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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.

GeoMSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Women are waiting at the MSF supported hospital in Masisi, North Kivu, DRC. The MSF teams support the full extent of primary and secondary health care services (surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, maternity, pediatric, neonatology as well as a « village d’accueil » for women in their third trimester of a risky pregnancy who can stay there to ensure they have access to medicalized support to give birth) and undertake mobile clinics with a focus on malaria (curative/preventative) in remote health posts; watsan & health promotion.
Democratic Republic of Congo

48 hours on the frontline of maternity care

blogs.msf.org - 24 Sep 2018
 
Central Mediterranean – 23 September, 2018 – Over the past 72 hours, Aquarius assisted two boats in distress and now has more than 60 survivors on board, several of whom are psychologically distressed and fatigued from their journeys at sea and experiences in Libya. SOS Mediterrannee and MSF are reeling from the announcement by the Panama Maritime Authority it has been forced to revoke the registration of the Aquarius under blatant economic and political pressure from the Italian government. “Five years after the Lampedusa tragedy, when European leaders said ‘never again’ and Italy launched its first large scale search and rescue operation, people are still risking their lives to escape from Libya . News from the Panama Maritime Authority arrived to the Aquarius while its teams were engaged in an active search and rescue operation in the Central Mediterranean.
Mediterranean migration

Italian government pressures Panama to stop Aquarius rescues on world's deadliest maritime route

SOS MEDITERRANEE and MSF demand that European governments allow the Aquarius to continue its rescue mission. Press Release - 23 Sep 2018
 
Thousands of people seeking safety after fleeing countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and Congo continue to risk their lives to reach Europe. Those who try to arrive via Turkey and the Aegean Sea have been trapped for an indefinite period of time on islands in Greece as part of the EU/Turkey deal and its deterrence and containment approach. In Moria refugee camp, on Lesbos island, there are currently more than 7,500 people in a camp made for a maximum of 2,500. With the camp so full, refugees are now staying in an informal extension of the camp known as Olive Grove. The awful conditions at Moria camp/Olive Grove and arbitrary administrative situations have had a dramatic impact on their health and in particular their mental health. Médecins Sans Frontières teams provide medical and mental health support outside Moria camp and run a clinic for severe mental health cases in Mytilene, the capital of the island.
Greece

“It is difficult to believe this is Europe”

http://blogs.msf.org - 21 Sep 2018
 
Wubet, 48, is a primary kala azar patient with HIV co-infection. He is being treated by MSF in Abdurafi and is part of the kala azar research program led by MSF and Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM). Wubet is from Abdurafi. He was diagnosed with TB in 2016. After the completion of TB treatment he was still experiencing fever, poor appetite and weight loss, so he visited the health center several times to understand why. He was found to be HIV positive, but this alone could not explain his health status. The clinicians suspected kala azar and referred him to the MSF health center. Here he was finally diagnosed with visceral leishmaniosis. At that point, he was feeling so sick that he had to be on oxygen and he believed that he was going to die. Ever since he started receiving specific treatment, both for kala azar and HIV, his health has been improving. He says he already knew about kala azar before getting sick because the MSF teams had been doing health education within the community. However, at the time, he didn’t take it too seriously and did not take any of the preventive measures that were recommended, such as using a mosquito net, insect repellant and more protective clothing. He is a farmer and spends a lot of time outdoors, which greatly increases the risk of infection. Now he knows that the risk is real and he wants to help spread the word among his farmer friends. He also decided to join the ongoing study on the prevalence and incidence of kala azar in HIV patients. He wants to contribute to the development of new preventive methods and treatments and help his community.
Kala azar

Diagnosing, treating and researching HIV-kala azar co-infection in Ethiopia

MSF teams in Abdurafi, Ethiopia, talk about the challenges of diagnosing and treating kala azar in people living with HIV, and are collaborating on research into ways to better understand and prevent the neglected tropical disease. Project Update - 20 Sep 2018
 
