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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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1993 Results
 
An elderly woman displaced from Lebanon’s south receives care from MSF’s mobile medical unit in a collective shelter near Saida, 60 km from the southern borders. MSF’s mobile unit provides primary healthcare, medication and follow-up for non-communicable diseases, as well as psychological first aid and health promotion sessions in three locations in south Lebanon.
Lebanon

Five months into border conflict, displaced people’s needs are on the rise

The escalation of the armed conflict along Lebanon's southern border has led to the displacement of over 91,000 people, affecting their financial stability and psychological wellbeing. Project Update - 21 Mar 2024
 
People continue to be displaced due to surging conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seeking refuge near Goma. Basic needs such as food, water and sanitation are unmet, and there is a critical lack of measures to protect people from further harm. The lack of security and means to survive has proven particularly dangerous for women, as evidenced by the high number of cases of sexual violence seen in Kanyaruchinya’s health facilities supported by MSF.
Women's health

Women on the frontline: Defying the consequences of conflict to care for each other

Women’s regular health needs don’t disappear when conflict or war breaks out, they only become more critical. This International Women's Day, we share stories of women affected by conflict caring for their own communities. Project Update - 8 Mar 2024
 
Atija, a 28-year-old mother displaced in Macomia shares: “I was pregnant when our village was attacked in Meluco district in 2022. I saw my house being burnt down, we lost everything we had on that day. My family and I fled to the bush and walked for two days. Since then, I have never been the same and I am still struggling with panic attacks, insomnia, and I want to be alone most of the time. I find my strength to continue living on my children and trying to find food for us. I am working on other people’s crops, and they give me dried cassava in exchange.”
Mozambique

Violence continues to displace and traumatise thousands in Cabo Delgado

The violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, continues to displace thousands of people who are in urgent need of food, shelter and healthcare. Project Update - 4 Mar 2024
 
Shiana was sexually assaulted twice by men who forced themselves into the tent where she lives. She lives alone, with empty and destroyed tents around her. The tent’s lock is also broken. She used to be very scared, but she now has a torch and there is more light around the camp at night, so she feels safer. When the sun goes down, she sits on a bench in front of her tent, sometimes some other women come to sit with her. “I feel often lonely… I had two children but they both died”. When others go to sleep, she also goes to bed. But she explains that when people are sleeping, there are some men walking around the camp looking for sex. Mbawa IDP camp, Benue, North Central Nigeria, December 2023.
Nigeria

Surviving sexual violence in the camps of Benue

Violence in north-central Nigeria has forced thousands of people out of their homes and into displacement camps. Women and girls are particularly exposed to sexual violence in the camps, some of whom share their stories with us. Project Update - 28 Feb 2024
 
Torment and suffering in the forest at the Belarus-EU borders. We walk at night, everywhere is dark… So many people die. We see bones, we see bones when we are walking… But we must cross the water, we must cross, and it is very, very deep… Woman from West Africa in her 30s It is like you can see death. Death in front of you. That was actually what we saw on the border. Woman from Iraq in her 30s
Belarus

Two years of response to the acute humanitarian crisis at EU’s eastern borders

Until October 2023, our emergency team in Belarus provided humanitarian assistance to people on the move and facilitated their access to medical and mental health support. Project Update - 28 Feb 2024
 
on the night of 20-21 February 2024, Israeli forces conducted an operation in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza, where a shelter hosting MSF staff and their families was shelled. While details are still emerging, ambulance crews have reached the site, where at least two family members of our colleagues have been killed and six people wounded.
Gaza-Israel war

Attacks on humanitarian workers in Gaza make vital assistance nearly impossible

One month since the International Court of Justice issued provisional measures ordering Israel to ensure basic services and aid reach people in the Gaza Strip, the humanitarian situation for trapped Gazans remains catastrophic. Project Update - 27 Feb 2024
 
Destroyed building in the city of Izium that was reconquered by the Ukrainian army. There is a large part of the city that has been heavily destroyed.
Ukraine

Rebuilding lives damaged by the relentless war in Ukraine

After two years since the escalation of war in Ukraine, our teams continue to treat the many visible and invisible scars caused by the relentless conflict. Project Update - 22 Feb 2024
 
Follow up consultation at Rafah Indonesian Field Hospital. My name is Hala Ismael Al Talla. I'm 21-year-old. We are seven family members. On the sixth day of the war, the front of our house got shelled. We (family) got displaced so we went to one of our relatives’ houses. Just a few minutes after we arrived, we started to count the shells we could hear. A first, then a second, then a third. We could hear them leave the tank, fly through the air and then explode. The fourth shell hit our room and suddenly everything turned white. My mother was standing still by the wardrobe. She told me to stand up. I stood up and suddenly I fell. I did not know what had happened to my leg. I started shouting: “My leg, my leg!” They (family) came from outside after they heard the screaming in the room and they got me out. Then at 8pm, my father decided to leave to Al-Aqsa hospital. The injuries are on my right leg. Two broken bones. I lost my second toe. At Al-Aqsa hospital they did everything they could and said my leg needed a skin graft. Later the hospital came under threat. When we fled Al-Aqsa hospital, I was on a cart. I felt the pain as my leg moved with every hole in the road that we went over. It was so hard. The atmosphere was tough and intense. With the sound of gunshots, warplanes and drones. There was shelling everywhere. Then we came to change my dressing at MSF. When they checked my injury and saw how severe my condition was, they admitted me. Right after my admission, they (the doctors) said I needed to have an operation to remove my big toe and my third toe because they were dead. All my pain and suffering was caused by those toes. So, they were removed. My wound was cleaned and closed during the second operation. I am waiting for a third operation, which is a skin graft for my leg and foot.
Gaza-Israel war

Evacuation orders and forced displacement jeopardise people's health in Gaza

The war in Gaza has displaced 1.5 million people to Rafah, disrupting care for the wounded amidst multiple displacements over four months. Project Update - 21 Feb 2024
 
Commune of Ranobe, Amboasary District. People in the south-east of Madagascar are facing the most acute nutritional and food crisis the region has seen in recent years. MSF began setting up mobile clinics in Amboasary district in late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care.
Burkina Faso

MSF marks one year since the killing of two colleagues in Tougan

MSF pays tribute to our colleagues who were brutally killed while delivering humanitarian aid in Burkina Faso one year ago. Project Update - 9 Feb 2024
 
Youssef Al-Khishawi, an MSF water and sanitation agent, oversees a water distribution for displaced people in the southern Gaza town of Rafah’s Saudi neighborhood. He says: “In a normal situation, one person needs two to three liters of drinking water per day. Now, with the current shortage, the average for one family of six is one gallon of water (3.8 litres).” “The main challenge we face in distributing water is the lack of fuel to pump and transport it,” says Al-Khishawi. “The second is the lack of proper roads for our trucks to drive on, because there are tents even on the asphalt. The third is that there are no water distribution points – even they have been bombed. Water pipes, streets and infrastructures are destroyed.”
Gaza-Israel war

Lack of clean water brings disease and suffering in Gaza

Palestinians in southern Gaza are struggling to find clean water. The flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza must be restored to ensure people have access to essential items such as food, water and healthcare. Project Update - 8 Feb 2024
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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