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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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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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Women and children detained at female-only Sorman detention centre, around 60km west of Tripoli, Libya.
Libya

Ongoing violence against detained migrants forces MSF to suspend Tripoli detention centre activities

Violence against people detained in overcrowded detention centres in Tripoli, Libya, has forced MSF to suspend activities providing medical care. Press Release - 22 Jun 2021
 
Collins comforts his daughter, and talks to her about the importance of being vaccinated for good health to distract her from the piece of glass being removed from her foot. He also leans over her to prevent her from seeing the blood.
Cameroon

People in northwest seek healthcare as MSF denied providing medical services

Following the Cameroon government's suspension of MSF services in the country's North-West region, people in the region have struggled to access medical care amid ongoing violence. Press Release - 22 Jun 2021
 
35-year old Dehab* has come to MSF’s clinic at the Primary School IDP site to seek help for her mental health issues. She is a single mother of four children and says she feels constantly stressed. She is from Shire and says she has not received any medical care for three months. “I just used holy water from the church to cure my problems.” (12.2.2021)
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Tigray violence scatters people across two countries

The conflict which broke out in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, in November 2020, has scattered people across both the Tigray region, and into neighbouring Sudan, where access to healthcare and basic needs are difficult across both sides of the border. Crisis Update - 22 Jun 2021
 
A little girl getting her hair done by her aunt in Dagahaley camp
Kenya

Return is not a solution, say refugees in Dadaab after camp closure announcement

Following the decision to close the camps in Dadaab, Kenya, refugees say being forced back to Somalia could lead to a far worse humanitarian crisis. Project Update - 18 Jun 2021
 
“I have two kids and in this cold weather we’ve got no heating,” says Nasr Al Jaddouh, a resident of Fan Al-Shemali camp in Idlib governorate, “it rains for a few days and then it stops. We cannot sit anywhere, the water flows into our tent.”
Syria

Millions of lives at stake if cross-border aid channels close in Syria

Millions of people's lives in northwest Syria could be in jeopardy if UN Security Council members are unable to renew a resolution that enables humanitarian aid to pass into the region. Press Release - 18 Jun 2021
 
ROTATION 1, RESCUE 6, 12/06/21 - MSF teams operate the first rescue of the day from a boat in distress with 93 people on board
Mediterranean migration

Witnessing harrowing crossings onboard the Geo Barents

MSF teams carried out several rescues of people where they safely brought onboard men, women and children on the search and rescue vessel, Geo Barrents, in the Mediterranean Sea. Voices from the Field - 18 Jun 2021
 
Displaced people stand outside a mosque in Bambari town, Central African Republic, where several thousand people sought refuge after Elevage camp was destroyed in early June. 14 June 2021.
Central African Republic

People in Bambari living in deplorable conditions following camp destruction

Following renewed fighting between government forces and non-state armed groups in Bambari, thousands of sought refuge as the Elevage camp for displaced people was destroyed. Project Update - 17 Jun 2021
 
To support Iraqi Ministry of Health on facing COVID-19, MSF is providing MOH hospital staff with technical support on infection prevention and control and patient triage.
Iraq

MSF Iraq annual report 2020

The 2020 MSF Iraq annual report provides an overview on all MSF activities in Iraq during the year. Report - 14 Jun 2021
 
Portal of MSF Emergency Center of Martissant, in Port-au-Prince. On the night of June 23, 2019, a patient was shot dead just in front of this portal while leaving the structure. Ironically, paintings on the portal remind us of the prohibition of carrying weapons in the emergency center. For months, Haitians have seen a steady decline in their purchasing power as the national currency devalued and fuel prices increased, against a backdrop of seemingly endless political stalemates and scandals. Since 9 June, tensions have escalated and there have been almost daily demonstrations and outbursts of violence in cities including Port-au-Prince, Les Cayes and Gonaïves.
Haiti

Haiti: Violence puts patients, medical activities, and staff at risk

A spike in violence in Haiti's capital is putting MSF's medical activities in jeopardy. Press Release - 12 Jun 2021
 
“We don't know where to go to escape this new danger. We too, in Goma, need assistance and medical care. ”- Dieudonné Bizimungu On the Saturday 22 May, the day of the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano, I was at home, in the Kihisi area of Goma. I was resting with my family after a week of work at Kibumba primary school where I teach. In the evening, it started to get very hot. The lava was heading straight to us. We fled, without thinking, without bringing anything with us. In Birere, a neighborhood in Goma where we gathered with other families, I heard that lava was starting to reach my house. I decided to go see what was going on: the lava flow was about a hundred meters from our home. I returned there, very early in the morning: to my surprise, it had stopped a few meters from my house. My roof has remained intact. When the government decided that we had to evacuate, we left for the second time, this time to the Kibumba area, north of Goma. Two days later, we decided to come back, having no clean water to drink. The 20-liter can cost 1,000 Congolese Francs (0.46 euros) against the usual 250 (0.10 euros). We only ate potatoes and cabbage. Today, the situation remains critical for my family and those around us. Night and day, we continue to feel the heat of the lava. Carbon dioxide continues to exit the cooled lava flow. Scientists and authorities tell us it is dangerous for health, but we remain exposed. We don't know where to go to escape this new danger. Sake (25 km west of Goma) or Minova (in South Kivu) are not the only places where disaster victims find themselves. We in Goma, too, need medical assistance and care. “
Democratic Republic of Congo

Helping each other after the eruption of Nyiragongo

Residents and displaced people share their stories of trying to survive in the wake of the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, DRC. Exposure - 11 Jun 2021
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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