Banywich Bone, 18 ans, was reffered to Agok From Mayom, where MSF runs a primary health center. He was bitten by a snake three years ago, while he was sleeping at home. When he arrived in the hospital, he presented an infected wound for which doctors blame the snake bite. His left leg had necrotic tissus and pain, the wound was infected and MSF surgeon had to amputate the leg above the knee.
Snakebite

Time to strike back at snakebite and end the antivenom access crisis

Every year, an estimated 2.7 million people are bitten by venomous snakes, resulting in death for more than 100,000 people. Although effective treatment exists for snakebite envenoming, the vast majority of people aren’t able to access it. Report - 19 Sep 2018
 
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About MSF

Five myths about working for MSF

blogs.msf.org - 18 Sep 2018
 
Bangassou – 8.8.2017 Surgery ward of Bangassou hospital.
Central African Republic

“We simply can’t let these people down. But we remain vigilant”: MSF returns to Bangassou

In 2017 a series of security incidents forced MSF to evacuate our team from Bangassou, CAR, and suspend activities in the area. In April 2018, our team returned to the city. Interview - 18 Sep 2018
 
Thousands of people seeking safety after fleeing countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and Congo continue to risk their lives to reach Europe. Those who try to arrive via Turkey and the Aegean Sea have been trapped for an indefinite period of time on islands in Greece as part of the EU/Turkey deal and its deterrence and containment approach. In Moria refugee camp, on Lesbos island, there are currently more than 7,500 people in a camp made for a maximum of 2,500. With the camp so full, refugees are now staying in an informal extension of the camp known as Olive Grove. The awful conditions at Moria camp/Olive Grove and arbitrary administrative situations have had a dramatic impact on their health and in particular their mental health. Médecins Sans Frontières teams provide medical and mental health support outside Moria camp and run a clinic for severe mental health cases in Mytilene, the capital of the island.
Greece

Moria is in a state of emergency

An open letter from MSF clinical psychiatrist Dr Alessandro Barberio, Moria camp, Lesbos, Greece on the desperate circumstances for refugees in the camp and the mental health emergency Open Letter - 17 Sep 2018
 
Thousands of people seeking safety after fleeing countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and Congo continue to risk their lives to reach Europe. Those who try to arrive via Turkey and the Aegean Sea have been trapped for an indefinite period of time on islands in Greece as part of the EU/Turkey deal and its deterrence and containment approach. In Moria refugee camp, on Lesbos island, there are currently more than 7,500 people in a camp made for a maximum of 2,500. With the camp so full, refugees are now staying in an informal extension of the camp known as Olive Grove. The awful conditions at Moria camp/Olive Grove and arbitrary administrative situations have had a dramatic impact on their health and in particular their mental health. Médecins Sans Frontières teams provide medical and mental health support outside Moria camp and run a clinic for severe mental health cases in Mytilene, the capital of the island.
Greece

Self-harm and attempted suicides increasing for child refugees in Lesbos

MSF teams seeing increasing levels of suicide attempts and self-harm among child refugees on Lesbos, urge Greece and the EU to evacuate vulnerable refugees.

Press Release - 17 Sep 2018
 
Chechnya, Russian Federation. T., 31, a mother of two, is an XDR TB patient. She doesn’t tolerate the treatment well, but is committed to complete it for the sake of her 5 year old daughter and 2 year old son. ‘When I heard the treatment was two years - I thought then: two years, no, I cannot stand it. And now just seven months left, time passes. I just know that I have to take the medicines, so I do it. I do not tolerate them well. When I was hospitalised my boy was three months old. Then I found out how many people are ill with TB, and I learned how good these people in the hospital were. At first it was difficult, then my strength started to come back. We all had a common misfortune there, and everyone understood each other well’.
Tuberculosis

Open Letter to J&J: Calling for affordable access to critical TB drug bedaquiline

MSF sent an open letter to Johnson & Johnson urging the pharmaceutical corporation to take action so that countries can access an affordable and sustainable supply of the critical drug bedaquiline, used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). msfaccess.org - 17 Sep 2018
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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