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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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Medical team and Doctor Mahmood Menapal in Al Rawdah hospital are discussing the injury and treatment of Samir al Asib on July 24, 2015 in Taiz, Yemen.
Yemen

“It was clear from our patients’ wounds that the snipers were shooting to kill”

With the conflict between armed groups and airstrikes escalating in Yemen, MSF doctor, Mahmood Menapal, headed for the southwestern province of Taiz for four months. In Taiz, medical staff struggle to keep hospitals running in the face of fighting, bombing raids and desperate shortages of medicine and fuel. Voices from the Field - 24 Nov 2015
 
Situated in the Lake Chad region, the site of Koulkimé in Chad hosts approximately 1,800 displaced people according to OCHA. They have fled Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP), also known as Boko Haram, as well as military operations carried out by the Chadian government. MSF is working together with the Chadian Ministry of Health to support the primary health centre in Koulkimé.
Lake Chad Crisis

Lake Chad region: providing assistance in the epicentre of violence

Photo Story - 23 Nov 2015
 
Situated in the Lake Chad region, the site of Koulkimé in Chad hosts approximately 1,800 displaced people according to OCHA. They have fled Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP), also known as Boko Haram, as well as military operations carried out by the Chadian government. MSF is working together with the Chadian Ministry of Health to support the primary health centre in Koulkimé.
Lake Chad Crisis

“The only certainty is that people will remain uprooted and continue to live in fear”

Interview with MSF Director of Operations in the Lake Chad region about the effect of continued attacks by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) group, also known as Boko Haram. “In the Lake Chad area, we are seeing a regional crisis with large-scale humanitarian consequences. People continue to flee from violence, across borders and inside their own countries." Voices from the Field - 23 Nov 2015
 
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Syria

MSF appalled that another supported hospital in Damascus area hit by missiles

At 2:30 pm local time on Thursday 19 November, an aerial attack was launched on Erbin, one of the besieged zones to the east of Damascus, Syria. Statement - 21 Nov 2015
 
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South Sudan

Activity Update, October 2015

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) employs more than 2,937 South Sudanese staff and 329 international staff to respond to a wide range of medical emergencies and provide free and high quality healthcare to people in need 18 projects in seven out of 10 states in the country and the Abyei Special Administrative Area. Project Update - 18 Nov 2015
 
In the daytime it gets stifling hot inside these shelters, but the camp is so packed with thousands of tents and temporary shelters there is very little communal space. In the most crowded section of the camp, there is less than 4.5 square meters of space per person, less than one seventh of the space required by minimum humanitarian standards. Only about half a square kilometre has been designated by the United Nations for the displaced population to live in, comprising a population the size of a small city.
South Sudan

Malakal, An Inadequate Refuge

The number of patients treated by MSF on a weekly basis in the UN Protection of Civilians Camp (PoC) in Malakal has tripled since June, as the health of the population sheltering in the camp is being jeopardized by overcrowding and substandard living conditions. Presently, almost 48,000 people are living in the Malakal PoC following an influx of more than 16,000 people in July and August. Many came from areas where humanitarian access was cut off by insecurity for months, forcing thousands to flee from conflict and hunger. Most people arrived with nothing. Photo Story - 18 Nov 2015
 
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Burundi

MSF treats 60 people wounded in grenade explosions

60 injured people were treated by MSF at its trauma centre after grenades exploded in several Bujumbura neighbourhoods. Project Update - 18 Nov 2015
 
Women supplement the family’s diet with nutrient-poor greens know as Lum, a food source of last resort that is foraged by hand from outside the camp. Others, like this woman, sell their Lum at the market. This amount of greens fetches about six South Sudanese pounds.
South Sudan

"The root cause of these illnesses is overcrowding and sub-standard living conditions"

Each time the three-month-old exhales, it makes a rasping sound as her breath forces its way through her tiny, infected lungs. When the infant cries, her body contorts with the effort of breathing. Until recently, she’s been connected to an oxygen machine to support her breathing. Voices from the Field - 18 Nov 2015
 
Haydan streets and buildings destroyed by the recent airstrikes. The small hospital, in the Haydan district in Saada Province, was also hit by several airstrikes. With the hospital destroyed, at least 200,000 people now have no access to lifesaving medical care.
Yemen

“The air raids continued with 10 to 15 almost every day”

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike destroyed the hospital in Haydan that MSF supports. Programme coordinator Miriam Czech told us what she saw in the town in the days following the bombing. She added that the whole region is being targeted by the coalition airstrikes. Voices from the Field - 13 Nov 2015
 
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Yemen

Living beneath the bombs in Haydan

The MSF-supported hospital in Haydan was struck and destroyed by airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition during the night of the 26-27 October. "Before the destruction of the hospital it was a very busy place with delivery – you know, a lot of kids were born in this hospital, " says Yann Geay. Project Update - 13 Nov 2015
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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