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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.

 
"RETURN TO ABUSER" - Family and Sexual Violence Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Return to Abuser

Report 1 Mar 2016
 
South Sudan

Activity Update, August 2015

Crisis Update 8 Sep 2015
 

More about sexual & gender-based violence

Project Update 2 Sep 2015
 
Haiti

“Every single case we saw was complicated, and touching and difficult and emotional”

Voices from the Field 2 Sep 2015
 
Acapulco Sexual Violence
Mexico

Acapulco's population is exposed to violence on a daily basis

Voices from the Field 29 Jul 2015
 
Women's health

Q&A on consequences of unsafe abortion

Voices from the Field 14 Jul 2015
 
Emergency in South Irumu: Vaccinations and distributions in unstable areas
Democratic Republic of Congo

A new project for victims of violence in Boga

Project Update 17 Jun 2015
 
"Because Tomorrow Needs Her" communications project - Repairing Fistulas in Burundi
Women's health

Women's Health: Because Tomorrow Needs Her

Campaign 16 Jun 2015
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF assists more than a hundred women who claimed being sexually abused

Press Release 14 May 2015
 
Journal article

Care for victims of sexual violence, an organisation pushed to its limits: The case of MSF

10 Apr 2015
Journal article
 
International Women's Day
Women's health

“Because Tomorrow Needs Her” Explores Multiple Health Challenges Affecting Women

Press Release 6 Mar 2015
 
Psychosocial care for survivors of sexual violence
Sexual violence

International Women's Day: Surviving sexual violence during adolescence

Project Update 5 Mar 2015
 
Psychosocial care for survivors of sexual violence
Honduras

International Women's Day: “It is terrible to see a patient—a 12 year-old girl—who has been abused by five or six m

Project Update 5 Mar 2015
 
Central African Republic

Healing broken souls and bodies

Voices from the Field 15 Jan 2015
 
Occupied Minds - Wady Lighrous
Palestine

Occupied Minds: Daily obstacles

Voices from the Field 12 Dec 2014
 
Mental Health in Colombia, September 2014
Photo Story

Minds and bodies marked by sexual violence in Colombia

28 Nov 2014
Photo Story
 
Colombia

Sexual violence, an unattended medical emergency

Press Release 25 Nov 2014
 
Bangui, General Hospital, VVS
Central African Republic

Confronting the painful taboo of rape

Project Update 31 Oct 2014
 
Honduras - Support to the ER department of Escuela Hospital in Tegucigalpa
Photo Story

MSF Projects in Tegucigalpa

10 Sep 2014
Photo Story
 
Bangui, General Hospital, VVS
Photo Story

MSF treats victims of sexual violence in Bangui

28 Aug 2014
Photo Story
 
Honduras - Servicio prioritario
Honduras

MSF makes care for rape survivors a priority

Project Update 28 Aug 2014
 
Panay Island - Mental health
Democratic Republic of Congo

“I have trouble believing that such a level of horror is possible”

Voices from the Field 16 Jul 2014
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF team treats survivors of abduction, sexual slavery and torture in mining region of eastern Congo

Project Update 16 Jul 2014
 
Sexual violence program Mathare – Nairobi
Kenya

Recovering from sexual violence

Project Update 9 Jul 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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