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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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Aïcha Aïcha is nine-years-old. She fled to Niger by crossing through the jungle. She experienced hunger when she was fleeing. In Niger, Aïcha stopped playing and was always sitting alone. She found it hard to eat and was losing weight. She had nightmares which woke her up.
Niger

Diffa’s young minds damaged by the conflict

Children account for about 70 per cent of the 250,000 people who have sought refuge in Diffa, Niger, fleeing conflict in the Lake Chad region. MSF is running a mental health and psychosocial support programme for children and adolescents in Diffa, to help them to overcome the trauma they have experienced. Project Update - 14 Dec 2018
 
Mrs Iqbal: ‘Household chores are the main responsibility of a woman, but I can’t do them’ “It is a big problem. I can’t cook food for my husband. It has been five months now and I am in great pain. For any woman, household chores are main responsibility of a woman, but I can’t do them.” Mrs Iqbal is a housewife living in Peshawar. She was at a wedding in Bajaur Agency, a former district of FATA (Federally Administrated Tribal Areas) of Pakistan, when she contracted Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. With every passing day, the lesion continued to grow bigger and bigger. She met many doctors in her area, but there was only one who said it was Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and that she needed to get specialised treatment. Her husband is a rickshaw (tuk tuk) driver, who is going to drive her to the hospital each day.
Pakistan

Bringing hope to sufferers of a neglected disease

Stories from MSF’s treatment centre for cutaneous leishmaniais in Peshawar. Opened in May 2018, already the centre has admitted more than 800 patients and is operating at full capacity, as are MSF’s three other treatment centres: two in Quetta and one in Kuchlak. Project Update - 5 Dec 2018
 
A health worker is seen putting on his personal protective equipment (PPE) before entering the red zone of a MSF supported Ebola Treatment Centre(ETC), where they will check up on patients on November 06, 2018 in Bunia.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Ebola spreads further into urban communities and isolated areas in North Kivu

The Ebola epidemic continues to spread through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s North Kivu province. The newest areas to be affected include the city of Butembo and a number of isolated areas. Project Update - 3 Dec 2018
 
Olena Melnikova, 42-years-old, taking a viral load test in the process of hepatitis C treatment. She is one of the patients who underwent the hepatitis C treatment provided by MSF in Mykolaiv.
Ukraine

Mykolaiv project shows that hepatitis C can be effectively treated in people living with HIV

In Mykolaiv, in the south of Ukraine, MSF is taking an integrated approach to hepatitis C care for people living with HIV. The recent test results from patients who finished treatment since the start of the activities one year ago are extremely positive. Project Update - 30 Nov 2018
 
Guinea Bissau is among the poorest countries in the world. In Simao Mendes national hospital in Bissau, the capital of the country, MSF supports activities in the paediatric emergenc unit, in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). MSF teams also run the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (CRENI) for malnourished children suffering from medical complications as well as the blood bank and medical analysis laboratory.
Guinea-Bissau

Five things to know about our emergency paediatric project in Bissau

Why MSF has opened a paediatric care project in Simão Mendes National Hospital (HNSM), and what our teams are doing there. Project Update - 29 Nov 2018
 
A doctor is weighing a young child in the health center of Miandja. This kid is suffering of malnutrition and thanks to the mobile clinic of MSF, he can get treatment.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Mortality among malnourished children on the rise in Masisi

In the last two months, the mortality rate in the healthcare facilities supported by MSF has risen from 6.4 per cent to 8 per cent. Project Update - 29 Nov 2018
 
Nurse Katerina Katopodi getting ready for the vaccination of a young boy at the MSF clinic next to Moria camp.
Greece

Vaccinating over 2,000 refugee children in Moria, Lesbos

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will conduct a multi-antigen vaccination campaign for all migrant children aged under 16 on Lesbos island from 21 to 23 November Project Update - 21 Nov 2018
 
Dr. Veronika is reassuring Madina Hamat, an 18 year old patient who has hepatitis E. She gave birth at home but her baby died and when she arrived at the hospital she was only able to tell staff her name. She was bleeding and confused. After a few days in the hospital at Am-timan, she recovered really quickly. Salamat Region of Chad
Chad

MSF hands over medical programmes in Am Timan

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has completed the handover of its medical programmes in Am Timan, Salamat, Chad, to the Ministry of Public Health. Project Update - 20 Nov 2018
 
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El Salvador

Additional ambulances increase access to healthcare

With two additional vehicles, one of which is equipped to provide medical treatment, MSF is increasing its support of the Comandos de Salvamento ambulance service and the communities it serves in Soyapango, a town close to the capital, San Salvador. Project Update - 16 Nov 2018
 
Bilya, a 20-year-old noma patient from a village near the border with Niger, waited for almost four years before his first surgery. Bilya thinks he first contracted noma when he was one year old. Outside his village, people would run away when they saw his face. "They didn’t see me as a human being," says Bilya. Sokoto, Nigeria. 13 April, 2017.
Noma

The neglected disease that destroys faces and lives

Noma, a neglected and little-known non-contagious disease, mostly affects children under five living in poverty. Nigeria’s Sokoto Noma Hospital, supported by MSF, is one of the few in the world fully dedicated to treating this deadly bacterial disease. Project Update - 15 Nov 2018
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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