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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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A Médecins Sans Frontières convoy of 14 trucks entered northwestern Syria today, arriving from Türkiye through the Hammam border crossing point. This first convoy carries 1,296 tents destined to IDPs and families (of 5 people or more) left homeless by the earthquake and 1,296 winter kits to insulate the tents from the cold. Other MSF convoys are planned to follow quickly to deliver medical and non-medical equipment. 73 tons of material have been packed and left from Dubaï
Türkiye and Syria earthquake response

MSF calls for urgent assistance to people in northwest Syria

We are calling for the urgent scaling up of humanitarian supplies, which currently fail to even match pre-earthquake volumes. Press Release - 19 Feb 2023
 
Contextual images of the impact of the earthquake taken on 7 February 2023. Idlib province, Northwestern Syria. MSF does not necessarily operate in the locations depicted here.
Natural hazards

Hospitals overwhelmed after earthquakes: “The rooms were covered in blood”

Aisha is a midwife working with MSF in Azaz, northwest Syria. She shares her experience in the aftermath of the earthquakes. Voices from the Field - 17 Feb 2023
 
Syrian doctors operate on a patient in a hospital in Atmeh. The equipment for the operating room of this hospital comes from a donation from the MSF team in Atmeh. February 11, 2023.
Natural hazards

Vital needs grow in northwest Syria after the earthquakes

MSF teams in Syria are responding to multiple needs on the ground after the earthquakes, but sufficient healthcare support and essential items are still missing. Project Update - 15 Feb 2023
 
The impact of the earthquake on 6 February 2023. Idlib province, Northwestern Syria.
Natural hazards

People in northwest Syria need urgent support after earthquakes

Ahmed Rahmo, MSF project coordinator in charge of the Idlib region, and other colleagues, provide us with updates on the situation on the ground. Voices from the Field - 13 Feb 2023
 
Contextual images of the impact of the earthquake taken on 7 February 2023. Idlib province, Northwestern Syria. MSF does not necessarily operate in the locations depicted here.
Natural hazards

Four things to know about the earthquake response in Türkiye and Syria

Since devastating earthquakes struck southern Türkiye and northwest Syria, thousands of people have lost their lives and been seriously injured. Here are four things to know about our emergency response on the ground. Project Update - 8 Feb 2023
 
The impact of the earthquake on 6 February 2023. Idlib province, Northwestern Syria.
Natural hazards

MSF scales up response after earthquakes hit south Türkiye and northwest Syria

MSF scales up response to support people affected by the earthquakes in south Türkiye and northwest Syria, providing medical care to casualties and essential items to those displaced in the area. Press Release - 6 Feb 2023
 
Close-up of an infant lying in an incubator in the neonatal ward of Al Jahmouri Hospital, in Taiz City, Yemen. Since May 2021, MSF together with the Ministry of Health (MoH) have been running the maternal and neonatal services in Al Jamhouri hospital (AJH), in Taiz City. MSF also offers technical support, financial incentives to Ministry of Health staff, medical and logistical supplies to run the maternity unit including services such as caesarean sections, antenatal (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC) for pregnant women, and neonatal unit for new-borns and infants.
Yemen

Giving birth in the face of persistent obstacles in Taiz

Access to vital healthcare services for pregnant women in Taiz, Yemen, remains a challenge due to years of war. Project Update - 1 Feb 2023
 
Israeli authorities have put extraordinary pressure on residents of Masafer Yatta to leave the area. As well as demolishing people’s homes, they have installed checkpoints, confiscated residents’ vehicles, and enforced curfews and other movement restrictions. These measures, which have intensified in recent months, have severely impacted residents’ freedom of movement, mental health and ability to access basic services, including medical care.
Palestine

MSF urges Israeli authorities to stop plan to evict Palestinian residents

MSF has called on Israeli authorities to stop their plan to evict Palestinians from the villages of Masafer Yatta and immediately cease measures which prevent people from accessing healthcare. Press Release - 19 Jan 2023
 
Northwest Syria is home to more than 2 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Most of them have been displaced by the conflict various times and are staying in displacement camps, with very poor living conditions.
Syria

Humanitarian access to northwest Syria must be ensured

MSF calls on the UN Security Council to renew the Syria cross-border resolution to allow for the provision of humanitarian aid into the northwest, to avoid preventable deaths. Press Release - 5 Jan 2023
 
General overview of the Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITFC) in Abs General Hospital, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen. Since the earlier onset of the malnutrition peak this year, the ITFC in the Abs supported hospital has been operating at over 100% capacity.
Yemen

Five reasons why severe childhood malnutrition is surging in Yemen

The healthcare network across Yemen continues to collapse, and with food insecurity rife across the country, our teams are seeing a worrying rise of malnutrition in children at our hospitals. Project Update - 9 Dec 2022
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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