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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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8000 Results
 
Trapped in the island of Samos, asylum seekers are forced to live in dire conditions in the Reception and Identification Center (RIC). Due to a new wave of increased arrivals, newcomers are forced to stay in an extended area of the camp, and many of them are not allocated a space in the tents, many of which host both men and women. Many people, including families with children, are only given a blanket to use either to cover themselves at night, sleep on or use as a makeshift tent in the nearby bushes. Among the camp's residents, many victims of torture and violence as well as of SGBV , pregnant women, children, elderly, sick and disable people wait very long to get their vulnerability assessed and before they can see a doctor. Food is not sufficient, toilets are too dirty to be used and dangerous to reach at night for women. Violent fights among residents and protests fueled by frustration erupt every now and then. Most residents have no information over their asylum application and they wait in the camp for months before they get a final verdict.
Greece

Activity update – December 2017

Voices from the Field - 5 Dec 2017
 
As the temperatures get lower every day, people have no choice than to live in summer tents in Moria camp or in the olive grove nearby.
Greece

Families trapped on islands on the brink of a humanitarian emergency

For the second consecutive winter, authorities in Greece are trapping thousands of men, women and children on the Greek islands, leaving them on the brink of a humanitarian emergency, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 5 Dec 2017
 
MSF supports a network of health centres (Mpati, Bibwe, Kalembe, Kashuga and Bukama) and has significantly expanded its programme to provide assistance to people affected by the conflict, especially victims of sexual violence at MSF Tumaini clinics in Mweso and Kitchanga.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF strongly condemns violent robbery of compound in North Kivu

During the early morning of 4 December, several armed men broke into the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) compound in Mweso, in Masisi territory, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.
 Project Update - 4 Dec 2017
 
"I have a lot of pain, especially in the stomach, and I am constantly tired. I don’t know how long I am going to stay in the hospital and what will be afterwards." Cynthia DOUNKEL receives medical care in the HIV/TB unit of the Hôpital communautaire of Bangui. She is hospitalized for the second time within a month in Hôpital communautaire in Bangui. She was referred from the MSF clinic in the displaced camp Mpoko at the airport of Bangui. She is HIV positive, has Tuberculosis and suffers from Kaposi's sarcoma. She is three months pregnant.12 July 2016 - Hôpital communautaire, Bangui, Central African Republic.
HIV/AIDS

Delivering differently to reach people living with HIV in West and Central Africa

This week, researchers, policy makers, clinicians and activists involved in the HIV response will attend ICASA 2017, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Statement - 4 Dec 2017
 
Patients at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kinshasa.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Left behind by the HIV response - Kinshasa

The Left behind by the HIV response report presents MSF’s clinical experience and epidemiological data from treating advanced HIV at CHK and other supported health facilities, along with recommendations for minimum diagnostic and therapeutic packages for advanced HIV at primary, referral and hospital levels, and costings for hospitalisation. The report calls for the funding and implementation of a referral system and free outpatient care and hospitalisation for advanced HIV in Kinshasa. The report also draws on the available literature and includes testimonies from patients who received hospital care in MSF’s Kinshasa HIV project and healthcare professionals specialized in the treatment of advanced HIV.

 MSF Access campaign - 1 Dec 2017
 
MSF’s World AIDS Day event in Mykolaiv.
Ukraine

People co-infected with HIV to receive hepatitis C treatment in Mykolaiv region

MSF has begun treatment for hepatitis C with people who are co-infected with hepatitis C and HIV in Mykolaiv region. Press Release - 1 Dec 2017
 
MSF counsellor Charity stands in the middle of HIV positive adolescents as she gives them the basic infos about the virus during an educational session at Mbulumbuzi Health Centre.
HIV/AIDS

MSF at ICASA 2017

MSF currently supports over 230,000 people living with HIV in 19 countries throughout Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Event - 1 Dec 2017
 
MSF teams assessing the medical and humanitarian needs in Al Mishlab. east of Raqqa. 2 November. “When we first visited Mishlab, east of Raqqa, it was a ghost town, but on our latest visit, some people had returned to check on their houses, Some found their homes in ruins; others found dead bodies and explosive devices in their houses, gardens and in the streets.” says Craig Kenzie, leader of MSF’s Raqqa response team
Syria

Booby-traps and landmines in Raqqa

Six weeks after fighting subsided in Raqqa city in Syria and surrounding villages, former residents are returning home to find their houses in ruins and their streets and fields littered with unexploded remnants of war, including booby-traps, landmines, ammunition and rockets.
 Voices from the Field - 30 Nov 2017
 
A general view of the hospital compound. Due to the ongoing insecurity, most of the eastern countryside of Borno state where these large displacements are happening remains difficult to reach for humanitarian organisations, with the exception of a few towns. Most of the aid agencies working in the state are present in the capital, Maiduguri, but only a few are able to operate continually in the hard-to-reach areas where assistance is most needed.
Nigeria

Borno State crisis update – November 2017

The conflict between the Nigerian military and armed opposition groups has been ongoing for more than eight years, with serious humanitarian consequences. Crisis Update - 30 Nov 2017
 
Men detained in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

When France becomes accomplice to the very crimes it condemns

All these people who find themselves trapped in the Libyan snare, which was partly set by France and the European Union, must be afforded all possible means of escape. Opinion - 30 Nov 2017
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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