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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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Reports and financials

Read through our annual financial and activity reports, and find out about where our funds come from and how they are spent.

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Accountability

Read the policies, reports, and plans on how we address issues like racism and reduce our carbon footprint, ensuring our actions align with the highest ethical standards.

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What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

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Where we work

In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

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MSF Websites

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MSF Access

MSF Access pushes for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

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CRASH

Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field.

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UREPH

Based 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.

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ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based 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.

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MSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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MSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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Amsterdam Procurement Unit

This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.

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Brazilian Medical Unit

BRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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MSF Medical Guidelines

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.

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Epicentre

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

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Evaluation Units

Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

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LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Health Settings

MSF works with LGBTQI+ populations in many settings over the last 25-30 years. LGBTQI+ people face healthcare disparities with limited access to care and higher disease rates than the general population.

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LUXOR

The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.

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MSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare.

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Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

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MSF Paediatric Days

The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF and the humanitarian sector as a whole.

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DNDi

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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Geo MSF

The GeoMSF platform is a dynamic one-stop-shop website for all of MSF's GIS related services and products. Access maps and applications through the catalogue, request geographical support, or produce a map on GeoMSF.

GeoMSF
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Dr Abdu Samya Bashagha checking X-ray scan of a patient in Abu Sitta Hospital where MSF is running TB support activities

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Dr Abdu Samya Bashagha checking the x-ray scan of a patient in Abu Sitta Hospital where MSF is running TB support activities. Libya, March 2022.
© Omar Rashid/MSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Our medical research helps us improve the medical care we deliver, as well as helping other medical practitioners in the field.

We produce medical guidelines in a number of languages - including in French, Arabic and Spanish - for a number of different diseases and medical protocols. We also produce drug procurement guidelines, a list of essential medicines, and information for drug manufacturers on having their medicines qualified for use by MSF.

MSF Medical guidelines for the field

medicalguidelines.msf.org

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) produces medical guides to help practitioners in the field. The contents of these guides are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experience, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals. The medical guides are continually reviewed and improved. All guides are available in multiple languages. They are the fruit of a collective effort by a group of experienced practitioners and known experts in their specialty. The guidelines are distributed to tens of thousands of people around the world, and are used by other international health organisations, such as WHO and UNICEF.

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MSF and Ministry of Public Health staff perform surgery in one of three operating theatres at Boost hospital, Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. In 2020 teams performed over 4,900 surgical interventions.
MSF and Ministry of Public Health staff perform surgery in one of three operating theatres at Boost hospital, Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. In 2020 teams performed over 4,900 surgical interventions.
© Tom Casey/MSF

MSF Field Research

scienceportal.msf.org

As part of our humanitarian mission, MSF conducts hundreds of research studies every year to help us improve patient care and advocate in an evidence-based way for better global health programs and policies. The MSF Science Portal is an online one-stop-shop where you can find the outcomes of this work—in our peer-reviewed medical publications, MSF Scientific Days conference presentations, and other content relevant to our research activities.

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GEORGE ONDIJO IS A LAB TECHNICIAN AT NDIWAH HOSPITAL IN HOMA BAY COUNTY. HE IS IN CHARGE OF SPUTUM COLLECTION FOR TUBERCULOSIS DIAGNOSIS. THE USE OF MASK IS MANDATORY TO AVOID CONTAGION.
GEORGE ONDIJO IS A LAB TECHNICIAN AT NDIWAH HOSPITAL IN HOMA BAY COUNTY. HE IS IN CHARGE OF SPUTUM COLLECTION FOR TUBERCULOSIS DIAGNOSIS. THE USE OF MASK IS MANDATORY TO AVOID CONTAGION.
© Patrick Meinhardt

Quality Assurance for Medical Products

We attach the utmost importance to the quality of the medical products that are dispensed to patients. We have set up our own procurement centres, which are in charge of the purchase, storage and shipment of drugs, vaccines, medical material, and equipment needed for MSF to carry out our missions. Here you can find our principles and guidelines for MSF medical products qualification scheme and for medicine and products procurement. You will also find our policy for in-kind donations of medical products.

Southern Africa Medical Unit (SAMU)

samumsf.org

Medical units throughout MSF consist of teams of experts that aim to improve the quality of our medical programmes worldwide. Part of the Medical Department of the Operational Centre in Brussels, our medical unit in Cape Town focuses on providing strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities specifically related to HIV and TB. You can find all their research on a dedicated site, alongside info on training courses.

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Simbongile Xesha collects her medication from the pharmacy at Town 2 Clinic, Kuyasa, Khayelitsha. Simbongile’s current DR-TB regimen: bedaquiline, linezolid, clofazimine, terizidone, levofloxacin, pyrazinamide. Simbongile Xesha “Last year, end- September, I started coughing and didn’t want to eat. My partner had XDR-TB so I probably caught it from him. He passed away in May this year. I brought myself to the clinic and within a week, in October 2015 I started full treatment for XDR-TB, with monthly supplies of drugs from my local clinic, which included bedaquiline. I live with my mum and two sisters, and our children. I know from Dr Jenny that many patients need bedaquiline. I didn’t have to wait and was taking bedaquiline from the first day of treatment. I think that’s why my sputum started to change so quickly. I stick to my treatment same time every day and I go to a support group. Today I work as a cashier at a frozen yoghurt place in Khayelitsha. I feel great. I’ve been taking bedaquiline for six months now. I take all the tablets at the same time. The medication makes me very nauseous and knocks me out for one or two hours. But it makes me strong too.”

Simbongile Xesha collects her medication from a pharmacy in in Khayelitsha township, South Africa, 11 October 2016.

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MSF Research Affiliates

01 Epicentre
epicentre.msf.org

Within MSF, Epicentre provides epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations. It conducts research and training in support of our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or are otherwise excluded from healthcare. While Epicentre is part of the MSF movement and largely funded by MSF, it also has the freedom to pursue other projects that are aligned with Epicentre’s mission.

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02 DNDi
dndi.org

For 30 years, MSF has directly witnessed the human cost of the lack of drugs for neglected diseases and has raised its voice against this inequity. In 2003, seven organisations from around the world joined forces to establish the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). DNDi is a collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that develop new treatments for neglected diseases.

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