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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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2094 Results
 
Burnt home in Leer County, South Sudan
South Sudan

Dozens of people killed and injured as violence surges in Leer County

In the latest violence in Leer County, South Sudan, dozens of people have been killed, including an MSF staff member, while thousands more have been displaced. Press Release - 19 Apr 2022
 
A man sits on a metro bench, between wagons where people now live, hiding fromthe shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 11, 2022.
War in Ukraine

Witnessing despair and resilience among people sheltering in Kharkiv’s metro

People sheltering from Ukraine's war in Kharkiv's metro stations are experiencing high levels of stress. MSF's Dr Morten Rostrup describes our work treating these people. Voices from the Field - 15 Apr 2022
 
MSF’s third medical train referral in Ukraine: arrival in Lviv. 06 and 07 April – 40 patients evacuated by train from #Kramatorsk. One transferred in #Kyiv and 39 transferred in #Lviv This follows after another evacuation the previous day of 17 patients from Kramatorsk to Dnipro. We heard the horrific news on the morning of 08 April that Kramatorsk station had been hit by one or more strikes. “I am horrified by reports of bombing or missile strike today on Kramatorsk station. We were there yesterday, and we saw hundreds of people crowding the station, trying to leave. The hospitals had been urgently calling us to evacuate their patients by train. Most came from #Sievierodonestk and other towns in #Luhansk region. We were just in time with this train. Big questions whether we will be able to go back to evacuate more people.”
War in Ukraine

Finding our most useful role in our response in and around Ukraine

MSF teams in Ukraine are responding to the needs of people caught up in the war in areas where we're able to be of most use. Project Update - 11 Apr 2022
 
On 2 April MSF sent a small team to Mocímboa de Praia, a coastal town in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. During a one-day visit the team carried out consultations with 39 patients, mostly male adults and some teenagers and children as well. They didn’t find any critical medical issues and only had to refer one patient who was suffering from cardiac problems to the Mueda rural hospital.
Mozambique

Adapting healthcare in Mocímboa da Praia as people flee or return home

MSF teams have returned to Mocímboa da Praia, a town in conflict-ravaged Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique, to provide medical care for the first time in two years. Interview - 8 Apr 2022
 
One of MSF's staff members stands outside the abandoned house where MSF operates a mobile clinic in the village of Vodiane. Vodiane, once an upscale community, has been largely destroyed and abandoned since the conflict began. The village is situated very close to the front line, near the destroyed Donetsk airport, and access is restricted. The population is estimated to be just one-fifth of its prevoius size, and mostly the elderly remain.
War in Ukraine

Area around hospitals, houses, bombed in Mykolaiv

An MSF team visiting hospitals in Mykolaiv, southeastern Ukraine, has witnessed a residential area with many hospitals bombed by Russian forces. Press Release - 5 Apr 2022
 
The arrival in Lviv of MSF’s first medical referral train on Friday 01 April 2022. MSF did its first medical train referral on a 2-carriage train converted specifically. This is a precursor of a bigger and more highly medicalised train that is in the process of being converted. The first transfer of patients took place between Thursday 31 March and Friday 01 April 2022. There were nine patients, and nine MSF medical staff. The patients were all wounded in, or while trying to leave, the besieged city of Mariupol. We made the selection of patients with the management team of a hospital in the town of Zaporizhzhia, where the patients were first treated after leaving Mariupol. We transferred them to referral hospitals in Lviv. The idea is to take patients needing higher levels of care, but stable enough to endure a long train journey (up to 24 hours). We want to enable them to have the best possible care, away from the active areas of warfare in Ukraine, and we want to relieve some of the pressure on the hospitals that are closer to frontlines of the war.
War in Ukraine

“You have a medical train? I have patients for you.”

How the patients were selected for MSF’s first medical train referral in Ukraine. Voices from the Field - 3 Apr 2022
 
A woman walks past building damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. The surrounded southern city of Mariupol, where the war has produced some of the greatest human suffering, remained cut off despite earlier talks on creating aid or evacuation convoys. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
War in Ukraine

Bombs over Mariupol: Each day is like losing your whole life

MSF staff member, Sasha, from Mariupol, recently managed to escape the bombarded and destroyed city. He shares his harrowing story of survival. Voices from the Field - 24 Mar 2022
 
Hundreds of people wait in line to cross the border on foot into Slovakia from the city of Uzhhorod in Ukraine's Transcarpathia region, March 6, 2022. Author: Santi Palacios / MSF Frontera Ucrania-Eslovaquia. Personas esperando para cruzar la frontera y entrar en Eslovaquia desde Chop, Ucrania.
War in Ukraine

Every day thousands of Ukrainians arrive in Slovakia – traumatised and exhausted

Around 10,000 Ukrainians are arriving in Slovakia every day, exhausted and traumatised after fleeing the war. Our project coordinator describes the situation on the ground. Interview - 14 Mar 2022
 
Palanca refugee camp. Since most refugees are immediatly heading to cities, the camp has remain almost empty since it has been settled up. Palanca, Moldova / March 10th 2022.
War in Ukraine

Thousands of people flee bombings in south Ukraine and head west

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have arrived in Moldova, heading west, after fleeing bombs and violence in Mykolayiv, Ukraine. Project Update - 12 Mar 2022
 
UKRAINE. Lviv. 26 February 2022. Children seen through the window of an evacuation train traveling towards the border with Poland as thousands of people try to escape the on-going conflict in Ukraine.
War in Ukraine

“There’s an urgent humanitarian race against time in Ukraine”

Hospitals are in a race against time to get supplies of medical equipment from suppliers, including MSF, as the war in Ukraine intensifies. Voices from the Field - 11 Mar 2022
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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