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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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Women wash a plastic sheet, which serves as a roof for their tented shelter, in a stream polluted by rubbish and faeces in Unchiparang makeshift settlement, in Bangladesh, where 33,000 Rohyinga refugees are sheltering after fleeing violence in Myanmar. Beside the stream, children collect water from a hand-dug well. As of mid-October 2017, there is less than one litre of clean drinking water available per person per day in the settlement, which is way below international standards for emergencies. © Paul Andrew Jabor/MSF
Rohingya refugee crisis

Needs for clean drinking water are still extreme

I have rarely seen so many people, hundreds of thousands, living in makeshift shelters, stranded in an area the size of a small European city, and with very little access to basic services. Voices from the Field - 18 Oct 2017
 
At least 164,000 people have now crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar that started on 25 August. This massive influx, coming on top of 75,000 people who have arrived since violence began in October 2016, represents one of the largest influxes ever of Rohingyas into Bangladesh.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Crisis update – October 2017

Since 25 August 2017, more than 500,000 Rohingya have fled targeted violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar and crossed the border into neighbouring Bangladesh. Crisis Update - 17 Oct 2017
 
Wounded Iraqi girl Dua Nawaf, 8, who her family was killed in an airstrike in Mosul, sits at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Qayyara, Iraq April 6, 2017. Picture taken April 6, 2016.
Iraq

Returnees to Mosul face booby-trapped homes and destruction

“For many people, the long-anticipated return home is turning sour as they find themselves faced with daunting levels of destruction and seemingly endless misery.” Project Update - 17 Oct 2017
 
XDR-TB patient Nischaya, at home in the Ambedkar Nagar area of Mumbai, with her TB medication. Nischaya (not real name) is 18 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) patients in India lucky enough to be able to have acesss to the new drugs. After having been on treatment unsuccessfully for several years, Nischaya was referred to the clinic of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organisation who since 2006 provides free diagnosis, treatment and support to patients with drug-resistant TB in Mumbai.
Access to medicines

People still being denied improved treatment for multidrug-resistant TB

“Delamanid gave me a second chance at life and I wish that these tablets could be made available to the many people who are struggling with drug-resistant TB.” Press Release - 13 Oct 2017
 
Once a week MSF mobile medical teams serve the small settlement south of the town of Tuz Kurmato in Salaheddin governorate where 4000 displaced people have been living for the last year and a half after their village, a few miles away, became engulfed in violent fighting. Female and male medical staff provide general health care with special focus on chronic diseases, mother and child care as well as mental health support. The community is afraid to travel around in this highly militarized area, particularly men, and are reluctant to see medical care in close by urban settlement such as Tuz Kurmato or Kirkuk.
Iraq

Hawijah offensive pushes nearly 14,000 people to neighbouring districts

“Fleeing Hawijah was so dangerous that people call it the road of death.” Project Update - 12 Oct 2017
 
XDR-TB patient Hanif, taking his daily TB medication at home in the Govandi area of Mumbai. Hanif is 25 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) patients in India lucky enough to be able to have acesss to the new drugs. After having failed treatment for the fourth time, Hanif was referred to the clinic of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organisation who since 2006 provides free diagnosis, treatment and support to patients with drug-resistant TB in Mumbai.
Access to medicines

Issue Brief: Four years and counting

We examine current opportunities to optimise MDR-TB treatment and to address the persistent access challenges that put treatment out of reach for people struggling to survive this deadly disease.
 msfaccess.org - 10 Oct 2017
 
MALAWI. June 30, 2017. Patrick Chipungu, 51 years, an MSF clinician looks at Simbazako Thove's X-Ray. Simbazako is 19 years and HIV and TB positive.
Access to medicines

MSF at the 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health

The 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health takes place in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 11-14 October 2017. Follow on social media using the hashtag: #UnionConf Event - 10 Oct 2017
 
Most of MSF’s patients are young women. “We see a lot of teenagers aged from 15 to 17, who come for antenatal consultations,” says Dr Diana. “Often they are referred to us from other health centres, because we are the only medical public facility opened 24 hours”.
Honduras

“We have gone from seven deliveries each month to more than 30”

“We are working alongside the Ministry of Health and the municipal authorities, and this is a great success in itself: all parties working together to provide care for the region’s women”. Project Update - 10 Oct 2017
 
Portrait of Nouri, 40 Years old from Syria Nouri and his wife decided to flee Syria to save their 4 children from the war. After a few months in Turkey they took the trip 9 times to reach Greece. “On the 22nd of July we arrived in Greece. Since I arrived in Greece, I felt as if I was born again, all the suffering I forgot, but unfortunately again, not as we expected…I don't know until this moment if we are staying, if we are going… we are like in a prison.”
Greece

EU border policies fuel mental health crisis for asylum seekers

“These people have survived bombing, extreme violence and traumatic events in their home countries or on the road to Europe.” Report - 10 Oct 2017
 
"During my counselling, some patients burst into tears and find it difficult to stop," says Leah, a counsellor at the MSF women's health clinic in Kamrangirchar, a slum in the south of Dhaka. "When I manage to calm her spirits down, then she begins to trust me and starts sharing everything with me. In those times, I feel that I have successfully done my duty." In 2016, the MSF team in Kamrangichar, a slum in the south of Dhaka, provided medical and psychological support to 535 victims of sexual violence and intimate partner violence. In 2017, the numbers are set to be even higher.
Bangladesh

"Now, no one can abuse me" - Counselling for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence

“We see lots of cases where young women are being abused by their intimate partner and other family members, and it makes them really at risk of developing mental health disorders.” Voices from the Field - 10 Oct 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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