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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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A hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is destroyed by an aerial bombing in Millis town, Idlib Governorate, Syria on Saturday 06 August. Killing four hospital staff and nine others, including children. The hospital was struck with two direct (and two in the immediate vicinity) aerial strikes at around 2:00pm local time. Six other hospital staff were wounded. The bombing substantially destroyed the building, and the hospital is currently closed. This comes in the midst of an escalation in intensity of conflict in Idlib Governorate.
Syria

MSF-supported hospital in Idlib bombed to the ground amid increased intensity of attacks

Press Release - 8 Aug 2016
 
Ansongo hospital in Gao region, northern Mali, where MSF carries out consultations and assists deliveries.
Mali

Recent clashes in the north are hampering the deployment of humanitarian assistance

Project Update - 4 Aug 2016
 
MSF nurse Yuliya Karitonova speaks with 79 year old Victor who is about to receive his medication. Victor’s wife, Valentina also visited the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Mobile clinic in the village of Troits’ke, located only few kilometers away from the contact line to receive medical care.
Ukraine

MSF concludes medical humanitarian activities in Bakhmut

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concluding its activities in Bakhmut areas today – covering locations in northern parts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. MSF has been assisting people affected by the conflict in these locations since May 2014, providing direct support to more than 40,000 residents and 10,000 displaced people. Press Release - 29 Jul 2016
 
Street scene in Aleppo, from April 2013.
Syria

Trapped, under attack and struggling to survive in Aleppo

Fighting has intensified over the past three weeks and the long-suffering people of Aleppo city are bearing the brunt of the devastation. Continuous aerial attacks pound the east of the city, while shelling strikes the west, causing many casualties and injuries. Project Update - 28 Jul 2016
 
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India

MSF calls for affordable pneumonia vaccines ahead of Pfizer’s patent hearing in India

“The pneumonia vaccine is the world’s best-selling vaccine, and last year alone, Pfizer brought in more than US$6 billion dollars in sales just for this product - meanwhile many developing countries, where millions of children risk getting pneumonia, simply can’t afford it”, said Dr Greg Elder, Medical Coordinator for MSF’s Access Campaign. “To make sure children everywhere can be protected from deadly pneumonia, other companies need to be allowed to enter the market so they can supply this vaccine for a much lower price than Pfizer charges.” Press Release - 28 Jul 2016
 
During the second week of July 2016, MSF organised an exploratory mission and an emergency distribution for more than 15,000 displaced people leaving in dire conditions in the city of Banki, in Borno State – Nigeria.
Project Update

Crisis Info - July 2016

Crisis Update - 27 Jul 2016
 
During the second week of July 2016, MSF organised an exploratory mission and an emergency distribution for more than 15,000 displaced people leaving in dire conditions in the city of Banki, in Borno State – Nigeria.
Nigeria

MSF warns of large-scale humanitarian disaster in Borno State

More than 500,000 people are living in catastrophic and unsanitary conditions in a number of villages and towns across Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. “In Banki, as in a number of other areas, people have almost no access to humanitarian aid,” says MSF’s emergency programme manager Hugues Robert. Press Release - 27 Jul 2016
 
There are more than 4,400 patients with renal failure in Yemen who are struggling to get weekly dialysis sessions to stay alive. To avoid potential death, patients rely on machines to clean their blood, something normally done by functioning kidneys. Those living with kidney failure normally should attend dialysis treatment sessions three times per week at four hours per session. In order for patients to receive treatment, treatment centres have to be functioning and supplies must be available. Most of the functioning dialysis centers in Yemen lack supplies causing interruptions in treatment to patients in need. And because of the pressure on the dialysis centres, most renal failure patients now receive only two weekly sessions instead of three in order for the dialysis centers to be able to accommodate all the patients they are receiving.
Yemen

Dialysis treatment at breaking point

“People with renal failure are at a critical moment as there is a lack of essential medical supplies in the country. Patients usually need three dialysis sessions per week but under current circumstances, for most, this has been reduced to two sessions.” said William Turner, MSF Head of Mission in Yemen. Press Release - 26 Jul 2016
 
MV Aquarius disembarks 209 people and the dead bodies of 21 women and one man in Trapani, Sicily on the 22nd July 2016. The search and recue vessel, a partnership between MSF and SOS Méditerranée, responded to a boat in distress on 20th July 2016. "We see from the people that survived that they are unusually silent. They are just staring with these empty eyes into nothingness for hours and hours. It's been horrific. These things shouldn't happen. It's 2016. It shouldn't happen anymore." Dr Erna Rijnierse, Doctor onboard MV Aquarius a search and rescue vessel run in partnership between MSF and SOS Méditerranée.
Mediterranean migration

MSF doctor recounts finding deaths at sea

By Dr Erna Rijnierse, an MSF doctor onboard the search and rescue vessel the MV Aquarius Voices from the Field - 25 Jul 2016
 
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams are working with refugees and migrants in the transit zones of Kelebjia and Horgos in Subotica, Serbia on the Hungarian border. These transit camps have formed because Hungary remains the only legal entry to the EU but the daily quotas reduced to 8-15 people per day per transit zone. This creates back-log accentuated by violent push-backs. Main interventions : MSF Mobile clinics for medical care and mental health. Distribution of non-food items WASH activities as allowed by authorities.
Serbia

Sharp increase in violence against migrants since border closures in the Balkans

Project Update - 22 Jul 2016
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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