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Accountability

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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7999 Results
 
Min Min Oo, an MSF Outreach Worker, measures out ARVs during a house visit.
Access to medicines

Generic competition pushing down HIV drug prices, but patents keep newer drugs unaffordable

The price of first- and second-line antiretrovirals (ARVs) to treat HIV are falling because of increased competition among generic producers, but newer ARVs continue to be priced astronomically high. Press Release - 2 Jul 2013
 
Patients waiting to be seen at Ramabanta Health Center. Ramabanta, Lesotho.
HIV/AIDS

Putting HIV Treatment to the Test

Putting HIV Treatment to the Test, looks at the price of HIV viral load tests. Report - 2 Jul 2013
 
New Delhi. Hundreds of Indian activists protested in New Delhi on Monday against a challenge to the country's patent law by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis. India produces affordable medicines that are vital to many people living in developing countries. Over half the medicines currently used for AIDS treatment in developing countries come from India and such medicines are used to treat over 80% of the 80,000 AIDS patients in MSF projects. If Novartis is successful in its challenge against the Indian government and its patent law, more medicines are likely to be patented in India, making it very difficult for generic producers to make affordable versions of them. This could affect millions of people around the world who depend on medicines produced in India.
Access to medicines

Untangling the Web of ARV Price Reductions - 16th Edition

The price of first- and second-line antiretrovirals (ARVs) to treat HIV are falling because of increased competition among generic producers, but newer ARVs continue to be priced astronomically high, according to the annual report Untangling the Web of ARV Price Reductions, released today by the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur. Report - 2 Jul 2013
 
CAG (Community ART Group) meeting. Maputo, Mozambique.
Malaysia

MSF applauds new WHO recommendations for accelerating HIV treatment in developing countries

MSF welcomed new WHO guidelines for HIV treatment and called for the improvements to be rapidly implemented, enabling people and programme outcomes in developing countries to benefit. Press Release - 30 Jun 2013
 
Gaza City. Gaza Strip. January 27 , 2009. A medical unit of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). A doctor plays with Hala, 1 year old, burnt on her body, next to her mother. *** Local Caption *** <br/>Le 18 janvier 2009, soit 22 jours apres le debut de l¿offensive Israelienne, l¿arret des bombardements a permis a MSF de reprendre et renforcer ses activites medicales dans la bande de Gaza. Les trois cliniques (soins post-op à Gaza city, pediatrie à Beit Lahia, dans le nord, et soins post-op a Khan Younis, dans le sud) ont pu rouvrir ; 80% des 70 membres du staff ont repris le travail. Deux blocs operatoires et une unite de soins intensifs de dix lits ont ete installes sous deux tentes gonflables, a proximite de la clinique de soins post-operatoires de MSF dans la ville de Gaza. Des medicaments, des kits comprenant le materiel necessaire pour 300 operations chirurgicales et 100 hospitalisations ont ete receptionnes le 19 janvier, dans un fret de 21 tonnes de materiel au total. Dix premiers patients ont ete identifies pour etre operes par nos équipes. Il s¿agit de chirurgie de reprise, essentiellement orthopedique, activite identifiee par MSF comme ayant une reelle valeur ajoutee a cet instant. Le 26 janvier, notre equipe chirurgicale a opere les trois premiers patients.
Palestine

Intensive care training for doctors

Project Update - 27 Jun 2013
 
Relief goods, including water cans, arrive at the MSF base in Tissi, Chad. MSF teams provide medical and humanitarian care to the refugee, returnee and local population in Tissi. Since early 2013, multiple inter-ethnic conflicts have been occurring across the border in Darfur. Some of those conflicts are responsible for the current influx of 50 thousand displaced people into the area, who are living in makeshift camps along the border. MSF is providing primary and secondary care to patients with a focus in violent injuries, pregnant women and children under the age of five.
Chad

Conditions remain unacceptable for refugees in Tissi

Tens of thousands of refugees and returnees in Chad, who have fled violent clashes in neighbouring Darfur since early January, are still desperately in need of clean water, proper shelter and access to healthcare. Project Update - 24 Jun 2013
Surgeon Andres Carot, centre, leads an operation to extract a bullet lodged in the abdomen of a patient in the operating theatre of the MSF hospital in Northern Syria, on Thursday, January 31, 2013.

International Activity Report 2012

Annual Report - 22 Jun 2013
 
*** Local Caption ***Triage.<br/> Darvazeh Ghar district, south of the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, is one of the poorest in the Iranian capital. There coexist daily workers, traders, street children, sex workers and drug users. Marginalized, destitute and sometimes without identity papers, these people have very limited access to basic health care. In April 2012, Doctors without borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened in this area a health facility dedicated to women and children under five years old with a specific attention to those most at risk of infectious diseases such as HIV/aids , tuberculosis or hepatitis. MSF teams receive on average sixty patients per day: antenatal and postnatal care, family planning counseling, and pediatric consultations. In one year, more than 12,000 consultations were carried out, including nearly 1,700 gynecology cases. A quarter of the patients are children under five years old.
Iran

Surviving in Tehran’s southern neighborhoods

Project Update - 21 Jun 2013
 
NFI distribution in villages close to Batangafo to displaced people affected by the clashes between farmers and nomadic cattle herders.
Central African Republic

MSF distributes essential items to 5000 displaced in Batangafo

MSF teams in Batangafo, Central African Republic, have just completed a distribution of essential items, including plastic sheeting, mosquito nets and blankets to more than five thousand people who were forced to flee their villages after they were burned down during heavy fighting with nomadic herdsmen coming from Chad. Project Update - 21 Jun 2013
 
Syrian families have taken refuge in a building under construction in Al Marj. MSF social workers talk with the families, assessing their needs and referring them to MSF clinics if needed.
Lebanon

“We are not tourists – we are people fleeing a war”

For many refugees from Syria, getting a roof over their heads and keeping their families fed is a massive struggle. On World Refugee Day, MSF warns that dire living conditions are affecting people’s health. Project Update - 20 Jun 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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