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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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Over 18 Schools have been opened up so far in Hasakeh city to provide for the steady influx of IDPs fleeing the frontline conflict between Turkish and the Syrian Democratic Forces. Each school houses from 150 to 270 people but lack water and hygienic facilities. The Syrian Humanitarian Coordinating Office expect 30,000 refugees to come to the city in the next coming days and to be-housed in these schools. They are beginning to set up for at least a hundred schools. Most of these refugees have no documentation or identification cards due to the conflict that has been raging over the last eight years. Local humanitarian organizations have highlighted the dire need of water supply as a major need.
Syria

Northeast Syria: Turkish military operation results in displacement and hospital closure

Shelling by Turkish military has displaced many people from villages and towns along Syria's northeast border. A hospital has closed. Press Release - 11 Oct 2019
 
Dmitry, a patient at the TB Institute in Minsk, Belarus, visiting Andrey an MSF counsellor. Andrey (counsellor): "During the seven months that we’ve known each other you were not an easy one. You were tough and thorny. But now it’s changed. It’s interesting with you." Andrey visits him almost every day and spends time with him, talking about different topics. Andrey (when Dmitry has left): “He doesn’t like it when somebody says nice things about him. They are used to living in tension, they are not used to such an attitude”. TB Institute, Minsk, Belarus, August 2018. Dmitry has been in this Institute for 7 months. Before this, he was in another hospital for 2 years.
Belarus

TB patients improve treatment adherence with psychological and social support

TB patients in Belarus have been shown to adhere - or stick to - their treatment better when they receive specialised psychological and social support. Project Update - 10 Oct 2019
 
Portrait of Oleg in his living room which is also the bedroom he shares with his partner Alyona, whom he met while undergoing treatment for TB. "I was on treatment for TB, and I was not getting better. In July 2016 I was feeling worse. I would take a job but I wouldn’t be able to work for more than 2 hours. When people would give me a hand for a handshake I wouldn’t shake hands because it was painful as if my hand was breaking. My condition was deteriorating. In August they did an x-ray and the spot (in the lung) was growing. I was tired. I’d been through many things in my life – surgeries, an oncological condition, but I’d never experienced anything like it. I was told I should approach MSF, Doctors Without Borders, and that they could help. I approached them and they helped me. I felt sunshine inside me. So the decision had been approved to support my treatment. I’m very grateful to MSF because they offered me a helping hand. In April 2017 I was transferred to outpatient treatment here, in the TB Dispensary 2. On new treatment, with the new drugs I felt more or less ok in a month. I had an appetite again. MSF staff would call me and visit me, we would talk, joke together and I felt better. All this support has a very good impact. So I was transferred here, I was taking these drugs, and I started gaining weight. My mother was supporting me during the treatment. I was single then." Oleg says, in Minsk, Belarus, in August 2018.
Tuberculosis

TB drug delamanid must be more affordable and made available in more countries

Drug manufacturer Mylan will introduce a lower price for newer TB drug delamanid in South Africa - but it is still too expensive for those who need it and must be made available at a lower price in other countries Statement - 10 Oct 2019
 
Palestine: The invisible mental health crisis plaguing the West Bank
Palestine

The invisible mental health crisis plaguing the West Bank

Much-needed mental health consultations are among the services Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offers civilians in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank of Palestine since 1996. Project Update - 10 Oct 2019
 
MSF's Access Campaign and MSF-USA held a demonstration across form the J&J shareholders' meeting on April 25, 2019, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The message was for J7J to bring down the price of newer TB drug bedaquiline to $1 per day.
Access to medicines

MSF demands Johnson & Johnson reduce price of lifesaving TB drug

Despite benefiting from contributions, including tax payer funds, to develop tuberculosis drug bedaquiline, Johnson and Johnson are making huge profits - while people die. We demand that J&J halve the price of bedaquiline. Press Release - 10 Oct 2019
 
