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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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Access Campaign

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.

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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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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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Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
25 de Junho IDP Camp - Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Trying to survive a three-year nightmare in Mozambique

Voices from the Field 29 Dec 2020
 
Ouaka - General View
Central African Republic

Medical care at arm’s length: the continuous struggle of the people of Ouaka

Project Update 24 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
 
Neglected crisis in central Mali
Mali

Central Mali: no choice but to flee

Project Update 22 Dec 2020
 
MSF | Amhara Region
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

“They saw soldiers and civilians coming in, wounded or dead”

Project Update 18 Dec 2020
 
Giving birth in Dasht-e-Barchi
Afghanistan

Patients face persistent insecurity amid “peace process”

Project Update 16 Dec 2020
 
ReCivilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities in Yemen
Yemen

Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities

Press Release 14 Dec 2020
 
An orphan with grandmother in MSF Shinkafi hospital
Nigeria

Killings, looting and abductions in Zamfara state

Project Update 9 Dec 2020
 
Violence in Nariño, Colombia
Colombia

Getting closer to Colombia’s conflict

Voices from the Field 4 Dec 2020
 
Life inside South Sudan’s Largest Displacement Camp
South Sudan

Fear of violence, poor living conditions in South Sudan’s largest displacement camp

Project Update 3 Dec 2020
 
Salamabia Sexual Violence
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF denounces ongoing violence in Salamabila

Statement 19 Nov 2020
 
MSF Mobile Clinics
Mozambique

Urgent assistance needed for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by violence in Mozambique

Press Release 3 Nov 2020
 
COVID-19 Prevention in Northwest Syria
Syria

Dozens of people treated following an airstrike in Idlib

Project Update 26 Oct 2020
 
2009-2019: Boost Hospital
Afghanistan

Sharing patients’ stories “as devastating as their injuries” in Afghanistan

Voices from the Field 15 Oct 2020
 
Streer view - Mbawa camp
Nigeria

“When I think about going home, I remind myself that a live dog is better than a dead lion”

Project Update 1 Sep 2020
 
A hospital at the heart of violence-torn North-West Cameroon
Cameroon

A hospital at the heart of the North-West crisis in Cameroon

Project Update 1 Sep 2020
 
Distribution_Burkina-Faso
Burkina Faso

Displaced in Burkina Faso face extra challenges amid increasing violence and rain

Project Update 16 Jul 2020
 
Metuge, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique
Mozambique

“It was like the end of the world” during attack in northern Mozambique

Voices from the Field 30 Jun 2020
 
Idlib, the latest chapter in the never-ending war in Syria
Syria

Life in an open-air prison: living under the bombs in Idlib

Voices from the Field 29 Jun 2020
 
Behind the conflict in Yemen: Shorouq Story
Yemen

Behind the conflict in Yemen

MSF Storymaps. 25 Jun 2020
 
Pibor-Thousands flee into the bush as conflict intensifies
South Sudan

Intense fighting in eastern South Sudan once again forces thousands to flee

Statement 24 Jun 2020
 
Eastern Burkina Faso: Out of sight, people suffer from violence, diseases and lack of water
Burkina Faso

Out of sight, people suffer from rise in violence in eastern Burkina Faso

Op-Ed 5 Jun 2020
 
Burnt out building in Macomia Mozambique
Mozambique

Thousands displaced, healthcare jeopardised, as violence surges in Cabo Delgado

Press Release 5 Jun 2020
 
Wadda
Democratic Republic of Congo

Nearly 200,000 people forced from homes as violence surges in northeast DRC

Press Release 4 Jun 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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