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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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967 Results
 
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Russia

President Putin called on to fulfill obligation to ensure the release of abducted MSF aid worker Arjan Erkel

UN members urged to hold Russian President accountable for resolution of the case. Press Release - 24 Sep 2003
 
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Russia

Now is the time to act

Aid workers have increasingly become targets of violence in many conflicts where attackers aim to make a political point by preventing them from providing assistance and raising awareness about the plight of civilians in distress. The UN Security Council and member states need to urgently respect the neutral and independent character of humanitarian action and clearly distinguish it from their political activities. Press Release - 27 Aug 2003
 
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Afghanistan

Diphtheria outbreak in Zhare Dasht IDP camp

The residents of Zhare Dasht camp in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan are facing a rare outbreak of diphtheria - an infectious disease that has been all but eradicated in the western world. MSF started treatment of the patients and has embarked on a mass vaccination campaign to prevent further spread of the disease. Project Update - 14 Aug 2003
 
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Russia

CNN World transcript: Arjan Erkel

This is an excerpt from the CNN World broadcast on August 12, 2003. Project Update - 12 Aug 2003
 
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Russia

Humanitarian aid worker held captive - One year and counting

A full year since Arjan Erkel, the head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Dagestan, was abducted by three unknown gunmen in the Russian Republic's capital, Malachkala. Project Update - 12 Aug 2003
 
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Russia

Previous kidnap victim pens this letter for Arjan Erkel

With my wife and children, we are counting again the days...and we know the length of each day. We never stopped to believe in tomorrow, whenever the tomorrow we are waiting for will come - Vincent Cochetel Project Update - 12 Aug 2003
 
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Russia

Investigation of Arjan Erkel case a "failure" of Russsian authorities

"The investigation was halted in November 2002 and only reopened in May 2003. We were not told of this but instead authorities kept assuring us they were doing everything to secure Arjan's release," said Dr. Morten Rostrup, International President of MSF. Press Release - 12 Aug 2003
 
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More than 200 people were pressured out of the camps without prior notice in the last three days

More than 200 people were pressured out of the camps without prior notice in the last three days. Press Release - 8 Aug 2003
 
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Uzbekistan

Thin Girl with a Headscarf

Richard Mowll worked for several months as a logistician with MSF in Uzbekistan. Below he describes an encounter with just one of thousands of Uzbeks suffering from tuberculosis. Project Update - 1 Aug 2003
 
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Turkmenistan

Dashoguzd: Little optimism in Turkmenistan's TB wards

Masks are hurriedly being handed out at the doorway of the tuberculosis sanatorium. Down the long dark corridor you can see the silhouettes of patients shuffling back to their rooms; ladies with mops and buckets of foul-smelling disinfectant appear out of nowhere and we are ushered in. Into the world of the category two failure and the chronic tuberculosis patient, the category four: the suspect "drug-resistants". Crammed into a room, the rusty iron beds touch one another. Project Update - 9 Jul 2003
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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