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.
SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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.
Peshawar/Amsterdam - On the eve of the visit of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, the medical aid agency Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) expresses its grave concern for the refugees returning to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan. During the visit of Ms. Ogata, MSF will state that the situation in Afghanistan may deteriorate further in the coming months making it more difficult for the refugees to return.
The repatriation programme from Iran to Afghanistan, agreed upon by the UNHCR and the government of Iran, plans to assist over 100,000 Afghans in returning home during a six month period finishing on October 8. Afghan refugees living in Pakistan are being facilitated by UNHCR to return home. Once in their home country, the refugees are joining the people of Afghanistan in an increasingly precarious situation that is already having an enormously devastating effect on the country.
The people in Afghanistan are facing a grim situation. A severe drought has caused a serious food crisis in certain provinces, affecting millions of Afghans. Afghanistan also continues to face outbreaks of epidemic diseases. MSF is already responding to several cholera outbreaks in different parts of the country. Renewed fighting in the north is forcing tens of thousands to flee. The growing insecurities in other parts of the country have worsened the fate of the population and makes it more difficult for aid agencies to provide humanitarian assistance. The returning refugees arrive in a country where thousands of people are again fleeing. Over 10,000 people have fled to the western city of Herat and are living in deprived conditions in poorly equipped camps.
"At our project sites in Kandahar, Herat and Badghis, we see the situation deteriorating by the day. In response to the food crisis, MSF is establishing up to six supplementary feeding centres in the feeding centres where we are working. However, the needs are great in all parts of the country and we are concerned that a large number of the Afghan population will not have access to the basic aid they require." says Fouad Hikmat, Country Manager for MSF-Afghanistan in Peshawar.
MSF is deeply concerned with the increased vulnerability of the Afghan people, including the internally displaced and the returning refugees since their country is suffering from severe drought, on-going fighting and outbreaks of diseases. Given these circumstances and the lack of protection and safety, MSF feels that the Afghan refugees cannot return home in safety and dignity.
MSF has been working in Afghanistan since 1980 and works in both Taliban-controlled and Alliance-controlled areas providing health care.
