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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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MSF Access

MSF Access pushes 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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Geo MSF

The GeoMSF platform is a dynamic one-stop-shop website for all of MSF's GIS related services and products. Access maps and applications through the catalogue, request geographical support, or produce a map on GeoMSF.

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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Algoni and his wife Khadija, live in Muna Camp, having fled their homes in Dikwa, Borno state. They have been receiving treatment in MSF’s cholera treatment unit for three days.
Nigeria

MSF scales up activities as cholera spreads in Borno state

“We remain alert and through our community health workers continue to monitor the spread of the outbreak, and respond to it across Borno state.” Project Update - 19 Sep 2017
 
A child from Muna Camp, undergoing treatment, at MSF’s Cholera Treatment Unit in Dala, Maiduguri. Children, especially if they are undernourished are at a greater risk of death, if infected by cholera.
Nigeria

MSF scaling up efforts to contain cholera in Maiduguri

"To contain the spread of cholera in Maiduguri, the need for a coordinated response from the health authorities to this outbreak cannot be overstated." Press Release - 1 Sep 2017
 
Ummi, 4 years old, was treated for Hepatitis E at MSF's hospital in Ngala.
Nigeria

“People are dying of hepatitis E because they don’t have soap or clean water”

Hundreds of people in a camp in northeastern Nigeria have been infected with hepatitis E after the disease spread from neighbouring Niger. The highly contagious disease has spread quickly through Ngala camp. Project Update - 10 Aug 2017
 
Displaced people arrive in the town of Pulka, in the northeast of Nigeria.
Nigeria

On the move and unable to move because of conflict

“We settled here because we thought it was a safer place. We don’t think it is safe enough to go back there yet.” Voices from the Field - 7 Jul 2017
 
Herman (r) gets tested for HIV in the PODI Ouest in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The PODIs, which are run by the RNOAC group of people with HIV, offer testing, support and Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to stable HIV patients in the capital.
HIV/AIDS

HIV response in West and Central Africa will not succeed if key barriers remain unaddressed

“This is a pivotal opportunity to anchor governments’ efforts... to tackle the many obstacles people living with HIV face every day." Press Release - 3 Jul 2017
 
Members of MSF Nigeria Emergency Response Unit (NERU) precede to make the triage to the people arriving in the meningitis treatment center run by MSF in Sokoto Mutalah Mohamad Hospital.
Nigeria

“The lack of diagnostics and available treatments are the main challenges”

"This is reported to be the largest outbreak of meningitis C we have seen in nine years in Nigeria.” Voices from the Field - 30 May 2017
 
April 2017. Meningitis vaccination campaign in Niamey region. A teenager is being vaccinated at a site installed by MSF’s emergency team. MSF emergency teams in April 2017 seen here supporting the meningitis vaccination campaign in Niamey region. In response to an outbreak of meningitis C, MSF supported the Ministry of Health’s vaccine response in the regions of Niamey, Tahoua, Dosso and Tillabéry. Over 358,800 people aged between 2 and 20 were vaccinated.
Meningitis

MSF responds to declared outbreaks in Nigeria and Niger

In Niger, MSF conducted vaccination campaigns with local authorities for more than 463,800 people – aged between two and 20 years – in 28 health areas Project Update - 30 May 2017
 
Zahardien Musa, a meningitis patient from Sokoto, being admitted at the Muhammed Murtala Specialist Hospital of Sokoto, with his father.
Nigeria

Fighting the worst meningitis C outbreak since 2008

Thousands of men, women, and children in northern Nigeria have been affected by a meningitis C outbreak, reportedly the largest to hit the country in the past nine years. Project Update - 9 May 2017
 
Mothers waiting for their malnourished children to be seen by a nutritionist at the MSF clinic in Banki.
Nigeria

Testimonies of forced return

Nigerian refugees in Cameroon are being forcibly returned to northeast Nigeria. In March 2017, three of them told MSF staff their stories. Voices from the Field - 19 Apr 2017
 
Patients waiting to be seen by the medical staff at the MSF health centre in Rann.
Nigeria

“Falling sick in Rann is almost a death sentence”

"The humanitarian situation in Rann is becoming increasingly critical as newly displaced continue to arrive. The most urgent needs now are healthcare, shelter and water." Voices from the Field - 19 Apr 2017
Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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