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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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Fatima and her daughter, inside the MSF hospital in Pulka town, northeast Nigeria, close to the border with Cameroon. Fatima is 18-years-old from Geidem town, in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Yobe. She was only 14-years-old when members of a non-state armed group stormed her hometown. She was separated from her family and forced to marry. Fatima has spent the last four years living between the bush and a village in an area non-controlled by the Government. She arrived in Pulka in May. She is now staying in a camp for internally displaced people, along with her three-year-old son, Mustafa, and 18-month-old daughter, also called Fatima. Fatima is malnourished, and has diarrhoea and a fever.
Nigeria

Fighting to survive: Conflict in northeast Nigeria

Conflict has ravaged the northeastern Nigerian states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe for a decade, displacing more than 2 million people and leaving nearly 8 million reliant on humanitarian assistance. This photo story describes the toll the conflict has taken, particularly on women. Photo Story - 5 Jun 2019
 
Yemen, Amran governorate, Khamer Cholera treatment Centre, 25 April 2019 - Women ward, Khamer CTC. Between 1 January and 26 March 2019, MSF has admitted 7,938 suspected cholera cases to its health facilities in Amran, Hajjah, Ibb and Taiz governorates, 50% of them coming from Ibb governorate. Over this period, the number of cholera patients treated by MSF increased from 140 to 2,000 per week. Results of rapid diagnostic tests done in MSF projects show that, in the same period, the percentage of cholera-positive cases increased from 58% to 70%. MSF has scaled up its response: teams have opened a 42-bed cholera treatment centre in Khamer. Since March, there are around 30 patients every day in Khamer CTC, they are staying between 2 and 3 days. MSF teams have also increased the bed capacity of the cholera treatment unit in Taiz; have bolstered centres in Ibb and Kilo; and opened a cholera treatment centre in Al Kuwait hospital in Sana’a. During the last two weeks of April, our teams have observed a decrease of suspected cases in most of our projects. Cholera is endemic in Yemen: between 2016 and 2017, two waves of cholera hit the country. Although the disease was subsequently brought under control, health authorities and medical organisations have continued to see cholera cases in almost all governorates of the country since then.
Yemen

Endemic in Yemen, cholera still hits Yemenis hard

VIDEO REPORT: Although cholera is endemic in Yemen, a collapsed health system has resulted in waves of the disease over the last three years. Earlier this year, MSF teams saw yet another spike in cases, witnessing the impact on ordinary people struggling to cope. Project Update - 5 Jun 2019
 
A pregnant woman, who has fled persecution in Kosovo, breaks down in a refugee camp in Kukes, a remote Albanian border town. During the civil war in Kosovo, thousands of people were forced to leave their home, and fled to Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro.
MSF Speaking Out

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In MSF, this means a willingness to speak on behalf of the people we seek to help: to bring abuses and intolerable situations to public attention. Through case studies, we openly examine and analyse our actions and decision-making processes during humanitarian emergencies that have led us to speak out. - 3 Jun 2019
 
Yemen, Hodeidah, Al Salakhana hospital, 28 April 2019 - Maria Teresa Ingalla, ortho surgeon is watching the Xray of a patient injured by a gunshot in the abdomen. Mohammed, 18, was sitting in a street in Hodeidah, around 4.00pm when he was injured by a stray bullet: the bullet entered through his hip to his abdomen, next to one of his arteries. Luckily the bullet did not touch the spinal cord. It was removed after a laparotomy.
Yemen

A day treating wounded in Yemen's Al Salakhana hospital

VIDEO report: MSF teams started working in Al Salakhanah hospital, in the northeast of the port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, in September 2018 to provide care to the injured, including war-wounded civilians. Project Update - 30 May 2019
 
MSF medical staff checks on a 6 year old girl, hospitalized for Dengue fever at the Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital in San Pedro Sula. To ease the overcrowding of the hospital due to the recent alarming increase in dengue fever cases in Honduras this year, MSF has set up an emergency ward at the Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital where so far more than 850 patients have been treated. San Pedro Sula, April 10th, 2019.
Honduras

MSF expands efforts to control dengue epidemic in northern Honduras

MSF is ramping up its efforts to control the epidemic of dengue fever in northern Honduras’ Cortes department. Project Update - 29 May 2019
 
Amara is the youngest in a family of 10 children. Since her birth, she has suffered from chest and breathing problems, so she was admitted to the paediatric ward that MSF runs in Elias Haraoui Governmental Hospital in Zahle, where she stayed for 10 days. Amara’s mother, Rakad, is very grateful for the free services that her daughter received from MSF in the hospital. Since she was born, Amara’s health situation was putting burdens on her parents who can’t afford the cost of her treatment. Rakad lives with her husband and 10 children in a refugee settlement. In addition to Amara’s health problems, two of Rakad’s children suffer from a physical disability and require treatment. All that Rakad wishes for is that her children get better, and the situation in Syria goes back to normal so the family can return.

International Financial Report 2018

Annual Report - 28 May 2019
 
75-year-old Hassan is one of the community leaders in the village Ton-Habalan. He has 21 children with three wives: “Now that I am old, my grown up children work for me. Before, my work was to take care of my livestock. I do not have any education. But me and my family had many camels and goats. The big draught in 2017 killed almost all my livestock, and now we only have a very small number of livestock left. The biggest problem is water, most of the berkits (rainwater ponds) are now empty, and there is no water here. It is good that we have access to healthcare but we do not have water. It is now the driest season here. And also food is a problem, we don’t have enough and we did not get food and water distribution.”
Ethiopia

Bringing healthcare to places where no health posts exist

MSF runs 17 mobile clinics in Doolo zone, a vast, arid area in Ethiopia’s Somali region, where patient numbers have consistently increased, indicating that we are reaching the right places. Project Update - 27 May 2019
 
A surgeon at MSF SICA Hospital in Bangui tries to extract a bullet deeply lodged in a patient's shoulder. Un chirurgien de l'hôpital MSF SICA à Bangui tente d'extraire une balle profondément logée dans l'épaule d'un patient.
Central African Republic

“It felt like it was raining bullets” in attacks on villages that kill over 50

On Tuesday 21 May, dozens of civilians were killed when three villages in the Ouham-Pendé region were attacked by gunmen. One of the survivors, who was transferred to Bangui and treated by MSF, recalls the events. Voices from the Field - 24 May 2019
 
MSF teams have seen a general increase in the number of women, children and whole families traveling North.
Central American migration

“Mexico is not an option for my family to stay”

Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers from across Central America, trying to cross to the United States, are stuck in Mexico and currently living in shelters and on the streets of violent border cities, such as Reynosa, Mexicali and Nuevo Laredo. Project Update - 24 May 2019
 
Image Description: People in Menka, in the North-West Region of Cameroon, wait to receive medical assistance from MSF. In an area which violence and displacement has interrupted access to healthcare, MSF teams are distributing essential non-food items such as soap and mosquito nets; conducting consultations for preventative and curative care; and referring emergency cases.
Cameroon

Five things to know about the violence in North-West and South-West Cameroon

Since 2016, conflict has been steadily growing in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon. The violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, creating a little-known humanitarian crisis. Read the five things to know more about this emergency. Project Update - 23 May 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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