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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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Marie Agama with her daughter Destiny. She was pregnant when he left Libya on a rubber boat, with 127 people onboard, that arrived to Zarzis last 27 may. The fuel was finished after a few hours of navigation. For two and a half days they drifted out into the open sea, without eating or drinking. A fisherman's boat saw them and alerted the Tunisian coastguards, who brought them to the Foyer of the Tunisian Red Cross in Médenine.. She delivered safely and in good conditions in Fatuma Bourguiba Hospital, where MSF transferred her a couple of days before. Fatuma Bourguiba Hospital (Monastir, Tunisia), public hospital. MSF directs migrants towards the hospital services for chronic diseases.
Tunisia

Stories and testimonies of migrants fleeing violence

On May 27th 2017, a rubber boat with 127 people on board arrived to Zarzis (Tunisia) coming from Libya. The fuel finished after few hours of navigation and for two and a half days they drifted out into the open sea, without eating or drinking. A Tunisian fisherman's boat saw them and alerted the Tunisian Coast Guard who finally rescued them. Photo Story - 22 Aug 2017
 
July 2017 - Syria - Kurdish province - Aïn Issa Displaced Camp. MSF Clinic. A young Syrian, displaced from Raqqa, was (according to his family) burned in a boiling oil accident when he was at home. Juillet 2017 - Syrie - Province kurde - Camp de déplacés d'Aïn Issa. Clinique MSF. Un jeune Syrien, déplacé de Raqqa, brûlé (selon sa famille) avec de l'huile bouillante dans un accident domestique, alors qu'il était chez lui.
Syria

The silent war

“He was playing with a battery that he found in the garden. Unfortunately it turned out to be an explosive device and it exploded.” Voices from the Field - 8 Aug 2017
 
The nursing room of the paediatrics department in MSF’s primary healthcare clinic. The department provides around 800 consultations a month, with children suffering from upper respiratory tract infections, diarrhea, gastro intestinal diseases, and skin diseases.
Lebanon

Refugees and host community bound by suffering

Lebanese residents of the remote, high plateau area of Wadi Khaled are facing the same hardships as the Syrian refugees there. Project Update - 7 Aug 2017
 
A doctor checks a patient Iraqi girl at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Qayyara, Iraq April 6, 2017. Picture taken April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem - RTX352CQ
Iraq

Crisis update – July 2017

The battle for Mosul has taken a staggering toll on the population. Crisis Update - 4 Aug 2017
 
A new born Syrian baby in the Neo-Natal care unit of the MSF Mother and Child Hospital in Irbid, Jordan.
Jordan

10,000 babies born as refugees

A maternity hospital run by MSF in Jordan’s Irbid governorate has witnessed the births of 10,000 babies – most of them Syrian – in just four years. Project Update - 4 Aug 2017
 
MSF cleaner while spreading chlorination at the shoes of one of the nurses as he was getting out of the cholera treatment center. This is one of the precautions taken to prevent the spread of the cholera outside the center.
Yemen

Crisis update – July 2017

The conflict in Yemen, which escalated in March 2015, has led to a full-blown humanitarian emergency. Project Update - 3 Aug 2017
 
The operational theatre after a surgery conducted in Tal Abyad general hospital, which MSF is working in partnership with the health authorities to support the hospital, Northern Syrian.
Syria

Raqqa’s besieged residents deprived of urgent medical care

“Patients tell us large numbers of sick and wounded people are trapped inside Raqqa city with little or no access to medical care and scant chance of escaping the city” Project Update - 31 Jul 2017
 
“In Abs hospital, the wards are bursting at the seams, as our medical teams do everything they can to meet people’s urgent health needs. What’s happening in Abs sums up the current state of Yemen. More than two years after the conflict escalated, the country has been torn apart. Many health facilities are not functioning, or are short of staff and medical supplies, and the health system has collapsed.” Roger Gutiérrez, MSF field coordinator in Abs, Yemen
Yemen

“Some families have to choose between taking a child to hospital or feeding the others”

In Abs hospital, the wards are bursting at the seams, as our medical teams do everything they can to meet people’s urgent health needs. Voices from the Field - 10 Jul 2017
 
Saleh Mohammed, aged 57, from Sa’ada, is living in a displaced setting near Abs, Hajjah governorate. He is in Al Khamees health centre holding his two-year-old daughter, who has been exposed to war for most of her life: she was born in January 2015. Most of her siblings are dead.
Yemen

Urgent need for improved water and sanitation to curb cholera

“In Abs district, our teams are seeing an extremely poor sanitation situation and insufficient access to clean drinking water” Press Release - 10 Jul 2017
 
The last two functional ambulances in Al-Marj neighbourhood (in the East Ghouta besieged area near Damascus) were destroyed beyond repair in an aerial bomb attack on Monday 05 December 2016. They were parked in the hospital’s warehouse/garage, very near to the makeshift hospital’s location. Two hospital cars, used to transporting supplies and medical personnel, were also destroyed in the blast. The lack of ambulances will have an impact on the ability to quickly treat wounded when there is bombing or shelling in the area, but above all it will affect the capacity to refer the most sick patients to larger secondary referral hospitals. The makeshift hospital in Al-Marj is not equipped for complex or long-term in-patient hospital care, and this could have a big impact on the ability to refer patients for appropriate secondary care.
Global health

MSF urges G20 to take action on health issues

“The G20 leaders need to improve people’s access to medical care and turn their words into action.”
 Press Release - 6 Jul 2017
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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