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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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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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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Crisis update - 2 November 2015

The emergency is not over – the Ebola epidemic in West Africa continues in Guinea where three new cases were recorded last week. Crisis Update - 3 Nov 2015
 
Three-year-old Atiel Akech lies in his mother's lap in the yard outside the government-run (Ministry of Health) community health center at Aquem town, Aweil Center county. Patients here lie on mattresses outside, with IVs hanging from trees, because the wards have very few beds and it is very hot inside. Severe cases are supposed to be referred to the MSF hospital in Aweil city, a one-hour drive away. The center has a very low supply of ACT, and has rapid detection tests (RDTs) and quinine in stock. These should be given for free to patients; however, Achol Ariath, the little girl's mother, said that she had been asked to pay 10 SSP for the RDT, but she did not have the money. So Atiel was clinically diagnosed with malaria based on the symptoms she was experiencing: vomiting and fever. The nurse then told Achol to go purchase quinine from the pharmacy in town and bring it back to the health center so that it could be administered to Atiel intravenously. Atiel had no money for this either, so Achol was only given an IV of glucose. Achol has two children. She lost three other children in miscarriages. Her family lives in Mayiel village, which is an hour's walk away. She first brought Atiel to the health center at Aquem yesterday. After receiving one IV treatment of glucose, she went home. They returned again today for another IV as Atiel is still quite sick. This doesn't come as a surprise if indeed Atiel is only receiving glucose intravenously, as the IV bottle indicates. The hospital administrator said there was quinine in the IV, but Achol told us she hadn't been able to purcahse any and quinine wasn't noted on the bottle. Other patients at Aquem had stories identical to that of Achol and Atiel, indicating that patients who weren't able to afford the RDT test or malaria medication at the parmacy rate would receive no treatment. Even if Atiel were receiving a dose of quinine every day, the treatment would not be completely effective because quinine is supposed to be administered in three 8-hour doses in one uninterrupted 24-hour period.
South Sudan

Searching for malaria care in South Sudan

South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State sits in the remote northwestern corner of the country. It is South Sudan’s poorest state and it has only one full service hospital—a facility in the town of Aweil run by MSF, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health—serving an estimated population of 1.2 million people. Photo Story - 2 Nov 2015
 
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Syria

At least 550 wounded in horrific market-bombing in Damascus besieged area

At least 70 people have been killed and 550 injured in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Douma neighbourhood near Damascus, Syria. "This was an extremely violent bombing," says the director of a nearby MSF-supported hospital who assisted in the first wave of mass-casualty response. "The wounds were worse than anything we've seen before, and there were large numbers of dead." Press Release - 31 Oct 2015
 
From the grounds of the bombed hospital, the MSF staff in Kunduz send their deep appreciation to everyone around the world who stood in solidarity with them. Three weeks after the event this is the first time they see each other again.
Afghanistan

MSF staff gather In Kunduz

Three weeks after the bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan, our MSF colleagues gathered together for the first time on the grounds of the ruined hospital. Project Update - 30 Oct 2015
 
Namiel's husband, Biel, thirty years old, was wounded by a gunshot during a cattle raid. The bullet entered by his neck and exit by upper lip. He was refered in Agok by the Mayom's MSF health center, 85 km away. He is really lucky to be alive, but he cannot be operated here because he needs a maxilofacial surgery.
South Sudan

Trapped by violence in Unity state

Spiralling violence in Unity state is having a devastating effect on the civilian population and leading to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. “The civilian population is being subjected to repeated and targeted violence,” says MSF emergency manager Tara Newell. “MSF has not seen this level of violence and brutality before.” Press Release - 30 Oct 2015
 
Overview of what is left of Haydan hospital after october 26th airstrike.
Yemen

Denial of hospital bombing by Saudi-led coalition contradicts all facts

Despite denials by the Saudi-led coalition, it is beyond doubt that it struck and destroyed a hospital supported by MSF in Haydan on 26 October.
 Press Release - 29 Oct 2015
 
Mahmoud is 30 years old and worked as an emergency doctor in the city of Aleppo. He fled from Syria with a group of 13 people, 6 of them medical personnel.
Syria

The tough decision to leave your country

Testimonies from MSF staff who made the tough decision to leave Syria. Voices from the Field - 29 Oct 2015
 
Since the beginning of the year, MSF is working in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, to help reduce the stigma faced by people living with HIV and improve their access to quality healthcare. Medical consultation at the HIV/AIDS treatment clinic at Al-Gumhuri hospital, the only place in Sana’a providing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
Yemen

Antiretroviral treatment beneath the bombs

More than 1,300 people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral treatment in Yemen, around half of them in Sana’a, the capital. Dr Abdulfattah Al-Alimi, Field coordinator and medical team leader of MSF's HIV/AIDS project in Yemen, discuss how the current war is affecting the patients' treatment. "In the end, this is our job and responsibility: to find a way so no one has to interrupt their treatment because of the war," says Dr Abdulfattah Al-Alimi. " These are difficult times for my country, but we are trying to prevent them from being even more so for people living with the virus." Voices from the Field - 29 Oct 2015
 
Massive displacement
Syria

Massive displacement in Northern Syria as violence escalates and intensifies

At least 35 Syrian patients and medical staff have been killed, and 72 wounded, in a significant increase of air strikes on hospitals in Northern Syria, according to health staff supported by MSF inside Syria. As a result of the wider attacks in the region, tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes. Crisis Update - 29 Oct 2015
 
Patients are assessed in the male inpatient area at Timergara’s DHQ (District Headquarter Hospital).
Pakistan

Earthquake response – after initial influxes of injured, MSF assessing further needs

Following the 26 October earthquake that rocked parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, MSF's medical projects in north western Pakistan were faced with an initial influx of seriously wounded. After treating the injured, the next priority is to assess the needs and identify if there are any urgent follow-up requirements. Crisis Update - 28 Oct 2015
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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