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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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In the Jedi Ibrahim polyclinic, located in the old town of Zuwara. Sefaw, 9 months, and his father Sassi. "He caught cold and has small difficuties to breathe".
Libya

Hospitals closed or operating on a reduced schedule

Interview with Dr. Mego Terzian, President of Médecins Sans Frontières France, back from a site visit to Libya Interview - 27 Apr 2016
 
Portrait 49 year old of Mariana Daisa Esmeralda Castillo (r) with her mother in law (c) and husband (l), inside a shelter on Portete island. 'In the moment the earthquake struck, on the island of Portete, we were all in our homes. First we felt the trembling, but then it was as if the earth was running away. As soon as that happened, all of the neighbours went to a common meeting place on the island. Fortunately, two days prior to the earthquake, we had received a training on evacuation at a nearby hotel and that really helped us in this situation. We crossed on small boats, then got on a road and headed to Altos de Portete, where we set up a shelter for 50 families. There we received pshycho-social support from MSF, both for the kids and the adults. My mother-in-law, who is elderly and who lost her husband two months ago, felt better after speaking with the team'. 'Now I’m really scared to go back to my home on the island. We’re waiting for authorities to rebuild our homes. Until they can provide that safety, we can’t return. The children don’t even say they want to go back; they are still very frightened. My husband and I ran a bar on the beach for tourists, but now we have no work because everything is destroyed and tourists won’t want to come'. 'Our entire family is living here in this shelter we built, but in Pedernales, we lost many loved ones. Every day, I go to sleep and wake up and I continue to be grateful to be alive. After the earthquake, we were reborn to live to tell our children and grandchildren what happened to us.”
Ecuador

Earthquake in Ecuador: I’m so scared to go back home

Voices from the Field - 27 Apr 2016
 
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff members Cristina Buixeres and Fredy Haro distribute hygiene and cooking kits for 52 families in the Alto del Portete shelter in Muisne, Ecuador
Ecuador

The population is fearful and nervous

Project Update - 27 Apr 2016
 
A Fair Shot 1 million pneumonia deaths infographic
Access to medicines

2,500 flowers are placed in front of Pfizer’s HQ, representing number of children who die of pneumonia each day.

“We’ve seen too many children die of pneumonia, and we’re not going to stop until we know that all countries can afford this life-saving vaccine,” Press Release - 27 Apr 2016
 
A Médecins Sans Frontières doctor listens to a premature newborn's chest, as part of the daily care and follow-up provided in the Kangaroo Mother Care unit. Un médecin MSF écoute la respiration d’un nouveau-né prématuré. Cela fait partie du suivi de routine dans l’unité kangourou. ---Dasht-e-Barchi’s Kangaroo Mother Care Unit---
Afghanistan

Maternity service in the district public hospital of Dasht-e-Barchi

MSF's work in photos at the busy maternity service it runs in the district public hospital in Dasht-e-Barchi, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul. According to World Bank data, Afghanistan’s maternal mortality rate for 2015 was 396 per 100,000 live births. Photo Story - 26 Apr 2016
 
Women's Health Advisor and Midwife Kara Blackburn on the left, with colleagues Akila (Afghan national staff) and Etsuko (from Japan), on an assessment visit to MSF's comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care project in Dasht-e-Barchi in March 2016.
Afghanistan

The number of deliveries has doubled since the project opened

"I was asked to visit the Dasht-e-Barchi project because the number of deliveries has doubled since the project opened just over a year ago," says Kara Blackburn. "In the last 24 hours of my visit the team managed 60 deliveries – in any hospital this is a huge volume, and yet everyone kept up the pace; striving to provide a good quality of care. I was really impressed. The hospital I worked at in Australia would have struggled with such a workload." Voices from the Field - 26 Apr 2016
 
C-section performed on a patient.
Afghanistan

“A postpartum haemorrhage can happen to anyone”

In Dasht-e-Barchi, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, MSF runs a busy maternity service in the district public hospital. Voices from the Field - 26 Apr 2016
 
A new mother performs skin-to-skin care, which helps her pre-term baby grow by keeping it warm, promoting breastfeeding and bonding, and reducing the risk of infection. Une mère pratique la technique « peau à peau » pour favoriser la croissance de son nouveau-né prématuré, en le maintenant au chaud. Cette technique permet aussi l’allaitement maternel et réduit les risques d'infection.
Afghanistan

Nurturing premature babies with their mothers’ embrace

Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), or skin-to-skin care, is highly valued as a therapy that can benefit both mother and child. Dr Nikola Morton, paediatrician, and Laura Acheson, a neonatal nurse, were both passionate about consolidating skin-to-skin practice in Dasht-e-Barchi. They shared their experience of how skin-to-skin has become standard in MSF’s thriving Dasht-e-Barchi neonatal unit. Project Update - 26 Apr 2016
 
Between August and November 2015, MSF and the Ministry of Health of Mali launched a chemoprevention campaign against seasonal malaria, the leading cause of infant mortality in the country, which reached more than 45,000 children between three months and five years old in the Ansongo district, in the Gao region in the north of the country. During the campaign, MSF took the chance to complete the children’s vaccination records.
Mali

Vaccination rate increases by 50 per cent in Ansongo

Project Update - 25 Apr 2016
 
MSF health promotor during a session on sexual violence and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Molokai village. The original inhabitants of the region are pygmies people.
Democratic Republic of Congo

In Mambasa, MSF teams provide care to four new rape survivors each day

“Our work involves changing mentalities to get rid of the taboo around sexual violence, and to be able to offer proper care to every victim,” says Mame Anna Sane, MSF medical team leader. “Of course there is a criminal and legal aspect to sexual violence, but for us it’s first of all a medical emergency.” Project Update - 25 Apr 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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