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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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Mahamat Adam, married and a father of eight, has been a fisherman for 25 years. He is living on a small island of Lake Chad and comes to Bol occasionally to sell his fish to the local market.
Chad

Three years of MSF activities in Lac region come to an end

With the peak of the crisis over in the Lac region of Chad, MSF hands over to the Ministry of Health and other humanitarian organisations present in the region. Project Update - 24 Jul 2018
 
A clinic staff leaves the primary healthcare center at the end of her work day.
South Sudan

MSF suspends the majority of medical activities in Maban area after a violent attack

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended most of its activities in Maban, South Sudan, after suffering a violent attack Statement - 24 Jul 2018
 
When Lubna’s labour started she came straight to the Houban Mother and Child Hospital in Taiz, Yemen and delivered a healthy baby-girl weighing exactly three kilograms on the 1st of January 2018 at 1:30 am. "I came to the hospital as I received ante-natal care here and do not have the money to go to a private hospital. All I wish for my girl is happiness in life," said the 29 year old mother of three children. The gorgeous baby girl will receive her name after consultation with family members once she is discharged from hospital.
Yemen

“In Taiz, people are still hopeful for a stronger future.”

MSF project coordinator Arunn Jegan describes the reality of life on both sides of the frontline in Taiz, the third largest city in Yemen, and the significant medical needs – from emergency trauma surgery to paediatric and maternal healthcare. Interview - 23 Jul 2018
 
Kario camp, is the biggest refugee settlement in East Darfur, it was created in 2016, and hosting 20,000 South Sudanese refugees as per UNHCR figures. Most of the residents of the camp are Dinkas, they fled South Sudan because of food shortage and lack of job opportunities. When arrived to Sudan, the refugees continued to seek job opportunities, what makes the camp’s community in constant mobility. MSF intervened in this camp for the first time in June 2017, at the time when an acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) outbreak was declared in the camp with extremely high mortality rates. In July 2017, MSF opened a Health Centre in Kario camp to provide free primary health care package and basic secondary health care services to the South Sudanese refugees and hosting community in Kario, East Darfur.
Sudan

Hardships follow South Sudan’s refugees into Sudan’s East Darfur

There are more than 750,000 South Sudanese refugees currently in Sudan and around 100,000 of them are in East Darfur. Since July 2017, MSF has been providing free primary and secondary healthcare services, including maternity, nutrition and vaccination programmes for almost 40,000 people living in the area - both refugees and the host community. Project Update - 23 Jul 2018
 
ZIPPORAH ALUOCH ODONGO IS 33. SHE WAS TESTED FOR HIV IN 2016 BUT STARTED TAKING MEDICATION ON FEBRUARY 2017 BECAUSE SHE WAS AFRAID OF ARVS. SYMPTOMS OF KARPOSIS SARCOMA STARTED SHOWING SHORTLY AFTER SHE STARTED TAKING MEDICATION. SHE IS GOING TO START QUIMIOTHERAPHY.
HIV/AIDS

Stopping Senseless Deaths: Overcoming access barriers to affordable, lifesaving diagnostics and treatments for HIV and opportunistic infections

Report - Stopping Senseless Deaths: Overcoming access barriers to affordable, lifesaving diagnostics and treatments for HIV and opportunistic infections Report - 23 Jul 2018
 
Tanya is not at school, because her father cannot afford the fees. She spends a lot of time in and around the house. “When the other kids are playing outside my home, I try and use my crutches to keep up but they don’t slow down for me because I can’t walk as fast. When it happens, and they run away from me, it hurts me a lot. I start calling out to them. If they don’t come back, I go inside my home. When they run away, it’s very painful to me, sometimes it even gives me a pain in my stomach, deep down, and that’s why I end up sleeping and I will wish that my Daddy will come home and that he will be with me. When Dad comes home and I tell him what happened, he says, don’t worry about them, they are just kids playing around,” she says.
HIV/AIDS

Pfizer and GSK’s HIV/AIDS division, ViiV, prevents children with HIV from getting needed medicine

Tanya is ten years old and is unable to walk. She was diagnosed with HIV when she was just a few months old. Zimbabwe, 2016. Press Release - 23 Jul 2018
 
MSF peer educator MSM and previous sex worker, Beira (far left) guides two girls from the community to MSF’s mobile testing site where they will be able to test for HIV. Between Mozambique and Malawi, MSF provides peer-led adapted packages of HIV and sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including PrEP, HIV testing and treating for sex workers and men who have sex with men (MSM) in six project sites located along the main transport routes. Over 9000 SW since 2013 and 330 MSM since 2016 have been enrolled in these projects. The development of services has been guided by WHO recommendations on key populations.
HIV/AIDS

Towards Peer-Led HIV and SRH Services for Sex Workers and Men Having Sex with Men

Report - Towards Peer-Led HIV and sexual reproductive health (SRH) Services for Sex Workers and Men Having Sex with Men: Experience from Médecins Sans Frontières in Malawi and Mozambique. Report - 23 Jul 2018
 
Farisai Gamariel, Supervisor of MSF’s Patient support team for MSM, in MSF’s project providing health services for sex workers and men who have sex with men (MSM), Beira, Mozambique
HIV/AIDS

Meeting the specific needs of key populations living with HIV

MSF’s experience in Mozambique, Malawi and India shows that if we do not respond to the specific health needs of key populations, we won’t be able to curb the HIV epidemic. Project Update - 23 Jul 2018
 
Thun Mina Aung, 18, from Myammar inside the MSF's Insein clinic in Yangon. Thu Min Aung is 18 years old and lives with his aunt. Back in June 2017, he was working as an air conditioner installer in Sang Jae township when he started to feel sick. He went to a nearby clinic and they gave him medications, but the drugs did not treat his symptoms. Soon after, he moved to Hlaing Tharyar, where he went to another clinic and discovered that he has MDR-TB. Treatment has greatly impacted his day-to-day life. Everyday, he wakes up at 7am, eats breakfast, and takes the bus for 45 minutes to the MSF clinic to take his medication. The pills make him feel very dizzy. When he gets home from the clinic, he has to lie down and sleep for the entire afternoon. His whole life revolves around treatment right now because the side effects are very severe. He has 12 more months of this day-to-day before finishing treatment.
Tuberculosis

Last-minute pressure to drop language on protecting access to affordable medicines from TB Summit declaration negotiations

MSF's Access Campaign appeals to all countries to urgently stand up right now against bullying that aims to keep medicines out of the hands of your people who need treatment. Press Release - 20 Jul 2018
 
Registration area to define which vaccine children should receive.
Central African Republic

Protecting as many children as possible in an emergency context

MSF and the Ministry of Health complete a two-year multi-antigen mass vaccination campaign targeting about a quarter of all children under five in the Central African Republic. Project Update - 20 Jul 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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