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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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2094 Results
 
An injured patient is operated on in a makeshift field hospital in Northern Homs. "In January we counted fifty barrel bombs in one week. The field hospitals in the area struggle to deal with the high numbers of wounded, doing what they can with limited supplies and few medical staff. In the villages everyone knows everyone, but it was still hard to recognize people from their splintered body parts. We had many surgeries, too many amputations." Dr A. This photo from North Homs in Syria is to accompany the testimony of Dr. A. which was entitled “Medical supplies - covered in the blood of those who risked their lives to get it here”. The testimony was part of the package of comms to illustrate the 4th anniversary of the war in Syria. See the testimony for full details.
Syria

Working underground – supporting Syrian doctors in besieged and intense conflict areas

Syria's underground medical networks – a slender lifeline keeping hundreds of thousands of people alive. Voices from the Field - 13 Mar 2015
 
A critically wounded man lies on an operating table in a makeshift hospital in a beseiged district of east Damascus. This photo is distributed to accompany the testimony of Dr. S. which was entitled "Sleeping and resting were an impossible luxury - East Damascus". The testimony is part of the package of comms to illustrate the 4th anniversary of the war in Syria. See the testimony for full details
Syria

In a besieged hospital, sleeping and resting were an impossible luxury

Dr. S is a young surgeon who graduated shortly after the outbreak of the crisis in Syria. He now works in a makeshift hospital in a semi-rural neighbourhood located to the east of Damascus. Voices from the Field - 13 Mar 2015
 
People walk down a street in Bustan Al Kasr neighbourhood after it was hit by airstrikes in mid-October 2016.
Syria

Aleppo’s reality - Daily life under barrel bombs

Voices from Eastern Aleppo: A compilation of testimonies illustrating the hardships of daily life in eastern Aleppo under barrel bombings, through the eyes of local residents. Report - 11 Mar 2015
 
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Syria

Four years into the conflict, medical aid is paralysed by lack of access

Desperately-needed aid is failing to reach millions of people who are trapped by the conflict, and a massive increase in medical assistance is required. Press Release - 11 Mar 2015
 
Since August 2013, MSF runs mobile clinics to provide general health care services and mother and child care services to IDPs and host communities on the Syrian side of the border with Iraq. In parallel, MSF supports a mass vaccination as well as routine polio campaign.
Syria

Unacceptable humanitarian failure

Opinion by Dr Joanne Liu, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières, about the challenges of providing medical aid in Syria. Op-Ed - 11 Mar 2015
 
A hospital in east Aleppo is patched up with sandbags after it was hit by airstrikes in April 2016, killing one doctor and injuring several nurses.
Syria

Aleppo surviving on a fragile humanitarian lifeline

The brutal violence against the medical mission has put the healthcare system on the verge of collapse Crisis Update - 10 Mar 2015
 
In the ER section of an MSF hospital in Syria.
Syria

Aleppo: Medical Aid Besieged

From medical care under fire to the near impossibility of humanitarian action - MSF’s account of two years in Aleppo Report - 10 Mar 2015
 
Dr Armel KONE (medecin Duekue) *** Local Caption *** Bien que les affrontements aient cesse, fin mars 2011, dans la plupart de l\'Ouest du pays, des populations deplacees vivent toujours dans des camps, comme celui de la Mission catholique a Duekoue et celui de Nazareth a Guiglo, ou MSF a ouvert des centres de sante. Des equipes mobiles de MSF donnent des consultations dans des villages touches par les violences entre Guiglo et Blolequin ainsi qu\'au nord-est de Duekoue. Les cas graves et les urgences chirurgicales, medicales, pediatriques et obstetriques sont traites a l\'hopital de Duekoue. Dans le petit hopital de Nikla a Guiglo, MSF prend en charge les urgences medicales, donne des consultations externes et refere les urgences chirurgicales a l\'hopital de Duekoue. A Abidjan, les equipes de MSF prennent en charge les urgences chirurgicales et medicales ainsi que les cas de gynecologie-obstetrique et donnent des consulations externes dans l\'hopital d\'Abobo sud . Pour desengorger cet hopital surcharge, MSF intervient dans les hopitaux d\'Anyama et Houphouet-Boigny. MSF apporte par ailleurs un soutien a cinq centres de sante dans le quartier d\'Abobo.
Central African Republic

From Bangui to Carnot: a year in CAR with MSF

From the horrors of Bangui to the exodus of Muslims from Central African Republic to Sido in Chad, Dr Armel recounts his frenetic year in a country in utter chaos. Voices from the Field - 5 Mar 2015
 
Ansongo hospital, Gao region, in northern Mali. MSF started working in Ansongo in September 2012, nine months after the conflict broke out in the north of the country between the security forces and Tuareg and Islamist groups. Currently, MSF is working at the Ansongo referral hospital, a 31-bed facility, where the organisation carries out OPD, IPD, ANC consultations and assist deliveries.
Mali

“Today, humanitarian aid is more necessary than ever in the north”

Seïdina Ousseini has been MSF field coordinator in Ansongo, in the north of Mali, for one year. He explains us the difficulties facing the MSF teams to provide medical aid to the population affected by the political crisis and insecurity in the African country. Voices from the Field - 4 Mar 2015
 
Many people suffer from respiratory infections linked to the time they spent staying in basements when there was shelling.
Ukraine

Fighting decreases but medical situation remains dire

Although fighting in eastern Ukraine has reduced since a ceasefire came into effect on 15 February, shelling continues in some areas and medical needs remain urgent on both sides of the frontline. Crisis Update - 4 Mar 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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