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Our focus

Learn about the crises our teams respond to, and how we adapt to provide the highest quality medical care in some of the world’s most challenging contexts.

Armed conflict causes injury, displacement, sexual violence, and death, but it also continues to impact people’s lives and health long after the front lines have shifted. War devastates health systems, hampers access to medical supplies, and disrupts vaccination and other disease-prevention efforts, heightening the risk of outbreaks.

In conflict zones, MSF does not take sides. We provide medical care based on needs alone and work to reach the people most in need of help. Nearly one-fourth of MSF's projects are dedicated to assisting people living in conflict.
 

Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and major storms can force people to flee their homes and cut off access to safe water, health care services, and transportation, affecting the lives of tens of thousands in a matter of minutes. When minutes matter, MSF’s network of aid workers in more than 70 countries around the world are often the first to deploy rapid, lifesaving medical care. We keep pre-packaged supply kits to launch rapid responses as quickly as possible.

Millions of people around the world still die each year from infectious diseases that are preventable or treatable. Those at highest live in poverty or other precarious conditions, with limited access to health care and vaccinations.

During an outbreak of an infectious disease like cholera, measles, yellow fever, or Ebola, MSF teams react swiftly to provide lifesaving vaccines, treatment, and epidemiological services. From setting up temporary facilities to treat patients to running mass vaccination campaigns to improving water and sanitation services to help prevent the spread of disease, MSF teams adapt our emergency responses to the unique needs of communities.

More than 100 million people worldwide have been forced from home, uprooted by conflict, persecution, and other extreme hardships. On the move and in camps they often live in precarious conditions, cut off from essential services including health care.

When people are displaced, MSF teams conduct rapid needs assessments and work closely with affected communities to provide services including vaccination; primary care and mental health counseling; nutrition support; and clean water and sanitation.
 

Medical issues

Learn about how, why, and where MSF teams respond to different diseases around the world, and the challenges we face in providing treatment.

Providing maternal health in Uganda

Maternal health

An estimated 99 percent of women who die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications live in developing countries. Most of these deaths are preventable.

Patiente Ngangu, MSF nurse

Malnutrition

More than 232 million children around the world last year suffered from malnutrition. It is the underlying contributing factor in nearly half of the deaths of children under five years of age.

Dr Wardak Abdul Qayoum assists the expat microbiologist in supervising the team and carrying out isolation, identification and sensitivity testing of the 3000 bacterial strains expected. He uses a plastic loop to take a colony of bacteria from the culture plate.

Antibiotic resistance

Resistance to antibiotics has become a global health crisis, complicating the treatment of bacterial infections and endangering lives around the world.

Issues in focus

Emergencies move fast, and so do we. Learn about some of the emergencies MSF is responding to around the world.

COVID-19 Project in Brussels, Belgium

COVID-19: Our global response

Facts and figures about the coronavirus emergency

Global migration and refugee crisis

Record numbers of people have been forced from home and struggle to find safety.

The aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince.

Haiti: Ten years after the earthquake

A look at the urgent medical needs then and now.

We go where many others can’t or won’t

When disaster strikes, our teams of doctors, nurses, logisticians, and other staff are often among the first on the scene—sometimes arriving in a matter of minutes. Our financial independence enables us to freely evaluate medical needs, reach communities in need without restriction, and directly provide high quality medical care.

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An MSF boat speeds on the Pibor River

The latest news & stories

A busy scene with people in the middle of Port-au-Prince

Haiti: Survey reveals extreme level of deadly violence in Port-au-Prince

publication Mar 07, 2024

story Mar 11, 2024

“Post-apocalyptic” scenes from Sudan’s capital

The city of Khartoum, Sudan.

story Mar 18, 2024

Rivers, rainforest, and distance stand in the way of care in the Amazon

MSF teams travel by boat to reach Amazonian riverside communities in Brazil.

story Mar 18, 2024

Gaza: Reports of drones, tanks, and shelling near Al-Shifa Hospital

Medical staff treat a patient at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza

story Mar 12, 2024

Four questions about what’s going on in eastern DR Congo

A Congolese woman holding a baby wrapped in a blanket in DR Congo.

How you can help

Not everyone can treat patients in the field. But everyone can do something.

Some humanitarian crises make the headlines—others don’t. Unrestricted support from our donors allows us to mobilize quickly and efficiently to provide lifesaving medical care to the people who need it most, whether those needs are in the spotlight or not. And your donation is 100 percent tax-deductible.

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