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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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Iraq

Assisting people displaced from Hawija

"The gratitude from our patients is humbling and, as heavy as the air is in pockets here, we are all exactly where we need to be." Voices from the Field - 9 Feb 2017
 
MSF and SOS Mediterannee Search and Rescue personnel from the vessel, Aquarius, intervene to rescue refugees and migrants from an over-crowded wooden boat, 28 December 2016, in the Mediterranean sea off the northern coast of Libya.
Mediterranean migration

MSF Response to European Council's "Malta Declaration" on Migration

Following the "Malta Declaration" on migration by members of the European Council today, Arjan Hehenkamp, general director of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), issued the following statement. Statement - 4 Feb 2017
 
People* held in a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya *Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers
Mediterranean migration

MSF warns EU about inhumane approach to migration management

"The European Union and its Member States need a reality check. Libya is not a safe place - there is no way this can be considered a humane approach to migration management", said Arjan Hehenkamp, MSF's General Director. Statement - 3 Feb 2017
 
Nisreen is a Palestinian woman living in Hebron city, in the West Bank, who paints to confront the suffering and isolation that the occupation causes in her.
Palestine

Painting roots

"We became prisoners. We live in a prison surrounded by military checkpoints. They are just conveying the message 'if you don't like it then leave, leave, leave!'." Voices from the Field - 2 Feb 2017
 
"We were living a decent life in our home. now, we live in this unfinished building where we do not have even toilets," says woman who lives in Al-Hoban district in Taiz. She fled with her family eight months ago. Her home now in the part of the city that has been under siege since August 2015. A siege has been imposed on the city by Houthis since late August 2015. MSF was not able to enter medical aid into the enclave area for five months. Only on January 16th, MSF got the authorization and delivered medical aid to Al-Thawra hospital inside the enclave area.
Yemen

Crisis update - January 2017

After 22 months of conflict, Yemen is a full-blown humanitarian emergency. Crisis Update - 31 Jan 2017
 
Six internally displaced families sharing an abandoned building in Al-Batra area in Huban district in Taiz. The situation in Taiz remains extremely critical, with some of the heaviest fighting in the country.
Yemen

“Word had spread that I was a doctor, and people came to me for help all the time”

"There was very little I could do for them. I was able to buy some antibiotics, but I couldn't get hold of things like insulin or asthma medication". Voices from the Field - 30 Jan 2017
 
A child patient and her mother with MSF nurse in MSF mother and child hospital in Al-Hoban area. The mother said that she could not hospitalize her child when she had a fever and spasm. She had to wait until the next morning as there the fighting was ongoing and it was dangerous for them to go out. The family was internally displaced because of the intensive fighting in Taiz. MSF hospital was opened in Al-Houban, Taiz in November 2015. The hospital has a capacity of 100 bed for obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics. the hospital receives at least 300 women and children every day since then.
Yemen

“That evening we had around 30 casualties, both wounded and dead.”

"People in Taiz have immense needs for food, medical care, water and sanitation and shelter," says Christopher McAleer, a former MSF logistician in Yemen. Voices from the Field - 30 Jan 2017
 
MSF medical team at AL-Nasr hospital in Al-Dhale governorate south of Yemen providing medical assistance to patient in the ER, the patient was injured due to road traffic accident.
Yemen

Healthcare under siege

Twenty months since fighting started in Taiz, the city’s health services have largely collapsed – the result of physical damage to hospitals and of shortages of staff and medical supplies. Photo Story - 30 Jan 2017
 
The family of Fakhira carries over her body to a local cemetery, after her house was hit by shelling on July 24, 2015 in Taiz, Yemen. The Family gave their consent.
Yemen

Healthcare under siege in Taiz

In its new report, MSF reiterates its calls on all warring parties to ensure the protection of civilians and health workers and allow the wounded and sick access to healthcare. Report - 30 Jan 2017
 
MSF and SOS Mediterannee search and rescue personnel transfer an infant child to their dinghy in appalling conditions in the Mediterranean sea, 28 December 2016, as they help a boat in distress full of refugees and migrants off the northern coast of Libya.
Mediterranean migration

How to stop the rising tide of death in Mediterranean

"The EU needs to take urgent action to provide safe and legal channels for people to seek asylum and create legal migration pathways that make wider use of legal entry schemes," says Jens Pagotto, head of MSF's mission in Libya and its search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean. Voices from the Field - 18 Jan 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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