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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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1402 Results
 
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Liberia

Enough is enough - International Women's Day 2004

In October 2003, MSF set up a project to treat the victims of rape and sexual violence near Liberia's capital, Monrovia. The move followed a summer of intense fighting around the city, when violent clashes between the LURD rebel group and troops loyal to President Charles Taylor wrought destruction and terrorized civilians. Project Update - 5 Mar 2004
 
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Mozambique

Weapons of mass vaccination

Cholera fighters might soon have a new weapon in their arsenal - an oral vaccine. Project Update - 27 Feb 2004
 
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Angola

MSF assists Congolese diamond miners expelled from Angola

MSF has sent an emergency team to Tembo health zone, Bandundu province in the south west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to provide assistance to Congolese 'garimpeiros' - illegal diamond miners - stranded there after expulsion from Angola. Project Update - 20 Feb 2004
 
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Liberia

MSF reopens abandoned hospital in eastern Liberia

Persistent health problems include malaria, respiratory tract infections, measles, anaemia, ulcers and complications during childbirth. Project Update - 19 Jan 2004
 
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Sierra Leone

Effects of the native herbs that parents gave to their children

Marlene Hay is a nurse specialising in paediatrics from Kilsyth in Scotland. In January she returned from Sierra Leone in West Africa, where she worked for six months in a rural hospital with no running water and a generator that ran for only two hours a day. She reports back on her challenging work and the battle with the cockroaches in the compound toilet! Project Update - 1 Jan 2004
 
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Somalia

Somali MSF worker killed

MSF Somali national worker, Bashir Yusuf Ali, was tragically killed. Project Update - 29 Dec 2003
 
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South Africa

We Are Alive - Mandela inaugurates ART site near his birthplace

"Siyaphila La will set an example for other rural HIV treatment sites that will be established in the Eastern Cape and across the country," said Mandela. Project Update - 15 Dec 2003
 
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South Sudan

Bicycle teams are key in controlling malaria outbreak in South Sudan

Floods have brought a five-fold increase in cases and the bicycle teams provide life-saving treatment to stranded areas. Of the over 70,000 people who have been treated so far, nearly 50,000 have been cared for by these teams. Project Update - 12 Dec 2003
 
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South Africa

Window of opportunity opens for South Africa to access affordable antiretrovirals

The agreement reached between the Treatment Action Campaign and two pharmaceutical companies covers both public and private sectors and - importantly - also allows generics produced in South Africa to be exported to the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Project Update - 12 Dec 2003
 
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Ethiopia

In Ethiopia's malaria war, weapons are the issue

Project Update - 9 Dec 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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