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Medical aid where it is needed the most

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. MSF medical teams work in more than 70 countries to provide lifesaving assistance where it is needed the most. Our 67,500 staff work in conflicts, epidemics, following natural disasters and where people would not otherwise have access to medical care. We work according to principles of independence, neutrality and impartiality; providing assistance to people who need it the most, regardless of who they are, where they come from, their political or religious beliefs.

The organisation has some of its largest medical projects across East Africa including in Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia and Burundi. In these countries, MSF runs hospitals, health centres and mobile clinics and launches emergency projects as spikes in healthcare needs arise.

MSF also has a regional office in Kenya which supports our medical programmes in the country and those surrounding it, recruits staff to help run our operations around the world and raises awareness of humanitarian crises that we are responding to. MSF also has a specialist innovation unit, called the Displacement Unit, which supports our projects around the world, and a regional supply centre in Kenya.