town is under control

“The number of cholera patients has been reduced thanks to the combined efforts of the County health authorities and other organisations involved in the response,” says Liesbeth Aelbrecht, Head of Mission for MSF in Kenya. “The smooth collaboration with the local authorities and the other actors was a key element in tackling this outbreak, and we are grateful to all partners for their support. However, we have not yet reached zero cases. Only with sustained efforts to improve hygiene and living conditions, future outbreaks can be avoid Project Update - 14 Jul 2016
 
Since 2006, the hospital has admitted over (4224) cases and conducted over (9000) surgeries. Cases are identified by a network of Medical Liaison Officers in the patients’ countries of origin. Such numbers are just a drop in the ocean in the numbers of war victims suffering the consequences of regional turmoil.
Jordan

Hundreds of war wounded are on the waiting list at MSF hospital for reconstructive surgery in Amman

Project Update - 14 Jul 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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