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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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MSF teams assessing the refugee camp of Bardarash. The camp was initially used to host refugees fleeing from Mosul during the siege of 2017. Its capacity is estimated to around 11 000 individuals. The camp is empty since a while, but some shelters can be rehabilitated and used to allow potential medical activities. Moreover, the former Health Centre structure had been already used in the past by NGOS (MSF amongst them). The facility is in good shape and has enough space and capacity for carrying on primary health care activities.
Iraq

MSF providing medical care in Iraq to people fleeing northeast Syria

MSF teams have started working inside two areas in Iraq, responding to the medical needs - including mental health needs - of people fleeing the conflict and Turkish incursion in northeast Syria. Statement - 21 Oct 2019
 
A family managed to flee the frontlines towards Tal Tamer and to either Hasakah or Qamishli . Fortunately, they managed to hire a truck and brought some of their dire possessions with them. During the conflict it is often quite high prices to rent a truck to bring their possessions with them.
Syria

Northeast Syria: MSF forced to evacuate staff due to extreme volatility in the region

Volatility in northeast Syria has forced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend most of our activities there and evacuate all international staff. Press Release - 14 Oct 2019
 
Over 18 Schools have been opened up so far in Hasakeh city to provide for the steady influx of IDPs fleeing the frontline conflict between Turkish and the Syrian Democratic Forces. Each school houses from 150 to 270 people but lack water and hygienic facilities. The Syrian Humanitarian Coordinating Office expect 30,000 refugees to come to the city in the next coming days and to be-housed in these schools. They are beginning to set up for at least a hundred schools. Most of these refugees have no documentation or identification cards due to the conflict that has been raging over the last eight years. Local humanitarian organizations have highlighted the dire need of water supply as a major need.
Syria

Northeast Syria: Turkish military operation results in displacement and hospital closure

Shelling by Turkish military has displaced many people from villages and towns along Syria's northeast border. A hospital has closed. Press Release - 11 Oct 2019
 
A Yezidi man aged 24 poses in his tent on Mount Sinjar on September 3rd, 2019. « We are from the South of the mountain, close to Sinjar City. After the genocide, we stayed for one year in an IDP camp in Kurdistan, then we came here, to the mountain. I live in this tent with my family, my parents, my wife, my brother, my nephews… It is very, very difficult to live here. The living conditions are very hard. It’s either too hot or too cold. The latrines are shared and disgusting. There is no work here. I work with an armed group and make 300 USD a month. I am never happy. I am always upset. I cannot hang out with my friends because I can’t pretend to be happy. Depression is very hard. I feel like I am melting - and indeed I have lost a lot of weight. I affects my whole body. I also forget a lot of things. I keep thinking about things I saw, or heard, about the genocide. Children who died. Children who were killed by ISIS and then ISIS cooked them and gave the ‘meat’ to their mothers. I tried to kill myself three times: by drowning, with a gun, and with a knife. Each time, I was stopped. Since then, my family is worried about me, and I feel guilty because of that. It just makes things worse. I don’t want to take medication because it has too much side effects. I would like a magic pill to make all of what happened disappear, and make things good again. In those living conditions, it’s not easy to get better. Every single night I cry myself to sleep. Nothing makes me happy in life. There is no happiness in this life. If I am alive or dead, it’s the same thing. » ©Emilienne Malfatto
Iraq

MSF warns of mental health crisis among Yazidis in Iraq

A mental health crisis, including multiple suicides, is occurring in Iraq among the Yazidi community in Sinjar. IS atrocities took place here in 2014. Press Release - 4 Oct 2019
 
Yemen, Aden, 17 December 2018 - A building of Aden destroyed by fighting in 2015. On 25 March 2015, Ansar Allah troops took over the airport of Aden. Intense fighting occurred inside the city from March to August 2015, between Ansar Allah and the former President Ali Abdallah Saleh against the Southern resistance, backed by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition. During this period, MSF teams in Aden hospital mainly treated war wounded patients, being one of the very few remaining surgical hospital in Aden city.
Yemen

Chaos and fighting in Aden as over 50 wounded admitted in just a few hours

A sharp increase in fighting in Aden, in southern Yemen, resulted in over 50 people being admitted to MSF's hospital in the city in the space of just a few hours. Press Release - 29 Aug 2019
 
Yemen, Hodeidah, 1 May 2019 - on the road to Sanaa.
Yemen

A population on the frontline, indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and still no sign of change

Three years after Abs hospital bombing, MSF’s head of mission in Sana’a calls on combatants to finally respect international humanitarian law and protect civilians. Voices from the Field - 27 Aug 2019
 
In the West Bank, MSF provides psychotherapy in Nablus and Qalqiliya. While three of our psychologists in the project are local Palestinians, two are foreigners who do not speak Arabic. This means our interpreters play a vital role in our work there.
Palestine

Mental healthcare in translation

MSF is providing psychotherapy services in Nablus and Qalqiliya. While three of our psychologists in the project are local Palestinians, two are foreigners who do not speak Arabic. This means interpreters play a vital role in our work there. Project Update - 25 Aug 2019
 
Over a week since Ocean Viking's first rescue, there are 356 people on board. MSF are still expecting to be assigned a place of safety for the disembarkation.
Mediterranean migration

“He just kept running, despite the wound and the bleeding”

MSF doctor tells the story of a 20-year-old Libyan man who had shrapnel removed from his torso on the search and rescue ship Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean Voices from the Field - 22 Aug 2019
 
In Fori, in the south of the state capital Maiduguri, MSF runs an inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC) with more than 70 beds. The centre opened in January 2017 and treats severely malnourished children with medical complications such as tuberculosis, cerebral malaria, acute watery diarrhoea and respiratory tract infections. Severely malnourished children without medical complication and children with moderate acute malnutrition are enrolled in MSF’s outpatient feeding programme, which admits 130-300 children each month. From January to June 2019, MSF provided inpatient nutritional treatment for 1,161 children, ambulatory nutritional treatment for 1,216 children, and treated 1,436 patients with malaria and 555 with measles.
Nigeria

Children in displacement camps need immediate protection

Severine Courtiol Eguiluz, MSF advocacy manager in Nigeria, talks about the urgent needs of displaced people, especially children who have lived most of their lives in the protracted conflict that broke out in northeast Nigeria a decade ago. Voices from the Field - 13 Aug 2019
 
Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state, hosts around one million displaced people from across the region. Many of them live in the camps informally set up where basic needs such as shelter, food, hygiene facilities and healthcare are insufficient and people are living in dire conditions.
Nigeria

Crisis Info: Borno and Yobe states, August 2019

Read the latest update on the crisis unfolding in northeast Nigeria after a decade of conflict and MSF’s response. Crisis Update - 13 Aug 2019
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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