MSF teams are directly responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in over 40 countries worldwide. Our COVID-19 response focuses…
We launch our operations in areas where there is no medical infrastructure or where the existing one cannot withstand the pressure to which it is subjected. In most cases, relief programs change to rehabilitation projects that may run for several years after the most urgent needs have been met.
For more than 50 years, we have been providing medical help to people caught in many kinds of catastrophes, including armed conflicts, disasters such as floods and earthquakes, epidemics of disease and malnutrition crises. All these situations call for rapid response with specialised medical and logistical help. We are renowned for our quick response and efficient, effective work in the toughest emergencies. Beyond acute crisis, we also intervene in times that call for a less urgent type of action, for instance, in chronic refugees situations, areas of chronic instability, and in periods following a conflict or disaster.
Emergency public healthcare, including medicine & surgery
Mass vaccination campaigns
Water and sanitation systems
Therapeutic and supplementary nutrition
Distribution of drugs and supplies
Training and health education
Organisation or rehabilitation of health structures
Medical assistance within existing health structures
We observe impartiality in the name of medical ethics and the right to humanitarian assistance. To ensure this independence, the majority of our funding for projects comes from donations from the public. In carrying out humanitarian assistance, we act as witnesses and will speak out, in private or in public, about the critical needs of the people we help. In doing so, we seek to alleviate human suffering, to protect life and health, and to restore and ensure respect for human beings and their dignity.
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