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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Syria

“It's practically impossible to get emergency obstetric care"

An MSF midwife, recently returned from Syria, talks about the lifesaving services MSF is providing in the country and the huge challenges pregnant women there face trying to access critical obstetric care. Voices from the Field - 24 Sep 2013
 
From June 2010, MSF teams provided comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services –including family planning, ante and postnatal care and assisted births– in the Luwingu District Hospital and several rural health centres. Emergency obstetric referrals were made from rural centres to the hospital. The project closed at the end of June 2013. The decision to close the programme was based on the improvement of medical indicators in the area and came after a long hand over process with the Zambian Ministry of Health.
Zambia

MSF hands over maternal health programme in Luwingu district

Three years after MSF began an intervention to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services in Luwingu district, Northern Province, Zambia, the medical situation of people in the area has improved and the work has been handed over to the Zambian Ministry of Health. Project Update - 17 Sep 2013
 
An antenatal consultation in MSF supported Yambio hospital (South Sudan).
South Sudan

MSF and traditional birth attendants save lives

Project Update - 2 Sep 2013
 
Premature babies put on treatment in the neonatal ward of the MSF maternity in Khost, Afghanistan. The maternity was reopened in December 2012, after a suspension of activities of eight months following a bomb explosion inside the maternity. The maternity was first opened in March 2012.
Afghanistan

A maternity hospital in Khost

In March 2012, MSF opened a maternity hospital in Khost to provide care for pregnant women and newborns, with surgical capacity for complicated deliveries. Project Update - 30 Aug 2013
 
The MSF midwife Safia checks the blood pressure of Syrian refugee patient. The woman is nine months pregnant of her second baby and had only done one check up in Syria during the early stage of her pregnancy. She has arrived very recenty to Lebanon and is still unregistered as a refugee. She is very close to delivery and MSF midwife gave her all the useful information about where to go to deliver.
Syria

Pregnant women often have no idea where to go

In April 2013, MSF teams in Lebanon opened a reproductive healthcare project to respond to a major need identified amongst refugees in the Bekaa valley, the main entry point for Syrians crossing the border into Lebanon. Project Update - 5 Aug 2013
 
The reproductive health coordinator at Nsanje hospital, one of our "sex worker-friendly" nurses, performing a syphilis rapid test during the outreach clinic.
Malawi

Falling through the cracks

MSF offers targeted health services for sex workers in Malawi Project Update - 26 Jul 2013
 
MSF Clinical Supervisor Martha Pogo consults a survivor of family and sexual violence. The consultation takes place at 9 mile health district clinic in Port Moresby. In May 2013, MSF launched a project that aims to provide essential care to survivors of family and sexual violence in Port Moresby.
Papua New Guinea

Reaching more survivors of family and sexual violence

Survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea now have greater access to quality medical and psychosocial care with the opening of a new MSF project in the capital, Port Moresby. Project Update - 3 Jul 2013
 
*** Local Caption ***Triage.<br/> Darvazeh Ghar district, south of the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, is one of the poorest in the Iranian capital. There coexist daily workers, traders, street children, sex workers and drug users. Marginalized, destitute and sometimes without identity papers, these people have very limited access to basic health care. In April 2012, Doctors without borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened in this area a health facility dedicated to women and children under five years old with a specific attention to those most at risk of infectious diseases such as HIV/aids , tuberculosis or hepatitis. MSF teams receive on average sixty patients per day: antenatal and postnatal care, family planning counseling, and pediatric consultations. In one year, more than 12,000 consultations were carried out, including nearly 1,700 gynecology cases. A quarter of the patients are children under five years old.
Iran

Surviving in Tehran’s southern neighborhoods

Project Update - 21 Jun 2013
 
Mantebaleng Ntelekoa “I delivered all my three children at a hospital, two in Roma and one in Maseru. To get there, I walked two hours to the main road and then continued by taxi. I usually started walking when my contractions started and it took a long time, because I had to sit down every time I had a contraction. One of my children was born premature at 7 months, so I am glad I made it to the hospital.”
Lesotho

Maternal mortality in the mountain kingdom

MSF supports maternal services in Lesotho
 Project Update - 5 Jun 2013
 
Obstetric fistulas are one of the most serious consequences of obstructed labor; it occurs when the soft tissue in the pelvis is compressed by the baby’s head. The lack of blood flow causes the tissue to die, creating a hole between the vagina and bladder, the vagina and rectum, or both. The result is urinary and/or fecal incontinence. Women with fistulas live in shame and are often rejected by their own families and communities. Since July 2010, MSF is treating fistulas in the Urumuri center, in Gitega, in the heart of Burundi and became the first and only center in Burundi to specialize in treating fistulas. Since the opening of the project more than 1000 fistulas surgeries have been performed enabling women to return to normal life and emerge from exclusion. Women can receive treatment seven days a week, and MSF has built four houses to accommodate patients before surgery and afterwards, during rehabilitation. At MSF's permanent treatment centers, women receive six months of outpatient follow-up care to ensure the fistula has healed and that continence is maintained.
Project Update

Treating fistula: Prevention or cure?

MSF surgeon Dr Geert Morren talks about the physical and social distress that fistulas can cause, and why the issue needs attention. Project Update - 23 May 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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