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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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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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General view of a displaced persons camp in Benzvi, Bangui.
Central African Republic

No hope of returning home anytime soon

"The living conditions in the sites are very difficult. They live in tents built of waste tarpaulins that are full of holes," says Reims Pali, MSF Assistant Field Coordinator in CAR."They sleep on mats on the ground and are exposed to mosquitoes which may carry malaria. Unless the security situation gets better, they will have to stay here in these camps.” Voices from the Field - 27 Jan 2016
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

The Ebola outbreak - a brief history

A short video looking back on MSF's response to the West Africa Ebola epidemic Project Update - 14 Jan 2016
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - 14 January 2016

Today should be a day of celebration and relief, but the world also needs to learn its lessons from this epidemic. Crisis Update - 14 Jan 2016
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

End of Ebola outbreak in West Africa: World must learn lesson for future outbreaks

As Liberia celebrates 42 days without any new Ebola infections - effectively marking the end of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa - MSF calls on the global health community to draw on lessons learned in order to be better prepared for similar outbreaks in the future. Project Update - 14 Jan 2016
 
Abdul 11 month, has been admitted for malnutrition in the MSF center of intensive nutritional treatment in Gwange (district of Maiduguri). His family fled to Mafa. She is host by parents in Maiduguri. The displaced people living among the host community do not receive food help.
Nigeria

MSF begins surgical activities in the city of Maiduguri, treating victims of a large attack.

In response to recent attacks that caused many injuries, MSF began performing trauma surgery at the hospital on 28 December. Project Update - 6 Jan 2016
 
Peter Gatlek (50) sits on a hospital bed after receiving new bandages at the MSF hospital in Lankien. He was shot in the head while trying to escape an attack on his village near Leer 25 days ago. Peter was finally med-evacuated to a MSF hospital. When talking about the experience he says: 'They just came and attacked our village. I just ran away and hid myself in the swamp. Some people who ran with me were wounded. Some were killed.’
South Sudan

Crisis Update, December 2015

Conflict broke out in South Sudan in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused Vice President Riek Machar of plotting a coup. Crisis Update - 30 Dec 2015
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Katanga Measles Crisis Update - December 2015

A measles epidemic has been raging since the beginning of the year (2015) in the former province of Katanga in the southeast of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Crisis Update - 29 Dec 2015
 
A cholera epidemic that has been spreading in Kenya for over a year hit Dadaab refugee camp complex in November 2015. As at 16 December, around 541 people in Dadaab had reportedly been affected, the majority of whom are living in Dagahaley camp. MSF has expanded its regular hospital activities in Dagahaley and has constructed a cholera treatment centre to deal with the influx of patients. In the space of three weeks, MSF admitted 307 patients to its treatment centre.
Kenya

Cholera outbreak spreads to Dadaab refugee camp

A cholera epidemic that has been spreading in Kenya for over a year has now hit the Dadaab Refugee Camp complex, on the border with Somalia. So far around 541 people have reportedly been affected, the majority of whom are living in Dagahaley Camp. Project Update - 17 Dec 2015
 
Dr. Alfonso Apolinar is the medical team leader for MSF in Nduta camp in Tanzania. With the nearby Nyarugusu camp stretched to capacity hosting around 90,000 Burundian refugees, Nduta camp was opened in October 2015 to accept new arrivals from Burundi as well as relocated refugees from Nyarugusu. Today, Nduta camp hosts around 27,000 refugees. MSF is the only medical organisation working in the camp. Teams are carrying out mobile clinics, and constructing a hospital with outpatient, emergency and intensive care services.
Tanzania

“People cope with these tough living conditions because often they haven’t known anything else.”

Dr Alfonso Apollinar is part of MSF’s emergency team responding to the refugee crisis in Tanzania, where more than 118,000 Burundians have fled to camps across the border. He describes the conditions in the increasingly overburdened camps Voices from the Field - 9 Dec 2015
 
MSF teams providing support to the Chadian Ministry of Health A triple suicide attack that took place on the island of Koulfoua in the Lake Chad area in Chad on Saturday morning has reportedly killed 30 people and wounded up to 200. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams present in the area have immediately mobilised to provide support to the Chadian Ministry of Health.
Chad

I had never before seen these types of injuries”

Dr Silas Adamou Moussa is Deputy Head of Mission for MSF in Chad. He is part of the team who was deployed to Mani to assist wounded following the suicide attacks that took place on Koulfoua Island on the morning of 5 December. Voices from the Field - 8 Dec 2015
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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