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A boat taking MSF staff to the rural area of Portel travels through a river in the Brazilian Northern state of Pará. MSF is supporting local authorities in order to improve healthcare access to the town’s population. Portel has dealt historically with a lack of health professionals and facilities, particularly in hard-to-reach remote areas which are home to vulnerable river dweller communities.

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A boat taking MSF staff to the rural area of Portel travels through a river in the northern state of Pará. Brazil, November 2023.
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In more than 75 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations. Find out more about our actions in every country below.

A sex worker from Zalewa waits to be seen by Christine Muntali, MSF's Sexual and Reproductive Health nurse supervisor, in the team's ambulance. MSF provides family planning methods and medication to prevent sexually transmitted diseases to women beneficiaries of the project.

Malawi

Learn about our medical projects in Malawi, where an estimated 980,000 people are living with HIV. We are supporting efforts to combat the virus, while also responding to emergencies such as the devastating floods that hit the country in March 2019.
Patients, most of whom are from the Rohingya community, queue up for triaging at the MSF clinic in Butterworth, Penang.

Malaysia

Our teams provide healthcare support to the Rohingya and other communities through our clinic in Butterworth (Klinik Mewah 6), our mobile clinics in Penang, and our activities in detention centres.
On September 10, more than 1,700 internally displaced people from Talataye arrived at the Soso Koira site in Gao. They settled in extremely unstable conditions.

Mali

As violence spirals in Mali, millions are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The crew of the MY Phoenix use a crane to load heavy cargo onto the boat ahead of the May 2nd launch.

Malta

MSF worked in Malta between 2008 and 2010.
From centre left: Cheickh Ahmed Isselmou, Pharmacy Supervisor; Philemon Olivier, Project Pharmacist; and Kelly Thierno Moctar, a doctor and Assistant Medical Coordinator, readying vaccines at 6:30am at a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) facility in Bassikounou in the Hodh ech Chargui region of Mauritania on 7 August 2018. Located in Southeastern Mauritania, Bassikounou is the staging point for MSF operations in the Mbera refugee camp and the surrounding area.

Mauritania

We provide medical care to people who have fled from Mali.
El Rancho hostel in Piedras Negras.

Mexico

Every year, an estimated 400,000 people flee violence and poverty in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and enter Mexico with the hope of reaching the United States. In Mexico, they are systematically exposed to further episodes of violence.

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The place names and boundaries used in this report do not reflect any position by MSF on their legal status.