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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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“This is my third child, Taha. He’s only 48 days old," says Balqees. "I gave birth to him in a health centre in the village. They told me that my son needed medical attention. In our area there are no hospitals, only clinics, so we drove for around two hours to get to this hospital. When we first arrived, Taha was taken for phototherapy because he had jaundice. We stayed a week in the hospital and then returned to the village. When his health deteriorated, I had to come back to the hospital. I have been here for four days now. Even a simple walk tires me. I am still recovering from the trip – it was exhausting, especially being pregnant and with those difficult road conditions. My husband has not come to visit me in the hospital – our financial situation does not allow it, so he stays in the village. Even when I fall ill, I don’t seek healthcare, because we don’t have the money. I could never have afforded a private hospital."
Yemen

Behind the conflict in Yemen

storymaps - 30 Nov 2020
 
The Hamadayet border crossing, where refugees from Ethiopia cross the river into Sudan. New arrivals take whatever belongings they can carry with them, some have their livestock’s and others left with nothing.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

MSF providing medical care and assistance in Sudan to people fleeing violence in Ethiopia

In the wake of fresh conflict in northern Ethiopia, thousands of people have fled north into neighbouring Sudan, where MSF is providing medical care and assistance. Project Update - 27 Nov 2020
 
Laylan camp: IDPs are asked to load their belongings on trucks provided by the authorities as part of the camp closure.
Iraq

Displaced people in Iraq’s Laylan camp express fears as camp closes

Rushed camp closures and returns of internally displaced people in Iraq to their areas of origin will have serious humanitarian consequences, says MSF. Press Release - 24 Nov 2020
 
Alba Ramos is treated for MSF health workers in the intensive care unit inside of the COVID-19 unit operated by MSF in collaboration with Pérez de León II Hospital in Caracas, Venezuela. ---- Alba Ramos es atendida por el equipo de MSF en la unidad de cuidados intensivos de COVID-19 que MSF opera en conjunto con el Hospital Pérez de León II en Caracas, Venezuela.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Staff entry restrictions force MSF to withdraw from COVID-19 response in Venezuela hospital

Entry restrictions for MSF international staff in Venezuela have made it difficult to continue our work on COVID-19, forcing us to withdraw from our work in a Caracas hospital.
 Press Release - 24 Nov 2020
 
202002, Kristof Vadino, Bosnia, refugees, in an abandonned old factory in Velika Kladusa, near 'The Factory', between 30 and 50 people sleep here, the wind blows trough, only 2 small confined spaces, no water or electricity
Mediterranean migration

“What Europe is experiencing today, is not a humanitarian crisis, but a crisis of humanity.”

MSF International President Dr Christos Christou speaks to governments High-level Interparliamentary Conference on Migration and Asylum in Europe on their migration obligations. Speech - 19 Nov 2020
 
Children playing in the street
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF denounces ongoing violence in Salamabila

Statement following further violence In Salamabila, Democratic Republic of Congo, where attacks on civilians and other human rights violations are frequent. Statement - 19 Nov 2020
 
Dr Tathy, an MSF doctor, sees patients considered as non-Ebola suspects in consultation, as part of the mobile intervention clinic and training of local medical staff in the Ebola context, in the village of Bobua. This decentralization-based device aims to detect and isolate, if necessary, any person presenting symptoms close to Ebola (fevers, diarrhea, headaches, bleeding, etc.). But at the same time to treat other pathologies which are rife in the area, such as malaria or severe acute malnutrition. This is in order to increase the acceptance of MSF by the population in the area, and to avoid the stigmatization that affects Ebola patients, by getting as close as possible to the patients, and taking care of them where they live. Bobua. *** Dr Tathy, médecin MSF, reçoit en consultation des patients considérés comme non suspects Ebola, dans le cadre des activités de clinique d'intervention mobile et de formation du personnel médical local en contexte Ebola, dans le village de Bobua. Ce dispositif axé sur la décentralisation, a pour but de déceler, et isoler le cas échéant, toute personne présentant des symptômes proches d'Ebola (fièvres, diarhhées, céphalées, saignements...). Mais de soigner en même temps d'autres pathologies qui sévissent dans la zone, telles que le paludisme ou la malnutrition aïgue sévère. Ceci afin d'augmenter l'acceptance de MSF par la population dans la zone, et d'éviter la stigmatisation qui affecte les patients Ebola, en se rapprochant au plus près des patients, et en les prenant en charge sur leur lieu de vie. Bobua.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Improved medical response sees the end of DRC’s eleventh Ebola outbreak

Almost six months since the eleventh outbreak of Ebola was declared in DRC, new tools and an improved medical response have seen the epidemic come to an end. Project Update - 19 Nov 2020
 
26-year-old biotechnologist Rebecca Achok, registers and codes samples of COVID-19 suspected cases in the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) in Juba. Rebecca is one of the eight biotechnologists of the NPHL’s reception area to where the samples are brought for testing from all over the country. After the samples are registered and coded, they are send to an extraction room where another technician will determine whether the sample is positive for COVID-19 virus.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Governments must support landmark proposal to waive COVID-19 patents

MSF is urging all countries to join the 99 others who have expressed support for a landmark request to waive intellectual property on coronavirus COVID-19 drugs and vaccines, allowing for affordable access. Press Release - 19 Nov 2020
 
A family in their tent in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, February 2, 2013. photo by Kaung Htet
MSF Speaking Out

MSF and the Rohingya 1992 - 2014

The case study "MSF and the Rohingya 1992 - 2014" brings to light two decades of MSF advocacy activities as part of its humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya people in Bangladesh and Myanmar and explores the questions and dilemmas the organisation was confronted with surrounding speaking out. Speaking Out Case Studies - 19 Nov 2020
 
Phenduka Mtshali, a patient with Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB), is seen at her home in Mbongolwane, South Africa speaking with MSF fieldworker, Jabulile. Phenduka lives in Mbongolwane a rural area of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province at the epicentre of South Africa’s HIV & TB epidemic and where MSF is currently piloting a model of care aimed at upgrading the TB treatment cascade. Everybody Breathes is a package documenting how the lessons learnt from the initial phases of the ‘Bending The Curves’ initiative in South Africa are now being used by MSF in Eshowe to tackle TB. The package will document interventions the project is putting in place in collaboration with its partners to prevent the spread of TB, provide a link for patients to get tested, locate missing cases and ensuring patients remain on treatment with structures that fit into their lives. Under embargo until 24/03/2020.
Tuberculosis

Step up for TB report 2020

MSF and Stop TB Partnership present the 4th edition of the Step up for TB report, which surveys TB testing and treatment progress among 37 high TB-burden countries. Report - 16 Nov 2020
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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