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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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Resting area in the middle of Tabarre hospital.
Haiti

MSF fully reopens Tabarre hospital following armed intrusion

We have fully resumed medical services at Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after an armed intrusion in July caused us to suspend admissions in the trauma centre. 
 Press Release - 29 Aug 2023
 
An MSF team travels to the village of Kaoukoure once a week to provide healthcare to people who live far from urban centers and who face difficulty accessing health centers and basic social services. They screen and treat malnourished patients, distribute soap for personal hygiene and mosquito nets to tackle malaria.
Chad

Community-focused projects aim to reduce rising malnutrition in Chad

As rising numbers of children continue to suffer from malnutrition in Chad, our teams are bringing medical care closer to people through community-based projects. Project Update - 28 Aug 2023
 
The recommended spaces to place the bottles of mosquitos with Wolbachia are those where there is not sunlight and it is not within the reach of children or pets. ---------- has been responding to dengue outbreaks in Honduras since 1998. These are growing increasingly severe, with emergency thresholds reaching alarming levels and more than 10,000 dengue cases reported each year.  Current prevention tools are not sufficient to protect people from dengue, there are no specific treatments currently available and no vaccines have yet been produced that provide sufficient protection against infection. With the aim of finding better and more sustainable solutions to the growing global health challenge that dengue represents, MSF is undertaking new activities to prevent dengue transmission and other arboviruses. This includes deploying an innovative method to reduce the risk of dengue and other arboviruses, carried out in partnership with local communities, the Honduras Ministry of health and the World Mosquito Program. The method consists of releasing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying the natural Wolbachia bacteria, which reduces mosquitoes’ ability to transmit arboviruses – with the aim to lower the number of people affected by dengue fever in the area.  Dengue fever is an important global health threat. It is rapidly spreading with reported incidence increasing 30-fold over the past 50 years. Today, more than half the world’s population is at risk, and it is expected that another billion people will be exposed to dengue fever in coming decades due to climate change. (Population growth, the movement of people from rural areas to cities, more international travel and climate change have all increased the spread of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - also causing an increasing number of people affected by mosquito-borne diseases.)      This comms initiative is the first public communication about this project which is unprecedented for both MSF and local communities.
Honduras

Innovative approach uses mosquitos to combat dengue in Honduras

MSF has teamed up with Honduran partners with the aim of finding better and more sustainable solutions to tackle high rates of dengue in the country. Press Release - 25 Aug 2023
 
The MSF flag flutters in the wind at MSF’s clinic in Al-Tanideba camp for Tigray refugees, in Eastern Sudan.
Conflict in Sudan

People trapped by indiscriminate attacks in Nyala, South Darfur

We again urge all parties of the conflict to respect civilians and civilian infrastructure, and allow people safe passage, while ensuring humanitarian workers and facilities are protected from the fighting. Statement - 24 Aug 2023
 
Commune of Ranobe, Amboasary District. People in the south-east of Madagascar are facing the most acute nutritional and food crisis the region has seen in recent years. MSF began setting up mobile clinics in Amboasary district in late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care.
Libya

MSF to close medical activities in Tripoli

MSF will end medical activities in Tripoli, Libya, where we provide healthcare to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Press Release - 24 Aug 2023
 
Children walking through the outskirts of the camps.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Funding for Rohingya must increase as medical needs surge in camps

As the health situation for Rohingya in Cox's Bazar continues to deteriorate, international aid organisations must step up funding to improve access to healthcare. Project Update - 23 Aug 2023
 
The new MSF-built health post of Nganzi, standing behind the rubble of the old one. The old ramshackle facility was not fit to respond to the population’s needs, Mbomou prefecture, March 2023.
Central African Republic

Health emergency in Central African Republic requires urgent response

Vital support is needed in the Central African Republic, where instability, armed violence and a lack of international attention continue to contribute to one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world. Project Update - 21 Aug 2023
 
Fatima is 1 year and 3 months old, and she is receiving treatment in Al Thawrah Hospital isolation center in Al Bayda after she contracted measles. "I came from the Dhi Na'im District, my child’s symptoms started as fever, diarrhea, and then a skin rash. I didn’t expect this was measles until I noticed the skin rash. My other son was admitted here; he was discharged after his recovery, thanks to God and the doctors here", Says Fatima's mother. In response to the increased number of measles cases reported in the Al Bayda governorate in February 2023, the MSF Mobile Emergency Team (MET) started an intervention in Al Bayda to reduce mortality and morbidity related to the measles outbreak in the governorate. In Al Thawrah and Radaa hospitals, MSF provides free-of-charge case management for patients admitted in their isolation centers, and supports with incentive payments, training for the Ministry of Health staff and provides meals for patients. Furthermore, the MSF team supports six primary health care centers (PHCCs) across Al Bayda governorate to treat non-complicated measles cases and refer the complicated cases to the two main hospitals. The team also supports the Governorate Health Office in running two mobile clinics, which reach communities in Al Baydhaa with more difficult access to health care. These clinics provide consultations for children under 5 years old and refer patients who need further treatment to the hospitals, in addition to vaccination and health promotion activities.
Yemen

Grave health crisis as measles cases surge in Yemen

We are seeing an alarming rise of measles in Yemen. Authorities, along with health actors, must ensure a comprehensive and coordinated response to avoid further preventable deaths. Project Update - 18 Aug 2023
 
The MSF supported Al Nao hospital in Omdurman, to the northwest of Khartoum, where intense fighting is taking place.
Conflict in Sudan

Violence threatens people and vital hospital in Omdurman

As the conflict in Sudan intensifies, causing horrific injuries and death, we call on all warring parties to spare civilians from violence and to ensure the protection of hospitals and healthcare workers. Press Release - 17 Aug 2023
 
An aunt calms her 9-year-old niece as she is admitted to the paediatric ward at the MSF hospital in Bentiu IDP camp in Unity state. After recovering from measles, the child is being given paediatric care to treat other medical complications.
South Sudan

Children at deadly risk of measles and malnutrition after fleeing conflict in Sudan

Our teams are seeing alarming levels of measles and malnutrition among people fleeing the conflict in Sudan and arriving in South Sudan. We call for an urgent scale up to the humanitarian response before more lives are lost. Press Release - 17 Aug 2023
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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