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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

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

 
Guinea-Bissau

28,500 children vaccinated against measles

Project Update 31 Jul 2015
 
Mali

MSF continues its activities in Timbuktu despite insecurity

Project Update 24 Jul 2015
 
Ethiopia

A tale of a desperate midwife

Voices from the Field 23 Jul 2015
 
Belgium

Countries, beware: Climbing up the income ladder can seriously damage your health!

Voices from the Field 13 Jul 2015
 
Bunyakiri Vaccination Campaign
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF teams vaccinate 42,000 children against measles in the region of Bunyakiri

Project Update 26 Jun 2015
 
Measles in Katanga
Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: Measles in Katanga - "We’re facing a genuine epidemic emergency."

Voices from the Field 10 Jun 2015
 
Irbid
Jordan

MSF scales up activities in Irbid due to increasing health needs of Syrian Refugees

Press Release 20 May 2015
 
PCV vaccination in Leitchuor camp
Ethiopia

MSF broadens vaccination package for South Sudanese refugees

Project Update 5 May 2015
 
Bikenge Health Centre
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF begins medical activities in Bikenge, Maniema Province

Voices from the Field 5 May 2015
 
Healthcare in Boguila, Central African Republic
Central African Republic

“Without healthcare in Boguila our children would be like dead leaves falling from a tree”.

Project Update 22 Apr 2015
 
Sudan

MSF supports the Ministry of Health to respond to measles outbreak in Sudan

Project Update 21 Apr 2015
 
Bor State Hospital, FEB 2015
South Sudan

Restoring a ransacked hospital

Voices from the Field 8 Apr 2015
 
Central African Republic

One whole month just to get to Bria hospital

Voices from the Field 8 Apr 2015
 
Central African Republic

In the aftermath, everything has changed

Voices from the Field 7 Apr 2015
 
Floods aftermath: cholera emergency in Mozambique
Mozambique

Cholera - the water thief

Voices from the Field 2 Apr 2015
 
MSF Rebooting Public Health System in Liberia
Liberia

No vaccinations for months has put children at risk

Voices from the Field 2 Apr 2015
 
malnutrition in the pastoralist community of Fiq
Ethiopia

Treating children against the ‘evil eye’ of malnutrition in the pastoralist community of Fiq

Voices from the Field 24 Mar 2015
 
HIV support group for adolescents
Zimbabwe

Stigma, confusion, silence: life as a young girl with HIV in Zimbabwe

Voices from the Field 5 Mar 2015
 
Bata IDP camp
Central African Republic

MSF starts a vaccination campaign in the largest displaced persons' camp in the country

Project Update 25 Feb 2015
 
Peshawar, gynecology and obstetrics hospital
Pakistan

Six months at Peshawar’s neonatal unit

Voices from the Field 9 Feb 2015
 
Maternal and child healthcare project in Yambio, South Sudan
Photo Story

Maternal and Child Health in Yambio, South Sudan

20 Jan 2015
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MSF delivers $17m to Pfizer to get them to drop the price of the pneumonia vaccine
Access to medicines

MSF calls on GSK and Pfizer to slash pneumo vaccine price to $5 per child for poor countries ahead of donor meeting

Press Release 20 Jan 2015
 
MALNUTRITION PAKISTAN PORTRAIT - Dr. Barkat Hussain
Pakistan

Too weak to breathe

Voices from the Field 22 Dec 2014
 
MALNUTRITION BALOCHISTAN PAKISTAN
Pakistan

A guide to malnutrition in Balochistan

Voices from the Field 5 Dec 2014
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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