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How we work

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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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Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff and Bourbon Argos crew, start the operation to recover the bodies of those who died. Staff wear protective clothing to protect themselves from fuel inhalation and chemical burns that could be caused by the mixture of sea water and petrol that remains in the rubber boat.
Mediterranean migration

29 people found dead by MSF search and rescue ship Bourbon Argos

Press Release - 26 Oct 2016
 
Men and young boys gather in the emergency room of Boost hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan. Boost hospital is run by MSF in partnership with the Ministry of Public Health. It is one of the biggest MSF runs worldwide: 300 beds, 700 national staff, 25 international staff. Photo: Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Many of those who left were in critical need of treatment

An account of life in Boost hospital amid armed fighting in Lashkar Gah Voices from the Field - 26 Oct 2016
 
Nanyanyiso Baloi holds her treatment regimen for pre-XDR-TB, which includes delamanid and bedaquiline. Khayelitsha, Western Cape. Nonyanyiso Baloi, a 32-year-old mother of three lives with her children and aunt in Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa. After reacting very badly to first-line TB treatment, doctors desperately searched for alternative treatment options, before discovering her full diagnosis of pre-XDR-TB, which required a whole new treatment regimen. There’s a critical need for clinicians to have newer, improved drugs to treat extensively drug resistant strains of TB. Current treatment regimen: bedaquiline, delamanid, linezolid, clofazimine, levofloxacin, ethambutol, terizidone Nonyanyiso Baloi: “I’ve lived in this house since 1989, and how live here with my aunt and three children, ages 8, 6 and 4 years. I’m a full-time mum. Earlier this year, I lost weight, had no appetite and was vomiting a lot. I was always tired. I was diagnosed and have been on this journey since. I’m happy I got this treatment, because I couldn’t even walk back then – but if I see myself now, I’m doing everything I couldn’t do before.”
Access to medicines

MSF reports on use of the new tuberculosis drugs bedaquiline and delamanid

Press Release - 25 Oct 2016
 
Nonyanyiso plays with her 8 year old daughter Minentle at home Khayelitsha. Nonyanyiso Baloi is a 32 year old mother of three children, lives with her 3 children and aunt in Khayelitsha in Western Cape, South Africa. Nonyanyiso Baloi, a 32-year-old mother of three lives with her children and aunt in Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa. After reacting very badly to first-line TB treatment, doctors desperately searched for alternative treatment options, before discovering her full diagnosis of pre-XDR-TB, which required a whole new treatment regimen. There’s a critical need for clinicians to have newer, improved drugs to treat extensively drug resistant strains of TB. Current treatment regimen: bedaquiline, delamanid, linezolid, clofazimine, levofloxacin, ethambutol, terizidone Nonyanyiso Baloi: “I’ve lived in this house since 1989, and how live here with my aunt and three children, ages 8, 6 and 4 years. I’m a full-time mum. Earlier this year, I lost weight, had no appetite and was vomiting a lot. I was always tired. I was diagnosed and have been on this journey since. I’m happy I got this treatment, because I couldn’t even walk back then – but if I see myself now, I’m doing everything I couldn’t do before.”
South Africa

I'm doing everything I couldn't do before

"I'm happy I got this treatment, because I couldn't even walk back then," she says, "but if I see myself now, I'm doing everything I couldn't do before." Voices from the Field - 25 Oct 2016
 
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.
India

"Providing comprehensive treatment for patients with tuberculosis"

MSF is one of the biggest non-governmental providers of tuberculosis (TB) treatment – including for drug-resistant TB - in the world. Photo Story - 25 Oct 2016
 
Refugees and migrants in the Jungle camp in Calais walk with their possessions 25 October 2016 as other around them prepare to leave the Jungle after French authorities began the closure of the make-shift camp that has been a jumping off point for many people seeking onward travel to the UK.
France

Dismantlement of the Calais ‘Jungle'

Project Update - 25 Oct 2016
 
XDR-TB patient Nischaya, at home in the Ambedkar Nagar area of Mumbai. 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.
India

Renewed hope with new drugs

Project Update - 25 Oct 2016
 
Nubia leaves the Medecins Sans Frontieres Ebola survivors clinic together with her foster mother (and aunt) Mabinty Soumah following a medical check.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Dealing with Ebola's double blow

The Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa infected more than 28,700 people and killed more than 11,300 men, women and children. Photo Story - 21 Oct 2016
 
An MSF Ebola survivor clinic staff meeting with some survivors in New Kru Town community in the suburb of Monrovia during outreach on Tuesday May 19, 2015.
Access to Healthcare

Healing through sharing

Project Update - 21 Oct 2016
 
Members of the APGEF - Association des Personnes Guerís d'Ebola de Forecariah (Ebola survivors association of Forecariah) working in a watermelon field. These Ebola survivors associations are very important to fight against the stigmatisation of survivors and to conduct anti stigma activities with the population. Forecariah area is a mainly rural area were most of the population living from agriculture.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

MSF closes final Ebola projects for survivors

Project Update - 21 Oct 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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