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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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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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Maternal and Child Health services in Douentza Hospital .

Medical services in northeastern Mali

Photo Story13 March 2018

In northeastern Mali, in the towns of Ansongo and Douentza, MSF provides a range of medical services.

Since 2012, we have supported services in the referral hospital in Ansongo, in the Gao region, including outpatients, emergency care and hospitalisation, maternal health, treatment of chronic illnesses, nutrition, and neonatal and paediatric services. At the community health centre in the town, renovated by MSF, the teams provide primary health care to pregnant women and children under aged under five.

In Douentza, in the nearby Mopti region, MSF teams support the Referral Health Centre (CSRef) in nutrition, emergency surgery, mental health, and care and hospitalisation for children aged 0-15. We also ensures the transfer of urgent cases to the city of Mopti. 

Services in the referral hospital in Ansongo
At the community health centre in Ansongo, the women from the town and its surroundings bring their children aged under 5 to be vaccinated. The MSF team uses vaccination cards to call the names of the mothers sat on the mats as they wait their turn.
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Services in the referral hospital in Ansongo
Sidiki, an MSF doctor, and Aminata, the MSF supervising midwife, do the morning rounds to visit the new mothers in the delivery room at the maternity centre in Ansongo.
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Services in the referral hospital in Ansongo
December 2017, Ansongo, Mali: Mahamadou Agaïri, 40, wears his two-day-old baby 'kangaroo' style - an unprecedented gesture in a place where men don't normally carry babies - while his wife recovers from an obstetric operation she underwent during the delivery at the MSF-supported hospital.
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Services in the referral hospital in Ansongo
Aminata, MSF supervising midwife at the maternity clinic in Ansongo, doing a consultation for a newborn.
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Services in the referral hospital in Ansongo
Tala is from the nomadic community of Daoussack between Meneka and Ansongo. Aged 17, she was referred to the clinic in Ansongo at the end of November by the community health centre in Tinehama. She is suffering from anaemia following a heamorrhage that she had while delivering her first baby at home. Orginally from Tagaragaboute, a community about 100km from Ansongo town, Tala had to walk for two days and then take a vehicle to get to Ansongo. Now hospitalised in the post-partum room, she is benefitting from a series of blood transfusions.
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Maternal and Child Health services in Douentza Hospital .
Mothers wait with their children in front of the paediatric unit at the CSRef in Douentza. MSF provides free healthcare here for children aged 0 to 15 years old.
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Maternal and Child Health services in Douentza Hospital .
Fatoumata, 30, mother of two children and a housewife from the village of Wui, a commune of Boré located 50km from Douentza. Fatoumata accompanies her one-year-old daughter Mariam who is suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Mariam has been hospitalised for 4 days in the paediatric ward where she receives care from MSF in the stabilisation room.
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Maternal and Child Health services in Douentza Hospital
Fatoumata, a mother of five from a nomadic community, was stabilised by MSF staff at the referral health centre in Dala, near Douentza, in northern Mali, having arrived in a critical condition.
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Maternal and Child Health services in Douentza Hospital .
The operating theatre of the CSRef in Douentza, which is supported by MSF through the provision of staff and equipment. The surgeons intervene to save the life of a pregnant woman with a complicated birth requiring obstetric surgery.
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Maternal and Child Health services in Douentza Hospital .
MSF staff giving vaccinations in Douentza.
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Maternal and Child Health services in Douentza Hospital .
Mothers with their recovering children in front of the malnutrition treatment unit at the CSRef in Douentza.
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