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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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1993 Results
 
MSF installed one 30- and two 15-cubic meter water tankers to provide water purification in Ndu, northern DRC, where thousands of people from the Central African Republic sought refuge due to a non-state armed group attack on Bangassou on January 3rd. According to some estimates, over 12,000 refugees arrived in Ndu in just a few days.
Central African Republic

MSF teams ramp up support as violence escalates

As the security and humanitarian situation in Central African Republic rapidly deteriorates, people have reduced access to essential medical services. Project Update - 14 Jan 2021
 
Hamdayet crossing point, Sudan, early morning. November 2020. This crowd walked miles from neighbooring Ethiopia to reach Sudan to escape the conflict in their region. Once registered people will be able to get a ticket to move to further south camp, in Um Rakuba.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Providing assistance to people in Ethiopia and Sudan in wake of Tigray violence

Following the start of violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in November 2020, MSF teams are providing assistance to both internally displaced in Ethiopia, and those who've fled to neighbouring Sudan. Project Update - 12 Jan 2021
 
Mohamad Ayoub Hamad Abu Sabha is a community leader of Khirbet Al Fakhit (Hebron, Palestine), where MSF performs mobile clinics for the population in the área. “For one year, no one came here. Especially for pregnant women, this was a very difficult situation” (Note: he was wearing ,ask during consultation and talk, but he removed for the picture)
Palestine

“For one year no one came here” to provide medical care in the West Bank

Some communities under strict Israeli control in Hebron, West Bank, Palestine, face challenges accessing basic healthcare due to administrative restrictions and a lack of transportation. Women are particularly affected. Project Update - 5 Jan 2021
 
Bangassou – 8.8.2017 Bangassou street through the destroyed wall of the mosque.
Central African Republic

MSF provides care in post-election attacks in Bangassou, CAR

MSF teams are providing medical care to people caught up in post-election violence across Central African Republic, including in Bangassou, the site of the latest attack by armed groups. Project Update - 4 Jan 2021
 
View of the entrance of Bambari hospital, the Central African Republic, on December 5th, 2020.
Central African Republic

Medical care at arm’s length: the continuous struggle of the people of Ouaka

Caretakers of patients in Bambari hospital, CAR, tell of their struggles to access healthcare due to insecurity, a lack of financial and medical resources, and the lack of functioning health facilities. Project Update - 24 Dec 2020
 
Neglected crisis in central Mali, and especially in Mopti region. In this area, an important humanitarian disaster and the harsh realities that populations face remain unknown to national and international public opinion. Civilians are abused and caught in fighting between different actors. Some of them are also target of daily attacks, sometimes suspected to have links with armed groups identified as terrorists as a result of counter terrorism. This explains why public health providers have reduced their activities or left the region, especially in rural areas where the armed conflict is at its most intense.
Mali

Central Mali: no choice but to flee

Civilians in central Mali face extreme violence every day and armed conflict has displaced many. They have limited access to basic services. Project Update - 22 Dec 2020
 
MSF has been working in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia since 1997. Activities started in the hospital in the town of Humera in Tigray region, on the border to Sudan, and in 2003 shifted to nearby farming town in Amhara region. The focus of MSF in the region is the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of kala azar and snakebite - two neglected tropical diseases. In the area MSF mostly treated migrant workers, who work barefoot on the vast farms during harvest season in one of the most fertile regions in northern Ethiopia. In early November, tensions between the national government in Addis Ababa and the northern region of Tigray escalated into a full-blown military conflict. One month into the conflict, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate. On 5 November 2020, our MSF team in the Amhara region heard shelling and bombing of the first military escalation. They quickly started to support a Ministry of Health-run health centre receiving an influx of war wounded from the border areas. In just a few hours, the team had to switch from our regular medical project activities to emergency medical assistance for treating wounded. Within only a week, our team treated 265 casualties, many of them with severe war injuries.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

“They saw soldiers and civilians coming in, wounded or dead”

MSF and Ministry of Health staff in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, next to Tigray, treated many people with severe injuries. It deeply affected them. Project Update - 18 Dec 2020
 
Harin Halil, a mother of two from Syria, is among the most severe patients of MSF in Samos. “I became more scared in this camp. I was not like that before. I was not well but I wasn’t like now. I could talk, but now I cannot even talk in a normal way. Because of the fear I feel, every once in a while, I have a crisis (panic attack), for example when there is a fight in the camp, and that is happening very often, or when there is a fire in the camp, these incidents affect me a lot. I have deteriorated in here. During the last fire in Samos camp I felt like never left Syria. It was a very traumatic experience for me because the first time when Daesh attacked us, there were bombings and fire, so it reminded me a lot of what I experienced there.”
Greece

Alarming mental health distress among asylum seekers on Greek islands

Four months after the fire that destroyed Moria, 15,000 people are still trapped in inhumane conditions on Greece's islands. Project Update - 17 Dec 2020
 
Streets and shops in Dahst-e-Barchi neighborhood.
Afghanistan

Patients face persistent insecurity amid “peace process”

Persistent insecurity remains a near-constant barrier to accessing healthcare in Afghanistan and has increased since the intra-Afghan talks in Doha began. Project Update - 16 Dec 2020
 
Lantana is an orphan, and is here with his grandmother in MSF Shinkafi hospital,in the paediatric ward of Shinkafi hospital, Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria.
Nigeria

Killings, looting and abductions in Zamfara state

People in Nigeria’s Zamfara state face daily violence and attacks and struggle to find food, water, shelter and basic items. MSF calls for assistance. Project Update - 9 Dec 2020
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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