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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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MSF Websites

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Our offices around the world
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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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October 6, 2014<br> Ebola survivor Kollie James and his father Alexander, MSF health promotion officer in Foya, at the guest house in Foya after his discharge. <br> In Foya, in northern Liberia MSF is running an Ebola management centre in the area alongside the Guinean border, where patients have received supportive care. The teams also provide psychological support to patients and relatives, run several outreach activities, such as health promotion, safe burial practices, and an ambulance service. Outreach activities are being carried out south of Foya, where most cases are coming from, as well as to the east and south of the town of Voinjama, a two-hour drive from Foya. An MSF team is also based in Voinjama and there MSF is training health staff, especially health promoters to provide community education.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

My son is MSF’s 1000th Ebola survivor

A touching account of survival amid the heartbreaking desolation of Ebola. Voices from the Field - 21 Oct 2014
 
Salome Karwah – Ebola survivor turned caretaker at MSF’s Elwa 3, Monrovia
Liberia

“I survived Ebola for a reason – to help others”

Ebola survivor Salome Karwah tells how she came to work for MSF in the treatment centre Elwa 3 in Liberia Voices from the Field - 16 Oct 2014
 
MSF medical specialist Maartje Hoetjes carrying out a mobile clinic by boat in Jigmir, Upper Nile State, South Sudan
South Sudan

“At night I lie awake thinking of those who did not survive”

Maartje Hoetjes flew to one of South Sudan’s more remote areas to meet displaced families and assess their health. Voices from the Field - 14 Oct 2014
 
Since 2007, MSF has been supporting Degehbur Hospital in Somali Region of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia

Mother grateful for MSF intervention

"I felt the sparkle of my child’s life return" Voices from the Field - 3 Oct 2014
 
Medical coordinator Vanessa Cramond is examining a patient. On Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 June, approximately 11,000 refugees were relocated from the temporary site known as K18, to another temporary site next to Jamam refugee camp. MSF provided each family with plastic sheeting, blankets and high-energy biscuits upon arrival and set up a mobile clinic. After six centimetres of rain in just an hour and a half on the night of the 28th, parts of the transit camp were flooded. Amongst the mud, MSF staff provided consultations in its mobile clinic, including many for children with diarrhoea, malnutrition or eye infections.
South Sudan

In Bentiu camp, floodwaters recede but tension remains

Thousands of people have taken refuge in a camp near Bentiu and set up spontaneously after violence swept across the country. Voices from the Field - 26 Sep 2014
 
Field Communications Officer, Caitlin Ryan, speaks to a patient inside ELWA3 - the Ebola Case Management Center run by MSF.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

My friend from across the fence

Psychologist Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter remembers the first child to survive survive Ebola. Voices from the Field - 24 Sep 2014
 
Mamadee, 11, was admitted to MSF's Ebola management centre in Foya, Liberia on 15 August 2014. He tested positive for Ebola, but recovered, and was discharged on 4 September 2014.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

The boy who tricked ebola

The story of an 11 year old boy that Ebola couldn't bring down. Voices from the Field - 16 Sep 2014
 
Tanneh, and Agnes, members of the MSF Psychosocial Team, bring packages of biscuits and juice brought by family members to patients in the Ebola Case Management Center run by MSF in Monrovia. Their role is to counsel and encourage patients, to give them a reason to live and have hope. Both are local Liberians who are passionate about helping their 'brothers' and 'sisters'.
Liberia

'Somebody had to do it' - Turning people away from an overwhelmed Ebola treatment centre

"While he knew we couldn’t save her life, at least we could save the rest of his family from her" Voices from the Field - 12 Sep 2014
 
In South Sudan, 40,000 people are crowded into a flooded United Nations Protection of Civilians compound in Bentiu, Unity State. Living conditions are horrific but it is the only refuge they have from widespread armed violence outside. (August 2014)
South Sudan

Dire conditions and growing tensions in Bentiu, South Sudan

It is hard to understand how the people here have managed to continue living, breathing and surviving in this sewage-infested swamp over these last difficult months Voices from the Field - 11 Sep 2014
 
Over 15,000 displaced people have reached Melut county, in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, after fleeing violence. MSF is running an outpatient department to assist the IDPs.
South Sudan

Life in a humanitarian prison in Melut

the displaced residents of Melut may soon face a choice between facing the threat of violence outside their current refuge, or slow wasting away within
 Voices from the Field - 8 Sep 2014
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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