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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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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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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.

19-year-old Naqiba leaves the MSF-supported Band-e-Amir community health facility after receiving a postnatal consultation. MSF opened Band-e-Amir community health facility in late December 2022. The facility offers antenatal care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC), delivery and maternal care, under-5 paediatric consultations, malnutrition monitoring and referrals of complicated cases.

Afghanistan

Decades of conflict have ruined Afghanistan’s economy and infrastructure and many people rely on humanitarian aid.
TIRANA, ALBANIA, EUROPE, 01.11.92. Streetlife in Tirana.

Albania

MSF first worked in Albania in 1981 and closed its projects in 2000.
MSF OCBA carried out an exploratory mission in Argelia from the 29th of January to the 23rd of February 2007. The main objective was to asses in situ the health situation of the SSI ( Sub-Saharan Immigrants) in transit on their way to Europe, including the response to this problematic from the national authorities and international actors.The arrival of SSIs is affecting several countries in the north of Africa, including Argelia, as this countries represent the entry door to Europe. This is not a new phenomenon in Argelia, as this country is traditionally a place where SSI transit in their way to Europe since many years ago. However, reports show an increase in the number of people arriving despite all the efforts done to stop their entry in the country. We can estimate that the current population of SSI in transit to Europe in Argelia is between 21,000 and 30,000 people (there are numbers that go up to 300,000)

Algeria

MSF first worked in Algeria in 1980 and closed its projects in 2016.
Paulina Cassombu has been in Cuvango Municipal Hospital, in southwestern Angola, with her daughter, Rosa, for three weeks. Rosa was admitted with severe malnutrition and was covered in painful blisters and could not walk for a long period of time. Now, as she got better, and with the help of psychostimulation sessions, has been able to regain her mobility. “She came in with a lot of blisters. She is much better now and it makes me happy,” said Paulina. Both in Cuvango and Chipindo Municipal Hospitals, through psychostimulation sessions, psychologists have worked to re-establish mobility, cognition, confidence, and mother to child bond after a child has been in a critical condition in the hospital for an extended period.

Angola

We handed over our medical activities to the Ministry of Health and left Angola in August 2023.
On April 5, MSF Mission in Armenia and partners inaugurated a new service for testing and treatment for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) within our existing project in Arshakunyats Health Center, in the capital Yerevan. The service is part of a project launched in 2023 by MSF in Armenia to provide access for testing and treatment of Hepatitis C following a “one stop shop” approach. The new service thus aims at improving access to Hepatitis C care for key populations (“PWID” People who Inject Drugs, ”MSM” Men who have Sex with Men, “CSW” Commercial Sex Workers), as the existing health services are not always tailored to meet the needs of this group.

Armenia

MSF first worked in Armenia in 1988 to respond to medical needs following the Spitak earthquake.

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