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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 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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Mental Health: MSF Psychologist Ana Maria Tijerino.
Democratic Republic of Congo

“I have trouble believing that such a level of horror is possible”

An MSF psychologist on treating survivors of sexual slavery Voices from the Field - 16 Jul 2014
 
MSF Project Coordinator Sarah Maynard in Leer, South Sudan.
South Sudan

“The market is empty and people are going hungry”

Interview with MSF Project Coordinator in South Sudan, Sarah Maynard Voices from the Field - 14 Jul 2014
 
Health worker raising awareness on Buruli Ulcer symptoms.
Cameroon

"We're in the process of writing a page of medical history"

After 12 years of involvement in the treatment of Buruli ulcer in Akonolinga, Cameroon, MSF has completed the handover of some of its activities to the Ministry of Health. Voices from the Field - 14 Jul 2014
 
Two days after testing positive for Ebola, Finda Marie Kamano dies. Fatou, her older sister is overwhelmed. She was the one who had called MSF to come and get Finda. Some members of the community accuse her of causing her sister’s death. They say that if she had stayed home, Finda would still be alive. There is a serious misconception the work MSF is doing; people see their family members go into the isolation ward and then come out no longer alive. Numerous false rumors circulate within the communities. People even talk about organ trafficking.
Guinea

“For some, Ebola is akin to magic”

MSF doctors explain the nature of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa Voices from the Field - 9 Jul 2014
 
MSF staff with patients at MSF health post in Mpoko IDP camp at Bangui International Airport
Central African Republic

Interview with MSF's head of mission, Stefano Argenziano

Central African Republic: Interview with MSF's head of mission, Stefano Argenziano Voices from the Field - 4 Jul 2014
 
Health promotion posters flank the entrance to the incinerated remains of the emergency room at the MSF hospital in Leer, South Sudan, February 23, 2014. The hospital was thoroughly looted, burned, ransacked, and effectively destroyed, along with most of Leer, sometime between the final days of January and early February, 2014, leaving hundreds of thousands of people cut off from critical, lifesaving medical care. The hospital, opened by MSF 25 years ago, was the only secondary health care facility in Unity State.
South Sudan

“When I walk past the burned parts of the hospital, I try not to look”

MSF project coordinator Sarah Maynard describes the devastation she witnessed at MSF’s hospital in Leer Voices from the Field - 1 Jul 2014
 
MSF Patient Support Education and Counselling (PSEC) Community Supervisor, Sylvia Khuzwayo with Community Expert Client, Busi Gumbi and HIV patient.
Eswatini

Treating HIV and TB in Swaziland: “We didn’t know what to expect”

An interview with Elias Pavlopoulos, outgoing Head of Mission for MSF in Swaziland Voices from the Field - 30 Jun 2014
 
Madaoua district hospital. Madaoua is one of the five districts where seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) was implemented in 2013. The combination of malnutrition and malaria is fatal. Both diseases pose a threat to younger children between June and October. It is a critical period because of the so-called hunger gap in between harvests when child malnutrition increases and because during the rainy season malaria cases are more frequent. In 2013, MSF and the Ministry of Health jointly implemented seasonal malaria chemoprevention for the first time in Niger - a strategy that consists of administering a full anti-malarial treatment course during the seasonal malaria peak to children between 3 and 59 months of age. During these four months, children take three amodiaquine tablets and one sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine tablet for three days each month.
Niger

‘By humanising comprehensive care, we improve nutritional programmes’

Psychosocial care for children and mothers in nutritional programmes Voices from the Field - 23 Jun 2014
 
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Cholera

Patient stories from South Sudan

Due to a recent outbreak of cholera in Juba, South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been constructing cholera treatment centres (CTCs) around the city to provide emergency treatment for the diseas Voices from the Field - 13 Jun 2014
 
MSF intensive Therapeutic feeding center. Children under 5 account for around 90% of impatients.
Ethiopia

South Sudanese Refugees in Ethiopia: Emergency situation requires special mobilization

Interview with Antoine Foucher, MSF’s head of mission in Ethiopia Voices from the Field - 11 Jun 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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