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How we work

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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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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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Central African Republic

In the aftermath, everything has changed

Tatiana four years old, arrived at the hospital suffering from acute malaria, marasmus (a severe form of malnutrition) and hypothermia. Voices from the Field - 7 Apr 2015
 
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Kenya

“A sadness has descended” in Garissa

What an MSF doctor witnessed when his team responded to the attack on Garissa University Voices from the Field - 4 Apr 2015
 
A night view of the CTC (Cholera Treatment Center) set up by MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) and co-managed with the Mozambican ministry of Health in Tete district which is the most affected area in the country. Due to the critical conditions of several patients and high standards of hygiene required to contain the spread of cholera outbreak, the CTC needs a constant work, including night turns.
Mozambique

Cholera - the water thief

For the people in Tete, life or death depended on how quickly they could get to the treatment centre once the symptoms started. This is their story. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2015
 
Ebola has badly impacted public health services in Liberia. Many medical structures, unable to handle infected patients, have closed at some point during the outbreak after dozens of health personal died fighting it. Today most facilities are still providing reduced services compared to before the outbreak. As the result, the population struggle accessing medical care for non-Ebola related diseases. MSF operations in Liberia are therefore shifting towards supporting the public health system. MSF has opened a paediatric hospital in Monrovia on March 23 and assists JDJ Memorial Hospital as well as 23 clinics in safely resuming activities.
Liberia

Rebooting public health services

As the number of Ebola patients declines, MSF is assisting the local health system to safely restore medical services. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2015
 
Ebola has badly impacted public health services in Liberia. Many medical structures, unable to handle infected patients, have closed at some point during the outbreak after dozens of health personal died fighting it. Today most facilities are still providing reduced services compared to before the outbreak. As the result, the population struggle accessing medical care for non-Ebola related diseases. MSF operations in Liberia are therefore shifting towards supporting the public health system. MSF has opened a paediatric hospital in Monrovia on March 23 and assists JDJ Memorial Hospital as well as 23 clinics in safely resuming activities.
Liberia

No vaccinations for months has put children at risk

As of January, an estimated 92,000 children below one-year old in Liberia had not been vaccinated at all. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2015
 
Casey O’Connor, Project Coordinator in Lankien March 2015
South Sudan

Stranded in the surgical ward

MSF has been trying to adapt to a new reality in South Sudan. It has shifted from addressing the huge medical needs of a people with generally no access to healthcare, to addressing the huge medical needs of people trapped in an armed conflict. Voices from the Field - 1 Apr 2015
 
Teme Hospital in Port Harcourt Nigeria was opened by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to treat trauma patients. Over 50% of the patients treated are injured in road traffic accidents. The hospital is located in a very impoverished area of Port Harcourt and also receives a high number of victims of violence.
Nigeria

MSF prepares to treat victims of possible electoral violence

Denis Mbae, has just come back from a year’s mission with MSF in Nigeria. This Kenyan nurse’s first assignment was during a cholera outbreak in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, in early 2014. Since last July he had been working with the emergency preparedness team in Abuja, the capital of the country. Voices from the Field - 30 Mar 2015
 
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South Sudan

Innocent victims of the civil war

Caches of unexploded ordnance left behind by armed groups are still claiming innocent victims like 14 year old Kume. Voices from the Field - 24 Mar 2015
 
On arrival at the hospital, Hawsak was admitted immediately. She was suffering from severe acute malnutrition with complications. Meeting the little girl in the hospital’s stabilisation centre, four days after her admission, she still looked tired, but her eyes were slowly starting to sparkle with life. Ibrahim Mohammed, the MSF nurse at the stabilisation centre confirmed to us that Hawsak was then in a much better condition than when she was first admitted.
Ethiopia

Treating children against the ‘evil eye’ of malnutrition in the pastoralist community of Fiq

Local beliefs regarding the causes of malnutrition pose serious challenges to health organisations like MSF attempting to address the disease from a medical perspective Voices from the Field - 24 Mar 2015
 
In collaboration with the Ivorian Ministry of Health , MSF began operations July 4, 2014 in the Regional Hospital of Katiola , a town located 55 km north of Bouaké, in the central region Hambol . The project objective is to support pregnant women and newborns with quality care. MSF supports gynecological emergency obstetric and neonatal . In November 2014, the medical teams attended 170 deliveries , including 19 caesarean .
Côte d'Ivoire

Everyday life at MSF’s Katiola maternity centre

The stories of three patients at the maternity centre in Katiola, Côte d’Ivoire Voices from the Field - 6 Mar 2015
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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