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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 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 family of Syrian refugees living in a garage in the southern Turkish city of Kilis. Photo for the Syrian Exodus project.
Syria

Syrian Exodus: Carrying the weight of the war

Syrian refugees in neighbouring Turkey may have evaded the guns and missiles, but there is no escape from the physical and emotional scars of the conflict Project Update - 26 Jul 2013
 
Emergency room of an MSF hospital in northern Syria (Aleppo province). The hospital has attended 601 deliveries and provided almost 15,000 consultations and 446 surgical operations up to April 2013. It is focused on obstetric care and surgery. Photo for the Syrian Exodus project.
Syria

Syrian Exodus: "The day my village was bombed"

Airstrikes and clashes dominate daily life in Syria Project Update - 25 Jul 2013
 
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Syria

From birth to death - Testimony of an MSF surgeon

US Surgeon Steve Rubin describes his work in one of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospitals in northern Syria, where MSF treats common health problems as well as injuries inflicted by the war. Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 2013
 
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Syria

Testimony of a Syrian doctor

A Syrian doctor working with MSF explains the medical needs now that Syria is at war. Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 2013
 
An inflatable operating theatre is erected inside this MSF makeshift hospital in Syria (a converted chicken farm) as it is an efficient way to maintain a sterile environment. Surgeon Steve Rubin operating.
Syria

Diabetes, shrapnel wounds and newborn twins

In Syria the number of people in need of urgent medical care keeps increasing. MSF runs six hospitals, four health centres and several mobile clinic programmes inside Syria. Project Update - 23 Jul 2013
 
Gaza City. Gaza Strip. January 27 , 2009. A medical unit of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). A doctor plays with Hala, 1 year old, burnt on her body, next to her mother. *** Local Caption *** <br/>Le 18 janvier 2009, soit 22 jours apres le debut de l¿offensive Israelienne, l¿arret des bombardements a permis a MSF de reprendre et renforcer ses activites medicales dans la bande de Gaza. Les trois cliniques (soins post-op à Gaza city, pediatrie à Beit Lahia, dans le nord, et soins post-op a Khan Younis, dans le sud) ont pu rouvrir ; 80% des 70 membres du staff ont repris le travail. Deux blocs operatoires et une unite de soins intensifs de dix lits ont ete installes sous deux tentes gonflables, a proximite de la clinique de soins post-operatoires de MSF dans la ville de Gaza. Des medicaments, des kits comprenant le materiel necessaire pour 300 operations chirurgicales et 100 hospitalisations ont ete receptionnes le 19 janvier, dans un fret de 21 tonnes de materiel au total. Dix premiers patients ont ete identifies pour etre operes par nos équipes. Il s¿agit de chirurgie de reprise, essentiellement orthopedique, activite identifiee par MSF comme ayant une reelle valeur ajoutee a cet instant. Le 26 janvier, notre equipe chirurgicale a opere les trois premiers patients.
Palestine

Intensive care training for doctors

Project Update - 27 Jun 2013
 
*** Local Caption ***Triage.<br/> Darvazeh Ghar district, south of the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, is one of the poorest in the Iranian capital. There coexist daily workers, traders, street children, sex workers and drug users. Marginalized, destitute and sometimes without identity papers, these people have very limited access to basic health care. In April 2012, Doctors without borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened in this area a health facility dedicated to women and children under five years old with a specific attention to those most at risk of infectious diseases such as HIV/aids , tuberculosis or hepatitis. MSF teams receive on average sixty patients per day: antenatal and postnatal care, family planning counseling, and pediatric consultations. In one year, more than 12,000 consultations were carried out, including nearly 1,700 gynecology cases. A quarter of the patients are children under five years old.
Iran

Surviving in Tehran’s southern neighborhoods

Project Update - 21 Jun 2013
 
Syrian families have taken refuge in a building under construction in Al Marj. MSF social workers talk with the families, assessing their needs and referring them to MSF clinics if needed.
Lebanon

“We are not tourists – we are people fleeing a war”

For many refugees from Syria, getting a roof over their heads and keeping their families fed is a massive struggle. On World Refugee Day, MSF warns that dire living conditions are affecting people’s health. Project Update - 20 Jun 2013
 
A transit camp in Aleppo province, next to the Turkish border. Around November 2012, 4,000 displaced people were staying in this temporary settlement – in April 2013, there were around 10,000.
Syria

Measles epidemic signals growing humanitarian needs

A measles epidemic is sweeping through districts of northern Syria, with up to 7,000 known cases, an indication that humanitarian needs are increasing and the country’s healthcare system is in a state of collapse after more than two years of civil war. Press Release - 18 Jun 2013
 
Since the beginning of the year, MSF is working in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, to help reduce the stigma faced by people living with HIV and improve their access to quality healthcare. Meeting at the AID Association, one of the organisations working in Yemen to support people living with HIV.
Yemen

HIV/AIDS in Yemen: Fighting discrimination

Crisis Update - 12 Jun 2013
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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