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How we work

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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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MSF Websites

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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 patient receives care in the COVID-19 ward of Raqqa National Hospital, in northeast Syria. MSF has now moved it's COVID-19 response from Raqqa National Hospital to Raqqa Covid-19 centre.
Access to medicines

“Broken” humanitarian COVID-19 vaccine system delays vaccinations

An opaque and unwieldy humanitarian COVID-19 vaccination system left people in northern Syria with delayed access to COVID-19 vaccines which MSF says must be urgently fixed. Press Release - 27 Apr 2022
 
MSF team walk in Al-Fawwar camp, Hebron governorate, Occupied Palestinian Territories. Al-Fawwar camp has long been a hotspot for violence in the West Bank. Harassment of camp residents happens on an almost daily basis. When violence breaks out in the camp, it can leave large numbers of people injured and requiring urgent medical care. In 2021, MSF trained 80 volunteers in the camp in first aid and triaging the wounded.
Palestine

Palestine: MSF helps hospitals and volunteers prepare for casualties

In Palestine, following an Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 250 people and injured close to 2,000 others, MSF supported the health authorities through capacity building and reorganizing the emergency rooms in some of the main hospitals. Project Update - 14 Apr 2022
 
Rahma, Midwife supervisor, is holding a newborn named Rivan. “All the feedback I have received (about the facility) has been positive”, she says. “People say that our services are useful. One day, a patient left us a note to thank us, for the services but also for our attention and the human approach we’re taking (in providing our services).”
Iraq

Delivering babies in a city with few maternity services

Five years after the battle for Mosul, the healthcare system in the Iraqi city remains fragile. Pregnant women and their babies are among the most vulnerable needing access to quality healthcare. Project Update - 6 Apr 2022
 
An MSF-supported surgical team at Al-Shifa’s burn unit, in Gaza city changes patient’s dressing under anesthesia. Al-Shifa’s burn unit is the main referral unit for all hospitals in Gaza where on average 270 patients are treated annually.
Palestine

Gaza: Burn injuries are a chronic health problem

Each year MSF clinics in Gaza treat 5,000 new burn victims, the vast majority of whom are children injured in domestic accidents, exacerbated by the blockade on the region. Project Update - 10 Feb 2022
 
A group of migrants and refugees gathered together in a shared dwelling in Libya in August 2021. One of them has mobility problems, which prevents him from working.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Italy-Libya agreement: Five years of EU-sponsored abuse in Libya and the central Mediterranean

We urge the Italian government and EU to end all support for the system of returning migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to Libya and detaining them there. Project Update - 2 Feb 2022
 
MSF clinic - Zaatari camp
Jordan

MSF brings down the curtain on one of its largest interventions in the country

After nearly 10 years of responding to the myriad needs of Syrian refugees, from non-communicable diseases and war trauma surgery to COVID-19, we end our intervention in north Jordan. Project Update - 31 Jan 2022
 
Children sit outside their tent in Al-Khuseif camp for internally displaced people in Marib. Ten siblings live with their mother and father in a small tent after being displaced from Ibb governorate due to the conflict. They do not have bathroom or a kitchen with their tent. [Their father is Ali Qaid. See linked photos.]
Yemen

Thousands desperate for food, water and shelter in conflict-hit Marib

As a seven-year-conflict continues to ravage Yemen, thousands of people have been displaced multiple times throughout the country, and now find themselves without food, water or shelter. Project Update - 27 Jan 2022
 
MSF stretcher bearers in the hospital after installing a patient inside the ambulance for referral. MSF supports a referral system between its supported hospitals in Ibb and Taiz governorate. MSF also supports a referral system in other governorates such as Aden, Abyan, Lahj, Amran, Sa’ada and Hajja.
Yemen

‘Unjustifiable’ Saudi-led coalition air strike on prison kills and injures hundreds

An air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa'ada City Remand Prison in the early hours of January 21 has killed at least 82 people and injured 266, according to the Ministry of Health, with the death toll likely to increase as researchers still comb the rubble. Press Release - 22 Jan 2022
 
A COVID-19 patient receiving oxygen therapy while admitted at the MSF run inpatient ward of the Al-Shifaa 13 COVID-19 ward in Al-Kindi Hospital, Baghdad. MSF nurses checking up on the condition of the patient and giving instructions to the caretaker about how to support the patient -her mother- and assist her.
Iraq

The restless challenge of tackling COVID-19 in Iraq

Iraq's overwhelmed healthcare system remains fragile as COVID-19 continues to threaten the most vulnerable people in the country. Project Update - 21 Jan 2022
 
A severely malnourished child is admitted to the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC) supported by MSF at Abs Hospital in Hajjah, Yemen.
Yemen

Alarming numbers of Yemeni children suffering from malnutrition

MSF is seeing increasing numbers of dangerously malnourished children in Abs Hospital, Yemen, as the situation in the war-torn country worsens every day. Project Update - 16 Dec 2021
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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