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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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Raqqa, the west side of the city. People are slowly returning to their homes to find in either damaged of fully destroyed. The fights subsided in Raqqa in mid-October
Syria

The cruel legacy of conflict

Michael Shek is an MSF nurse from Dumfries, Scotland. He worked in MSF’s trauma stabilisation unit in the east of Raqqa in late 2017. Voices from the Field - 27 Apr 2018
 
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Yemen

MSF condemns airstrikes on a wedding party in Hajjah

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) received 63 casualties in a hospital it supports in Hajjah, following a series of night-time airstrikes by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition on a wedding party that took place in a remote, impoverished village in Bani Qays district in Yemen, on Sunday 22 April. Press Release - 25 Apr 2018
 
Khairiya, 77-year old, had three children who died in Syria, and beneath that shy smile, you can sense her grief. She has been suffering from diabetes for 15 years, and the disease has taken its toll on her body: her vision has become blurry, voices sound distant in her ears and her legs can no longer hold her as they used to. In December 2014, MSF opened a non-communicable diseases (NCDs) project in Irbid governorate with two clinics, providing medical treatment for Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians with a range of chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, asthma, cardiovascular diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The NCD project also provides health education and psychosocial support to help patients lead healthy lives. At present, MSF has 3,374 patients enrolled in its NCDs project in Irbid; 2,113 (62.6%) of them are being treated for both types of diabetes. MSF teams have provided 58,181 consultations, including home visits, since the start of the NCDs project in December 2014.
Jordan

Syrians’ access to medical care at risk

Ahead of the Brussels conference on Syria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges the international community to scale-up healthcare funding for Syrian refugees in the region. A recent decision in Jordan to increase public health care fees for Syrian refugees could impact their access to healthcare and lead to increased vulnerability, says MSF. Press Release - 22 Apr 2018
 
In Alqsa Hospital, MSF team of surgeon, anesthesiologist and OT nurse, support the team of the local hospital with the massive influx of injured due to gunshots
Palestine

MSF teams in Gaza observe unusually severe and devastating gunshot injuries

Since 1 April, MSF teams in Gaza, Palestine, have provided post-operative care to more than 500 people injured by gunshots during the March of Return demonstrations. Project Update - 19 Apr 2018
 
Churches and religious service are an important opportunity for the community to come together and share in their experiences. People can better come together with their issues when they do so in a collective manner.
South Sudan

The mounting mental health toll in Upper Nile State

The Malakal Protection of Civilian site (PoC) was created at the beginning of 2014 to offer temporary protection to the population of the area who were caught up in fighting in South Sudan's Upper Nile region. But four years on, the difficult living conditions, the loss of hope, feelings of enclosure, as well as limited livelihood opportunities have had an effect on the mental health of those who are trapped inside. Voices from the Field - 17 Apr 2018
 
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Syria

Zero point – displaced from East Ghouta and in need of treatment

Close to 60,000 people have been displaced from East Ghouta to northwest Syria in the space of just a month. A significant number of these men, women and children are injured or sick and in need of medical care. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) participated in the medical response. MSF supports the main hospital in charge of triaging and treating these patients at a location known as “zero point”, where the new arrivals descend from buses. Refaat Al Obed, the hospital’s Medical Director, describes the situation. Voices from the Field - 13 Apr 2018
 
Name changed for their safety: Akech (wife) and Kuany (husband) Akech (33) tries to cultivate a small garden with some veggies like eggplants and greens on the polluted soil of the PoC Camp in Bentiu. Akech and her husband Kuany, parents of 9 children, came with the first waves of refugees on 27-12-2013 to the PoC Camp in Bentiu. They had a bright and wonderful life in the city of Bentiu. But with the beginning of the clashes between the official SPLA soldiers and the troops in opposition (SPLA/IO) the killing started. „Bodies over bodies were to be seen on the streets and we started to run with all our kids to the Camp Site“, says Kuany thoughtfully. „I lost during all this fightings and burnings all my documents, incl my University tittle prooving that I am received, teacher. We lost our identities, nothing is left. We had a great life, 35 cows, a garden with veggies and flowers. I can still remember their smell. Now we are here, under most awful and miserable conditions, and limited food access.“ Besides the terrifying wood collecting for some extra money of his wife due to the many sexual outbreaks of violence outside the camps, the food was not enough. One day in 2014, Kuany decided to go with friends to Nyabol, a place rich in fishes. "We didn't even have the chances to install us when official troops (SPLA) started to shoot. We jumped into the water and hid in the swampy bushes. I remember the voice calling us. Are you shot? I recognized the voice, the voice of one of my former students. I went out of the water and he questioned me what I was doing here. My explanation of the hunger and the need to feed my wife and kids were good enough. He and his others SPLA mates were visibly surprised and all of my friends were allowed to come out and to leave alive the area. Over hours I was shaking, the shock was deep inside my body and soul." Kuany went for Christmas 2015 to the city of Bentiu to check on his property. Nothing was left, no roof, no
South Sudan

Enduring Bentiu

A Daily Struggle in South Sudan's Protection of Civilians Site Photo Story - 12 Apr 2018
 
On the evening of April 10th, patients flocked to the MSF Sica hospital in Bangui following the resumption in the afternoon of the operation of MINUSCA and Central African security forces in PK5 district in Bangui on the 10th. April against local armed groups, which gave rise to fighting. Le 10 avril en soirée, les patients ont afflué à l'hôpital MSF Sica de Bangui suite à la reprise dans l'après-midi de l'opération de la MINUSCA et des forces de sécurité centrafricaine dans le quartier de PK5 à Bangui le 10 avril contre des groupes armés locaux, qui a donné lieu à des combats.
Central African Republic

Four things to know about the conflict in the Central African Republic

Ongoing war has resulted in a protracted humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), creating severe health needs among the population. Voices from the Field - 10 Apr 2018
 
Asylum seekers are forced to move from an asylum centre that was closed down in Skaraborg, Sweden. Many asylum seekers have to move multiple times throughout the asylum process, causing distress and disrupting previous stabilising factors such as social networks, school attendance and health care services.
Sweden

Uncertain life situation leads to mental health distress among asylum seekers

A new report by MSF reveals that many asylum seekers suffer from mental health problems and that their uncertain life situation in destination countries is the main contributing factor. The report, which is based on a project in Sweden, also highlights obstacles that prevent asylum seekers from receiving the care they need and have a right to. MSF calls for improved access to mental health care services for asylum seekers. Report - 9 Apr 2018
 
Refugees in northern DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

Lives split over the Congolese border

Sébastien Jagla, MSF project coordinator in the north of Democratic Republic of Congo, describes the challenges to provide humanitarian assistance to Central African refugees, constantly on the move between two places and with no real home. Voices from the Field - 6 Apr 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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