In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.
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.
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.
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.
The MSF Science Portal is a digital platform for Médecins Sans Frontières to share the medical evidence we gather as part of our medical humanitarian work aiding people and communities affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health services.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched the Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) to transform our ability to address the most pressing medical and humanitarian challenges around the world.
The Telemedicine program provides secure solutions designed to support the needs of healthcare professionals across MSF, while building a community of knowledge-sharing and clinical collaboration.
Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF, in order to more effectively co-create innovations that save lives and alleviate suffering.
On 3 October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed our trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 42 people.
Patients burned in their beds, medical staff were decapitated and lost limbs, and others were shot from the air while they fled the burning building.
The 92-bed hospital was the only facility treating major trauma injuries in all of northeastern Afghanistan, serving thousands of people. Since opening the hospital in 2011, more than 15,000 surgeries were conducted and more than 68,000 emergency patients were treated.
Following the attack, we demanded an independent investigation by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC). In April 2016 , the US military released its own investigative report. The request for an independent investigation has so far gone unanswered.
This video combines an overview of the major events of the MSF facility that was bombed on the 03 October 2015 and the testimony of an MSF staff member, Faizullah. Faizullah relates how everything happened from its own experience and how he and Dr Sattar, tried to escape. Unfortunately, Dr Sattar, his friend and colleague, lost his life during the bombings.
Afghanistan
Updated death toll – 42 people killed in the US airstrikes on Kunduz hospital
Statement12 Dec 2015
Kunduz hospital attack
MSF delivers petition calling for investigation into hospital attack
Press Release9 Dec 2015
Statement by Christopher Stokes, MSF General Director
Statement25 Nov 2015
Afghanistan
In Memoriam: MSF colleagues killed in the Kunduz Trauma Centre attack
Project Update24 Nov 2015
Attacks on medical care
Kunduz, Afghanistan, 36°43’4.91’’N, 68°51’43.96’’
Opinion10 Nov 2015
Yemen
Press briefing from Kabul on Kunduz attack
Press Release5 Nov 2015
Kunduz hospital attack
MSF releases internal review of the Kunduz hospital attack
Press Release5 Nov 2015
Kunduz hospital attack
Interactive map of our Trauma Hospital in Kunduz before and after the attack
Project Update4 Nov 2015
Journal article
Primer: Protection of medical services under International Humanitarian Law
3 Nov 2015
Journal article
Research & Analysis
Kunduz hospital attack
MSF releases internal review of the Kunduz hospital attack
Press Release5 Nov 2015
Website
Attack on Kunduz Trauma Centre
msf.org
Kunduz hospital attack
What has been lost
Voices from the Field3 Apr 2016
Kunduz hospital attack
It’s all gone. It’s all gone…
Voices from the Field2 Oct 2016
Kunduz hospital attack
Interactive map of our Trauma Hospital in Kunduz before and after the attack
Project Update4 Nov 2015
Afghanistan
The attack on Kunduz trauma centre
Voices from the Field1 Jul 2016
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Europe & Central Asia
Afghanistan
Decades of conflict have ruined Afghanistan’s economy and infrastructure and many people rely on humanitarian aid.
436,100
emergency room admissions
230,200
Outpatient consultations
45,100
Births assisted including 2,640 caesarean sections
16,500
Surgical interventions
13,200
children admitted to inpatient feeding programmes
3,120
People started on treatment for TB
In Focus
Attacks on medical care
Attacks against medical facilities and health workers, whether deliberate or indiscriminate, are part of generalised violence and atrocities committed against civilians in armed conflict. They deprive populations of health services, often when they need them the most.
Crisis Settings
War and conflict
More than one third of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for people affected by armed conflict.
