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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.
© Diego Klein/MSF
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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.

Psychosocial group session “How to deal with stress” in the first reception center in Schweinfurt with Salah Al-Hamada and Parisa Zare Moayedi; participants from Afghanistan

Germany

MSF worked in Germany in 2017 to introduce a system of peer counselling for asylum seekers as part of a pilot project handed over to St Josef hospital in Schweinfurt, Bavaria.
MSF team providing medical and psychological first aid to a man who has just arrived on a remote beach in Samos. The man is sitting on the ground, catching his breath, while the doctor is examining him. Since 2021, MSF teams on Samos provide emergency medical aid to people who arrive on the island by boat. Our support consists of medical and psychological first aid, including referrals to hospital by ambulance. Horizontal shot.

Greece

Learn about MSF projects in Greece, where migrants and refugees who have arrived in search of safety or to reach other destinations in Europe, find themselves stranded indefinitely.
To identify chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin (CKDnt), also called as Mesoamerican endemic Nephropathy (MeN), MSF provides screening (rapid and laboratory tests), diagnostics and direct medical attention to the population in the communities and health centers in the municipalities of La Gomera, La Democracia and Sipacate. The services are aimed at people exposed to risk factors, such as sugar cane workers and populations living near the plantations.

Guatemala

MSF closed our project for migrants in June 2025, after nearly four years of providing care to people on the move.
Cisse, a health promoter, carries buckets with kits given to every patient who comes to receive treatment for diphtheria from the logistics tent set up on the ground of the Centre de Traitement Epidemiologique to the waiting area where patients are at the center in Siguiri, Guinea. The kit was made to allow them to spend five days there and to easily clean and dispose of it, as necessary. MSF has helped treat over 2100 patients as of Jan. 4, 2024, and has been responding to a diphtheria outbreak in the region since mid-August, the likes of which has not been seen in the country for the last 30 years.

Guinea

In Guinea, MSF teams provide support to people living with HIV and the health needs of children at a community level.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, June 21, 2022.
   After being treated and stabilized by the MSF team in Turgeau, these patients, victims of a road accident, were discharged from the hospital and returned home.
  MSF/Johnson Sabin

Haiti

Political instability, an earthquake in August 2021, a fuel crisis and chronic violence have pushed the healthcare system in Haiti to its limits as needs are on the rise.

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