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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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The former operating theatre in the Mayi Munene health centre. This was built by the Belgians in early 20th century and served as a referral centre for the whole health district, covering 128,000 people. In April 2017 armed militiamen took over Mayi Munene, looted the health centre and later set fire to the building. All the patients and medical staff fled, including the only doctor, who has not yet been replaced.
Democratic Republic of Congo

The work of mobile medical teams in Kasai

MSF mobile teams are travelling to villages across Kasai province to treat people in need of medical care, particularly malnourished children. Project Update - 8 Nov 2017
 
More than 500 people are now safely onboard Aquarius, a search and rescue vessel run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and SOS MEDITERRANEE, but an unknown number of people are missing presumed drowned after a gruelling day of rescues in the Mediterranean. Teams rendered assistance to three rubber boats in distress that were overloaded with men, women and children, 1 November 2017.
Mediterranean migration

Nearly 600 people rescued but unknown number missing presumed drowned

Five hundred and eighty-eight people are now safely onboard Aquarius, a search and rescue vessel run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and SOS Méditerranée , but an unknown number of people are missing, presumed drowned, after a gruelling day of rescues in the Mediterranean on 1 November. Project Update - 3 Nov 2017
 
Louma, a community volunteer with MSF, ensures buckets are clean and water is purified as people from the internally displaced and refugee sites pump water from the well. Having a volunteer at the water pump ensures that waterborne diseases are not easily spread throughout the community.
Niger

Preventing the spread of hepatitis E

“At the beginning we saw many cases and many deaths.” Project Update - 1 Nov 2017
 
Jean Paul Buana, nurse and director of the Mayi Munene health centre, examines the damage to the operating theatre. “When we first saw what they had done to the centre, we cried. There was nothing else to do but cry. All our work has been lost. Between March and June, the centre did not function at all. We only came back in July because the security improved. Now there are six of us working here, but the needs are huge. We lack medicines and equipment, and safe space to work.”
Democratic Republic of Congo

Testimonies from Kasai

Although the violence that has affected the central Greater Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than a year has abated, the humanitarian needs of local communities and the hundreds of thousands of displaced people are immense. Project Update - 31 Oct 2017
 
From October 19 2012, following the suspicious deaths of five people from the same family, cases of Marburg have been confirmed in Kabale District, southwest Uganda. In support of the Ministry of Health, a team of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) ensure health checks and care for infected patients to the hospital Kabale.In banda and Mbarara where few cases of fever were detected MSF has provided some trainings to medical staff and made donations of equipment and drugs.
Uganda

MSF responds to an outbreak of Marburg fever

MSF is focusing its intervention around case management, and support to contact tracing and mapping. Project Update - 30 Oct 2017
 
Shattered side mirror and cracked windshield of an MSF ambulance after it was attacked by protestors.
Kenya

MSF calls for safe access to wounded by medical teams

“I call on all communities to provide and ensure unconditional and safe access to those affected and to medical teams." Project Update - 26 Oct 2017
 
People fetch water in the Funu district of Bukavu early on a Sunday morning. In Bukavu most people still don´t have access to running water. Many rely on wa-ter from lake Kivu or surrounding rivers and streams.
Democratic Republic of Congo

One of the most severe cholera epidemics in years continues

One of the main reasons why cholera has increased in such a way this year is the drought that has affected the country. Project Update - 25 Oct 2017
 
JulY 2017 - Syria - Raqqa - Eastern Quarter. The streets destroyed successively by Islamic State and by the heavy armed interventions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the international coalition. Jullet 2017 - Syrie - Raqqa - Quartier est - Les rues détruites successivement par L'Etat Islamique et par les interventions lourdement armées des Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS) avec la coalition internationale.
Syria

Update on situation and humanitarian needs after Raqqa offensive

The battle for Raqqa ended on 17 October, and people left the city under frightening circumstances as the offensive drew closer. Project Update - 20 Oct 2017
 
Innocente, 33 years old, is a Doctor in a Hospital 45 km away from Tamatave, where MSF is supporting the local hospital. “For five days, I was really tired; I had aches, headaches and chest pain. I thought I was suffering from angina. On 5 October, I had an alarming symptom: I started spitting blood. As I had done training about pneumonic plague with some colleagues, I went to Tamatave’s hospital to do some tests. I was clearly a suspect case, and then they confirmed that I was infected by the plague. I got an injection and stayed at the hospital. My family was panicked. From the second day, the symptoms began to disappear: swollen glands, headaches etc… As I was feeling better, I began to help the medical staff here even though I was still recovering. There were a lot of patients, a lot of plague cases the first week of the epidemic. Now, it has slowed down. The medical staff told me to take two weeks off to rest. I don’t know if my family is ready for me to come back home. They say they are but I can feel that they’re still afraid of me. So I stay away to leave my family in peace. I’m feeling positive. I don’t want to live with this secret: I had the plague and I was cured.”
Madagascar

MSF provides support in tackling plague outbreak

The plague is understandably a scary disease, but quick, hands-on action can drastically lower the number of fatalities and bring the outbreak to an end. Project Update - 19 Oct 2017
 
Wounded Iraqi girl Dua Nawaf, 8, who her family was killed in an airstrike in Mosul, sits at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Qayyara, Iraq April 6, 2017. Picture taken April 6, 2016.
Iraq

Returnees to Mosul face booby-trapped homes and destruction

“For many people, the long-anticipated return home is turning sour as they find themselves faced with daunting levels of destruction and seemingly endless misery.” Project Update - 17 Oct 2017
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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