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How we work

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How we're run

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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 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.

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MSF outreach activities in Boma, GPAA
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Daniel Kuju, health promotion supervisor, and Beatrice Johnson, community health educator, visit semi-nomadic communities in Labarab, Greater Pibor administrative area to conduct health awareness sessions. South Sudan, February 2024.
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Wire fence on the Polish-Belarusian Border
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Poland-Belarus border crisis: “We don’t want people to die in the forest”

Voices from the Field 3 Feb 2022
 
Yangon COVID-19 treatment centre at Aung San Tuberculosis Hospital
Myanmar

Responding to COVID-19 during political crisis in Myanmar

Voices from the Field 30 Dec 2021
 
Story of a Syrian family on board
Mediterranean migration

The father who faced the sea so his sons might go to school

Voices from the Field 26 Nov 2021
 
Ibtisam Hashim, midwife, Nablus hospital, West Mosul
Iraq

Mosul: A city recovering from war

Voices from the Field 19 Nov 2021
 
Rescue 1 - Rotation 4
Mediterranean migration

Search and rescue: “They describe Libya as hell”

Voices from the Field 31 Oct 2021
 
Maternal and newborn healthcare in Al Qanawis
Yemen

Newborn babies struggle to survive in war-torn Yemen

Voices from the Field 22 Oct 2021
 
Stories at sea
Mediterranean migration

Stories of survival at sea

Voices from the Field 1 Oct 2021
 
MSF IDP activities in Kunduz July 2021
Afghanistan

Overcoming obstacles: Treating trauma in Kunduz

Voices from the Field 10 Sep 2021
 
MSF COVID-19 treatment center in Gazer Gah Hospital
Afghanistan

Afghanistan: medical needs grow as international organisations suspend activities

Voices from the Field 6 Sep 2021
 
Khost Tani outreach
Afghanistan

Amid uncertainty, hospitals are still full in Afghanistan

Voices from the Field 27 Aug 2021
 
16:9 Chacha describing Mallodin village
South Sudan

South Sudan: The long walk for new life

Voices from the Field 2 Aug 2021
 
MSF SAR mission 2021 I R2 I Preparation
Mediterranean migration

MSF requests the revocation of the Geo Barents’ detention

Voices from the Field 23 Jul 2021
 
Bukavu Team
In Memoriam

María, Yohannes and Tedros, remembered by their colleagues

Voices from the Field 7 Jul 2021
 
Rotation 1 Rescue 6
Mediterranean migration

Witnessing harrowing crossings onboard the Geo Barents

Voices from the Field 18 Jun 2021
 
Bombing in Gaza, Palestine
Palestine

Gaza: “Night and day, what we are living through is terrifying”

Voices from the Field 19 May 2021
 
Palma Response - Pemba Stadium
Mozambique

Fear and loss for people fleeing violence in Cabo Delgado

Voices from the Field 16 Apr 2021
 
The growing impact of the conflict in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Violence in Cabo Delgado: “Many have seen dead bodies along the way”

Voices from the Field 2 Apr 2021
 
Ethiopia: Tigray’s cities fill with displaced people fleeing insecurity
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Tigray’s cities fill with displaced people fleeing insecurity and in need of aid

Voices from the Field 29 Mar 2021
 
MSF begins supporting local healthcare facilities in eastern and central Tigray
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Ethiopia: “If seriously ill people can’t get to hospital, you can imagine the consequences”

Voices from the Field 1 Feb 2021
 
Border between Italy and France
Italy

Abandoned at the borders: stories of people on the move during winter

Voices from the Field 28 Jan 2021
 
25 de Junho IDP Camp - Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Trying to survive a three-year nightmare in Mozambique

Voices from the Field 29 Dec 2020
 
Al Hashaba transit camp for refugees from Ehtiopian Tigray Region
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

“Services for the refugees need to increase, otherwise it will be a disaster”

Voices from the Field 23 Dec 2020
 
Violence in Nariño, Colombia
Colombia

Getting closer to Colombia’s conflict

Voices from the Field 4 Dec 2020
 
Lankien Hopsital, Jonglei State in northeastern South Sudan
About MSF

Do you leave or do you stay: COVID-19 in South Sudan

msf.org 1 Nov 2020
MSF Logistique - Bordeaux
How we work

How we deliver medical humanitarian assistance

Everywhere we work, the circumstances are unique. Nonetheless, our programmes generally follow a common set of practices designed to make sure our resources and expertise are used to maximum effect.

 

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