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.
MSF shocked by new attack on elementary school in South Lebanon
Press Release17 May 2000
Nabatiye/Amsterdam - The International humanitarian medical organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is shocked by a new attack on an elementary school in South Lebanon.
Four shells struck the elementary school in the small village of Arab Salim yesterday morning. One of the shells landed in the exam room. Three other shells came down in the school yard. When the shelling started the school director moved all 320 children to the downstairs corridors as the school bomb shelter is still under construction. No one was injured, but five children suffered a severe shock and fainted during the attack.
One of the local counsellors of MSF will visit the childeren involved and do a debriefing about the attack today. MSF is calling for all parties to respect international humanitarian law and particularly to refrain from carrying out direct attacks on civilian targets.
Arab Salim is right beside the front lines of the zone occupied by Israel, near the city of Nabatiye. The same school was hit by shelling in December 1999. At that time, 15 children were wounded, three of them seriously. MSF did an extensive psycho-social debriefing with all children after this attack.
MSF is actively working in Arab Salim and other southern villages in the area around the city of Nabatiye on a programme for psycho-social care. The people living in these villages, which are located along the front lines of the zone occupied by Israel, suffer from high levels of stress and anxiety due to the years of violence.
A group of Lebanese counsellors working as volunteers has been trained by MSF to provide psycho-social care. The counsellors offer support and guidance to the inhabitants of these villages. MSF has also trained first aid teams and equipped them with medical supplies.
In addition to the activities in the area surrounding Nabatiye, the organisation is also active in Jezzine, an area that was located within the zone occupied by Israel until only a year ago.
