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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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A mother grieves beside the grave of her one young son, killed in a bombing. The body of her 3 year old daughter, who died after contracting cholera awaits burial.
Iraq

A different approach to mental health

Over the past two years, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has helped pioneer a different approach to mental health in Iraq. A team is working with the Ministry of Health to introduce counselling. Project Update - 12 Dec 2012
 
THIS IMAGE IS TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE URBAN SURVIVORS PROJECT. ALL PUBLICATION NEEDS TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE WEBDOCU ADDRESS. www.urbansurvivors.org MORE IMAGES CAN BE PURCHASED DIRECTLY FROM MEDIAS TO NOOR. www.noorimages.com PLEASE DO NOT ADD TO PHOTO GALLERIES DIRECTLY ON SOCIAL MEDIAS. IT STILL CAN BE USED AS THUMBNAIL TO LINK TO MSF PAGES or TO STORIES PUBLISHED ON ONLINE TRADITIONAL MEDIA THAT ARE RELATED TO THE URBAN SURVIVORS PROJECT. Not to be cropped or altered in any way without prior permission from NOOR. Heavily armed Hondurian police walk past a homeless man at the Mercado Las Americas.In Tegucigalpa, everyone lives with the fear of a violent death. While those who are better off can afford to barricade themselves in neighbourhoods patrolled by private armed guards, the poorest residents of the city are confined to a shrinking public space where the risk of violence and abuse – physical, sexual and psychological – is increasing.
Social violence and exclusion

The medical consequences of violence

The impact of violence in Central America and Mexico cannot be understated. Widespread violence and its dramatic medical consequences are threatening to become a humanitarian crisis, while health systems are unable to cope. The lack of adapted policies to respond to this emergency means that many survivors of violence are left without access to healthcare, support or protection. Project Update - 11 Dec 2012
 
An MSF Team arrives in a village in northwest Central African Republic near Boguila to carry out interviews for a new mortality study. In April 2012, a MSF team conducted a survey in the northwest prefecture of Ouham, in and around Boguila, where MSF manages a hospital. The team collected data on the number of people who had died in those households since the start of June 2011, and asked interviewees how the deaths occurred and where they had taken place. The data collected gives MSF a clearer picture of the health status of the population in the area, and will help the organization determine its future medical activities. The team found an "alarmingly high" number of children under the age of five are dying in parts of the Central African Republic. A lack of easily accessible health care was a principal reason, with 60 percent of those dying at home and 13 percent on the road to hospital.
Central African Republic

"As many children die here as in a war zone"

In the forests of Central African Republic, children under five are dying in numbers normally seen only in wars or natural disasters. MSF nurse Margarete Sepùlveda is doing her bit to change this.
By Nils Mork Voices from the Field - 10 Dec 2012
 
Dr. Unni Karunakara, International President of MSF, consults with a survivor of family and sexual violence at the MSF family support centre in Lae,Papua New Guinea, where women receive medical and psychological assistance for what is considered one of the most endemic problems on the island nation. Women who come to the centre receive an essential package of care including medical and psychological first aid, the provision of post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection, vaccinations for Hepatitis B and tetanus and contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Papua New Guinea

Victims of sexual violence must not suffer in silence

Every day, a woman in Papua New Guinea suffers the consequences of being raped and beaten by a member of their own family. Voices from the Field - 7 Dec 2012
 
A local health worker takes a blood sample from a young girl in Mboki, in the south-east region of the Central African Republic. A MSF team spent 13 days in the village and screened 4,548 people for sleeping sickness. Four people received treatment.
Sleeping sickness

National control activities crippled by lack of funding

Advances in the development of new diagnostic tests and treatment bode well for the fight against sleeping sickness. Two new rapid screening tests are expected next year, and one new oral treatment is in clinical trial. However, national control activities on the ground are crippled by a lack of sustainable funding, warns MSF. Press Release - 6 Dec 2012
 
In Doro, South Sudan MSF vaccinating one of the last 10 children against Measles of a campaign reaching 22.014 children in 3 days. Measles vaccinations are a key part of MSF refugee response - measles is a real threat to anyone not vaccinated.
Vaccination

GAVI needs to offer lower vaccine prices to humanitarian actors

The GAVI Alliance should systematically extend the prices it obtains for vaccines to humanitarian actors that are often well placed to reach unvaccinated children, MSF said today at the GAVI Partners Forum meeting in Tanzania. Currently, humanitarian actors such as MSF are not able to access these prices, and are left to negotiate access to vaccines on a cumbersome case-by-case basis. Press Release - 5 Dec 2012
 
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Global health

Visions for the future of healthcare and how we're going to pay for it

Speech by Dr Unni Karunakara, Médecins Sans Frontières International President, at the Global Healthcare Summit, The Economist, London, 29 November 2012 Speech - 30 Nov 2012
 
Eden, a nine-year-old boy, was seriously injured in the recent fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group in Goma, eastern Congo. He is one of 60 wounded patients currently being treated by MSF teams and local health staff in Virunga hospital. Goma, North Kivu.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Nine-year-old Eden wounded in Goma violence

Eden, a nine-year-old boy, was seriously injured in the recent fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebel group in Goma, eastern Congo. He is one of 60 wounded patients currently being treated by MSF teams and local health staff in Virunga hospital. Voices from the Field - 30 Nov 2012
 
Displaced people. Mugunga 1 camp, Goma, North Kivu.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Critical humanitarian situation in east of country

An already fragile humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has deteriorated further after the border city of Goma fell to M23 rebels last week. Teams from MSF have rapidly set up additional emergency response activities, treating victims of violence and providing assistance to newly displaced people in and around Goma. Project Update - 30 Nov 2012
 
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Morocco

"In Morocco migrants are trapped in a constant cycle of violence"

Interview with David Cantero, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission in Morocco Voices from the Field - 29 Nov 2012
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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