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How we work

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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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1758 Results
 
Most people in Lulingu depend on food they grow themselves. After being forced from their homes, they can no longer reach their fields or harvest their crops.
Democratic Republic of Congo

The pendulum of violence

Project Update - 7 Dec 2016
 
Aprox. 2 million Rwandan refugees (mostly Hutu's) whom fled civil war and the victorious Rwandan Patriottic Front crossed the border with Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo).
Rwanda

Interview with the authors of "Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Mass Killings"

"We decided to write a book, bringing together our experiences as a humanitarian doctor and a sociologist" Interview - 1 Dec 2016
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Engaging with National Authorities: Médecins Sans Frontières’s experience in Guinea during the Ebola epidemic

UREPH is pleased to announce the publication of the article “Engaging with National Authorities: Médecins Sans Frontières’s experience in Guinea during the Ebola epidemic” by Marc Poncin in the journal Humanitarian Alternatives. Journal article - 30 Nov 2016
 
At the mental health department in Dolo. Play is an important way of getting children to overcome the trauma they have experienced and their journey to Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Refugees in border town of Dolo Ado escape drought and insecurity of Somalia

Project Update - 25 Nov 2016
 
Mashiri is 42 years old and was diagnosed HIV positive in 2006. He started treatment that same year. Duduzile is 40 years old and was diagnosed with HIV in 2007. They met and fell in love after meeting at an HIV community support group at Epworth, on Harare’s outskirts, in 2015.
Zimbabwe

Surviving AIDS in Zimbabwe

Today, the number of people who are HIV positive in Zimbabwe has reduced to 15 per cent, but major gaps in treatment remain. Photo Story - 25 Nov 2016
 
Madeleine Boyer (infirmière anesthésiste).
Rwanda

Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings

Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings is intended for humanitarian aid practitioners, students, journalists and researchers with an interest in genocide and humanitarian studies and the political sociology of international organisations. Book - 23 Nov 2016
 
More than 300 people arrive each day in Nduta camp, originally designed for 50,000 people but now hosting over 65,000. New arrivals come by bus, first crossing the border point, then to transit camps and and then staying a few nights in the camp reception centre on arrival to Nduta. While they are being registered by UNHCR and before a family shelter is allocated to them, they live in overcrowded communal tents, facing poor hygiene and a high risk of malaria transmission. New arrivals have to queue for hours in the reception centre to receive their daily meals. Some of these people have already been allocated a shelter, but have not received their refugee card and dry food rations. They have to come back every day to the reception centre to get a warm meal. MSF is present at the reception centre to screen all new arrivals. “A lot of them arrive exhausted and in bad health condition. We do their medical check-up and send those in need to MSF clinics or refer them to the hospital. They also get vaccinated and pregnant women are scheduled for antenatal consultations.” Medical teams have seen a big increase in the number of consultations, both at the reception centres and in MSF’s four health posts and hospital. The number of deliveries has risen as well. “When I arrived a few weeks ago, there were around five deliveries per day. Now we have around 12,” says Sally Parker, midwife.
Tanzania

"Tanzania - Aid is needed before situation deteriorates"

A critical situation is unfolding for hundreds of thousands of refugees in Tanzania, with camps now at full capacity. This slideshow illustrates the situation of Nduta refugee camp, overstretched by the influx of new arrivals - around 300 per day. Photo Story - 18 Nov 2016
 
MSF set up a circuit to vaccinate children under 5 years old, they also receive an anti-parasite and vitamin A and parents receive relief items such as soap and mosquito nets. In one day nearly 4,000 children were vaccinated.
Nigeria

Crisis Info on Borno emergency - November 2016

Crisis Update - 18 Nov 2016
 
Ndegue Michel (left) has been trained by MSF to treat malaria cases in the community so people don?t have to travel to the hospital. Here, a two-year-old girl is tested in the Rosin neighborhood on the outskirts of Carnot.
Central African Republic

Don't turn off the life support

Project Update - 17 Nov 2016
 
Rose Roba, 37 from Yei in South Sudan. She waits at the MSF outpatient clinic in Bidi Bidi refugee camp in Norther Uganda, to receive medicine for her sonwho has a fever and has been vomiting. "I came to Uganda because of the violence in South Sudan. "They kidnapped my next door neighbor's husband and chopped him in to pieces. Then they cut up his wife and threw the body in to a channel of water near our village. They also slit their child's throat and cut his head in 2 and placed his body next to his mother's in the water. "This filled me with fear. I was worried I would be next. I knew I had to take off." She walked for 4 days and was given a lift by rebel troops for a fifth day before arriving at the Ugandan border. Here she is struggling with the living conditions and her children have fallen ill.
Uganda

Testimonies from Bidi Bidi refugee camp

"I would not easily walk back into South Sudan and towards death. I ran away from there in fear and I am so relieved I managed to save my and my children’s lives," says Rose, a refugee from Greater Equatoria region, South Sudan. Voices from the Field - 17 Nov 2016
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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