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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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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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Mymoma, 20 years old, watches over her son, Sepinna Abdou, 2 years old, as he is treated for severe malaria in the ICU unit of the Guidan Roumdji hospital. Mymoma decided to come to the hospital yesterday as Sepinna developed a fever. It cost her 500 CFA (approximately US$1) to get here from her village; a price she described as “too much”. MSF teams are on high alert during the rainy season between July and November because of the deadly combination of malnutrition and malaria. Since July, the MSF team in Guidan Roumji has to face a peak of malnutrition and malaria. The number of admissions to MSF’s hospital has doubled over the last weeks and 80 per cent of the children admitted are now suffering from malaria. In Niger, MSF conducts medical and nutritional activities in Tahoua, Maradi, Zinder and Agadez. As of August 2012, more than 50,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition and 105.000 malaria cases have been treated in medical facilities run by MSF and its partners.
Niger

Malaria strikes during a food crisis

Since the beginning of the rainy season, MSF teams are faced with a massive influx of children suffering from malnutrition and malaria. The heavy rains, which started in July, have destroyed crops and grain reserves, making an already desperate food situation worse. The rains have also led to a proliferation of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Project Update - 10 Sep 2012
 
The front gate at the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, is seen November 29, 2011. The MSF hospital opened in August, 2011 and provides surgical care and physical therapy. It is the only trauma center of its kind in the region.
Afghanistan

MSF treats victims of bomb blast in Kunduz

Following a major explosion today in the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, more than two dozen people arrived at a surgical hospital run by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Thirteen people who suffered severe blast injuries were dead on arrival at the hospital. Press Release - 10 Sep 2012
 
Aarsal, Bekaa. Nine members of a Syrian refugee family are living in a single room, part of a collective shelter where 20 refugee families are living. Plastic sheeting on the walls is meant to protect them from wind, rain and snow in this mountainous region where temperatures can drop below zero in wintertime.
Lebanon

Fleeing the violence in Syria: Syrian refugees in Lebanon

While Lebanon has absorbed tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria in recent months, many people are living in overcrowded conditions, suffering psychological distress, are fearful for their safety, and are unable to afford medical care, said the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a report released today. Report - 7 Sep 2012
 
Aarsal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Aarsal Second Primary Public School. MSF nurse giving a vaccine to a refugee Syrian chilld, during a vaccination session organised jointly by MSF and the local association Amel in a school where Syrian children from 7 to 12 years old benefit from courses and activities.
Lebanon

Syrian refugees living in fear and uncertainty

While Lebanon has absorbed tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria, many people are living in overcrowded conditions, suffering psychological distress, are fearful for their safety, and are unable to afford medical care, said MSF in a report released today. Press Release - 7 Sep 2012
 
In April 2012, MSF launched an emergency intervention in Minova and Kalungu (South Kivu, DRC) to help the displaced population due to conflict. Thousands of displaced families began arriving to this area from lakeside towns. MSF is supporting two health centers, carrying out nutrition activities and implementing water and sanitation improvements in a temporary displaced persons site.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Multiple conflicts increase humanitarian needs

MSF has expanded its emergency medical programmes in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in response to increasing humanitarian needs in the region. An MSF emergency intervention is recently started in the unofficial Muganga I camp 20 km west of the provincial capital Goma, where around 17,500 people have spontaneously settled and are living in inhumane conditions. Project Update - 7 Sep 2012
 
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Médecins Sans Frontières to receive 2012 J.William Fulbright prize for international understanding

The Fulbright Association will present its 2012 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The award, a $50,000 prize, will be received with a speech by Dr Unni Karunakara, International President of MSF. Press Release - 6 Sep 2012
 
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India

Bayer attempting to block affordable patented drugs

German pharmaceutical company Bayer is attempting to overturn a ground-breaking compulsory licence issued by India which has allowed more affordable generic versions of a cancer drug to be produced in the interest of public health. The issue of India’s first compulsory licence is a potential watershed for affordable access to patented medicines. MSF has criticised Bayer for the move. Press Release - 3 Sep 2012
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF emergency team responds to Ebola outbreak

An emergency team from MSF is responding to an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Isiro, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). So far nine people have died, only one of whom has been confirmed by lab tests as having Ebola. Twelve more people are suspected to have the disease – one has been admitted to the treatment centre in Isiro. Project Update - 23 Aug 2012
 
MOHAMMED PHOTO STORY – with his brother in the Batil field hospital. On a visit to an isolated part of Batil camp, medical coordinator Helen Ottens-Patterson discovers a little boy called Muhammed. He is severely malnourished and needs to be taken to the hospital immediately.
South Sudan

'I have never seen anything like this before'

Helen Ottens-Patterson, from the United Kingdom, is a nurse MSF medical coordinator in Maban county in Upper Nile state, South Sudan. MSF is the largest provider of emergency medical care for the more than 110,000 refugees that have fled fighting in Sudan’s Blue Nile state. In Batil refugee camp, one of four camps in the county, a recent survey carried out by MSF showed that the mortality rate for children under five years old was more than double the emergency threshold. Here, Helen shares her experience in providing care for this particularly vulnerable group of people. Voices from the Field - 22 Aug 2012
 
MSF has been working on the ground in Syria for the past two months, trying to provide humanitarian assistance to people affected by the conflict. With the help of a group of Syrian doctors, in six days a team was able to transform an empty house into an emergency hospital, where wounded people could be operated on and hospitalised. As of mid-August, MSF has admitted more than 300 patients to this facility and carried out 150 surgeries. The injuries have been largely conflict-related and caused mostly by tank shelling and bombing.
Syria

'Injured people started coming from everywhere'

Surgical specialist Anna Nowak has completed more than 20 missions with MSF. She has just returned from Syria, where she helped to set up the project. Voices from the Field - 21 Aug 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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