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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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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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A nurse wears a reusable face mask during a patient consultation in northern Mozambique, where climate-sensitive diseases, such as those spread by mosquitoes, are common
Climate emergency

How to provide healthcare without harming the environment

An MSF pilot project is working to replace single-use face masks with masks that can be washed and reworn up to 40 times. doctorswithoutborders.org - 25 Jun 2024
 
Palestine, Khan Younis, sud de Gaza, 23 avril 2024. Photographie prise à l'intérieur de l'hôpital Nasser, après que ce dernier a été assiégé par les forces israéliennes. Fin janvier, l'hôpital a été encerclé par les forces israéliennes après avoir envoyé des ordres d'évacuation concernant toute la zone. L'hôpital a été au centre de combats intenses pendant plusieurs semaines. Palestine, Khan Younis, south Gaza, April 23, 2024. Photograph taken inside Nasser Hospital, after a siege by the Israeli forces. At the end of January, the Israeli forces issued evacuation orders for the entire area and surrounded the hospital, which found itself at the centre of intense fighting for several weeks.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF-supported health facilities across Gaza face critical shortage of medical supplies

Unable to bring any medical supplies into the Gaza Strip, Palestine, since the end of April, MSF teams in Gaza are facing critical shortages of essential medicines and equipment. Project Update - 21 Jun 2024
 
For patients on the standard regimens of care TB treatment can last between 20 and 24 months, or longer. Mahina completed 22 months of treatment, which included 10 months of injections. Now that she is cured she enjoys spending time with her family, pictured here with her grandmother.
Tajikistan

A timeline of tuberculosis treatment success in Tajikistan

After 13 years of collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population, MSF has concluded our tuberculosis project in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Project Update - 19 Jun 2024
 
Oleh Pohrebniak, MSF health promoter explains the signs of PTSD to Taras Tsovenko, a participant to the MSF health promotion activity at the Kherson hub. There are different people each week, depending on the arts and crafts proposed. Today it is pottery of traditional Ukrainian craft for Easter. During the session, the health promotion team actually sits down and talks to each person individually at one point or another, so they can use general questions to find out how people are feeling. They also build up a relationship of trust. As the health promoters have already described the symptoms in the introduction, the participant can relate and ask for more information. At the end of the session, everyone practices a breathing exercise, a new tool to help them cope with stress.
Ukraine

Finding ways to live with trauma in Ukraine

In September 2023, MSF opened a trauma centre in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, to provide treatment for people experiencing war-related post-traumatic stress. Project Update - 11 Jun 2024
 
The cholera treatment centre has been run by MSF since 26 March 2024 in al Sadaqa hospital after of an increase in cholera cases in Aden city, Yemen.
Yemen

Addressing acute watery diarrhoea in Yemen

MSF is addressing acute watery diarrhoea and cholera in Yemen by establishing treatment centres and providing medical supplies amid limited healthcare access and funding. Project Update - 7 Jun 2024
 
"Covering most communities in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions along the Inhulets presented a significant challenge," explains MSF medical activity manager Vladyslav Butskiy. "We encountered two problems simultaneously. Firstly, there was a shortage of drinking water as all wells and boreholes were flooded. Secondly, on the inaccessible side of the river, people relied on us as the sole organization offering medical services and medicines at that time." The following day, Médecins Sans Frontières purchased large quantities of water and containers for storage and began distributing them to residents. However, reaching the opposite bank of the Inhulets proved to be a much more challenging task. Butskiy remembers the story of a patient with diabetes from a village with the same name as the river Inhulets. "I got a call from a doctor from there and she said that this woman's sugar was extremely high and rapidly increasing. Neither the paramedic nor any of their neighbours had any medicines that could help. So we sent everything we needed by boat from the village of Fedorivka, located across the river," Vladyslav recalls.
Ukraine

One year after the Kakhovka dam disaster, MSF continues to provide support

One year after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed, causing mass flooding, MSF teams continue to provide crucial medical support to affected regions in southeastern Ukraine. Project Update - 6 Jun 2024
 
Two patients are walking inside MSF hospital in Leer, Unity State, South Sudan. May 2024
South Sudan

Malnutrition adds to challenges for people living with HIV and TB in South Sudan

In South Sudan, malnutrition is exacerbating the TB and HIV pandemics. Project Update - 3 Jun 2024
 
The return of the displaced to Khan Younis and another from Rafah, during the end of last April and during the beginning of this month.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF denounces Israeli attack on camp sheltering displaced people in Rafah

MSF strongly denounces attack on camp sheltering displaced people, which comes days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt military operations in Rafah. Project Update - 28 May 2024
 
The extreme rainfall and flooding that hit the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul isolated and forced the evacuation of whole cities. Roads were destroyed, bridges were knocked out and the main airport, in the capital city of Porto Alegre, is indefinitely closed. More than 460 state´s municipalities, out of a total of 497, have been hit.
Brazil

Unprecedented flooding in Brazil leaves millions affected and hundreds of thousands displaced

As rescue teams face challenges in reaching people affected by extreme flooding in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, we are focusing on supporting those in the most vulnerable conditions. Project Update - 20 May 2024
 
Since the start of the war in Sudan, healthcare facilities and medical staff have faced repeated attacks, including lootings of hospitals. In Zalingei, the teaching hospital has been looted and attacked multiple times throughout the year. During one attack by armed men in the hospital, a doctor was shot while operating on a patient. The doctor survived the shooting, but one patient died. After over year of attacks on healthcare, Sudan's health system is barely functioning, and people have been cut from life-saving care. Often those most impacted are the ones displaced, unable to reach health services or buy medicine after losing their homes, belongings, and livelihoods. In Zalingei, MSF teams are providing secondary care in the Zalingei teaching hospital and supporting the Ministry of Health with rehabilitation, training and incentives for staff. In April, the teams re-opened the emergency, maternity, inpatient therapeutic feeding center and pediatric departments.
Sudan

People abandoned amidst horrific violence and humanitarian void in Central Darfur

As conflict escalates in Zalingei, Central Darfur, Sudan, people displaced by extreme violence have been left without basic services amidst a humanitarian void. Project Update - 17 May 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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