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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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Displaced Christians who have fled the violence by Seleka Muslims take refuge in the catholic mission in Bossangoa, CAR
Central African Republic

Dispatch from Bossangoa: Doctor Florien Oudenaarden looks back at a time of extreme violence, displacement and change

Dr Florien Oudenaarden looks back at a time of extreme violence, displacement and change Voices from the Field - 7 May 2014
 
KIGALI, RWANDA, AFRICA, 30.04.95. Tutsi survivors of the genocide at the one year anniversary of the genocide. Beneath umbrellas.
Rwanda

Rwanda, 20 years later: “I am left with a great sadness”

Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol pays tribute to hundreds of murdered Rwandan MSF colleagues. Voices from the Field - 28 Apr 2014
 
Madeleine Boyer (infirmière anesthésiste). au chevet d'un jeune patient.<br>
Rwanda

Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide: “We don’t talk about things that are hard to recount”

Nurse anesthetist Madeleine Boyer describes recollections of her two missions to Kigali in 1994 Voices from the Field - 25 Apr 2014
 
Siyabulela Qwaka is the fourth patient cured of drug resistant TB in MSF’s project in Khayelitsha, South Africa. His story is an inspiration for patients currently fighting the new form of tuberculosis against which existing drugs are of limited effectiveness.
South Africa

"This disease is for heroes. If you can fight this, you can stand anything in this world"

The story of Siyabulela Qwaka, the latest patient cured of drug resistant TB in MSF’s project in Khayelitsha, South Africa Voices from the Field - 24 Apr 2014
 
Ansongo hospital, Gao region, in northern Mali. MSF started working in Ansongo in September 2012, nine months after the conflict broke out in the north of the country between the security forces and Tuareg and Islamist groups. Currently, MSF is working at the Ansongo referral hospital, a 31-bed facility, where the organisation carries out OPD, IPD, ANC consultations and assist deliveries.
Mali

“MSF was in Ansongo throughout the crisis, the population appreciates our work”

Interview: MSF in Ansongo throughout the crisis Voices from the Field - 17 Apr 2014
 
Pascal Piguet, Swiss log watsan in Guéckédou.
Guinea

Interview with MSF logistician in Gueckedou

Interivew with Pascal Piquet, MSF logistician in Gueckedou, on MSF response to the Ebola outbreak. Voices from the Field - 10 Apr 2014
 
One of the most flooded areas in Tomping camp. MSF is providing medical care in two camps in Juba, South Sudan, where 40,000 people are seeking refuge from widespread fighting that erupted in mid-December. Over 27,000 people are living in deplorable conditions in Tomping camp. The first rains of the season have left a significant part of the camp flooded and further degraded the poor sanitation conditions.
South Sudan

Displaced people speak of their lives

South Sudan: Displaced people speak of their lives Voices from the Field - 9 Apr 2014
 
Construction workers in the Guinean capital Conakry work on latrines in the MSF Ebola treatment centre. Once completed, the centre will have 30 beds for suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola. MSF, the Guinean Ministry of Health and health actors are working to contain the Ebola outbreak in the country, which by the beginning of April had been recorded in four locations in the country, including the capital Conakry.
Guinea

An MSF epidemiologist explains the dangerous nature of Ebola

An MSF epidemiologist explains the dangerous nature of Ebola Voices from the Field - 7 Apr 2014
 
Members of the medical team are getting fully dressed with protective clothing prior to entering the ebola healthcare structure.
Guinea

"There is a lot to do in a very short time" to contain Ebola

MSF combats the Ebola outbreak in Guinea
 Voices from the Field - 4 Apr 2014
 
The needs of displaced people in Don Bosco (30,000 people) are enormous. MSF has started a nutritional program in the camp.
Central African Republic

"The international response to the conflict is extremely disheartening"

An MSF humanitarian affairs officer describes the terrible conditions in Central African Republic. Voices from the Field - 4 Apr 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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