The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF. GO TO SITEįind important research based on our field experience on our dedicated Field Research website. 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. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Regional logistic centre for the whole East Africa regionīRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa. SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements. 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 and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions. GO TO SITEīased 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. GO TO SITEīased in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

GO TO SITEīased 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. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field. GO TO SITEīased in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases. Read stories from our staff as they carry out their work around the world. 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. Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations. During this afternoon I attended single handed to the wounds and wants of 74 helpless men.Other Sites View Resource Centre MSF Association Until some hours after the arrival of the men there were neither stores, attendants nor the necessary refreshments on the spot. ‘The poor fellows endured their sufferings with heroic fortitude amounting in appearance to indifference to their fate… There has been somehow unaccountable neglect in the arrangements for this hospital. Several were more or less severely wounded and others were completely prostrated by fever and dysentery. Many were grimed with mud, dirt, blood etc and gunpowder stains. were swarming with vermin, huge lice crawling all about their persons and clothes. On being brought inside the hospital several were found to be dead, many were at their last gasp, and others it was evident had but a short time to live.

‘They were with few exceptions in a truly pitiable state of filth and utterly helpless from wounds and debility. Letter by Sergeant Frederick Newman, 97th Regiment, who died of fever two weeks after posting it, I am rather loose in my bowels, but take as much care of myself as possible.' I have just commenced to write again and there are now six poor fellows lying dead. being satisfied with enough to drink without washing my face and as for a clean shirt I think when I can find it convenient to wash one then I will put one on. I have not washed my face nor yet shaved since I landed here. 'Water is very scarce and extremely muddy. We manage it somehow, by grinding it in a broken bombshell with a round shot to crush it. Just like our government, the idea of sending coffee here not roasted.

We get biscuits salt pork or beef and one gill of rum with some sugar rice and unroasted coffee. Cholera has broke out amongst the poor fellows who are exposed in the trenches day and night with nothing but their big coats to shelter them from the rain or cold. 'We are now about three miles from Sebastopol and under canvas tents, the rain pouring in torrents and all around miserable.

Valley of war hospital