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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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An MSF staff helps a young boy cross the swamps at dusk with his family to Kok Island after receiving for the first time in many month food distribution in the troubled Unity State in South Sudan. Kok Island is the home to over two thousand IDP's who have fled the fighting in their home areas. In April 2015 after a rise in fighting in Unity State, thousands of civilians were forced to flee into the bush, swamps or into the UN Protection of Civilian site in Bentiu.
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A year in pictures 2016

Throughout the year, our photographers have been alongside MSF's doctors, nurses, midwives, logisticians and other staff, on the frontline of our projects around the world. Photo Story - 15 Dec 2016
 
Dr. Veronica Siebenkotten – Branca, MSF gynaecologist, performs an ultrasound examination on a pregnant patient with Hepatites E at Am Timan hospital, Salamat Region, Chad. It is estimated that one in 25 patients with Hepatitis E is at risk of death, but for pregnant women in their third trimester, the risks of maternal and fetal mortality are much higher.
Chad

MSF teams treating and preventing hepatitis E in Am Timan

Project Update - 14 Dec 2016
 
Conditions inside the detention centres do not meet any national, regional or international standards. They are dangerously overcrowded with a lack of natural light and ventilation. In some facilities, the amount of space per detainee is so limited (as little as 0.41m2 per person) that people are unable to stretch out at night, resulting in many complaints of body aches.
Libya

Providing healthcare to detained refugees and migrants

MSF remains opposed to the indefinite arbitrary detention of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya. Project Update - 14 Dec 2016
 
A boy walks past a tea kettle heating on coals in a market street in Al Shaar district, east Aleppo.
Syria

MSF calls on all sides to spare the lives of civilians trapped in the Aleppo battle

MSF is outraged at the violence exerted against civilians and the passivity displayed by all those that can do something to stop it. Statement - 13 Dec 2016
 
A hospital worker salvages the remains of undamaged medication and equipment left in the emergency room after the 15 August Saudi-led coalition airstrike which destroyed the hospital killing 19. In a country where access to healthcare is already extremely limited, the Abs hospital was the only facility catering to over 2,000 IDPs in the area and thousands more along the coast, from the northwestern border of Yemen to the outskirts of Hodeidah. With the destruction of Abs hospital, the closest hospital is now over 3 hours drive away.
Yemen

Saudi-led airstrike on Abs hospital cannot be justified as "unintentional error"

Statement - 9 Dec 2016
 
In late March 2014, MSF inaugurated a post-operative care unit in Zaatari refugee camp, northeast of Amman. The space was opened as a step-down overflow facility for war-wounded Syrians referred from MSF’s Ramtha surgical project and other Jordanian hospitals to receive long-term rehabilitative and convalescent care. Jordan’s stringent decision to seal its borders with Syria completely on 21 June denied war-wounded Syrians access to Jordan. Despite the intensification of fighting between warring parties in southern Syria, Jordanian borders remain tightly sealed, leaving the severely-wounded Syrians and lifesaving cases with very slim chances to survive. Today, MSF’s facility in Zaatari stands nearly empty despite the growing medical needs at the other side of the Jordanian borders. To this end, MSF has regrettably decided to end all operations in its Zaatari facility while the number of war-wounded mounts behind the closed borders.
Jordan

"I consider myself luckier than a lot of other wounded Syrians who couldn't reach Jordan for treatment"

Voices from the Field - 7 Dec 2016
 
In late March 2014, MSF inaugurated a post-operative care unit in Zaatari refugee camp, northeast of Amman. The space was opened as a step-down overflow facility for war-wounded Syrians referred from MSF’s Ramtha surgical project and other Jordanian hospitals to receive long-term rehabilitative and convalescent care. Jordan’s stringent decision to seal its borders with Syria completely on 21 June denied war-wounded Syrians access to Jordan. Despite the intensification of fighting between warring parties in southern Syria, Jordanian borders remain tightly sealed, leaving the severely-wounded Syrians and lifesaving cases with very slim chances to survive. Today, MSF’s facility in Zaatari stands nearly empty despite the growing medical needs at the other side of the Jordanian borders. To this end, MSF has regrettably decided to end all operations in its Zaatari facility while the number of war-wounded mounts behind the closed borders.
Jordan

Border closure forces MSF's clinic for war-wounded Syrians in Zaatari refugee camp to shut

Press Release - 7 Dec 2016
 
Most people in Lulingu depend on food they grow themselves. After being forced from their homes, they can no longer reach their fields or harvest their crops.
Democratic Republic of Congo

The pendulum of violence

Project Update - 7 Dec 2016
 
Damaged hospital car The last two functional ambulances in Al-Marj neighbourhood (in the East Ghouta besieged area near Damascus) were destroyed beyond repair in an aerial bomb attack on Monday 05 December 2016. They were parked in the hospital’s warehouse/garage, very near to the makeshift hospital’s location. Two hospital cars, used to transporting supplies and medical personnel, were also destroyed in the blast. The lack of ambulances will have an impact on the ability to quickly treat wounded when there is bombing or shelling in the area, but above all it will affect the capacity to refer the most sick patients to larger secondary referral hospitals. The makeshift hospital in Al-Marj is not equipped for complex or long-term in-patient hospital care, and this could have a big impact on the ability to refer patients for appropriate secondary care.
Syria

How can hope survive in these circumstances? A Syrian doctor’s account

Voices from the Field - 7 Dec 2016
 
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) doctors Frandy Samson and Dr. Stijn Bex treat three year old Dieula. She was brought to the Cholera Treatment Centre in Port-à-Piment. by her aunt Ena.
Haiti

Health status two months after Hurricane Matthew, in the hardest-hit provinces

Crisis Update - 6 Dec 2016
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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