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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

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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
 
Phoenix rescue 02 Sept 2015
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Dying to reach Europe: Insight into the desperate journeys Eritreans make to reach safety

"It is vital that the EU, Member States and other governments provide channels to safety and protection for Eritreans, and indeed all people fleeing conflict and persecution," said Arjan Hehenkamp, MSF General Director. Press Release - 27 Feb 2017
 
Sign language training and TB support in Swaziland
Eswatini

For patients with XDR-TB, treatment is a gruelling journey with severe side effects

Swaziland has one of the highest rates of TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) worldwide and 80 per cent of people in the country who contract TB are HIV positive. Voices from the Field - 27 Feb 2017
 
Primary healthcare in South Sudan
South Sudan

Our community health workers are the MSF project

After the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Leer was repeatedly attacked, we realised we needed new ways to provide medical care. Dr Philippa Pett describes here how her team of local staff is providing healthcare to people on the move through a flexible network of mobile clinics. Voices from the Field - 21 Feb 2017
 
Primary healthcare in South Sudan
South Sudan

Protracted conflict at root of nutrition crisis

“The extreme level of violence has had a severe impact on people’s ability to meet basic needs such as safe drinking water, food supplies, shelter and healthcare,” says MSF project coordinator Nicolas Peissel. Project Update - 21 Feb 2017
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

The Politics of Fear

New MSF book reveals that a fear-crippled response caused unnecessary deaths and suffering during the West African Ebola epidemic Press Release - 21 Feb 2017
 
Tanzania

Testimonies from refugees in Nduta and Nyarugusu camps

Over 290,000 people live in refugee camps in Tanzania's northwestern Kigoma district. Voices from the Field - 20 Feb 2017
 
Untreated Violence
South Africa

Sexual violence in platinum mining belt a major driver of HIV

MSF's 2015 survey of more than 800 Rustenburg women aged between 18 and 49 established that one in four have been raped in their lifetime. Press Release - 20 Feb 2017
 
Mental Health hospital
Zimbabwe

“If I don’t help mentally ill patients, who will?”

Since 2012, MSF has run mental health programmes in Zimbabwe with the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services. Voices from the Field - 16 Feb 2017
 
Fighting Hepatitis E in Am Timan, Chad - January 2017
Chad

MSF calls for assistance to curb hepatitis E outbreak in Am Timan

"MSF is calling on all the humanitarian and development agencies present in Chad to step up the size and speed of their efforts to ensure an effective response to the hepatitis E outbreak in Am Timan", says Rolland Kaya, MSF's head of mission in Chad. Press Release - 9 Feb 2017
 
Mulungu DRC measles vaccination
Democratic Republic of Congo

Fighting measles in South Kivu

"The impact is immediate. We've saved many lives. People were very happy because they were also really worried about the outbreak and they had only received aid sporadically." Project Update - 8 Feb 2017
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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