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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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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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Old Fangak, South Sudan
South Sudan

Protecting children from preventable diseases

Voices from the Field 9 Jun 2016
 
Aweil Hospital, South Sudan
South Sudan

Paediatric care and treating malnutrition in Aweil

Project Update 9 Jun 2016
 
Leer & Thonyor - May 2016
Child health

First MSF Paediatric days to be organised in Stockholm

Event 8 Jun 2016
 
TANZANIA: ONE YEAR OF TURMOIL FOR BURUNDIAN REFUGEES
Tanzania

One year of turmoil for Burundian refugees

Project Update 1 Jun 2016
 
Niger: MSF response to meningitis, measles and cholera outbreaks
Niger

MSF teams respond to two epidemics and ward off a third

Project Update 26 May 2016
 
Mothers in MSF clinic, Idomeni Greece.
Greece

MSF resumes activities in Idomeni after clashes and tear gas cause a temporary suspension

Project Update 19 May 2016
 
DRC: MSF respond to a massive malaria outreak in Pawa and Boma-Mangbetu
Photo Story

An unusual and deadly malaria outbreak in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo

18 May 2016
Photo Story
 
DRC: MSF respond to a massive malaria outreak in Pawa and Boma-Mangbetu
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF responds to a particularly deadly outbreak of malaria in the north east of the country

Crisis Update 17 May 2016
 
Idomeni
Mediterranean migration

The mismanagement and poor planning Europe is demonstrating is beyond belief

Project Update 12 May 2016
 
Emergency intervention in Bambouti (CAR)
Central African Republic

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees living in deplorable conditions

Project Update 11 May 2016
 
Koutiala comprehensive paediatric project
Child health

A day in one of our largest paediatric programmes

Voices from the Field 11 May 2016
 
HIV in DRC, Philomene and Elise
HIV/AIDS

HIV in children is a symptom of the failures of the AIDS response

Report 10 May 2016
 
A Fair Shot 1 million pneumonia deaths infographic
Access to medicines

2,500 flowers are placed in front of Pfizer’s HQ, representing number of children who die of pneumonia each day.

Press Release 27 Apr 2016
 
Dasht-e-Barchi public district hospital in Kabul
Photo Story

Maternity service in the district public hospital of Dasht-e-Barchi

26 Apr 2016
Photo Story
 
Dasht-e-Barchi, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

The number of deliveries has doubled since the project opened

Voices from the Field 26 Apr 2016
 
Dasht-e-Barchi maternity in Kabul
Afghanistan

“A postpartum haemorrhage can happen to anyone”

Voices from the Field 26 Apr 2016
 
Dasht-e-Barchi public district hospital in Kabul
Afghanistan

Nurturing premature babies with their mothers’ embrace

Project Update 26 Apr 2016
 
SMC and vaccination in the north of Mali
Mali

Vaccination rate increases by 50 per cent in Ansongo

Project Update 25 Apr 2016
 
La malaria sigue su escalada en Congo
Global

World Malaria Day: five challenges in the fight against the disease

Project Update 25 Apr 2016
 
Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Japan

MSF starts medical activities in the area of Minami-aso after Kumamoto Quake

Project Update 21 Apr 2016
 
SLD_Zambia_Cholera-Vacci_03
Zambia

Kicking out cholera with a megaphone

Project Update 21 Apr 2016
 
Asbuli 2016
Ethiopia

Pastoral communities badly hit by the worst drought in 30 years

Project Update 21 Apr 2016
 
Ecuador Earthquake
Ecuador

People are very scared Many have had to leave their homes

Crisis Update 21 Apr 2016
 
Moria Reception Centre in Lesbos, Greece
Greece

As a doctor, I feel outraged

Voices from the Field 15 Apr 2016
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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