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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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Democratic Republic of Congo

Lava stream hits Goma, eastern DRC - possibly 400,000 people displaced

MSF staff were safely evacuated but the office and all supplies were destroyed in the lava flow. Project Update - 18 Jan 2002
 
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Sudan

Violence in southern Sudan

An MSF study an IDP camp in a southern Sudan region clearly shows an unacceptable level of killings perpetrated against civilians. In particular, the death of children is intolerable. Project Update - 12 Jan 2002
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF combats meningitis in eastern DRC

On the island of Idjwi, eastern DRC, MSF is organising a vaccination campaign for 100,000 of the 140,000 inhabitants of the island. On Idjwi, six cases of meningitis have been confirmed by the MSF team there. Project Update - 20 Nov 2001
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Aid returns to strife-ridden Shabunda

A new basic MSF healthcare programme was launched in Shabunda, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), last week. For years the region has been chaos with numerous armed groups fighting each other, plundering and terrorising villages along the eastern regions of the DRC. Project Update - 16 Oct 2001
 
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Somalia

Tackling female genital cutting in Somalia

Before the collapse of the Somali government in 1991, there was support for elimination of female genital cutting; the practice was banned from hospitals and health research was conducted. But a decade of civil war put a stop to any attempts at coordinated national action of any kind, and today Somalia has one of the highest rates of genital cutting of any country--98% according to WHO.Hidden Field Project Update - 6 Oct 2001
 
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Guinea

With large numbers returning,new crises are now possibilities

The large influx of refugees returning from Guinea threatens to trigger a new emergency in and around the capital of Freetown. Project Update - 24 Sep 2001
 
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Republic of Congo

Sleeping sickness reaches epidemic proportions in Congo Brazzaville

Research by MSF over the past few months has revealed that sleeping sickness has now reached epidemic proportions in parts of the Plateaux province in Congo Brazzaville. Project Update - 17 Aug 2001
 
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Somalia

Russian doctor returns from an MSF mission in Somalia

Interview with Kirill Kozhemyakin "Somalia is a real conflict zone. Project Update - 1 Aug 2001
 
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Nigeria

MSF activity following ethnic clashes in Nigeria

Ethnic clashes between the Hausa speaking Azara and the Tiv communities in the Nigerian states of Nasarawa and Benue at the end of June resulted in an estimated two hundred deaths and massive displacement. Project Update - 13 Jul 2001
 
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Angola

MSF condemns "near-total neglect" of Angolans

On July 2, the international medical relief agency, Médecins Sans Frontières issued a scathing condemnation of the neglect of basic health-care needs of the population of Angola. Project Update - 9 Jul 2001
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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