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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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Waiting area and triage at the UNMISS camp, Juba. Two MSF emergency teams comprised of medics, logistics staff and water treatment specialists are running medical activities for people displaced by the recent fighting in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. An estimated 20,000 people fled to two UN compounds and to other gathering points around the city, seeking refuge from the intense fighting that erupted in Juba. After conducting an independent assessment of the needs, two MSF teams are working to address the medical needs of the displaced. "A few patients have direct violence wounds, such as gunshots, but the situation has calmed now in Juba and trauma medicine no longer seems to be the main need," says Forbes Sharp, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Juba. "The displaced people do not yet feel safe to return to their homes and they are unwilling to cross town to seek healthcare in regular hospitals and clinics. So we are taking healthcare to them."
South Sudan

MSF emergency teams begin mobile clinics in Juba

Project Update - 22 Dec 2013
 
Returnees from Khartoum are camping near the Nile River in Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan, and washing their clothes and bodies. Most took a month to 6 weeks to reach Juba in order to vote the January 9th independence referendum. Also they have come to Juba since they are afraid of possible retaliation from the North, Arab majority, if they live there. *** Local Caption *** Le 9 janvier 2011, les électeurs du Sud Soudan ont voté à près de 99% pour l¿indépendance. Ce référendum - qui s¿inscrit dans le processus de paix global entre le Gouvernement de Khartoum et le Mouvement populaire de libération du Soudan (SPLM) signé en 2005 - survient au terme de plus de 20 ans de guerre civile dans le Sud. Cette guerre a fait plus de deux millions de morts et entraîné le déplacement de quelque 4,6 millions de personnes. 9 juillet 2011 proclamation de l¿indépendance du sud. Aujourd¿hui, le Sud Soudan souffre d¿un manque criant d¿infrastructures et la population n¿a pas accès aux soins médicaux de base. En proie à une crise humanitaire et médicale, le pays doit régulièrement faire face à des épidémies, une malnutrition endémique ainsi qu¿à des pics de violence entraînant des déplacements de population. Présente dans le pays depuis plus de 20 ans, MSF travaille dans l¿hôpital civil d¿Aweil, dans l¿Etat du Nord Bahr El Ghazal depuis 2008. C¿est l¿unique hôpital de l¿Etat pour une population d¿environ 780 000 personnes. Le programme a été lancé pour réduire le taux de mortalité materno-infantile très élevé et répondre aux urgences qui surviennent régulièrement dans la région, telles que des épidémies de méningite ou de paludisme et des pics de malnutrition. Dans le service de pédiatrie et la maternité de l¿hôpital, les équipes médicales de MSF apportent des soins gratuits aux femmes enceintes et aux enfants âgés de moins de 15 ans. En 2010 environ 37 000 consultations anténatales ont été menées, plus de 3 000 femmes ont accouché à l¿hôpital, 60 854 consultations pédiatriques ont été assurées. Environ 3 675 enfants ont été admis au service pédiatrique, souffrant principalement d¿infections respiratoires ou de diarrhées. Environ 2811 enfants souffrant de malnutrition aiguë sévère ont été soignés
South Sudan

MSF emergency response to intense fighting in Juba

Project Update - 20 Dec 2013
 
A family of Syrian refugees living in Istanbul. Photo for the Syrian Exodus project.
Syria

Syrian Exodus: Born in exile

This is the second chapter of the Syrian Exodus, an MSF multimedia project to follow the route of Syrians fleeing the war. See chapter one and three. Project Update - 20 Dec 2013
 
Emergency room of an MSF hospital in northern Syria (Aleppo province). The hospital has attended 601 deliveries and provided almost 15,000 consultations and 446 surgical operations up to April 2013. It is focused on obstetric care and surgery. Photo for the Syrian Exodus project.
Syria

Chapter One: “Fear is inside your body, like an illness”

Chapter One of the Syrian Exodus series Project Update - 20 Dec 2013
 
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Italy

MSF calls for temporary closure and evacuation of migrants centre in Lampedusa

MSF medical teams stand ready to provide emergency medical assistance
 Press Release - 20 Dec 2013
 
2008: Displaced persons fleeing the violence receive life-sustaining assistance. MSF sets up mobile clinics, distributes water, and improves the sanitary conditions in the camps in Songolo, Soke and Geti. Several million litres of water were distributed over ten years. The construction of latrines, showers and waste deposit areas are also some of the activities carried out by MSF.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF's decade of medical action

In 2008, MSF provided life-sustaining assistance to displaced persons fleeing violence. MSF set up mobile clinics, distributed water, and improved the sanitary conditions in the camps in Songolo, Soke and Geti. Voices from the Field - 20 Dec 2013
 
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Syria

Syrian Exodus: A disappointed Syrian living in Athens

Project Update - 20 Dec 2013
 
Philippines 13 December 2013: MSF team cleaning a well in Guiuan. The city in eastern Samar is one of the areas hardest hit when typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan swept over parts of the Philippines on 8 November 2013. Apart from running a hospital on the premises of the destroyed district hospital, MSF runs mobile clinics, distributes relief goods and reconstruction material and provides clean drinking water.
Philippines

"We must still be vigilant"

Teams from MSF are distributing clean drinking water to people in areas affected by typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Voices from the Field - 19 Dec 2013
 
Rommy, Male, First Baby born tonight at 3AM in MSF Tacloban Hospital
Philippines

Specialised care for mothers and babies in devastated Tacloban

Voices from the Field - 19 Dec 2013
 
NFI distribution in San Miguelay, a village in the area of Santa Fe in Leyte province Philippines.
Philippines

MSF helps villagers rebuild their homes after typhoon Haiyan

MSF has been helping villagers rebuild their homes following typhoon Haiyan Project Update - 19 Dec 2013
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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