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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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Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: Video interview with Dr Natasha Reyes

Video interview with Dr Natasha Reyes, MSF emergency coordinator, on MSF response to Typhoon Haiyan. Project Update - 15 Nov 2013
 
Guiuan is municipality of 45,000 people. 87 people dead but the devastation is massive. 99% of Guiuan is flattened. Trees, houses, infrastructures, livelihood means such as rice fields, fishing boats were destroyed. Marie Jeanne Bertol, an orthopaedic surgeon, one of the three MSF staff who assessed the situation and needs in Guiuan, said “from the medical stand point, it doesn’t mean that if you have small number of lives lost the damage is less. As a doctor I don’t want the number of deaths to increase by neglecting the needs of the injured people, open wounds slowly becoming infected, upper respiratory tract infection cases especially in children. Right now there are no reported cases of diarrhea so the earlier we could get our team in the community, the higher chance we prevent more lives being wasted.”
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF reaches centre of storm path

Teams reach northern Cebu island, eastern Samar island, Panay Island, and western Leyte province Project Update - 13 Nov 2013
 
Survivors gathered at the airport, hoping for an evacuation. — at tacloban City, Leyte.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF medical activities start taking shape

137 staff now in Philippines, 232 tonnes of supplies arrived Project Update - 13 Nov 2013
 
Medical and logistical supplies are being loaded at Ostend airport, from where two cargo planes will take off tomorrow morning to support the relief effort in the Philippines. MSF is sending 329 tonnes of medical and relief items which will arrive in Cebu within the next few days in four cargo planes, which are leaving today and tomorrow – 2 from Dubai and 2 from Ostende. The humanitarian cargo includes medical kits for treating wounded, material for medical consultations, tetanus vaccines, water and sanitation equipment, and relief items such as tents and hygiene kits. An additional cargo is being prepared due to leave later this week from Bordeaux with an inflatable hospital and medical material.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF working to reach worst affected areas

“People have lost everything” Project Update - 12 Nov 2013
 
Medical and logistical supplies are being loaded at MSF Supply's warehouse in Brussels, Belgium. The trucks will travel tonight to Ostende airport, from where two cargo planes will take off tomorrow morning to support the relief effort in the Philippines. MSF is sending 329 tonnes of medical and relief items which will arrive in Cebu within the next few days in four cargo planes, which are leaving today and tomorrow – 2 from Dubai and 2 from Ostende. The humanitarian cargo includes medical kits for treating wounded, material for medical consultations, tetanus vaccines, water and sanitation equipment, and relief items such as tents and hygiene kits. An additional cargo is being prepared due to leave later this week from Bordeaux with an inflatable hospital and medical material.
Philippines

MSF sends two cargo planes of medical and relief items while first teams arrive in Cebu

Update on Typhoon Haiyan response. Project Update - 10 Nov 2013
 
Nurse Abdi Somad Ahmed Moktar (38) places an IV with a malnourished child.
Somalia

A timeline of MSF in Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) first worked in Somalia in 1979 and was present in the country with few interruptions between 1991 and 2013. Project Update - 4 Nov 2013
 
In Honduras, there are four different types of dengue, the population are in high risks of infection particularly during the rainy season, from May to November, when the mosquito responsible for spreading the disease proliferates.
Honduras

MSF fights deadly outbreak of dengue fever

MSF teams are responding to an epidemic of haemorrhagic dengue fever that is spreading through San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second city. Project Update - 23 Oct 2013
 
Some 2,500 Sudanese from the troubled South Kordofan State continue to arrive to Kodok and Lelo towns, in Fashoda and Malakal counties in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State in dire need of humanitarian assistance The biggest concern is nutrition, children are very weak when they arrive and their condition can worsen even further if they don´t get proper care. In Kodok, more than 200 children under five are now receiving treatment in the ambulatory therapeutic feeding program. MSF medical teams are running a nutrition program through mobile clinics within the communities focusing on children under five years and women.
South Sudan

New refugees from Sudan in need of assistance

Some 2,500 Sudanese from the troubled South Kordofan State have arrived South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, in need of humanitarian assistance. Project Update - 11 Oct 2013
 
Dr Henrike Zellmann is the supervising psychologist for MSF in Domeez refugee camp in northern Iraq. She is pictured here with some of the Syrian refugees who MSF has been assisting.
Iraq

As soon as the door is closed, we spend time with them, and we listen

An insight into mental healthcare for Syrian refugees in Domeez camp, Iraq Project Update - 8 Oct 2013
 
Alma is a 16 year old girl from Syria who is receiving counselling from MSF in Domeez refugee camp, northern Iraq. Her testimony is below. The war and its aftermath have had far reaching consequences for the mental health of children. As of October 2013 in Domeez, children and adolescents comprise 50 percent of all MSF’s new patients. Every week, between 15 and 20 children and adolescents aged 18 and under are admitted to the program. "We’ve been living in the camp for six months, after coming from Damascus to escape the war. There are six people in my family and we all live in one tent. At first we were happy to be here, and to be safe. Compared to Damascus, it is better. There we lived amidst war, at least here it is safe. But I am not happy here. After I arrived here, when I got upset or angry, I would faint. Last week, this happened twice. In the last month, it has happened six times. I don’t know why it happens. After I faint, and I have gained consciousness, I lie there for an hour or so then I get up. I have shortness in breath after it happens and it takes an hour to feel ok again. Most of the time there is no reason. I don’t sleep very well and I am scared when I sleep. When I wake up, I am still scared. I am afraid of the tents. They remind me of the funeral procession when my cousin was killed in Syria. I remember people crying and I feel that I have dark things in front of my eyes. Every second night, I have nightmares. I also don’t eat very much. From yesterday until now, I did not eat. My biggest wish is to go back to Syria with my family. I want to study, but it’s not possible, either here or in Syria. It is difficult to have hope for the future when we don’t know what will happen."
Syria

An invisible crisis - alarming psychological needs among refugees in Iraq

MSF is seeing an alarming deterioration in the mental health situation of Syrian refugees in Domeez refugee camp in northern Iraq. This deterioration is linked not only to what they have witnessed in Syria, but also the ongoing life of uncertainty, inadequate conditions, and the lack of hope for the future they face living in the camp. Project Update - 8 Oct 2013
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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