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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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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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1479 Results
 
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Somalia

Measles treatment in Somalia requires an adapted response

As the conflict in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, reaches new heights, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is still managing to curb the worst effects of an ongoing measles outbreak in neighbouring regions. Project Update - 3 Jul 2009
 
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Somalia

MSF treats victims of fighting in central Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated dozens of war wounded patients following fighting in the town of Webho in Central Somalia on Friday.
 Project Update - 8 Jun 2009
 
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Niger

New opportunities to defeat childhood malnutrition

Seasonal peak in childhood malnutrition curbed with food supplements that are used in pre-malnutrition interventions to avert widespread malnutrition in young children. Project Update - 13 May 2009
 
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Project Update

Seven million vaccinated for meningitis in West Africa

Photo Essay: Seven million vaccinated for meningitis in West Africa Photo Story - 12 May 2009
 
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Niger

In the midst of Niger's vaccination campaign, treatment is essential for those who contract meningitis

Although the meningitis epidemic that began in the Zinder region of Niger late last year shows signs of easing, the number of people affected remains high. Left untreated, meningitis is fatal in more than half of the cases.
In the Magaria district, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has just begun vaccinating more than 500,000 people, its mobile medical teams are ensuring that patients receive medication promptly. Claude Mahoudeau describes the teams' work. Although treatment draws less attention than vaccinating, it is critical to the effort. Project Update - 16 Apr 2009
 
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Project Update

MSF to vaccinate over four million people in West Africa for meningitis

While ensuring a quick access to treatment for the sick people, MSF is undertaking mass vaccination campaigns in Nigeria and Niger and is closely following the situation in other countries in the region. Project Update - 2 Apr 2009
 
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Chad

Battered trucks and donkey tracks - vaccinations in eastern Chad

Following an outbreak in eastern Chad, nurse Lenny Krommenhoek has spent five weeks as part of an MSF measles vaccination campaign in eastern Chad team. After her return, she writes about the enormous logistical challenges faced during her mission, and her very personal experience in this remote part of the world.
MSF is currently vaccinating children between six months and 15 years against measles. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, about 135,000 children have already been vaccinated in the district of Abéché. A campaign to vaccinate an additional 90,000 children in the neighboring Adré district at the Sudanese border is currently underway. Project Update - 1 Apr 2009
 
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Zimbabwe

This is a human being and should not be treated this way

The prediction that Zimbabwe would reach the 50,000 mark of cholera cases has been surpassed months ago and the epidemic still rages throughout the country infecting more than 89,000 people. Project Update - 11 Mar 2009
 
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Sudan

MSF's expulsion leaves health care vacuum for 100,000 in Kalma Camp, Darfur

Lydia Geirsdottir, MSF Project Coordinator in Kalma Camp, describes how the expulsion will affect the thousands of people living in one of the world's largest internally displaced people's (IDP) camps. Voices from the Field - 11 Mar 2009
 
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Sudan

MSF strongly protests the expulsion of a second section from Darfur, Sudan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls upon the Government of Sudan to repeal its decision and allow vital assistance to the people of Darfur to resume. Press Release - 5 Mar 2009
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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