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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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Patient: When the bomb fell on our home, it trapped my legs. I couldn’t do anything; I watched my family die in front of my eyes. My mother, sister, my two children, dying and I did nothing. Since we arrived in Lebanon, most days I just stay in the room with the children. It’s been almost five weeks since my last day out. MSF's Psychologist: I try to help her to let go of this guilt, to see that her family would understand she did everything she could. We’re still working on the difference between forgetting and moving on. Patiente: Quand la bombe s’est écrasée sur notre maison, mes jambes se sont retrouvées coincées sous les gravats. Je ne pouvais rien faire et j’ai vu ma famille mourir devant moi. Ma mère, ma sœur, mes deux enfants… ils sont morts et je n’ai rien fait. Depuis que l’on est arrivé au Liban, je passe la plupart de mes journées enfermée à la maison, avec les enfants. Cela fait presque cinq semaines que je ne suis pas sortie. Psychologue MSF: J’essaie de lui faire oublier ce sentiment de culpabilité, de lui dire que sa famille aurait compris qu’elle ne pouvait rien faire. Nous travaillons encore sur la différence entre le fait d’oublier et celui d’aller de l’avant.
Lebanon

“To see one smile on a broken face is enough to know that this work is worthwhile”

MSF has been working with refugees in Shatila refugee camp, Lebanon, since 2013. Illustrator Ella Barron visited our clinic in late 2018 and took refugees' testimonies and illustrated their stories, while MSF psychologist Miriam Slikhanian shares her experience of working on mental health issues in the camp. Project Update - 15 Jan 2019
 
Displaced people wait for a distribution of non-food items (NFIs) in Pulka town.
Nigeria

Crisis update: Borno and Yobe states, January 2019

Despite a massive deployment of aid in Borno state since 2016, the humanitarian response remains insufficient, many urgent needs remain unmet and hundreds of thousands of people remain heavily dependent on aid for survival, both in the state capital Maiduguri and in isolated enclaves in the countryside controlled by the military. Crisis Update - 14 Jan 2019
 
Yemen, Mawza, 13 December 2018 – Defused landmines. Mawza is located in Taiz governorate, a 45 minutes-drive to the east of Mocha city. This is a very poor and rural area, people are depending on their land to eat and to earn money. The area was taken over from Ansar Allah’s control by forces loyal to President Hadi, supported by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition, in the beginning of 2018. Fighting damaged the fields and thus, the livelihood of the 13,000 inhabitants of Mawza. While military troops were withdrawing, thousands of landmines and improvised explosive devices (IED) were planted in the area. Between August and December, MSF teams in Mocha received around 150 people injured by landmines or IED, mainly children playing in the fields. Landmines and IEDs are defused by military forces. Local NGOs are in charge of locating these devices.
Yemen

Trapped by landmines

Landmines and explosive devices urgently need clearing from civilian areas in southwest Yemen – not only places where people live, but also agricultural land. Project Update - 10 Jan 2019
 
The MSF team visited one of the survivors in an evacuation camp at Susukan Kampong, Sukarame Village, Carita Sub district. Here they met a 13-year-old adolescent who is also a beneficiary of the MSF adolescent health project in Banten.
Indonesia

Update on response to Sunda Strait tsunami

Updates from MSF's teams in Indonesia, following the tsunami that hit Sunda Strait late on 22 December 2018. Crisis Update - 9 Jan 2019
 
Constant influx of newly arrived people have left IDPs living in overcrowded communal shelters (60 to 70 people) or camping in the open under trees. They can stay there for several months before being allocated a personal shelter for their family.
Nigeria

“All I have in this world are the clothes on my back”

People continue to be displaced by violence in northeast Nigeria, where MSF has been providing lifesaving medical care since 2014. Many are dependent on aid to survive, and there is often not enough to go around. Project Update - 8 Jan 2019
 
Dr Patrick Indradjaja with Elis' family in Cigondang village, Indonesia
Indonesia

"Thank God, my family is safe!"

Elis, a 30-year-old mother who is seven-months pregnant and was treated by MSF, recounts her experience of the tsunami that hit her family’s home on the coast of Sunda Strait, Indonesia, on 22 December 2018. Voices from the Field - 3 Jan 2019
 
A girl is seen seated on an anti-vehicle concrete barrier built in front of the “Mother and Child” Hospital run by MSF, while some men are sitting outside the entrance of the Cholera treatment unit. Taiz Houban. Yemen
Yemen

A week in Yemen

As the conflict in Yemen enters its fourth year, MSF has put together a series of seven short videos that illustrate the devastating situation – through the eyes of our staff and patients. Campaign - 31 Dec 2018
 
Dina Afiryanti, an MSF midwife, is interviewing one of the community members of Carita Sub district, in Pandeglang. This is one of the areas in Banten Province, Indonesia that has been affected by the tsunami that hit the Sunda Strait on 22 December, around 9:30 pm local time.
Indonesia

MSF supports health centres tending to Sunda Strait tsunami victims in Indonesia

MSF teams responded to the influx of patients as injured people were brought to the health centres in Pandeglang district on the morning of 23 December 2018. Crisis Update - 24 Dec 2018
 
These are the drugs Oksana Kolodiuk, 39, a patient with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) needs to take every day for her course of treatment at the Zhytomyr Regional TB Dispensary. Oksana was diagnosed last August. In 2018, MSF started providing treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) to patients in Zhytomyr Oblast, in partnership with the Zhytomyr Regional TB Dispensary. In Zhytomyr, MSF introduced new oral drugs that are recommended by the WHO, including bedaquiline. These new dugs are essential for patients who have developed resistance to most of the older ones. Zhytomyr region has one of the highest rates of TB in Ukraine.
Access to medicines

Calling on governments to scale up oral TB treatment

As the World Health Organization (WHO) issues critical new TB treatment recommendations, MSF calls on governments to urgently scale-up all oral treatment. Press Release - 22 Dec 2018
 
Amana is a village of around 6,000 people, close to the Cameroonian border. Since the conflict in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon began in November 2017, more than 4,000 refugees have arrived in the village and have been hosted by the local community.
Nigeria

Tens of thousands of Cameroonians seek refuge in southern Nigeria

MSF has launched an emergency response to provide aid to people fleeing the English-speaking regions of Cameroon to seek refuge in southern Nigeria’s Cross River State, and to support the communities hosting them. Project Update - 21 Dec 2018
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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