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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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Athadjara, 20 years old, is a Nigerian refugee. She fled her village almost 4 years ago and settled in an informal camp site nearby from Diffa town. Since then she struggles to live on in precarious conditions with her two children.
Lake Chad Crisis

Fighting psychological fears in conflict-affected communities

Mental healthcare is an increasingly important part of MSF’s work with refugees, internally displaced people and host communities in the Lake Chad region. Project Update - 3 Aug 2018
 
Nurse preparing the Ebola vaccine in the site of Bikoro.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Ministry of Health declares Ebola epidemic over

MSF welcomes the end of the Ebola epidemic declared in DRC on 8 May 2018. Project Update - 25 Jul 2018
 
Kario camp, is the biggest refugee settlement in East Darfur, it was created in 2016, and hosting 20,000 South Sudanese refugees as per UNHCR figures. Most of the residents of the camp are Dinkas, they fled South Sudan because of food shortage and lack of job opportunities. When arrived to Sudan, the refugees continued to seek job opportunities, what makes the camp’s community in constant mobility. MSF intervened in this camp for the first time in June 2017, at the time when an acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) outbreak was declared in the camp with extremely high mortality rates. In July 2017, MSF opened a Health Centre in Kario camp to provide free primary health care package and basic secondary health care services to the South Sudanese refugees and hosting community in Kario, East Darfur.
Sudan

Hardships follow South Sudan’s refugees into Sudan’s East Darfur

There are more than 750,000 South Sudanese refugees currently in Sudan and around 100,000 of them are in East Darfur. Since July 2017, MSF has been providing free primary and secondary healthcare services, including maternity, nutrition and vaccination programmes for almost 40,000 people living in the area - both refugees and the host community. Project Update - 23 Jul 2018
 
The Sudd is a vast swamp extending from Bor to Malakal. Le Sudd est un vaste marécage s'étendant de la ville de Bor à celle de Malakal.
South Sudan

A hospital in the swamp

Despite the many challenges that patients and medical workers face in the remote area of Old Fangak, South Sudan, MSF's 'hospital in the swamp' remains the best hope for many people with serious conditions. Photo Story - 20 Jul 2018
 
Displaced people wait for a distribution of non-food items (NFIs) in Pulka town.
Nigeria

“The situation in northeast Nigeria is deteriorating after years of conflict”

The humanitarian situation in northeast Nigeria, where about 1.7 million people have been displaced, is deteriorating. Interview - 18 Jul 2018
 
A health promotion MSF worker at the referral hospital in Ansongo, where MSF has been running projects since 2012.
Mali

“Insecurity has pushed people to their limits”

Jamal Mrrouch has just returned from Mali, where he spent more than one year coordinating MSF’s work in the northern regions of Gao and Kidal, and in the central region of Mopti. Interview - 13 Jul 2018
 
A mother holds her baby –affected by malaria - while an MSF medical team member attends to them. Between May and September, malaria is one of the main morbidities for refugees and the host community in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia

Fighting stigma and providing mental health to Eritrean refugees

Every month, around 5,000 Eritreans flee their country. Half of them arrive in refugee camps in the Tigray and Afar regions of Ethiopia. Since 2015, MSF has provided health services in the area, with a focus on mental health and psychiatric care, to the population of Hitsats and Shimelba refugee camps, as well as to the host community. Voices from the Field - 10 Jul 2018
 
Young boys wait to be vaccinated against meningitis, at a site set up in their village by MSF and the MoH. More than 33,620 people aged between two and 29 years were vaccinated during this campaign.
Niger

“We should take every opportunity to vaccinate against deadly diseases”

Interview with Miriam Alía, MSF vaccination and outbreak response advisor, on the outbreaks of meningitis C and measles that have affected Niger in 2018. Interview - 5 Jul 2018
 
Improvised kitchen in Bambari general hospital. In Bambari, MSF supports the paediatric and maternity wards and supports the surgery national team. In February, the UN stabilisation mission, MINUSCA, declared Bambari a “city without armed groups”, strengthening the perception of it as a safe area for those fleeing violence elsewhere in the country. Currently, 50 percent of Bambari’s residents (113.800 people in total) have been displaced from their homes in other parts of Central African Republic. Of the 55,869 displaced people, 10,300 have arrived in Bambari since mid-March. Most are living in nine camps which ring the city but several moved in the hospital compound, where they feel safer.
Central African Republic

Ongoing fears of outbursts of violence in Bambari hamper access to healthcare

Interview with former head of mission Paul Brockman about recent outbursts of violence in Bambari, CAR, and their impact on the local population. Voices from the Field - 26 Jun 2018
 
View of the hospital of Bikoro, where MSF has set up an Ebola treatment center (ETC)
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Ebola update June 2018

Since the Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was declared on 8 May 2018, over 60 people who presented symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, including 38 confirmed Ebola cases and 28 deaths (of whom 14 were confirmed as Ebola)*, have been notified by the national health authorities in the Equateur region, in the west of the country, where the outbreak started. 24 patients (confirmed Ebola cases) have recovered from the disease and been discharged from treatment centres. Crisis Update - 19 Jun 2018
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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