The laboratory at the Malabako General Hospital, where MSF helped refurbish the infrastructure. The hospital is suffering from a severe staff shortage
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola response overshadows already fragile health system

The Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo is draining medical staff and resources from the regular - and already fragile - health system. Project Update - 9 Oct 2019
 
A Yezidi woman aged 60 poses in her house in Sinuni on September 2nd, 2019. « We are from Khanasor village but we’ve been living in Sinuni since March 2019, when we came back from the IDP camps. After the 2014 genocide, I started to have mental health problems. I feel nervous, scared, uncomfortable and angry. I have a constant headache. I have pain in my eyes because I cry a lot. I am always thinking about the memories from the genocide, those who died, those who emigrated. Some of my sons live abroad now, and it’s difficult to be apart ». (Merged image: top view of the burned ground in a ghost town north of Mount Sinjar, on which dead flowers have fallen) ©Emilienne Malfatto
Mental health

The Yazidi - a community without hope

The genocide of the Yazidi people - a religious minority based in northern Iraq, near the border with Syria - by Islamic State group in 2014 traumatised the remaining community. Today MSF teams are providing medical care, but especially mental healthcare, to help people heal. msf.exposure.co - 9 Oct 2019
 
John * and Jean * hold each other’s arms in the CHK. Jean was diagnosed with HIV in 2010. He was hospitalized in June 2019 for the first time. A few weeks after his release, he had to return urgently for a new hospitalization.
HIV/AIDS

Burden sharing or burden shifting? How the HIV/TB response is being derailed

The report <i>Burden sharing or burden shifting? How the HIV/TB response is being derailed</i> examines the HIV and TB response in nine countries where MSF runs programmes. With a focus on the financial resources available, this report highlights the current risks and gaps in HIV and TB service delivery in these countries. Report - 7 Oct 2019
 
Tin Lay, 42, from Myanmar is in the preparation stage for TB treatment at MSF's Insein clinic, Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 22, 2018.
HIV/AIDS

Urgent boost and reality check needed for HIV and TB funding

An MSF report looking at the funding shortfall for HIV and TB and resulting affects on patients in nine countries highlights the dangers for a potential reversal in the HIV and TB response if donor countries don't increase funding. Press Release - 6 Oct 2019
 
A Yezidi man aged 24 poses in his tent on Mount Sinjar on September 3rd, 2019. « We are from the South of the mountain, close to Sinjar City. After the genocide, we stayed for one year in an IDP camp in Kurdistan, then we came here, to the mountain. I live in this tent with my family, my parents, my wife, my brother, my nephews… It is very, very difficult to live here. The living conditions are very hard. It’s either too hot or too cold. The latrines are shared and disgusting. There is no work here. I work with an armed group and make 300 USD a month. I am never happy. I am always upset. I cannot hang out with my friends because I can’t pretend to be happy. Depression is very hard. I feel like I am melting - and indeed I have lost a lot of weight. I affects my whole body. I also forget a lot of things. I keep thinking about things I saw, or heard, about the genocide. Children who died. Children who were killed by ISIS and then ISIS cooked them and gave the ‘meat’ to their mothers. I tried to kill myself three times: by drowning, with a gun, and with a knife. Each time, I was stopped. Since then, my family is worried about me, and I feel guilty because of that. It just makes things worse. I don’t want to take medication because it has too much side effects. I would like a magic pill to make all of what happened disappear, and make things good again. In those living conditions, it’s not easy to get better. Every single night I cry myself to sleep. Nothing makes me happy in life. There is no happiness in this life. If I am alive or dead, it’s the same thing. » ©Emilienne Malfatto
Iraq

MSF warns of mental health crisis among Yazidis in Iraq

A mental health crisis, including multiple suicides, is occurring in Iraq among the Yazidi community in Sinjar. IS atrocities took place here in 2014. Press Release - 4 Oct 2019
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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