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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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On 04 June, a missile strike hit a town centre in Idlib Governorate, northern Syria, and between 3pm and 7pm 130 wounded patients arrived at the small 12-bed facility. 80 were treated in the hospital, and 50 were referred to another medical facility as the nearest hospital became overwhelmed. See the PR and the testimony for more info."
Syria

The fear is constant

Voices from the Field - 10 Mar 2016
 
Doctors and surgeons treat the wounded in a operating theatre set up in a makeshift hospital in an east Damascus neighbourhood. This photo is to accompany the testimony of Dr. S. which was entitled "Sleeping and resting were an impossible luxury - East Damascus". The testimony was part of the package of comms to illustrate the 4th anniversary of the war in Syria. See the testimony for full details.
Syria

Everyone is fatigued with the fear and deaths – a doctor in a Damascus suburb

Voices from the Field - 10 Mar 2016
 
Victims of a double-tap barrel bombing on Saturday 28 November on an Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)-supported hospital in a besieged zone in northern Homs governorate, Syria, are treated .The bombing caused seven deaths, the partial destruction of the hospital and an influx of 47 wounded patients needing to be transferred to nearby field hospitals, some of whom died en route. The most critically wounded patients were transferred to three nearby hospitals. The 16 from the initial influx were immediately sent to one hospital. A second facility received 21 injured and four who arrived dead, having died on the journey, and the third facility received ten injured and one dead-on-arrival.
Syria

The feeling of powerlessness is excruciating, but I cannot abandon my people

An MSF-supported surgeon working in rural northern Homs governorate tells of the pervasive fear of permanent aerial threat, but also the commitment to stay and provide surgery. Voices from the Field - 9 Mar 2016
 
The MSF-supported hospital in Ma’arat Al Numan before it was attacked and destroyed on Monday 15th Feb. At least 25 people were killed, including nine staff members. The 30-bed hospital had 54 staff, two operating theatres, an outpatient department and an emergency room. The outpatient department treated around 1500 people a month, the ER carried out an average of 1,100 consultations a month, and around 140 operations a month, mainly orthopaedic and general surgery, were carried out in the operating theatres. MSF has been supporting this hospital since September 2015 and covered all the needs of the facility including provision of medical supplies and running costs.
Syria

War-wounded and war-dead in Syria – medical data provides a stark warning that 2015 must not be repeated

"The medical data documented in the report reveal an appalling reality,” said Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of MSF. “The consistently high numbers of women and children - more than 900 wounded per week - puts beyond any doubt that civilian areas and infrastructure were either targeted or indiscriminately struck throughout the military campaigns in 2015." Press Release - 9 Mar 2016
 
Medical staff feed a baby suffering malaria.
Central African Republic

Despite the return to calm some displaced people in Carnot have yet to return home

Despite the return to calm, the situation in Central African remains unstable and over 450,000 people are still displaced within the country. At the Catholic Church in Carnot, the displaced are gradually moving out of what has become an enclave. "Many of them are scared of going back and the violence starting up again," says Stanislas Tatale, MSF’s social and health worker in the church compound. Opinion - 7 Mar 2016
 
Upon return to the MSF healthcare centre in Pibor, MSF teams encountered a scene of chaos and destruction. Fans were ripped from the ceiling in the patients’ wards, electronic equipment and fuel were taken and all the therapeutic food used for treating malnourished children was stolen. Anything of value that was not bolted to the floor was carried off, even hospital beds for sick women and children. Life-saving medicines, medical equipement and essential records were strewn everywhere while cabinets and shelves were tossed and emptied in a whirlwind of theft and disrespect for medical care. (Friday, Feb. 22, 2016) (C) Loic Jaeger /MSF
South Sudan

Looming medical crisis in Pibor following devastating violence and looting of MSF medical compound

“This is a blatant and outrageous attack on life-saving medical care,” said Corinne Benazech, MSF head of mission in South Sudan. “Every single item of value that was not bolted to the floor was stolen, even the hospital beds for treating sick and malnourished children in the pediatric ward." Press Release - 4 Mar 2016
 
Mary in clinic with her son David. “All I was able to take with me was one jerry can,” says Mary, who is sitting in the waiting area of the MSF clinic that was setup within days of the fighting. She holds her sick two-year-old son David in her arms as she explains that her house has been burnt and she had to beg for plastic sheeting while inside the camp so that her family of six could have any shelter at all. With her house in town destroyed and all her possessions stolen, her family’s future is not clear. “We have nothing to build a new house with,” she says.
South Sudan

Fear, worry but also relief; a week of extraordinary violence and courage in Pibor

Project Update - 4 Mar 2016
 
Yemen, gouvernorat de Saada, Haydan, mars 2018. L'école de Haydan, bombardée en 2016 par la coalition internationale dirigée par l'Arabie Saoudite. Saada governorate in Yemen, Haydan, March 2018.Haydan school, bombarded in 2016 by the international coalition led by South Arabia.
Yemen

Crisis update – 3 March 2016

Crisis Update - 3 Mar 2016
 
Malakal: MSF teams in Malakal worked through the nights of Wednesday and Thursday to deal with injured patients after fighting erupted in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site on Wednesday that resulted in 18 people dead, two of them MSF South Sudanese staff members. Seventy-three patients have been admitted so far to the hospital, 46 of them with gunshot wounds. One of MSF’s main concerns is the fate of 43,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) who took shelter in the UNMISS compound. They have been squeezed into a very tight area and access to water and sanitation is of real concern. MSF does not know how long they will be permitted to remain in the facility.
South Sudan

MSF condemns outrageous attack in UN protection site in Malakal

“This brazen violence and terrorization of civilian populations cannot continue. We are heartbroken and devastated by the senseless killing of our two colleagues,” says Raquel Ayora, MSF Director of Operations. “The violence in the Malakal PoC clearly demonstrates that protection of civilians and provision of humanitarian assistance can only be attained with a change of course in the conduct of hostilities by all parties to the conflict." Press Release - 2 Mar 2016
 
Doctors examine an x-ray at the bedside of a patient, 20 February 2016, in the MSF-run Khmer Hospital in Amran, Yemen.
Yemen

Practising medicine under fire

"Even though conditions here are not easy, and the work can be challenging, I am pleased to be working here," says Dr Mariela Carrara. Voices from the Field - 26 Feb 2016
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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