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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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Pakistan

Asia earthquake: 'We are treating everything that you could possibly treat under these conditions'

MSF Project Coordinator Jan Peter Stellema and his team were dropped off in Lamnian by helicopter on Wednesday and immediately set up three tents to accommodate a basic health care unit. The village has been entirely destroyed by the earthquake and cannot be reached by road so far. His account was via satellite phone. Project Update - 16 Oct 2005
 
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Natural hazards

MSF activities one week after the Asian earthquake

One week after the Asian earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale struck with an epicentre in the Pakistan controlled Kasmir region, MSF is providing medical assistance to survivors in six locations in Pakistan, the country worst hit by the disaster. Project Update - 15 Oct 2005
 
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Details of MSF activity in Asian earthquake zone as teams increase in number

MSF teams are spreading throughout the earthquake zones offering medical care as well as distributing shelter, basic food supplies and cooking implements. In Pakistan, staff are now active in six locations. More staff are en route as well as supplies. Project Update - 13 Oct 2005
 
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Basic needs are all important in Asian quake epicenter

Appearing on BBC Newsnight, October 11, MSF Project Coordinator Jan Peter Stellema talked about the basic supplies he is trying to bring back to Lamnian, the village where he was working with two other MSF staff members when the earthquake struck. Voices from the Field - 12 Oct 2005
 
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Natural disasters do not lead to epidemics

Philippe Guérin, Scientific Director of Epicentre - the epidemiology branch of MSF - explains that natural disasters do not harbour epidemics. He details the risks and priorities in the wake of the Kashmir earthquake, as he had done after the tsunami that struck southern Asia in December 2004. Project Update - 12 Oct 2005
 
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Pakistan

Pakistan - future of Shashu project uncertain

MSF is looking into options to continue providing medical care to children, be it in Shashu hospital or another hospitals in the vicinity, as MSF wants to continue to assist the Pakistanis living in this area. Project Update - 29 Aug 2005
 
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Pakistan

Waiting in the 'green fields' of Chaman

or the past three years Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) had been working on a cross border project between Afghanistan and south west Pakistan, in camps around the towns of Spin Boldak, on the Afghan side, and Chaman, on the Pakistan side. In this period MSF provided medical assistance for desperate Afghans fleeing the aftermath of the 2001 war as well as the recent devastating drought, in one of the roughest and most insecure places along the border of both countries. Project Update - 15 Nov 2004
 
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Afghanistan

MSF in shock after the murder of five colleagues in Afghanistan

Tom How is a young engineer from Norwich, currently on his first mission with MSF in North West Frontier Province in Pakistan. Below he describes the impact that the murders of five MSF staff in neighbouring Afghanistan have had on his project and his fears for the future. Project Update - 9 Jun 2004
 
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Pakistan

Separate mission to Pakistan opened

On October 1, MSF opened a mission in Pakistan. The complexity of the situation has required the organisation to open a separate mission for the country. Project Update - 24 Nov 2003
 
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Pakistan

Emergency medical support following devastating floods in Pakistan

Project Update - 8 Sep 2003
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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