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How we work

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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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In Bouza district, Tahoua region, MSF is working to improve healthcare for children under five and pregnant women, focusing on early treatment and prevention, particularly in malnutrition and malaria; two of the main causes of child mortality in Niger.
Niger

“We are already getting ready for the next peak”

MSF project reduces child mortality in Bouza, Niger Voices from the Field - 22 Jan 2014
 
MSF doctor Christine Mimansha checks on a young patient in observation. Two MSF emergency teams comprised of medics, logistics staff and water treatment specialists are running medical activities for people displaced by the recent fighting in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. An estimated 35,000 people fled to two UN compounds and to other gathering points around the city, seeking refuge from the intense fighting that erupted in Juba. After conducting an independent assessment of the needs, two MSF teams are working to address the medical needs of the displaced. "A few patients have direct violence wounds, such as gunshots, but the situation has calmed now in Juba and trauma medicine no longer seems to be the main need," says Forbes Sharp, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Juba. "The displaced people do not yet feel safe to return to their homes and they are unwilling to cross town to seek healthcare in regular hospitals and clinics. So we are taking healthcare to them."
South Sudan

These people need assistance, more than ever

Christine Bimansha, a medical doctor from Congo, is one of MSF’s experienced emergency staff in South Sudan. She is currently working with the MSF team in the capital Juba, providing medical care in two UN (UNMISS) bases where 35,000 people have sought safety following a wave of violence. Voices from the Field - 29 Dec 2013
 
2008: Displaced persons fleeing the violence receive life-sustaining assistance. MSF sets up mobile clinics, distributes water, and improves the sanitary conditions in the camps in Songolo, Soke and Geti. Several million litres of water were distributed over ten years. The construction of latrines, showers and waste deposit areas are also some of the activities carried out by MSF.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF's decade of medical action

In 2008, MSF provided life-sustaining assistance to displaced persons fleeing violence. MSF set up mobile clinics, distributed water, and improved the sanitary conditions in the camps in Songolo, Soke and Geti. Voices from the Field - 20 Dec 2013
 
People listening to health talk at the hospital in Bossangoa, CAR. The new wave of violence that is engulfing the Central African Republic has left tens of thousands of displaced people and many wounded. More than 30.000 are sheltered in precarious conditions in different locations in Bossangoa and in Bouca and the majority of towns in the area of Bossangoa are completely deserted. MSF providing emergency medical care at Bossangoa hospital, as well as emergency humanitarian support in three makeshift camps.
Central African Republic

Bossangoa remains tense as MSF teams provide emergency medical care

Voices from the Field - 17 Dec 2013
 
MSF has sent an emergency mobile team in different places of CAR. They conduct mobile clinics for primary health care and refer complicated cases after being stabilized. In Bouar area, around 2000 consultations, of which 30% were under 5 years old, have been performed during a two weeks intervention, mainly for malaria and respiratory infections.
Central African Republic

MSF expands to respond to emergencies

MSF deploys new mobile medical teams in crisis-strewn CAR Voices from the Field - 19 Nov 2013
 
Belgian nurse Caroline Scholtes examines a baby during an MSF mobile clinic in Dorain, Jonglei State, South Sudan (2013)
South Sudan

The clock is ticking for 80,000 people cut off from humanitarian aid

Voices from the Field - 9 Sep 2013
 
Since July 2013, MSF medical team provided care for over 30.000 people infected with malaria in Massakory hospital.
Chad

Alarming increase in malaria, MSF launches response

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched an emergency intervention in southeast Chad to respond to an alarming escalation in malaria cases. Voices from the Field - 3 Sep 2013
 
Phumeza Tisile, 23 years celebrates her cure from XDR-TB with friends and patients at Lizo Nobanda TB Care Centre, Khayelitsha, South Africa on August 16, 2013.
South Africa

"I didn't want to be a TB statistic"

Phumeza Tisile became the first South African patient cured of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) using a strengthened treatment regimen which included a hard-to-come-by drug (linezolid).
Voices from the Field - 29 Aug 2013
 
Dr Marcus Bergman has been working in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Médecins Sans Frontières since February 2013. Based in Pinga, a small town in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he has been providing medical care to people affected by conflict while trying to reach those cut off from assistance by insecurity. At present (August 2013) all medical activities in Pinga and its immediate surroundings have been suspended after increasing insecurity and threats to humanitarian workers.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Panic in Pinga

A powerful voice from the field by Dr Marcus Bergman, who has been working in Pinga since February. Voices from the Field - 19 Aug 2013
 
A motorbike HAT screening team including technicians and equipment arrives in the town of Mafoto, DRC to start testing villagers early in the day before they head to work in the fields. A MSF mobile sleeping sickness team is currently testing and treating villagers for human African trypanosomiasis in and around the village of Bili, in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo. Without treatment, a person whose nervous system is under attack by the disease will suffer sleeping disorders, become disorientated and eventually die.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Treating sleeping sickness in the forests

Barrie Rooney, a laboratory scientist from County Leitrim, Ireland swapped her lecturing job in Kent, England to join MSF mobile sleeping sickness team in a remote corner of DRC. Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 2013
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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