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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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Haiti

Cholera emergency in Haiti far from over

Cases still increasing in north and south of the country . Project Update - 24 Dec 2010
 
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Tuberculosis

Meet the first MSF patient to have recovered from XDR-TB

While one in five patients under treatment for moderately resistant strains of the disease do not survive, patients with extensively resistant cases, if they can get treatment at all, usually must rely on less effective and more toxic medicines, with lower success rates. For these reasons and others, Xoliswa Armans is a remarkable patient. Project Update - 23 Dec 2010
 
Uvs Province, Mongolia: The first snows of the winter of 2010 coat a ger in Uvs province. A pilot project in a remote province in northwest Mongolia has assisted health authorities and the local population prepare for the harsh winter. Last year, the country was hit by a devastating Òdzud,Ó which is a devastating winter that follows a particularly dry summer. Access to healthcare was impossible for large swathes of the population, and infant mortality rates doubled. The government of the impoverished and sparsely-populated country declared a national emergency, and once the snows melted in spring, MSF sent an exploratory team to see what assistance could be offered. <br/> In Between September and November, the team worked in five districts of Uvs province, where some 70 per cent of the population was affected by the dzud. The project pilot involved a range of activities. These included improving infrastructure in five regional health facilities, providing a back-up supply of essential drugs and supplies in provincial and county hospitals, distributing basic first aid kits to 3,000 herder families and giving refresher training and drugs to 16 community-based medical officers.
Mongolia

Preparing for winter in a remote Mongolian province

The harsh winter has now begun in Mongolia, and in the spring, MSF team will return to evaluate the project. In the meantime, MSF is looking into starting projects in the capital Ulan Bator focused on tuberculosis, as well as the health needs of thousands of families who live in “ger” shanty settlements on the outskirts of the capital. Project Update - 20 Dec 2010
 
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South Sudan

'A people way too used to suffering'

Award-winning photographer, Cedric Gerbehaye, travelled to Southern Sudan to visit Médecins Sans Frontières clinics and document the humanitarian crisis. Project Update - 16 Dec 2010
 
Two weeks after the opening of the CTC in Cap Haitien Gymnasium, the sensitization team has moved from 6 members to more than 40 community health workers. They sensitize the population inside the CTC as well as in the streets of Cap Haitien.
Haiti

In Haiti's rural north, cholera rate shows the "tip of the iceberg" as outbreak spreads

“In areas newly affected by the disease, the population of areas is really scared,” said Alan Lefebvre, MSF emergency coordinator. “The population fears that a cholera treatment centre will bring the disease to the community. The challenge is to inform, to raise awareness, and to demonstrate that we are there to treat the sick and that this is working.” Project Update - 9 Dec 2010
 
Dans le district de Chiradzulu - ou MSF mene un programme VIH/sida depuis 2001 - le test de dépistage DBS (Dry Blood Spot) a ete mis en place au cours de la derniere semaine de juillet 2009, dans 3 centres de sante du district et en collaboration avec le MOH. Ce test rapide ne necessite pas de chaine du froid : quelques gouttes de sang sont prelevees sur un buvard et envoyees dans un laboratoire ; la, le buvard est dissout et le sang teste en seulement une quinzaine d¿heures. Il permet un depistage precoce des nourrissons nes de meres seropositives des l'age de 6 semaines.
HIV/AIDS

Denied funding puts HIV patients in low-income countries at risk of death

Several low-income countries, highly affected by HIV, risk being entirely or partly disqualified from the current funding round by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, warns the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). Project Update - 8 Dec 2010
 
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Malawi

Health workers, government and civil society at joint MOH and MSF conference address health professional gaps in Malawi

Like many countries in Africa, South Asia and Asia-Pacific, Malawi has been facing a critical shortage of healthcare workers, with an average ratio of two doctors for every 100,000 people. This low number of physicians, as well as nurses, in the health care system means that treating Malawi’s 920,000 people living with HIV, of whom 59% are women, is a massive challenge. Project Update - 6 Dec 2010
 
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Global

Licensing deal threatens cheap pharmaceuticals

Stella is four, and lives on HIV drugs. Next week, the EU may cut her supply. Project Update - 1 Dec 2010
 
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Global

Frontlines podcast: Giving children with HIV the support they need

Frontlines podcast: Giving children with HIV the support they need Project Update - 1 Dec 2010
 
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Pakistan

Relief for some flooded areas of Pakistan but work continues in the south

Three months after the floods that inundated Pakistan, MSF has stopped the emergency response activites in some parts of the country, such as in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in northern Sindh provinces, where flood-affected people have started returning to their homes. Project Update - 24 Nov 2010
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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