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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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Syria

MSF activities for Syrian refugees

Project Update - 8 May 2013
 
Eighteen-year-old Salwah Mekrsh is unable to walk. She was shot by a sniper in Aleppo. In this photo, taken in April 2013, she is about to start a mental health consultation with MSF staff in Kilis (Turkey).
Syria

"Now I feel better, but I can’t walk"

A young woman from Syria starts a new life in Turkey after being shot by a sniper. Voices from the Field - 6 May 2013
 
An elderly Syrian refugee suffering from Parkinson's disease sleeps in a room in a ramshackle home on a cattle ground in Tripoli, Lebanon, surrounded by his daughter-in-law and granddaughter, January 22, 2013. He and 19 members of his family, forced from their home in Idlib, Syria because of armed conflict, live in two cramped rooms in the fetid settlement. The family pays $175 for the shelter, which has no heating or refrigerator. They draw water from a nearby well, likely contaminated by cow manure.
Syria

Flashbacks, nightmares and baby clothes

Voices from the Field - 2 May 2013
 
MSF outreach team in Pinga preparing to depart for the day's activities. (2 May 2013) Heavy fighting over the last few days in Pinga, a town in the conflict-afflicted North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has made it difficult for Médecins Sans Frontières to carry out its vital medical work. Thousands of the town’s inhabitants have fled into the surrounding forests and eleven of MSF’s Congolese staff members are missing.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Renewed violence hits Pinga

Statement - 2 May 2013
 
For the first time since the departure of Iraq in 2004, MSF has been able to establish an international team in the Arab part of Iraq in 2008: in October a project was started in the General Hospital of Basra, in the southern of the country. The project intends to improve pre, intra and post operative care through reintroduction of hygiene standards, universal precautions, monitoring of patients and safety in surgical and anaesthesia care. This aims to reduce the risks of post-operative infection for patients. A team of international and Iraqi MSF staff work together with hospital surgeons, doctors and nurses providing training and coaching.
Iraq

Healing Iraqis: The challenges of providing mental health care in Iraq

Decades of conflict, political instability and social upheaval have left many Iraqis vulnerable to psychological stress, mental health disorders and in need of mental health care says MSF in a new report launched in Baghdad today. Report - 29 Apr 2013
 
Ben-Dahi of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assiting with the vaccination of recently arrived Malian refugee children at a transit camp in Fassala in southeastern Mauritania on 4 March 2013. As of January 2012, the Malian crisis has resulted in population movements. Nearly 150,000 refugees now live in refugee camps in Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger, where MSF teams are providing maternal, primary and secondary health care. Since the beginning of 2013, MSF has recorded nearly 12,000 consultations and 5,000 vaccinations in these three countries. Mauritania is the country with the largest number of refugees. Mbera camp nearly 70,000 refugees who have fled for fear of reprisals or lack of access to food since the beginning of the conflict. In February 2013, the border post of Fassala (Mauritania) recorded an average of 300 arrivals per day. They are mostly women and children from Timbuktu, Lere, Goundam Larnab and Nianfuke. These Malian refugees continue to live in precarious conditions with no future prospects.
Project Update

Global vaccines community must cut costs of new vaccines

MSF calls on GAVI and pharmaceutical companies to extend discounts so more children can be reached Press Release - 23 Apr 2013
 
A child contemplating the future outside a makeshift shelter that her parents are trying to put up after being displaced from their home in Chewele location.
Kenya

Help needed for people displaced by flooding

MSF calls for more concerted efforts in assisting populations displaced by floods in Tana River Delta region, Kenya Press Release - 19 Apr 2013
 
A Malian refugee who arrived in a convoy from the Fassala transit camp, near the border with Mali, to the main Mbera refugee camp on 6 March 2013. In March 2012, following the influx of thousands of refugees, MSF has begun providing medical and nutritional activities for refugees and local populations in the district Bassikounou in Mauritania. MSF offers free primary health care, secondary and antenatal care. By installing two health centers in Mbera camp Mbera andsupporting health posts in Fassala and Mberavillage, medical teams have provided more than 85,000 consultations, 200 deliveries and supported about 1,000 severely malnourished children. Knowing that the nearest hospital is located about more than 200 km, MSF has installed an operational theater in Bassikounou village to allow prompt medical care and stabilization of severe cases before referral to Nema hospital . Protecting children from measles is also a health priority in the camps where MSF teams involved. Indeed, a measles outbreak can be devastating for children who live in crowded camps and often suffer from chronic malnutrition. That is why, in support of health authorities, MSF has vaccinated nearly 10,000 children since March 2012.
Mauritania

Stranded in the desert

MSF report calls for urgent aid effort for 70,000 Malians
 Report - 13 Apr 2013
 
The Mbera refugee camp for Malian refugees on 2 March 2013. As of January 2012, the Malian crisis has resulted in population movements. Nearly 150,000 refugees now live in refugee camps in Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger, where MSF teams are providing maternal, primary and secondary health care. Since the beginning of 2013, MSF has recorded nearly 12,000 consultations and 5,000 vaccinations in these three countries. Mauritania is the country with the largest number of refugees. Mbera camp nearly 70,000 refugees who have fled for fear of reprisals or lack of access to food since the beginning of the conflict. In February 2013, the border post of Fassala (Mauritania) recorded an average of 300 arrivals per day. They are mostly women and children from Timbuktu, Lere, Goundam Larnab and Nianfuke. These Malian refugees continue to live in precarious conditions with no future prospects.
Mauritania

Refugees stranded in desert

Some 70,000 refugees from Mali are living in difficult conditions in the middle of the Mauritanian desert, with ethnic tensions in northern Mali quashing any hopes of a swift return home. A report released today by MSF entitled 'Stranded in the desert' calls on aid organisations to urgently renew efforts to meet the refugees’ basic needs. Press Release - 13 Apr 2013
 
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Access to medicines

Patent Opposition Database

Patents prevent the open competition that could drive prices down to lower, affordable levels. Campaign - 11 Apr 2013
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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