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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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Yemen, Hodeidah, Al Salakhana hospital, 28 April 2019 - Maria Teresa Ingalla, ortho surgeon is watching the Xray of a patient injured by a gunshot in the abdomen. Mohammed, 18, was sitting in a street in Hodeidah, around 4.00pm when he was injured by a stray bullet: the bullet entered through his hip to his abdomen, next to one of his arteries. Luckily the bullet did not touch the spinal cord. It was removed after a laparotomy.
Yemen

A day treating wounded in Yemen's Al Salakhana hospital

VIDEO report: MSF teams started working in Al Salakhanah hospital, in the northeast of the port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, in September 2018 to provide care to the injured, including war-wounded civilians. Project Update - 30 May 2019
 
A surgeon at MSF SICA Hospital in Bangui tries to extract a bullet deeply lodged in a patient's shoulder. Un chirurgien de l'hôpital MSF SICA à Bangui tente d'extraire une balle profondément logée dans l'épaule d'un patient.
Central African Republic

“It felt like it was raining bullets” in attacks on villages that kill over 50

On Tuesday 21 May, dozens of civilians were killed when three villages in the Ouham-Pendé region were attacked by gunmen. One of the survivors, who was transferred to Bangui and treated by MSF, recalls the events. Voices from the Field - 24 May 2019
 
Image Description: People in Menka, in the North-West Region of Cameroon, wait to receive medical assistance from MSF. In an area which violence and displacement has interrupted access to healthcare, MSF teams are distributing essential non-food items such as soap and mosquito nets; conducting consultations for preventative and curative care; and referring emergency cases.
Cameroon

Five things to know about the violence in North-West and South-West Cameroon

Since 2016, conflict has been steadily growing in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon. The violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, creating a little-known humanitarian crisis. Read the five things to know more about this emergency. Project Update - 23 May 2019
 
Women sit with their children in the paediatric ward of MSF´s hospital in Ulang, in northeastern South Sudan.
South Sudan

New hospital in Ulang for people affected by violence and neglect

MSF has set up a 30-bed hospital and referral system for 100,000 or so people affected by recurrent outbreaks of different kinds of violence in South Sudan’s Upper Nile region Project Update - 10 May 2019
 
Men in the detention centre cells. On September 2nd, 276 people were brought by the Libyan coast guard to Khoms (120 km east of Tripoli). They were then transferred to detention center where MSF works. Reportedly, they were in two rubber coats, one stopped due to engine failure, while the other boat continued to navigate for several hours before deflating and sinking. Survivors told MSF teams that over a hundred people died in the shipwreck.
Libya

More than medicine: A look at mental health needs in detention

As fighting endangers the lives of civilians and detainees in Tripoli, the physical and mental health of trapped refugees and migrants is worsening. Voices from the Field - 9 May 2019
 
General view of detention centre On September 2nd, 276 people were brought by the Libyan coast guard to Khoms (120 km east of Tripoli). They were then transferred to detention center where MSF works. Reportedly, they were in two rubber coats, one stopped due to engine failure, while the other boat continued to navigate for several hours before deflating and sinking. Survivors told MSF teams that over a hundred people died in the shipwreck.
Libya

Time running out for evacuations of trapped refugees in Tripoli amid shooting

On 23 April, reports surfaced of a violent incident in a Tripoli detention centre, where trapped migrants are being held. MSF has found evidence that multiple people were shot, and urges for all migrants' immediate evacuation. Press Release - 26 Apr 2019
 
Two premature twins closely monitored at the neonates department of the MSF run “Mother and Child”. Public hospitals in the area is not fully functioning and the few private health facilities that are still running are inaccessible or unaffordable to many people. Taiz Houban. Yemen
Yemen

Complicated delivery: The Yemeni mothers and children dying without medical care

After four years of war in Yemen, MSF finds that access to medical care in the country is limited and the lack of timely access can be deadly, particularly for pregnant women and children. Report - 24 Apr 2019
 
Caretaker with a patient coming from Taiz city to the mother and child hospital in Taiz houban.
Yemen

Mothers and children left to die in Yemen without access to medical care

A new MSF report describes how pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable to high rates of mortality due to a lack of easy access to hospitals in Yemen's war-torn healthcare system. Press Release - 24 Apr 2019
 
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Libya

Detained refugees trapped, Libyan families flee, as fighting worsens in Tripoli

The worsening fighting in Tripoli continues, forcing thousands of Libyans to flee and trapping refugees and migrants in detention centres. MSF teams are on the ground, providing healthcare and emergency food and water. Project Update - 17 Apr 2019
 
At the village of Biaro. The Zairian Red Cross are present (brought here by the rebels of Kabila, who want to make sure the bodies are burried as fast as possible, fearing typhus epidemic) and make a count of all the orphans: above 1000 children. They are lined up along the railway tracks.Tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees, (they all come from the refugee camps of Goma and Bukavu), fleeing the Zairian rebels of Laurent- Desire Kabila, for the last 5 months, hiding in the bush, exhausted, famished, and all waiting to return home, to Rwanda, are today in the midst of a new nightmare. They had taken residence in camps in 1994, when they fled their country in fear of retribution for the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi by Hutu extremists. The presence of Hutu nettled Zairian Tutsi, who joined forces with Kabila, a longtime Mobutu foe, and launched the insurgency. The fighting forced most of the Rwandan refugees to go home in Autumn 96, but about 350.000 of them have been marooned in tough eastern Zaire, fighting terrain. They are dying at an alarming rate. They need food, water ans safe passage home. But no one has made the refugees a priority. The Zairian rebels of Kabila who seized Kisangani, Zaire'sthird city, had ordered the Rwandan Hutu Refugees, who were in this region's camps, to move back south.
Rwanda

Rwandan genocide 25 years on: MSF caught in spiral of extreme violence from Rwanda to Zaire

Twenty-five years after the Rwandan genocide, MSF takes a look back at the events before, during, and after one of the most horrific events in human history, outlining what our teams witnessed on the ground in Rwanda and Zaire (now DRC). Voices from the Field - 5 Apr 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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