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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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A shipwreck survivor in detention centre. His testimony : “The sun was really strong and the boat started to deflate. All the babies died. How can we stay so many hours in the water without being rescued? People started to drink salty water. Why they left us die at sea?”
Libya

Trapped refugees must be released and granted safety from Tripoli fighting

Fighting that has broken out in Tripoli, Libya, over the last week, has trapped and further endangered the lives of refugees and migrants who are being held in detention centres. We call for their immediate release to a place of safety. Project Update - 11 Apr 2019
 
The remains of Ngangu village in Chimanimani, eastern Zimbabwe where many people were affected by cyclone Idai. MSF is working with the Ministry of Health and Child Care and partners to provide medical assistance where needed including treating trauma & providing medication for those who lost theirs in floods. Many residents lost their medications in the floods, in addition to their homes and livelihoods.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Chimanimani: A community in distress after Cyclone Idai

Nearly a month since Cyclone Idai tore through parts of Manicaland province, Zimbabwe, communities around Chimanimani are still struggling to come to terms with with the destruction the cyclone caused. MSF teams are there to help. Project Update - 10 Apr 2019
 
Eyewitnesses and local authorities from Nguigmi reported that two people carrying improvised explosive devices blew themselves up in two different locations of the town on in the evening of 26 March. At the same time, several gunmen allegedly set fire to makeshift shelters and tents in camps for internally displaced and refugees, who saw their homes and personal effects reduced to ashes. This was just the latest of a series of violent episodes in the region, as escalating volatility is intensifying people’s suffering and forcing many to flee. Following the attack, MSF stepped in to support the treatment of the wounded at Nguigmi hospital, evacuating the most severely injured to the regional hospital in the town of Diffa in three ambulances and another MSF vehicle. MSF teams have distributed essential relief items including mosquito nets, jerry cans, kitchen utensils, blankets and hygiene items to 380 families. Our psychologists offered immediate mental health support for children and adults, organising individual and group psychosocial sessions for nearly 400 people. They found that many were struggling with depression, insomnia and other symptoms linked to the traumatic experiences they had undergone.
Niger

Violence, humanitarian needs and fear mount in Diffa

In just four days, attacks across Diffa region in southeastern Niger has left at least 30 dead, dozens injured and more than 380 shelters burned or destroyed. The worsening conflict around Lake Chad is taking a heavy toll on people in the region. Project Update - 4 Apr 2019
 
Our teams work with other health providers in Gaza to treat thousands of people shot by the Israeli army during protests at the fence that separates Israel from the blockaded enclave. The injuries are complex and severe, with half resulting in open fractures. They require long periods of care and different types of treatment, to get better. The Ministry of Health provides emergency care in their hospitals before patients come to MSF’s clinics and hospitals. Today, however, there is still insufficient capacity to do reconstructive surgery and treat the infections, with hundreds of patients in need.
Palestine

March of Return protestors abandoned after year of suffering

A year after the start of the series of March of Return protests in which Israeli forces shot at people in Gaza, resulting in horrific injuries, the needs to provide injured people with care mount as the local healthcare system is unable to cope. Project Update - 28 Mar 2019
 
View of the slum of Praia Nova in Punta Gea after Cyclone Idai hits the city of Beira, Mozambique. MSF is running mobile clinics to areas of Beira hard hit by Cyclone Idai. During these clinics our staff provide care for patients suffering for infected cuts and small wounds, respiratory tract infections, skin conditions as well as diarrhea. Importantly, they also go door to door looking for cases of diarrhea that may need treatment at the local health centres. Diarrhea can be easily treated with oral or IV rehydration as well as antibiotics. During the mobile clinic, if the team finds a patient in need of in patient care they are transferred to the health centre or hospital by MSF.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Mozambique flooding and response: both enormous in scale

MSF has massively scaled up the response in Beira, Mozambique, after Cyclone Idai and flooding struck the city on 14 March. Project Update - 27 Mar 2019
 
Khadija is 20; she has been displaced from Chekhcharan district of Ghor province in June 2018. She lives with her family in a tent in the Kadistan settlement. She brought her 2-year old daughter Bibi Aysha to MSF’s winter clinic to be treated for severe diarrhea. “We are concerned about lack of food. My daughter has been steadily losing weight since we moved here” she says.
Afghanistan

The long struggle of displaced families to survive winter in Herat

Widespread conflict and severe drought has forced over 150,000 people to flee villages in northwestern Afghanistan and seek shelter in the city of Herat. Project Update - 20 Mar 2019
 
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Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Humanitarian response in wake of devastating Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai has ravaged parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flooding and damage. Our teams are responding to the medical and humanitarian needs. Project Update - 19 Mar 2019
 
Patients and caretakers waiting to see MSF doctors during a mobile clinic set up in Diafarabé, west of Tenenkou. MSF runs mobile clinic in Diafarabé to provide basic healthcare, distribute essential items and arrange for the most severely ill patients to be transferred to Ténenkou hospital. Hundreds of displaced people have settled in Diafarabé since November 2018 following an armed attack on the village of Mamba in which some 11 people were killed. Des patients et des accompagnants qui attendent une consultation à la clinique mobile de MSF organisée à Diafarabé, à l’ouest de Ténenkou. MSF organise une clinique mobile à Diafarabé pour y fournir des soins primaires, distribuer des biens de première nécessité et organiser la référence des patients les plus sévèrement malades vers l’hôpital de Ténenkou. Des centaines de déplacés se sont installés à Diafarabé depuis le mois de novembre 2018 fuyant l’attaque sur leur village de Mamba, qui s’est soldée par une dizaine de morts.
Mali

Conflict, curfew and floods put healthcare out of reach in Mopti

Learn more about the situation in Mopti, Mali, where conflict with armed groups and between communities has increased, leaving people without access to medical care.
 Project Update - 12 Mar 2019
 
Personnel of the Ministry of Health (Minsal) was able, thanks to the presence of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), to cross the invisible borders imposed by the situation of violence that hinders access to health in some neighborhoods in the capital.
El Salvador

Breaking the invisible barriers that divide neighbourhoods controlled by gangs

Staff from the El Salvador Ministry of Health were able, thanks to MSF's presence, to cross the invisible borders imposed by violence that hinders access to health in some neighborhoods in the capital. Project Update - 11 Feb 2019
 
Godo 2 IDP (Internally displaced people) Camp
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ten thousand people living in desperate conditions in northeastern DRC

A year after violence in northern DRC forced people to flee their homes, 10,000 people are living in often dire conditions, with little food, water or shelter. MSF is urging for their needs to be quickly met. Project Update - 7 Feb 2019
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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