MSF UK | Médecins Sans Frontières
Gaza: MSF calls for immediate ceasefire at UN Security Council. MSF Secretary General delivered the speech and urged for unequivocal protection of medical facilities, staff, and patients. Sudan: MSF surgical team operates on 240 trauma patients in a week. In Khartoum, our expert staff are seeing complex and critical injuries as a result of the ...
Ukraine war and refugee crisis | MSF UK
Ukraine war and refugee crisis. An MSF doctor monitors the condition of a patient on board a medical evacuation train travelling from Pokrovsk to Livi. Fighting in Ukraine has killed or injured thousands of people, while more than 6 million refugees are currently scattered across Europe. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF ...
Find a job | MSF UK
Find a role. Find out more about the jobs available with MSF and what it's like to have a career delivering medical aid where it's needed most. We rely on a strong network of professionals to deliver life-saving medical aid. Each year, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) sends people from the UK overseas to carry out ...
Who we are | MSF UK
MSF is an international humanitarian organisation providing medical care in more than 70 countries. Since 1971, we have been treating people caught in complex crises and chronic healthcare emergencies around the world. From our paediatric nurses to our off-road drivers, we are experts at working in fast-moving and highly-insecure environments.
Emergency Surgery Response | MSF UK
Support our expert medical teams working in crisis zones around the world. Whether it's a child wounded in an airstrike or a mother facing a complicated labour, emergency surgery can save lives. But this care is complex. It requires highly trained staff, specialist equipment and sterile facilities. Shockingly, 70 percent of people on Earth have ...
Donate to MSF UK (Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without …
One-off donation. Monthly donation. Provides dressings kits to treat 42 war-wounded people. Provides antiretroviral drugs for a year for one person living with HIV/AIDS. Buys a basic surgical kit, enabling an MSF surgeon to carry out surgery. Over 12 months would cover the cost of a doctor in a project for a day, treating people in need.
Non-communicable diseases | MSF UK
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are diseases that cannot be directly transmitted between people. Many are chronic diseases, meaning that they stay with people for life. These long-term illnesses are due to a combination of genetic vulnerabilities and environmental factors, such as poverty, living in polluted surroundings, unreliable access to ...
News and stories | MSF UK
Gaza: MSF mourns and condemns the tragic killing of our colleague. Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif Al Shalfouh is the seventh MSF staff member killed since the start of the war. Read more. 11 Oct 24.
Welcome: Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders …
Since 1971, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been ready to respond to humanitarian emergencies around the world. From treating war-wounded civilians in Yemen, to fighting deadly Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we are on the frontline of humanitarian healthcare care right now – including the ...
Kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis) | MSF UK
Kala azar is one of the most dangerous neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), fatal in 95% of cases if left untreated. Also known as visceral leishmaniasis, kala azar is the most serious form of leishmaniasis and as of 2020 is endemic in 90 countries. The parasite is spread to humans by bites from infected female sandflies.