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How we work

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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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Justin James Warren, the first Baby born in the maternity ward of MSF in Guiuan.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: First baby born in MSF maternity unit

At 2:50am on 20 November, a 2.2 kg baby boy was born in MSF maternity unit in Guiuan. Project Update - 21 Nov 2013
 
Mental health: a little boy very angry at the typhoon. Drawing is used as a therapy mean.
Philippines

“Depression can be as much of a disability as blindness”

Ana Maria Tijerino, MSF psychologist, is working with MSF emergency teams on Panay Island. Project Update - 21 Nov 2013
 
The country is facing a large influx of arrivals (11,000 people) and has begun preventing immigrants from entering its territory. Some 7,000 Syrians have been registered between January and October 2013. People face poor reception conditions and there is no access to healthcare and mental health support. As a result of the recent exploration carried out in 3 detention centres in Sofia (Vrezdevna, Voena Rampa) and in Harmanli (in Haskovo Province, South-central Bulgaria), MSF team is providing primary healthcare and non food items to asylum seekers and migrants in both cities.
Bulgaria

Syrian refugees face appalling conditions

MSF begins health activities to help Syrian refugees in Bulgaria. Press Release - 21 Nov 2013
 
Bethany Hospital. The hospital faces the sea. Everything inside is destroyed. There is some medical material that could still be usable.
Philippines

MSF team sets up inflatable hospital

A team from MSF has set up an inflatable hospital in the compound of Bethany hospital, on the damaged seafront of Tacloban, the Philippines city hardest hit by Typhoon Haiyan. Project Update - 21 Nov 2013
 
In some remote places where MSF teams arrived 9 days after Haiyan, villagers told them they were the first aid to reach the locality.
Project Update

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF nurse brings aid to her remote community

Cindy, a Filipino nurse working with MSF, explains the medical response in a remote areas of Panay island after typhoon Haiyan. Voices from the Field - 20 Nov 2013
 
Akira Takahsi, MSF midwife in the Mother and Child Health Centre (MCH),.<br/>Despite the tense security situation in Hangu, MSF has been working inside the Hangu Tehsil Headquarter (THQ) Hospital since May 2010. *** Local Caption *** In 2011, MSF provided medical care to 20,440 patients in Hangu : 18,914 patients in the emergency room, 979 patients were provided with emergency surgeries in the operating theatre of the hospital. Throughout 2011, MSF medical teams also referred 460 cases to Peshawar for specialised surgical and medical care. During the rainy season, MSF treated 1,526 patients with acute watery diarrhoea from July to October. MSF has also established a mass casualty preparedness plan in the hospital, to be able to quickly respond and provide emergency life saving medical care to the victims of bomb blasts, clashes and other trauma cases. On the 22 of December of 2011, following a bomb blast near a private clinic in Hangu city, MSF received four injured patients, and immediately provided them with emergency surgery. Two of them were referred to Peshawar for further specialised surgery and medical treatment, but unfortunately one of them died later. The two others injured remain hospitalised in Hangu THQ hospital. In the Mother and Child Health Centre (MCH), MSF has had one expatriate midwife assisting in handling complicated delivery cases and providing training since May 2011, while the daily services inside the MCH are run by Ministry of Health staff. So far, MSF has assisted 134 complicated delivery cases with free of charge treatment. To ensure the safety of patients and medical staff, MSF implements a strict ?no-weapons? policy inside the hospital. In 2012, MSF will continue its free, emergency, medical care in order to help meet the consistent medical needs in the area. In December 2011, MSF has about 130 international and Pakistani staff working in Hangu, including 61 staff in the emergency room and operating theatre, and one expatriate midwife supporting the MOH staff of the MCH. Since 1986, MSF has been working in Pakistan with Pakistani communities and Afghan refugees who have been affected by armed conflict, natural disasters or a lack of access to medical. MSF teams ar
Pakistan

The challenge of giving birth and staying alive

MSF Peshawar's Women's hospital helps to ensure safe and secure childbirth Voices from the Field - 20 Nov 2013
 
MSF has sent an emergency mobile team in different places of CAR. They conduct mobile clinics for primary health care and refer complicated cases after being stabilized. In Bouar area, around 2000 consultations, of which 30% were under 5 years old, have been performed during a two weeks intervention, mainly for malaria and respiratory infections.
Central African Republic

MSF expands to respond to emergencies

MSF deploys new mobile medical teams in crisis-strewn CAR Voices from the Field - 19 Nov 2013
 
MSF mobile clinic around Roxas - kid & nurses
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: “We are building up a picture of the human suffering that has accompanied this disaster”

MSF’s Dr Natasha Reyes describes the physical and mental injuries prompting people to seek medical care. Project Update - 19 Nov 2013
 
A five month old patient in the inpatient department of MSF's tented hospital in Guiuan, Samar island.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: "We have nothing, we lost everything"

The story of Niño, an MSF patient from Guiuan suffering from dengue fever. Voices from the Field - 19 Nov 2013
 
MSF’s team based in Palo provided 150 general healthcare consultations in Tanauan, a town of 55,000 people which was devastated by the typhoon and where 5,800 families are still living in difficult condition in the open.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: Aid urgently needed in rural areas

Ten days after Typhoon Haiyan struck the region, ports and airports are still congested with cargos of relief aid. Meanwhile communities in many remote areas continue to fend for themselves. Project Update - 19 Nov 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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