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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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8007 Results
 
In response to a malaria outbreak, MSF launched a 4-month emergency project in Kinkondja, a remote area in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During the four month intervention, a medical team treated 10,000 patients every month. In total, almost 40,000 men, women and children were treated for malaria. â??When we arrived, one in ten of our patients required immediate hospitalisation. In the last weeks of our intervention, we had reduced this to one in a hundred.â? said Melanie Silbermann, MSFâ??s medical co-ordinator in Lubumbashi. MSFâ??s intervention in Kinkondja was just one emergency project among the many that MSF is currently running throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the disease is endemic. Malaria remains the leading cause of death for children under five. In the Katanga province, and elsewhere in the Congo, the absence of other healthcare providers and overstretched health systems leave people vulnerable to contracting malaria.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Lives at risk as fighting continues in Katanga province

Fighting between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused thousands of people to flee their homes and hundreds to seek refuge at the MSF hospital in Shamwana. Statement - 20 Feb 2013
 
Na”ima Sirajo is a three year and nine month old girl suffering from long term effects of lead poisoning. When she is happy she moves her tongue. When she is upset she screams. One of her eyes seems to have gone blind. When she was first brought into the hospital they thought she was going to die. But her mother, AsuyaSurayo, says it was like she came back from the dead. Now every every time she wakes up from sleep, she will have convulsions.
Nigeria

Welcome news that remediation of lead-contaminated village has begun

Opinion - 15 Feb 2013
 
Since January 2012, nearly 67,000 refugees, mostly women and children arrived in the border town of Fassala. The number of arrivals has decreased from 1,000 to 400 per day in recent weeks. Last year, refugees were leaving in an organized manner but since January 2013, nearly 14,000 refugees fled in haste cities of Timbuktu, Lere, Goundam Larnab Nianfuke in northern Mali. Many people arrived with few belongings after traveling for several days. For the moment, the number of tents distributed is insufficient so families are exposed to the dust.
Project Update

Desperate conditions causing disease among Malian refugees

Crisis Update - 15 Feb 2013
 
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Burundi

Women are still suffering from the backyard disease

Project Update - 15 Feb 2013
 
Hiloweyn camp is the fourth camp in the Liben region opened mid 2011. MSF started working in Hiloweyn refugee camp August 2011 and provides primary health care, psycho social care, TB care and runs a nutritional program, and an out patient department (OPD). The camp now counts 25000 (twenty-five thousand) refugees.
Somalia

Hear my voice: Somalis on living in a humanitarian crisis

In a report released today, MSF highlights violence, displacement and food shortages as salient features of Somalia’s humanitarian landscape. The report draws on a survey of more than 800 Somali patients attending MSF medical facilities in Somalia and in Ethiopian refugee camps, as well as quotes from personal testimonies from community members. Report - 13 Feb 2013
 
MSF midwife Mariam Toure (centre) treating patients at the Sossokoira Community Health Centre in Gao, in northern Mali, Feb 6, 2013.
Mali

We will not abandon our patients

Project Update - 13 Feb 2013
 
Dadaab, Kenya - July 2011 The eastern regions of the Horn of Africa have experienced consecutive poor rainy seasons, resulting in one of the driest years in decades in many pastoral zones. The impact has been exacerbated by high local cereal prices, high livestock mortality, ongoing conflict, and restricted humanitarian access in some areas. Tens of thousands of Somalis have been fleeing to Kenya and Ethiopia in search of assistance. Waves of people continue to arrive every day at the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya. With the camps already badly overcrowded\204originally built to hold 90,000 people, they now house four times that number\204many are forced to seek shelter in the surrounding desert.
Somalia

Crisis not over

In a report released today, MSF highlights violence, displacement and food shortages as salient features of Somalia’s humanitarian landscape. The report draws on a survey of more than 800 Somali patients attending MSF medical facilities in Somalia and in Ethiopian refugee camps, as well as quotes from personal testimonies from community members. Press Release - 13 Feb 2013
 
Doctor from MSF medical team examines a child with diarrhoea at MSF clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Pauk Taw township, February 3, 2013. On that day, more than 80 diarrhoea cases were treated by MSF medical team. photo by Kaung Htet

Humanitarian emergency in Rakhine state

Project Update - 7 Feb 2013
 
Road to Guija - The floods in Mozambique forced 150,000 people to leave their homes behind.
Mozambique

Emergency response to flooding

Project Update - 7 Feb 2013
 
A Syrian refugee carries his two-year-old daughter in the rain-soaked Taybeh makeshift refugee camp outside Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, January 18, 2013. Unhygienic conditions in the camp are leading to various communicable illnesses, especially among children. The camp is home to approximately 300 people who fled conflict in Syria.
Lebanon

Aid lags as Syrian refugee numbers increase

Syrians who have fled violent conflict at home in search of safety in Lebanon do not receive anywhere near adequate levels of humanitarian assistance and are living in extremely precarious conditions, a detailed survey released today by MSF reveals. More than half of interviewees cannot afford treatment for chronic diseases and nearly one-third have been forced to suspend treatment. Press Release - 7 Feb 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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