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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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KIGALI, RWANDA, AFRICA, 30.04.95. Tutsi survivors of the genocide at the one year anniversary of the genocide. Beneath umbrellas.
Rwanda

Rwanda, 20 years later: “I am left with a great sadness”

Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol pays tribute to hundreds of murdered Rwandan MSF colleagues. Voices from the Field - 28 Apr 2014
 
The South Sudanese key strategic town of Malakal came under attack on February 18. The clashes between government and opposition forces forced thousands of people to flee to other locations or to the UN compound in the town. Roughly 21,000 people were crammed into this camp.
South Sudan

MSF condemns unspeakable violence in Bentiu

Accounts of gruesome targeted killings; consequences of the violence leaves thousands in peril Press Release - 28 Apr 2014
 
MSF is providing medical care in two camps in Juba, South Sudan, where 40,000 people are seeking refuge from widespread fighting that erupted in mid-December. Over 27,000 people are living in deplorable conditions in Tomping camp. The first rains of the season have left a significant part of the camp flooded and further degraded the poor sanitation conditions.
Malaria

Malaria control in emergencies: time for action

What can be done beyond just waiting for malaria to sweep in and then treating people who become ill, as MSF and other aid organisations are now doing? We now have tools - from weather monitoring to close surveillance of new cases - to predict the onset of a malaria peak and a large proportion of severe cases, so shouldn’t we be taking more aggressive preventive measures? Opinion - 25 Apr 2014
 
Madeleine Boyer (infirmière anesthésiste). au chevet d'un jeune patient.<br>
Rwanda

Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide: “We don’t talk about things that are hard to recount”

Nurse anesthetist Madeleine Boyer describes recollections of her two missions to Kigali in 1994 Voices from the Field - 25 Apr 2014
 
Sudanese refugees began streaming across the border into South Sudan in June 2011 when conflict erupted between the Khartoum government and the rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in Sudan’s South Kordofan State. At the height of the crisis in Yida camp last summer, high mortality rates were reported among young children admitted to MSF’s hospital with respiratory tract infections, such as pneumonia, one of the leading causes of death. MSF determined that vaccinating with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) could result in a substantial mortality reduction in Yida. MSF has been working since September 2012 to procure PCV but faced significant delays due to lengthy negotiations and international legal procurement constraints. MSF was eventually able to obtain the vaccine from GSK at a reduced price, but delays have now pushed the planned vaccination into the logistically challenging rainy season. The objective is to immunize approximately 5,000 children under the age of 2 against several pathogens, including haemophilus influenza type B and pneumococcus. This is the first time that PCV is being used in South Sudan and one of the first vaccines to be implemented in compliance with the new WHO emergency vaccination recommendations.
Access to medicines

Heat-stable vaccines urgently needed to reach the one in five children missed by immunisation worldwide

MSF study shows a tetanus vaccine remains effective for up to a month when used outside a cold chain. Press Release - 22 Apr 2014
 
Kawargosk camp. Kurdistan/Iraq - MSF is running a primary health centre in Kawargosk camp hosting Syrian refugees and mobile clinics in another refugees camp in Erbil area. *** Local Caption *** With the insecurity and the violence affecting the entire population in Syria, many Syrians have chosen to flee to Iraq. The internal Iraqi political dynamics have created the space for the Kurdish Region Government (KRG) to host the Kurdish population fleeing Syria. In Erbil governorate (Kurdish region of Iraq), MSF is running a primary health centre in Kawargosk refugees camp and mobile clinics in another other camp.
Natural hazards

Optimal Evidence in Difficult Settings: Improving Health Interventions and Decision Making in Disasters

As for any type of health care, decisions about interventions in the context of natural disasters, conflict, and other major healthcare emergencies must be guided by the best possible evidence. Journal article - 22 Apr 2014
 
Medical Director of the Colony 3, Dr. Nikolai Gopilo, walking to one of the compounds where prisoners with drug-resistant TB are held. Colony 3 looks like a small village where inmates are allowed to walk freely inside the compound without constrains from the administration. Territory is secured by double fences, armed guard towers, armed guard patrols, and a "pass-system" of entry. Medical and non medical staff work in close proximity with the detainees. The internal hierarchy of the prisoners, which was inherited from the Soviet regime and exists today in all the republics of the former USSR, is a kind of "caste" system that is defined by a rigid unwritten code, functioning quite independently of the penitentiary administration. The authorities know that the castes exist and are aware of their rules and realities.
Social violence and exclusion

Humanitarian work in prisons: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

Humanitarian work in prisons: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières Journal article - 22 Apr 2014
 
A patient on a balcony of Donka Hospital in the Guinean capital Conakry looks at the Ebola treatment centre run by MSF in the capital. Since late March MSF has been working in the south east of the country and in the capital, helping health authorities tackle the virus, which had not been seen in the West African country before the 2014 outbreak.
Guinea

MSF continues Ebola response

MSF continues Ebola response in Guinea and Liberia Project Update - 22 Apr 2014
 
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Uganda

MSF increases its capacity for action to aid refugees from South Sudan

Uganda: MSF increases aid to refugees from South Sudan Project Update - 17 Apr 2014
 
Ansongo hospital, Gao region, in northern Mali. MSF started working in Ansongo in September 2012, nine months after the conflict broke out in the north of the country between the security forces and Tuareg and Islamist groups. Currently, MSF is working at the Ansongo referral hospital, a 31-bed facility, where the organisation carries out OPD, IPD, ANC consultations and assist deliveries.
Mali

“MSF was in Ansongo throughout the crisis, the population appreciates our work”

Interview: MSF in Ansongo throughout the crisis Voices from the Field - 17 Apr 2014
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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