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How we work

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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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8006 Results
 
MSF teams in and around Mosul have received more than 1,800 patients in need of urgent or lifesaving care in the last two months. 1,500 of them needed treatment for conflict related trauma. As the scale of the non-trauma needs also became apparent, MSF opened maternity services in eastern Mosul at the beginning of February, and since then the teams have assisted 100 births and performed 80 C-sections.
Iraq

“Yesterday, it was calm; we only received 20 war-wounded patients”

Testimonies gathered on 18 March from two MSF surgeons working in the field trauma centre. Voices from the Field - 22 Mar 2017
 
MSF teams in and around Mosul have received more than 1,800 patients in need of urgent or lifesaving care in the last two months. 1,500 of them needed treatment for conflict related trauma. As the scale of the non-trauma needs also became apparent, MSF opened maternity services in eastern Mosul at the beginning of February, and since then the teams have assisted 100 births and performed 80 C-sections.
Iraq

Thousands of wounded and sick coming from western Mosul

“The need for emergency medical care has risen drastically,” said Dr Isabelle Defourny, MSF director of operations. Press Release - 22 Mar 2017
 
In parallel with the study into a new rotavirus vaccine, over 1,000 pregnant women are being monitored as part of a substudy that aims to evaluate the impact of the nutritional condition of pregnant women on the health of their babies. These mothers receive nutritional supplements. During their pregnancy, they attend four scheduled appointments with the medical team for monitoring purposes and so that vaginal swabs, blood specimens (malaria/thick smear/syphilis/HIV AIDS), and urine and stool specimens can be taken. These mothers also give permission for their newborn to be included in the study and monitored for two years by the Epicentre medical teams. At each of the scheduled appointments the mothers receive a transport allowance, plus three bars of soap and a food parcel containing bread, a drink and a tin of sardines.
Niger

Innovative vaccine against rotavirus

This slideshow explains the challenges posed by rotavirus and the existing constraints of the existing vaccines. It shows the story of the Epicentre Study in Maradi district, Niger. Photo Story - 21 Mar 2017
 
MSF has responded to the urgent medical needs of this displaced population by opening a field hospital with an inpatient, an outpatient and an emergency department in Aburoch, where up to 15,000 people have settled. Two mobile clinics are also operating south of Kodok where part of the displaced population has settled. Over the last two weeks, MSF is providing an average of 300 consultations a day, six times the number that was provided in Wau Shilluk where MSF used to run a hospital. PHOTOGRAPHER: Riaz Hussain on the 6th of March 2017
South Sudan

Urgent humanitarian assistance needed for thousands of people who fled fighting in Wau Shilluk

“The humanitarian needs of those that fled are vast and are not being met,” says Abdalla Hussein Abdalla, MSF’s deputy head of mission for South Sudan. Crisis Update - 15 Mar 2017
 
For the last two years, Francis Ronyo has worked as a nurse in MSF’s Wau Shilluk hospital. He was one of the national staff on duty when the decision was taken to evacuate and leave for Kodok. Since he arrived in Kodok, he doesn’t have a place to stay and ends up sleeping in the open with the rest of the people from Wau Shilluk. He however decided to continue serving the sick and the wounded in any way he could and is now providing medical are in the MSF clinic in Aburoch
South Sudan

“My future is unclear, and I don't know what will happen to all of us from Wau Shilluk.”

Francis Ronyo worked as a nurse in MSF’s Wau Shilluk hospital for two years. He was one of the national staff on duty when the order was given to evacuate and leave for Kodok. Voices from the Field - 15 Mar 2017
 
People walk down a street in Bustan Al Kasr neighbourhood after it was hit by airstrikes in mid-October 2016.
Syria

Warring groups must allow aid to population in need

MSF reiterates its call to warring groups to allow access to Syria so that victims of the war can receive medical assistance. Statement - 14 Mar 2017
 
A man washes himself with hot water outside a disused railway warehouse used by refugees and migrants as temporary shelter in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

One year after the EU-Turkey deal: migrants and asylum seekers are paying the price with their health

MSF calls on the EU and member state leaders to radically change their approach to migration and ensure a swift end to the unnecessary suffering of the thousands caught in the consequences of the EU-Turkey deal. Report - 14 Mar 2017
Access to medicines

Dilemmas in access to medicines: a humanitarian perspective

UREPH is pleased to announce the publication of “Dilemmas in access to medicines: a humanitarian perspective” by James Smith and Tammam Aloudat in The Lancet. Journal article - 14 Mar 2017
 
In the picture, a man who suffered a mine explosion is being treated for his wounds by an MSF doctor.
Syria

No eyes on the ground

In its 45-year history, MSF has used its presence in the field and its proximity to patients to bear witness and bring the plight of populations affected by disease, natural disasters and conflicts to the world’s attention. Project Update - 13 Mar 2017
 
Heavy damaged sustained by al-Bayan hospital in July
Syria

Changes in medical practice in Syria

This report seeks to detail some of the ways in which the provision of medical care has been compromised or forced to adapt in light of security threats. Report - 13 Mar 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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