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How we work

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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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8009 Results
 
MSF staff doing nutritional screening to the internally displaced population in Warshadaha ambulatory therapeutic feeding center (ATFC) in Mogadishu.
Somalia

MSF nutritional assessment in camps reveals alarming malnutrition rates among children

One in four children living in camps on the outskirts of the Somali capital are malnourished, according to an assessment conducted by MSF. In response to the critical situation, a team from MSF launched an emergency three-day intervention to provide urgent nutritional treatment and on-site medical care to children under the age of five. Project Update - 19 Nov 2012
 
MSF office in Gaza city. *** Local Caption *** The number of people in the Gaza Strip suffering the after-effects of serious injuries has increased in recent years. However, with the embargo currently in effect, it is very difficult to obtain access to appropriate, specialized care. In July 2010, MSF signed an agreement with the Gaza health authorities and opened a reconstructive surgery program.This kind of joint program also provides an opportunity for MSF staff and Gaza doctors to exchange and share medical, surgical and anesthetic techniques, particularly with regard to treating young children.<br/> Le nombre de personnes souffrant de séquelles de blessures graves a augmenté dans la bande de Gaza ces dernières années. Or, dans ce Territoire sous embargo, il est très difficile d avoir accès aux soins spécialisés et adaptés. En juillet 2010, MSF a signé un accord avec les autorités sanitaires de Gaza et a ouvert un projet de chirurgie réparatrice. Ce type de programme conjoint est aussi l occasion, pour les personnels MSF et les médecins de Gaza, d échanger et de partager des techniques médicales, chirurgicales et anesthésiques, notamment en ce qui concerne la prise en charge des jeunes enfants.
Palestine

New offensive exacerbating fragile humanitarian and public health situation

In the days following the launch of operation “Pillar of Defence”, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) donated medicines and other materials reported to be in short supply to Gaza’s central pharmacy. The materials include anaesthetics, surgical medicines and medical kits to treat the wounded. Project Update - 19 Nov 2012
 
MSF doctor examining a patient in the "Buruli pavilion" in Akonolinga.
Cameroon

Raising awareness about Buruli ulcer

In the town of Akonolinga, in Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been treating patients for Buruli ulcer for the past ten years. Project Update - 16 Nov 2012
 
Yusuf, 25 years old from Bagega, has one wife and one son at home. He works at the Bagega gold processing site crushing stones.
Nigeria

Time is running out: Zamfara State Lead Poisoning crisis

Six-month progress report on the May 2012 International Conference on Lead Poisoning Report - 15 Nov 2012
 
The entrance of the inflatable surgical unit inside a MSF field hospital in northern Syria. This hospital was set up in a cave and provided medical and surgical care. Inside, there was a hermetic inflatable tent used as surgical unit and six emergency beds. The MSF field hospital was later entirely moved the cave to another location.
Syria

'A more oppressive type of danger'

British surgeon Paul McMaster is just back from Syria where he treated the wounded in an operating theatre set up in a cave and then a farm. Experienced in working in war zones, in Syria he found a ‘more oppressive type of danger’. Voices from the Field - 15 Nov 2012
 
A wounded patient lies on the operating table at a MSF field hospital in northern Syria.
Syria

"In addition to many civilians, we treated both wounded rebel fighters and soldiers from the Syrian army"

Dr Martial Ledecq is a surgeon who is just back in Belgium from a one-month mission in one of the four makeshift medical facilities set up by MSF in the north of Syria. Since the end of June 2012, MSF teams have treated more than 2,500 patients and carried out some 550 surgical procedures. Voices from the Field - 15 Nov 2012
 
Housseni is 1 year and 5 months, he has a twin brother who is not at the clinic today. Both children are on chelation therapy. The mother has already lost one child and she didnâ??t know at the time it was because of lead poisoning. When Housseniâ??s twin brother, Hassan, started convulsing she was very scared so she took him to the clinic. Her husband slaughters animals for work. She used to grind rocks for gold processing before she found out about lead poisoning, she used to do this at home. When she found out her job harmed her children she stopped. She wishes that her sons will become Presidents. Duza clinic.
Nigeria

Time is running out for lead poisoning victims

Six months on from an International Lead Poisoning Conference, MSF warns that time is running out to solve the Zamfara crisis. In a progress report, MSF explains that very little action has been taken on any of the agreed action points from the conference and calls on the Nigerian government and president to immediately release earmarked funds to tackle the crisis. Press Release - 15 Nov 2012
 
Laboratory Technician Lucy Nyangua administers a nebuliser to Charity (4 yrs). Charity has been brought to the MSF Blue House HIV/TB clinic in Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya as her mother is co-infected with HIV and TB and doctors are worried that Charity might have caught TB from her mother. It can be very difficult to detect TB in children as they are unable to produce the sputum necessary for examination and confirmation of the TB bacilli, so sometimes nebulisers are used to try to any mucus that they may have in their chests.
Tuberculosis

Out of the Dark: Meeting the needs of children with TB

This report outlines the current state of paediatric TB care, looking at current practices, new developments and research needs – in paediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Report - 13 Nov 2012
 
MDR-TB patient Rohatay Abdullaeva at her home with a grandson Atabek and daughter Nadira, town of Hojeily, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan).
Tuberculosis

DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope: 2nd Edition

This report focuses on just some of the many factors that hamper the scaling up of DR-TB treatment – the limited availability and high cost of quality-assured medicines for resistant strains of the disease, owing to an insecure market and insufficient demand; and the research questions that remain unsolved with existing medicines. Report - 13 Nov 2012
 
Xpert MTB/RIF laboratory test, used to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and TB strains resistant against the primary TB drug rifampicin. Kibera South Health Center, Kenya.
Tuberculosis

Results from new TB test reveal urgent need to scale up treatment

Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB. The data was collected from 25 MSF projects in 14 countries over a nearly 18-month period. It shows an overall 50 per cent increase in the diagnosis of TB using Xpert MTB/RIF. Press Release - 13 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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