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Accountability

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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The strike on Tafas field hospital, some 12 km from the Jordanian border, took place on the night of 5 February. It caused partial damage to the hospital building, and put its heavily-used ambulance service out of action. In fear for their lives, more than 20,000 people from Tafas town fled to the surrounding countryside. The hospital is the latest medical facility to be hit in a series of airstrikes in southern Syria, which have been escalating over the past two months.
Syria

"MSF adapts to respond to the needs of a war-afflicted population"

Omar Obeid has been working as Project Coordinator for an MSF South Syria project, managing it remotely for the last 14 months. Over the past few weeks, fighting has intensified in southern Syria, as opposing forces contest to retake the city of Dara’a. As bombings and aerial attacks in Eastern Dara’a increased, hospitals and medical structures in the area have been forced to announce their closure to avoid being targeted Voices from the Field - 8 May 2017
 
MSF staff member Patricia, changes 5 year old Faten's bandages. She was injured when she was playing in a garden. At the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Post Op Hospital South of Mosul, Iraq. Told by her father: “When our neighbourhood in West Mosul was retaken by the Iraqi army we went back to our house. Faten was playing in the garden when a mortar bomb fell in the garden and exploded. Faten was injured in the leg by shrapnel from the bomb. First we took her to MSF in Hammam Al Alil where she received the first aid. From there she was referred to another field hospital in Bartella for further treatment. Now she is here in the post-operative ward in Hamdanyia hospital. Every day the staff here clean her wounds and puts new bandages on. Faten is a brave girl, she likes to play and laugh butt she misses her brothers and sisters at home and at night she cries. All her 7 siblings are doing well, praise to God”.
Iraq

Crisis update Mosul - May 2017

“Most hospitals in Mosul have been damaged or destroyed.” Crisis Update - 8 May 2017
 
13-year-old Dilbar in the new playground at the paediatric TB hospital in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The playground was funded by MSF. For young TB patients or family members this is a very welcome distraction in the often long and difficult treatment process.
Tuberculosis

New report highlights need to better tackle world’s deadliest infectious disease

Two days ahead of the G20 summit in Germany, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Stop TB Partnership released the third edition of Out of Step, a report highlighting the need for governments to increase efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB). Project Update - 7 May 2017
 
In the ER section of an MSF hospital in Syria, the aftermath of an emergency case, where the patient was stabilised and then immediately rushed into surgery.
Syria

MSF condemns incursion by armed men into supported hospitals in East Ghouta

Reports from doctors MSF supports in the area outline grave incidents on 29 and 30 April in which armed groups showed absolutely no consideration for the special protected status of patients, medical facilities and health workers. Statement - 1 May 2017
 
A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff member vaccinates a child during a measles vaccination campaign in Samba and neighboring zones in Maniema region, DRC. 26 MSF teams plan to vaccinate more than 58.000 children, in one week.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF staff treat measles cases across five provinces

“When measles arrived in our village, a lot of children died." Press Release - 28 Apr 2017
 
On April 27th 2016, dozens of volunteers from Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) delivered to Pfizer global headquarter in New York, the names of nearly 400 000 people asking Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to 5 dollars per child in developing countries. The silent march started from Grand Central Station and ended at Pfizer HQ. There the volunteers dropped 2500 flowers (the equivalent of the number of children dying of pneumonia every day) in an empty crib containing the names of people who has signed the petition. Pfizer accepted the crib. On this picture Doctors Without Borders volunteers and supporters drop 2500 flowers into an empty crib in front of Pfizer global Headquarter.
Vaccination

Investors join MSF in calling Pfizer to reduce the price of pneumonia vaccine

"We call on Pfizer to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to $5 for all three doses, for all children in all developing countries.” Press Release - 27 Apr 2017
 
Refugees are forced to flee Kodok for Aburoc after intense fighting.
South Sudan

Intense fighting around Kodok forces up to 25,000 people to flee without humanitarian support

“This is a disaster in the making, just as the demand is greatest." Press Release - 27 Apr 2017
 
For years, the Diffa region in southeastern Niger, which borders Nigeria and Chad, has suffered the consequences of the armed conflict between Boko Haram and the armies of the area. Around 240,000 people have had their lives interrupted by the conflict, and have been forced to live in the camps for internally displaced and refugees that have proliferated throughout the region.
Niger

Hepatitis E outbreak linked to water shortages and poor sanitation

“Water and sanitation activities in Diffa are clearly insufficient to meet people’s needs." Press Release - 26 Apr 2017
 
An ambulance awaits at the entrance of the Haydan hospital. A pregnant woman who had arrived with complication is being referred to the main hospital in Sa’ada city.
Yemen

MSF statement at Geneva donor conference

A pledging conference for Yemen is being held in Geneva, providing the opportunity to highlight the risk of a health system collapse in Yemen, the key health needs, and the urge to handle them. Statement - 25 Apr 2017
 
AWD patients admitted to Kebridehar town CTC, Somali region Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Thousands hit by outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea during worst drought for decades

A prolonged period of drought in the Somali Region of Ethiopia has resulted in a radical water shortage, leading to an important outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea which is sweeping through the region. Project Update - 24 Apr 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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