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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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Our team of doctors, nurses, nutrition assistants and logisticians leave the base early in the morning so that we can start the mobile clinic at first light.
Central African Republic

MSF condemns the killing of our colleague in Central African Republic

An MSF staff member has been killed at his home by a member of the armed forces of the Central African Republic. MSF condemns this incident in the strongest possible terms. Statement - 31 May 2022
 
A resident of the Bogouyo IDP site in front of the emergency water point set up by MSF when the teams arrived.
Central African Republic

Violence and displacement in Ippy mirror people’s daily reality in CAR

Far from international media attention, armed violence continues to rage in many parts of the Central African Republic (CAR), forcing entire communities from their homes and onto a path of death and despair. Project Update - 23 May 2022
 
Palestinian walks amidst the rubble in the Gaza city.
Palestine

Gaza: Some wounds never heal

One year on from the bombing in the Gaza Strip, which lasted from 10 to 21 May 2021, two patients treated by MSF and one MSF staff member share their testimonies about the lifelong impacts of last year’s hostilities. Voices from the Field - 20 May 2022
 
Roughly 200 people from two boats in distress were rescued on the morning of May 9. Everyone is now safe on board the Geo Barents while we continue the search for more boats in distress. Right after the rescue we saw the Libyan Coast Guard navigating at a very close distance from the Geo Barents.
Mediterranean migration

After seven rescues from the central Mediterranean, 470 people need a place of safety

MSF teams conducted seven rescue operations from the central Mediterranean within 72 hours during which 470 people were rescued and brought upon the Geo Barents. The survivors need a safe place to disembark. Project Update - 16 May 2022
 
Patients visit health centres to see a doctor and collect medications. Many of the patients MSF teams have assisted in Hostomel suffer from chronic diseases such as asthma, hypertension or heart conditions. Pneumonia was also common after spending extended periods of time in basements in the cold, winter weather.
War in Ukraine

Working with local medical staff to provide care in Hostomel

The town of Hostomel, on the outskirts of Kyiv, was the scene of brutal fighting and was under control of Russian forces for a time. Photo Story - 13 May 2022
 
External view of Kybartai State Border Guards (SBG) Foreigner Registration Centre. Kybartai is one of the three Foreigner Registration Centers (FRC) for asylum seekers and migrants in Lithuania. Since January 2022, MSF teams have been providing primary health care and psychological support in two of the three centers, in Kybartai (Vilkaviskis District), and Medininkai (Vilnius District). According to national legislation, people’s freedom of movement in FRCs is restricted for one year and can be extended to 18 months on a case-by-case basis. Kybartai, a prison that was under the Ministry of Justice, became a State Border Guards (SBG) Foreigner Registration Centre for single men in September 2021, without any major renovations to the facility. It is estimated that 420 men are currently detained here. Across its four floors, people are separated by nationality. Within Kybartai there is a section for more severe detention (Corpus B), where an estimated 40 men are held because they are accused of a crime or because they are “trouble makers”. They have access to cooking facilities and an indoor shower. Individuals in Corpus B are not allowed outside, except for a small closed off area, and are accompanied to the market by SBGs.
Lithuania

People detained in Lithuania are experiencing abuse, violence and mental health distress

More than 2,500 asylum seekers and migrants are being arbitrarily detained in Lithuania in inadequate conditions. MSF calls on the Lithuanian authorities to end the arbitrary and prolonged detention of these people immediately. Press Release - 6 May 2022
 
Gabi, an MSF psychologist, in a session with a patient at the Lajas Blancas Immigration Reception Station, in Panama. Gabi, psicóloga de MSF, en una sesión a una paciente en la Estación de Recepción Migratoria de Lajas Blancas.
Central American migration

“The Darién Gap is as dangerous as ever”

Helmer Charris, an MSF field coordinator, shares how “the Darién Gap is as dangerous as ever” for migrants crossing into Panama. Voices from the Field - 6 May 2022
 
Juliette walking on the streets of Ambodrian i’Sahafary a village only accessible by boat where MSF set-up a moblie clinic. Juliette, 23, is pregnant and the mother of two children aged 5 and 2. She is a rice, coffee and pepper farmer. 
Juliette lives in the "fokontany" (neighbourhood) of Ambodiriana, an hour's walk from the Ambodirian'i Sahafary health centre, where she came for a medical consultation. 
Her house and those of her neighbours were ravaged by the cyclone Batsirai. His rice, coffee and pepper crops were also destroyed. Normally, the rice was to be harvested in April. 
She says: "During the cyclone, we took refuge in a smaller house because the larger ones were blown away. The wind blew violently, and we were not able to anticipate the consequences by reinforcing the houses, nor by storing food. 

Without money, we can't do anything. If health care wasn't free, we wouldn't go to the doctor. You do the doctor yourself."
Madagascar

Communities devastated by cyclones in Madagascar

Communities in Madagascar are recovering from cyclones in February of this year. These cyclones are the latest in a series of climate shocks which have impacted Madagascar. Project Update - 5 May 2022
 
Dilaram, 33, a former TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial patient in Nukus, got cured from TB in 2018. On the clinical trial regimen her treatment lasted only 6 months (a quite short period of time compared to the standard 20-24 months DR TB regimens). After her recovery Dilaram was able to return to her work as a nurse at the Emergency Hospital in Operation Ward, and in 2020 gave birth to a son. Now she has 3 children, her two elder daughters were born before she got sick. (TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial, Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan)
Tuberculosis

WHO approves MSF MDR-TB trial regimen, but prices must come down

WHO has announced it will update treatment guidelines for multidrug-resistant TB, following strong results of MSF's TB PRACTECAL trial. But the price of the new regimens must come down. Press Release - 4 May 2022
 
Two street vendors pass a mural in Bois-Verna, a residential area of Port-au-Prince.
Haiti

Three questions about the recent violent clashes in Port-au-Prince

Mumuza Muhindo, MSF head of mission in Haiti, answers three questions about the recent violent clashes taking place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Interview - 29 Apr 2022
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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