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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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Gaza le 16 mai 2018, centre post opératoire de MSF. Chaque jour des blessés par balle de la grande marche du retour, viennent se faire changer les pansements. Plus de 3600 blessés par balles sont à déplorer depuis le début de la grande marche du retour. Salle d'attente. Gaza on May 16th, 2018, post-operating centers of MSF. Every day the wounded persons by bullet of the big walking of return, come to be made change bandages. More than 3600 wounded persons by bullets are to be regretted since the beginning of the big walking of return. Waiting room.
Palestine

Gaza’s numbing routine of injury and death

MSF’s field communications manager in Jerusalem, Jacob Burns, reflects on what it means when such a devastating toll of injuries comes to be considered a “good” day in Gaza. Voices from the Field - 4 Apr 2019
 
Eyewitnesses and local authorities from Nguigmi reported that two people carrying improvised explosive devices blew themselves up in two different locations of the town on in the evening of 26 March. At the same time, several gunmen allegedly set fire to makeshift shelters and tents in camps for internally displaced and refugees, who saw their homes and personal effects reduced to ashes. This was just the latest of a series of violent episodes in the region, as escalating volatility is intensifying people’s suffering and forcing many to flee. Following the attack, MSF stepped in to support the treatment of the wounded at Nguigmi hospital, evacuating the most severely injured to the regional hospital in the town of Diffa in three ambulances and another MSF vehicle. MSF teams have distributed essential relief items including mosquito nets, jerry cans, kitchen utensils, blankets and hygiene items to 380 families. Our psychologists offered immediate mental health support for children and adults, organising individual and group psychosocial sessions for nearly 400 people. They found that many were struggling with depression, insomnia and other symptoms linked to the traumatic experiences they had undergone.
Niger

Violence, humanitarian needs and fear mount in Diffa

In just four days, attacks across Diffa region in southeastern Niger has left at least 30 dead, dozens injured and more than 380 shelters burned or destroyed. The worsening conflict around Lake Chad is taking a heavy toll on people in the region. Project Update - 4 Apr 2019
 
Displaced people at a health centre. Mugunga 1 camp, Goma, North Kivu.
Democratic Republic of Congo

The daily struggle for survival in DRC

As the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded in the country, MSF operations manager Annemarie Loof highlights the recurring emergency health needs that go well beyond Ebola. Op-Ed - 4 Apr 2019
 
Over 30,000 people who were forced to flee to the town of Monguno following clashes that erupted in Nigeria’s Borno state in late December are in acute need of shelter, water, sanitation, food, protection, medical care and mental health support. MSF is running a 10-bed emergency room for adults in a ministry of health facility in Monguno as well as providing people with mental health support. MSF teams have also set up 100 tents and are ready to put up 700 additional shelters. People in Borno state are caught up in a cycle of violence, which has forced tens of thousands from their homes, fields and livelihoods, and left them struggling to survive with very little means.
Nigeria

Over 30,000 people in acute need in northern Borno state

Displaced people in Monguno, northern Borno State, Nigeria are living in poor conditions, with little sanitation, and a lack of safe drinking water and adequate shelter as the rainy season approaches. Press Release - 4 Apr 2019
 
Yemen, Aden, 16 December 2018 – Entrance of OT and ICU of MSF trauma hospital in Aden. The hospital opened in 2012.
Yemen

Medical admissions in Aden suspended after patient kidnapped and killed

MSF has suspended admissions to our hospital in Aden, Yemen, following deteriorating security in the city, including the kidnapping and killing of a patient. Press Release - 4 Apr 2019
 
A new patient just arrived with his relatives to the ER of Imam Ali hospital, in Sadr City (Baghdad, Iraq). He is assisted by Iraqi doctors who are supported by MSF.
Iraq

Triaging patients in one of Baghdad's busiest emergency departments

South African doctor Sian Geraty describes the six months she spent in a busy hospital in Iraq's Sadr City, training local doctors and staff in implementing a triage system for an emergency room that sees 20,000 visits a month. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2019
 
Women cells in the detention centre. MSF nurse is doing triage in order to identify patients who require a medical follow-up. On September 2nd, 276 people were brought by the Libyan coast guard to Khoms (120 km east of Tripoli). They were then transferred to detention center where MSF works. Reportedly, they were in two rubber coats, one stopped due to engine failure, while the other boat continued to navigate for several hours before deflating and sinking. Survivors told MSF teams that over a hundred people died in the shipwreck.
Libya

Migrants in Libya: “We were able to make their time in that horrible place slightly better.”

Australian nurse Jai Defranciscis, describes the scenes in detention centres in Libya, where MSF provides care for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers facing arbitrary detention and extreme suffering. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2019
 
Mothers wait with their children outside the paediatric outpatient department of Ahmad Shah Baba Hospital in the area of the same name in Kabul's outer eastern suburbs.
Afghanistan

Ahmad Shah Baba project is handed over to the Ministry of Public Health

After working in Ahmad Shah Baba hospital, eastern Kabul, since 2009, MSF has handed over the last of our activities in the hospital to the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan. Project Update - 31 Mar 2019
 
MSF logistics coordinator, Guillaume Malin makes an assessment to check if the MSF vehicle can pass through the river. MSF teams are conducting outreach programs to reach inaccessible areas in Chimanimani, eastern Chimanimani to provide medical supplies for survivors of cyclone Idai.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

The first six days after Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe

Medical team leader Marthe Frieden went from working on her 'quiet' MSF project in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province, to the emergency of Cyclone Idai. Here she recounts the first six days of the response. Voices from the Field - 29 Mar 2019
 
In Makhanga district, a huge number of houses have collapsed. Many thousands remain in displacement camps and makeshifts sites such as schools and churches. Big reconstruction efforts will be required in coming weeks. Following heavy rains that affected the southern region of Malawi, an MSF team of 18 people is supporting the health ministry to cover the needs of an estimated 18,000 people in Makhanga on the eastern bank of the Shire river, with health, sanitation, NFI needs.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Malawi: “This time, the flooding has destroyed houses, not lives”

Parts of Malawi have been submerged by floods from rains that later turned into Cyclone Idai. MSF logistician Labana Steven is part of the emergency response and explains the difference between these floods and those of previous years. Voices from the Field - 29 Mar 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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