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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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calek, Northern Bahr El Ghazal, October: A child getting tested for malaria in the school in Calek. Calek, is home to some 7,000 displaced people. MSF provides a mobile outreach clinic doing vaccinations and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH).
South Sudan

Access to antimalarial treatments must be increased in the west of the country

Conflict has diverted attention from healthcare, leading to an increase in severe malaria cases. Press Release - 6 Nov 2014
 
A line for an MSF protection kits distribution in West Point, Monrovia. These kits are designed for patients unable to be picked up by ambulances and families who need to disinfect their homes after someone dies.
Liberia

Distributing home disinfection kits in West Point suburb

Join an MSF team as it distributes 1,000 family protection and home disinfection kits in West Point, one of the Liberian capital’s slums. Project Update - 5 Nov 2014
 
There are many children in the Guéckédou Ebola case management centre. Some are orphans, which makes caring for them more complex. Staff easily become attached to these patients, whom they are the only ones to touch and comfort through two pairs of gloves and a mask.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Psychosocial support essential to responding to epidemic in Guéckédou, Guinea

In the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola case management centre (CMC) in Guéckédou, Guinea, a team of seven provides psychosocial support to the people and communities affected by Ebola. It is a difficult but indispensable task in responding to the epidemic Project Update - 4 Nov 2014
 
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Nigeria

Outbreak of cholera in Borno State

An epidemic of cholera broke out in Borno State in the northeast of Nigeria at the end of September. Already operating in this remote state that is difficult to get to and where the provision of healthcare is extremely limited, MSF is now responding to this latest epidemic. There have been 4,500 cases and 70 deaths from cholera in barely a month in Borno State’s capital and principal town Maiduguri and the number of cases continues to rise. Project Update - 3 Nov 2014
 
F., 20, abducted in January 2014 during an attack on the town of Bouar by several armed men. Three days of captivity in the jungle without food nor water. Raped by two men while the others were beating her with the butts of their guns, including the ears. Since then, F. has hearing problems. After three days, F. was left in the forest. She joined a deserted Bouar. Her family was gone. The children ran away during the attack while her uncle with whom she was living was killed in front of her. She decided to walk to Bangui to find her mother. She arrived in the capital on August 4, 2014 and then learnt that her sister suffered a similar fate near Bangui. Her mother led her to the general hospital to have a consultation, after hearing the MSF announcement on the radio. <br> F., 20 ans, enlevée en janvier 2014 pendant une attaque de la ville de Bouar, par plusieurs hommes armés. Trois jours de captivité dans la forêt sans boire ni manger. Violée par 2 hommes alors que les autres lui tapaient dessus avec la crosse de leur arme, y compris sur les oreilles. Depuis F. a des problèmes d’audition. Au bout de 3 jours, F est abandonnée dans la forêt. Elle rejoint Bouar qu’elle trouve désert. Sa famille n’est plus là. Les enfants se sont enfuis pendant l’attaque alors que son oncle chez qui elle habitait a été tué sous ses yeux. Elle décide de rejoindre à pied Bangui pour retrouver sa mère. Elle arrive dans la capitale le 4 août 2014. Elle apprend alors que sa sœur a subi un sort similaire près de Bangui. Sa mère la conduit à l’hôpital général pour une prise an charge après avoir entendu l’annonce MSF à la radio.<br> Attaqué début juillet au PK5 par des hommes armés. Il était ivre à ce moment-là. A perdu connaissance pendant l’attaque et a été récupéré plus tard par MSF. L’équipe l’a emmené à l’hôpital communautaire et ensuite transféré à l’hôpital général. Blessé à la main droite, au bras gauche et à la tête. <br> MSF fournit des soins médicaux et psychologiques aux victimes de violence sexuelle à l'hôpital général de Bangui en République centrafricaine. Les activités ont débuté le 5 juillet 2014. En près d’un moins, l’équipe avait déjà pris en charge 75 patients ; femmes, hommes et enfants. <br> MSF provides medical and psychological care to victims of sexual violence in the general hospital of Bangui in the Central African Republic. Activities began on July 5th 2014. In nearly a month, the team had already dealt with 75 patients; women, men and children. *** Local Caption *** MSF has worked in the Central African Republic since 1997 and currently has more than 300 international staff and more than 2,000 Central African workers in the country. Since December 2013, MSF has doubled its medical assistance in response to the ongoing crisis, from 10 to 21 projects and is running an additional six emergency projects for Central African refugees in the neighbouring countries of Chad, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<br> MSF travaille en République centrafricaine depuis 1997 et compte actuellement plus de 300 personnels internationaux et plus de 2 000 employés centrafricains dans le pays. Depuis décembre 2013, MSF a doublé son assistance médicale en réponse à la crise actuelle, passant de 10 à 21 projets, et gère 6 projets d'urgence supplémentaires pour les réfugiés dans les pays voisins tels que le Tchad, le Cameroun et la République démocratique du Congo.
Central African Republic

Confronting the painful taboo of rape

MSF has offered assistance and support to rape victims in Bangui since July 2014. Project Update - 31 Oct 2014
 
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Occupied Minds

Occupied Minds: a Bedouin mother tells her story

There are about 50 members from the same Bedouin family who live in a small area located at the end of Anata, in the east of Jerusalem. The area is rocky, with small flat areas where the tents where they live are installed. Each family usually has between 35 and 60 sheep, which they take every morning to graze the short grass growing between the rocks. This is a hot spot as the community is caught in the middle of crossfire from both sides: the Palestinian youths throw stones and the Israeli army fire bullets and tear gas. The bullets and stones fall on this area. Voices from the Field - 31 Oct 2014
 
The tents of Bedouin communities who live in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are being demolished by Israeli officials in an attempt to force them off their land and push them to live in urban areas.
Palestine

Tensions rise in Bedouin communities

Tents and shacks are being demolished by Israeli officials in an attempt to force 2,500 Bedouins off their land. Project Update - 31 Oct 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola Crisis update - 30th October 2014

The outbreak has claimed 4,919 lives, and is currently affecting four countries in West Africa: Mali, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Crisis Update - 31 Oct 2014
 
*** Local Caption *** On October 25, MSF started a distribution of anti-malaria treatment in Monrovia to 300,000 persons, adults and children above 6 months. The distribution targets in Monrovia the poorest and highly densely populated areas where access to health care is very limited due to the collapse of the health system caused by the Ebola crisis. The objective is to eliminate malaria and to keep families from entering Ebola centres and becoming contaminated. Three rounds of distribution, one per month, are planned.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola in Liberia – Malaria must be treated too

Ebola has made it nearly impossible to obtain malaria treatment. In response, MSF has begun distributing antimalarials in Monrovia. Press Release - 31 Oct 2014
 
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Tuberculosis

Practices and policies dangerously out of step with TB crisis

Press Release - 30 Oct 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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