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How we work

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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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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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1390 Results
 
Children are carrying goods in the street of the old souk in Tripoli. The street is usually extremely busy but a lockdown was declared from 14th November to 30th November 2020 to slow down the spread of COVID-19. The lockdowns measures, although necessary, have contributed to exacerbating people’s financial difficulties, reducing the economic activities in the country.
Lebanon

Overlapping crises in Lebanon increase needs and worsen access to care

In the last year, Lebanon has faced political turmoil, social unrest, economic crisis, COVID-19 and the Beirut port blast. For many, Lebanese and refugees alike, the struggle to access healthcare has become even harder. Project Update - 8 Jan 2021
 
Mohamad Ayoub Hamad Abu Sabha is a community leader of Khirbet Al Fakhit (Hebron, Palestine), where MSF performs mobile clinics for the population in the área. “For one year, no one came here. Especially for pregnant women, this was a very difficult situation” (Note: he was wearing ,ask during consultation and talk, but he removed for the picture)
Palestine

“For one year no one came here” to provide medical care in the West Bank

Some communities under strict Israeli control in Hebron, West Bank, Palestine, face challenges accessing basic healthcare due to administrative restrictions and a lack of transportation. Women are particularly affected. Project Update - 5 Jan 2021
 
The Operating theatre at MSF’s trauma centre in Mocha, in the Red Sea Coast region of Yemen. The surgeons provide life and limb saving surgery for war wounded, traffic accident victims, and pregnant women needing emergency surgical delivery. Since late November 2020, the overwhelming majority of patients have been war-wounded civilians.
Yemen

Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities

Renewed conflict to the south of Hudaydah Port in Yemen has led to rising numbers of civilians needing war-trauma surgery. Most are women and children. Press Release - 14 Dec 2020
 
MSF staff prepare to begin a blood transfusion for a child patient with thalassemia.
Lebanon

Saving the lives of children with thalassaemia in Lebanon

Thalassemia is a blood disorder that requires regular blood transfusions and drugs to treat. In Lebanon, the cost is often prohibitive for refugees and vulnerable people. Project Update - 3 Dec 2020
 
“This is my third child, Taha. He’s only 48 days old," says Balqees. "I gave birth to him in a health centre in the village. They told me that my son needed medical attention. In our area there are no hospitals, only clinics, so we drove for around two hours to get to this hospital. When we first arrived, Taha was taken for phototherapy because he had jaundice. We stayed a week in the hospital and then returned to the village. When his health deteriorated, I had to come back to the hospital. I have been here for four days now. Even a simple walk tires me. I am still recovering from the trip – it was exhausting, especially being pregnant and with those difficult road conditions. My husband has not come to visit me in the hospital – our financial situation does not allow it, so he stays in the village. Even when I fall ill, I don’t seek healthcare, because we don’t have the money. I could never have afforded a private hospital."
Yemen

Behind the conflict in Yemen

storymaps - 30 Nov 2020
 
Laylan camp: IDPs are asked to load their belongings on trucks provided by the authorities as part of the camp closure.
Iraq

Displaced people in Iraq’s Laylan camp express fears as camp closes

Rushed camp closures and returns of internally displaced people in Iraq to their areas of origin will have serious humanitarian consequences, says MSF. Press Release - 24 Nov 2020
 
On the morning of September 17th, as Open Arms awaited instructions from authorities regarding the disembarkation of the 275 survivors rescued in the Mediterranean sea, more than 70 people jumped into the water in desperation. The Sea-Watch 4 was close by, at anchor outside the port of Palermo, and immediately responded by launching three RHIBs to provide assistance. MSF and Sea-Watch crews remained on scene until the situation stabilised.
Mediterranean migration

Carnage in the Mediterranean is the direct result of European state policies

Four separate shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean in less than 72 hours has cost the lives of more than 100 people - the result of EU migration policies. Press Release - 13 Nov 2020
 
Abdullah Ali, 6 years old, fell from the top of the tree, suffered bruises in the head, and received treatment at Naser hospital supported by MSF in Ibb city.
Yemen

Humanitarian response in Yemen: time to go back to the drawing board

MSF Director of Operations in Geneva, Christine Jamet, explains why a reset is needed on the humanitarian response in Yemen. Op-Ed - 11 Nov 2020
 
Abou Obaida area in Deir Hassan.
Syria

Taking risks to survive as COVID-19 spreads in the northwest

Three displaced people in northwest Syria recount their struggles, frustrations and fears as COVID-19 cases rise against the backdrop of an economic crisis. Project Update - 11 Nov 2020
 
Majd Osama, 23 years old from Syria, married and has a daughter. Majd is receiving medical care in COVID-19 treatment centre in Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees. “One day I woke up feeling feverish and I was referred to MSF COVID-19 hospital, I have been in the MSF hospital for two days, I don’t cough and I do not have a runny nose and the fever is gone. God will help me, I’m not worried.”
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF responds as COVID-19 arrives in Jordan’s largest refugee camp

Given the often rapid spread of diseases inside refugee camps, MSF is providing medical care for coronavirus COVID-19 to refugees in Zaatari camp, Jordan. Project Update - 28 Oct 2020
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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