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How we work

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How we're run

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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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MSF doctors, Nurses and physiotherapist exchange patient updates and discuss patient conditions and treatment plans during the daily morning meeting at MSF-run ward of the COVID-19 centre at Al-Kindi Hospital, Baghdad.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

“Only vaccination will end the ferocious spread of COVID-19 in Iraq”

MSF’s project coordinator in Baghdad writes about the suffering in Iraq as the second wave of the new coronavirus claims many victims. Opinion - 31 Mar 2021
 
MSF COVID Intervention in Aden, Al Gomhuria Hospital
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 support desperately needed as second wave overwhelms Yemen

The second wave of COVID-19 in war-torn Yemen is resulting in hospitals stretched to breaking point, with a lack of critical supplies to treat patients, including oxygen. Press Release - 25 Mar 2021
 
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Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Vaccines urgently needed as Palestine struggles under surge of COVID-19

MSF is urging Israeli and Palestinian authorities to immediately scale-up efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 in the West Bank, as hopsitals become saturated. Press Release - 24 Mar 2021
 
Dr. Abdukareem Saleh patient Abas Muhammad in the mobile clinic in the Hygiene Fund camp, a camp for African migrants who work as cleaners to clean the city under the contract with the Hygiene Fund. الدكتور عبدالكريم صالح وهو يقوم بفحص المريض عباس محمد في العيادة المتنقلة في مخيم صندوق النظافة وهو مخيم خاص بالمهاجرين الأفارقة الذين يعملون كعمال نظافة لمدينة مأرب بالتعاقد مع صندوق النظافة.
Yemen

Health needs grow for people in former safe haven of Marib

During the six years of war in Yemen, many people have sought refuge in Marib governorate. However fighting in what was once a safe haven is now displacing people - who have little access to healthcare. Project Update - 11 Mar 2021
 
Syrians flee shelling by Turkish forces in Ras al Ayn, northeast Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday the start of a Turkish military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria. (AP Photo)
Syria

A decade of war in Syria: 10 years of increasing humanitarian needs

War has now been raging in Syria for 10 years. We outline the increasing humanitarian needs of millions of Syrians over the course of the war and our efforts to respond to them. Project Update - 3 Mar 2021
 
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Syria

MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing

The security and safety situation in Al-Hol camp, northeastern Syria, has deteriorated, with more than 30 people - including MSF staff - killed since January. Press Release - 2 Mar 2021
 
MSF has offered mental health consultations in the city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, since 1996. In Hebron, Palestinian civilians suffer frequent abuses such as the demolition of their homes, arbitrary detention, and systematic attacks by Israeli settlers with the tacit support of the Israeli army. As well as experiencing physical injury men, women, and particularly children suffer from significant long-term mental health impacts of these routine occurrences. The effects of the occupation of Palestinian territory are far-reaching and leave very few people untouched, with children in particular vulnerable to long-term mental health issues as a result of witnessing or suffering traumatic events. Between February and July 2019, MSF reached 8145 people with mental health services, of whom more than 60% were children.
Palestine

“In Israel, you’re 60 times more likely to have a COVID vaccine than in Palestine”

Matthias Kennes, an MSF medical adviser in the West Bank, Palestine, writes of the searing inequalities he's witnessing on COVID-19 vaccination between the occupied territory and Israel. Opinion - 22 Feb 2021
 
Consultation during an MSF mobile clinic activity for displaced population in Khudaish camp, Abs district (Yemen). Most consultations are for children and pregnant women.
Yemen

Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs, northern Yemen

Since January, MSF has been treating increasing numbers of severely malnourished children at Abs hospital, in northwestern Yemen; a sign of a war that has a terrible impact on lives. Opinion - 22 Feb 2021
 
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

Severe COVID-19 patients in Iraq “were almost sure to die”

MSF teams in Iraq have been treating people with coronavirus in Baghdad, with many arriving too sick to be saved. Since opening a dedicated COVID-19 ward, things have improved, but MSF remains worried about the situation. Project Update - 16 Feb 2021
 
MSF Supported COVID19 Treatment Center at Al Kuwait Hospital in Sanaa
Yemen

Yemen: “These sanctions have to make clear that they do not apply to humanitarian aid”

As the United States prepares to designate Ansar Allah a 'foreign terrorist organisation' in Yemen, there are concerns about the impact on providing assistance in the country. Interview - 18 Jan 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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