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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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Garage shelter for refugees in Leros island,Greece. Coast Guard station yard
Mediterranean migration

EU and Greece turn their backs on refugees arriving at Greek islands

Refugees are subjected to a dysfunctional reception system and inhumane living conditions Press Release - 3 Dec 2014
 
The Suchiate river, on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. The Central American migrants cross it on small boats. It's the beginning of their tough journey through Mexico.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

EXODUS: Three stories, three continents, but a shared motivation – to escape violence

MSF launches web documentary to tell the stories of those who have no choice but to leave Voices from the Field - 2 Dec 2014
 
MSF staff in Guinea paint their response to support messages sent to Ebola missions from around the world. Numerous messages and photos were sent in or posted on social media, from other MSF missions and sections, donors and MSF supporters. This is a regular source of motivation for staff, but also a way for national emergency staff to experience an MSF associative spirit. The photo was taken in In Donka Ebola case management centre (CMC). For safety reasons, the paint was applied to gloves, and only a limited number of persons fit in one image. The group photos include medical, watsan and health promotion staff members.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

International Ebola response slow and piecemeal, risks becoming a ‘double failure’, says MSF

The international response to Ebola in West Africa has so far been patchy and slow, and has left local people, national governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to do most of the practical, hands-on work. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today that the international community must not fail twice with a response that is slow in the first instance and ill-adapted later on. Press Release - 2 Dec 2014
 
Portrait of Mishenko Aleksander Grigorievich, 57 years old, in Svitlodarsk Civil Hospital in Donetsk region. Aleksander is from Debaltsevo, a city of 25,000 people in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. The edge of the city hugs the frontline in the ongoing conflict between Ukrainian and rebel forces. Despite a ceasefire agreement signed on 5 September, people living on the outskirts of the city continue to experience shelling on an almost daily basis. Alexander was wounded on 13 October and is being treated in Svitlodarsk hospital. MSF has been supporting the hospital with urgently needed medical supplies for treating wounded patients. Aleksander is receiving counselling from an MSF psychologist to help him deal with the traumatic experience.
Ukraine

Testimonies from patients and medical staff in the Donetsk region

Aleksander is from Debaltseve, a city of 25,000 people in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. The edge of the city hugs the frontline in the ongoing conflict between Ukrainian and rebel forces. Voices from the Field - 2 Dec 2014
 
MSF delivers medical supplies for treating wounded patients to Lissychansk City hospital in Luhansk region.
Ukraine

Gallery: Ukraine's war ravaged eastern regions

Photo Story - 2 Dec 2014
 
The destroyed psychiatric hospital in Semenovka, on the outskirts of Slavyansk, Donetsk region. The hospital was evacuated as heavy fighting drew closer. After one side took the building as a base, it was completely destroyed in heavy clashes. Shrapnel marks can be seen all over the outside, while the inside was obliterated. Months later, the hospital remains unusable.
Ukraine

“People are extremely anxious; they just don’t know what the next months hold.”

With winter settling in in eastern Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing its support to hospitals on both sides of the frontline, and expanding its psychological assistance to help people living in some of the hardest hit areas. Despite the signing of a ceasefire agreement on 5 September, fighting has continued in several cities and towns, with particularly heavy clashes taking place over the past two weeks. Crisis Update - 1 Dec 2014
 
Paoua hospital. Cathy Beuve, MSF nurse. *** Local Caption *** In CAR, despite an overall increase in aid in recent years, access to health care remains a major problem, even in areas that are not directly affected by the conflict. A majority of Central Africans continue to live in extremely precarious conditions. Several mortality surveys conducted by MSF in particular regions of the country highlight crude mortality rates and specific extremely high - sometimes three to five times higher than the emergency threshold.<br> These mortality rates are partly attributable to a structural deficit of the health system that does not allow the public to have access to basic health care for diseases such as malaria, respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases.<br> In Paoua, MSF teams are working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in all hospital reference departments (pediatrics, surgery, maternity, emergency, hospitalization and HIV & TB treatment). In 2011, MSF issued more than 72,000 consultations in Paoua hospital and peripheral health centers, and more than 6600 patients have been hospitalized. The teams have conducted over 8000 ANC consultations and 1432 deliveries. MSF also supports patients with advanced AIDS and cases of co-infection HIV / TB. In 2011, 247 patients received antiretroviral therapy.<br>
HIV/AIDS

‘Double victims’ – in conflict zones, people with HIV are twice as vulnerable

The past decade has seen major improvements in people’s ability to access lifesaving HIV treatments – but if you live in Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan or parts of Yemen, you could be forgiven for thinking nothing has changed. The fact is that in most unstable areas, HIV services remain largely non-existent. Voices from the Field - 1 Dec 2014
 
Since July 2007, MSF has been running a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Vaishali district, in the centre of the Indian state of Bihar. In the four years, about 8,000 patients have been treated at the Sadar Hospital, and in five MSF-supported health centres. The initial cure rate of kala azar cases is at 98 per cent. Kala azar is a disease endemic to Bihar. Transmitted by the sand fly, the disease mainly affects the spleen and, if left untreated, is fatal for virtually all patients.
Kala azar

Increased access to diagnosis and treatment of HIV-VL co-infection is imperative for eliminating kala azar

Fast-tracked development of integrated kala azar and HIV guidelines needed Press Release - 1 Dec 2014
 
Mental Health in Colombia, September 2014
Colombia

Minds and bodies marked by sexual violence in Colombia

Photo Story - 28 Nov 2014
 
Patient being treated by MSF medical staff in White Nile State in Sudan.
Sudan

Separated by borders, united by needs

MSF provides medical assistance to South Sudanese in White Nile State, Sudan Project Update - 27 Nov 2014
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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