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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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MSF Websites

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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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01Mexico migration june 2014
Mexico

58 per cent of migrants treated by MSF suffered violence

Press Release 2 Jul 2014
 
Violence against women
Papua New Guinea

Treating survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea

Voices from the Field 13 May 2014
 
Basic Health units and mobile clinics for displaced people in Peshawar district
Women's health

International Women's Day 2014: Forced to Flee

Voices from the Field 7 Mar 2014
 
Journal article

Forced to Flee: Humanitarian Disasters Leave Women at Higher Risk

7 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
Displaced families walking from Bentiu to Leer, South Sudan.
South Sudan

Insecurity in Leer has devastating consequences for those hiding in the bush

Project Update 11 Feb 2014
 
Journal article

Collecting data on sexual violence: what do we need to know? The case of MSF in the Democratic Republic of Congo

2 Feb 2014
Journal article
 
Family Violence
Papua New Guinea

A comprehensive response to family and sexual violence is critical

Press Release 25 Nov 2013
 
Family violence (MSB2784 )
Papua New Guinea

Epidemic of family violence in PNG requires a coordinated response

Project Update 25 Nov 2013
 
Attacks on medical care

Medical Care Under Fire - Interview with Francoise Duroch

Interview 30 Jul 2013
 
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Reaching more survivors of family and sexual violence

Project Update 3 Jul 2013
 
Sana'a. Yemen
Yemen

Their dignity has been deeply wounded

Voices from the Field 16 May 2013
 
newly displaced people in and around Goma, in Muguga III camp
Democratic Republic of Congo

Sexual violence rife in Goma camps

Project Update 17 Jan 2013
 
Congo - Yasuyoshi Chiba - MSF Delivers 2011
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ethnic violence in Masisi limits access to treatment

Voices from the Field 19 Dec 2012
 
Visit by Dr. Unni Karunakara to Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Victims of sexual violence must not suffer in silence

Voices from the Field 7 Dec 2012
 
Social violence and exclusion

Urban Survivors

Voices from the Field 2 Nov 2011
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Mass rape expands range and depth of violence against villagers in DRC

Voices from the Field 4 Jul 2011
 
Uganda

Suffering from chronic neglect in Kaabong, Uganda

Project Update 27 May 2011
 
Côte d'Ivoire

In the western part of Ivory Coast, people are still afraid

Voices from the Field 23 May 2011
 
Pakistan

MSF opens a 'women's hospital' in Peshawar

Project Update 20 May 2011
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Civilians bearing brunt of increased violence and insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo says MSF

Project Update 28 Jan 2011
 
Greece

Immediate action needed to improve unbearable living conditions in detention facilities in Evros, Greece

Press Release 26 Jan 2011
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Nomadic herders forced to flee in northern DRC

Project Update 24 Jan 2011
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF responds to incident of mass sexual violence in DRC

Project Update 11 Jan 2011
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treats victims of mass rape on New Year's Day in DRC

Project Update 6 Jan 2011
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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