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Read the policies, reports, and plans on how we address issues like racism and reduce our carbon footprint, ensuring our actions align with the highest ethical standards.

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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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Rohingya outpatient area at the Kutupalong clinic
Rohingya refugee crisis

“This is still a population teetering on the edge.”

Emergency medical coordinator for MSF, Kate White, reflects on how the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh has changed in recent weeks. Voices from the Field - 6 Dec 2017
 
Trapped in the island of Samos, asylum seekers are forced to live in dire conditions in the Reception and Identification Center (RIC). Due to a new wave of increased arrivals, newcomers are forced to stay in an extended area of the camp, and many of them are not allocated a space in the tents, many of which host both men and women. Many people, including families with children, are only given a blanket to use either to cover themselves at night, sleep on or use as a makeshift tent in the nearby bushes. Among the camp's residents, many victims of torture and violence as well as of SGBV , pregnant women, children, elderly, sick and disable people wait very long to get their vulnerability assessed and before they can see a doctor. Food is not sufficient, toilets are too dirty to be used and dangerous to reach at night for women. Violent fights among residents and protests fueled by frustration erupt every now and then. Most residents have no information over their asylum application and they wait in the camp for months before they get a final verdict.
Greece

Activity update – December 2017

Voices from the Field - 5 Dec 2017
 
Old hospital beds lay abandoned in the grounds of Al Khansaa hospital in East Mosul, northern Iraq. The hospital suffered severe damage when Mosul was retaken from the Islamic State group in 2016 and 2017. Sixty percent of the hospital remains destroyed. The healthcare system in Mosul is still in tatters following months of conflict. Hospitals and clinics were bombed and now only a handful are left to service a large city. MSF has been working at Al Khansaa hospital to rebuild the emergency room, paediatric in-patient facilities, a nutrition unit and the intensive care unit (ICU).
Iraq

From chaos to the provision of care

It is crucially important for this work to continue. The rebuilding of essential medical services is of life-saving significance during this phase of Mosul's post-war recovery. Voices from the Field - 23 Nov 2017
 
Most of MSF’s patients are young women. “We see a lot of teenagers aged from 15 to 17, who come for antenatal consultations,” says Dr Diana. “Often they are referred to us from other health centres, because we are the only medical public facility opened 24 hours”.
Honduras

“We have gone from seven deliveries each month to more than 30”

“We are working alongside the Ministry of Health and the municipal authorities, and this is a great success in itself: all parties working together to provide care for the region’s women”. Project Update - 10 Oct 2017
 
Portrait of Nouri, 40 Years old from Syria Nouri and his wife decided to flee Syria to save their 4 children from the war. After a few months in Turkey they took the trip 9 times to reach Greece. “On the 22nd of July we arrived in Greece. Since I arrived in Greece, I felt as if I was born again, all the suffering I forgot, but unfortunately again, not as we expected…I don't know until this moment if we are staying, if we are going… we are like in a prison.”
Greece

EU border policies fuel mental health crisis for asylum seekers

“These people have survived bombing, extreme violence and traumatic events in their home countries or on the road to Europe.” Report - 10 Oct 2017
 
A woman receives surgery to remove a piece of shrapnel from her heel in an injury she sustained weeks earlier. She fled Mosul with her injury.
Iraq

Crisis update – September 2017

The battle for Mosul has taken a staggering toll on the people of Iraq’s second largest city. Health needs are shifting from war injuries to medical cases and long-term rehabilitation care. Crisis Update - 21 Sep 2017
 
A young boy chaperons his mother and sister to the clinic.
Pakistan

MSF asked to close medical activities in Kurram Agency, north-west Pakistan

“We will continue to provide obstetric and neonatal services as much as possible to the women of FATA through the MSF Women’s hospital in Peshawar.” Statement - 14 Sep 2017
 
Ummi, 4 years old, was treated for Hepatitis E at MSF's hospital in Ngala.
Nigeria

“People are dying of hepatitis E because they don’t have soap or clean water”

Hundreds of people in a camp in northeastern Nigeria have been infected with hepatitis E after the disease spread from neighbouring Niger. The highly contagious disease has spread quickly through Ngala camp. Project Update - 10 Aug 2017
 
A new born Syrian baby in the Neo-Natal care unit of the MSF Mother and Child Hospital in Irbid, Jordan.
Jordan

10,000 babies born as refugees

A maternity hospital run by MSF in Jordan’s Irbid governorate has witnessed the births of 10,000 babies – most of them Syrian – in just four years. Project Update - 4 Aug 2017
 
Tufail Ahmad is examining a severely malnourished child admitted in Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITFC) in MSF’s Dera Murad Jamali Project in Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Pakistan

“I suddenly found myself treating my own premature triplets”

In an area where there is no food insecurity, it’s surprising that we should see so many malnourished children. Voices from the Field - 31 Jul 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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