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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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In northern rural Idlib, MSF is running a mobile clinic in a camp in Deir Hassan where the number of IDPs has increased by 10 500 people in two months, following the bombing and shelling on the southern Idlib and northern Hama countryside.
Syria

Escalating conflict in Idlib leaves increasing numbers dead, wounded or displaced

The level of conflict in Idlib and Hama governorates has increased exponentially over the last three months, resulting in hundreds of deaths, thousands of people injured, and forced nearly half a million from their homes and into camps in appalling conditions. Project Update - 31 Jul 2019
 
Thousands of life jackets left behind by arriving migrants are gathered at a dump on Lesbos Island, Greece. Thousands of people seeking safety after fleeing countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and Congo continue to risk their lives to reach Europe. Those who try to arrive via Turkey and the Aegean Sea have been trapped for an indefinite period of time on islands in Greece as part of the EU/Turkey deal and its deterrence and containment approach. In Moria refugee camp, on Lesbos island, there are currently more than 7,500 people in a camp made for a maximum of 2,500. With the camp so full, refugees are now staying in an informal extension of the camp known as Olive Grove. The awful conditions at Moria camp/Olive Grove and arbitrary administrative situations have had a dramatic impact on their health and in particular their mental health. Médecins Sans Frontières teams provide medical and mental health support outside Moria camp and run a clinic for severe mental health cases in Mytilene, the capital of the island.
Mediterranean migration

Libya shipwreck: “There are no words to describe their suffering”

Anne-Cecilia Kjaer, MSF nurse activity manager describes the scene on assisting people who had survived a horrific shipwreck off the Libyan coast. Voices from the Field - 26 Jul 2019
 
Dirkou area, Agadez region. Dirkou is one of the locations across Agadez región where MSF is running mobile clinics to assist people on the move and vulnerable host communities
Niger

“Imagine being dumped in the desert, in the middle of nowhere, with no food or water”

Interview with Aiva Noelsaint on the increasing dangers faced by migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, traders and seasonal workers in Niger’s Agadez region. Interview - 25 Jul 2019
 
Mohammad Naeem, 35, is with his two year-old son, Yousuf, who has fever and is suffering from tongue rashes. He brought his child to the MSF clinic in Kahdistan camp. He left Shakh, a remote village in Qaisar district of Faryab, a year ago and is now living in a tent in the camp. “I came to this clinic twice. My child received a good treatment here, and we are very happy with this clinic,” he says.
Afghanistan

Living conditions deteriorate for displaced people in Herat

With humanitarian assistance being reduced and water supplies running out, conditions are becoming increasingly difficult for some 100,000 displaced Afghans in Herat. Project Update - 24 Jul 2019
 
Debris covers the ground after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. An airstrike hit the detention center for migrants early Wednesday, killing several. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)
Libya

“A night in which our worst fears would come to pass”

Sam Turner, MSF Head of Mission in Libya, recounts a night in which our worst fears would come to pass. The forced return of people fleeing Libya must stop. Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 2019
 
Press conference announcing the relaunch of search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean together with SOS Mediterranee. Spokesperson during press conference: - Dr. Joanne Liu, International President of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) - Hassiba Hadj-Sahraoui, MSF Humanitarian Affairs Advisor for Libya/SAR - Sophie Beau, Co-Fournder and Vice President of SOS MEDITERRANEE - François Thomas, President of SOS MEDITERRANEE France - Frédéric Penard, Director of Operations SOS MEDITERRANEE
Mediterranean migration

MSF resumes search and rescue operations with Ocean Viking

MSF International President Dr Joanne Liu's speech in Paris on 22 July on MSF's decision to rejoin partner SOS MEDITERANNEE in search and rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean sea with new boat, the Ocean Viking. Speech - 22 Jul 2019
 
About Ocean Viking: The Ocean Viking is a Norwegian offshore supply ship with a Norwegian International flag. It was originally conceived for rescues, as an Emergency Response and Rescue Vessel (ERRV) - a stand-by offshore vessel ready for rescuing a large number of passengers and taking care of a large number of people in case of mass casualties. Built in 1986, it is 69 metres in length and 15.5 metres long. It is fully equipped to perform search and rescue with four high speed rescue boats, as well as a medical clinic with consultation, triage and recovery rooms. The ship can take up to 200 survivors on board. The MSF team who are in charge of the medical and humanitarian needs of the rescued people on board consist of nine people: four medics (one doctor, two nurses, one midwife), a Logistician, one Cultural Mediator, a Humanitarian Affairs Officer, a Field Communications Manager and a Project Coordinator who leads the team. The SOS MEDITERRANEE team, who are in charge of the search and rescue, consists of 12 people, and are led by the Search and Rescue Coordinator. Then there are a further 9 people who are part of the ship’s marine crew and are employed by the ship owner.
Mediterranean migration

MSF resumes search and rescue amid deteriorating conditions in Libya

We have announced that, in partnership with SOS MEDITERRANEE, we are returning to save lives in the Central Mediterranean Sea with a new ship, the Ocean Viking. Press Release - 21 Jul 2019
 
MSF provides primary healthcare, sexual and reproductive healthcare and mental healthcare to migrants and asylum-seekers from Venezuela and to Colombians unable to access to the health system in the provinces of La Guajira, Norte de Santander and Arauca.
Colombia

The uncertain lives of Venezuelan migrants on the Colombian border

Venezuelans who have fled their country's severe economical and political crisis are struggling to have their healthcare needs met in Colombia. There, MSF teams are plugging the gaps in a system which is struggling to cope with the new arrivals. Project Update - 17 Jul 2019
 
Refugees in Zintan DC at the gate of the main warehouse where 700 of them were detained. A tuberculosis outbreak has likely been raging for several months in the detention centre and some wear masks for fear of contamination. The main warehouse was emptied in June 2019, and the remaining people distributed among the other buildings within the detention centre compound.
Libya

Out of sight, out of mind: refugees in Libya's detention centres

Up to 6,000 refugees and migrants are being held in horrendous conditions in Libya’s detention centres, in an increasingly perilous situation as the country descends into conflict. Photo Story - 12 Jul 2019
 
Patients wait their turn at the entrance of the MSF-supported health centre in Banko Gotiti, in the Gedeo area of southern Ethiopia.
Ethiopia

The constant cycle of displacement

Thousands of people have shuttled back and forth between the Gedeo and Guji areas of southern Ethiopia. Displacement camps have closed, but many are unable to return home, and are surviving in difficult conditions. MSF is providing assistance. Project Update - 12 Jul 2019
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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