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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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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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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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1290 Results
 
IRAQ – The “Behind the scenes” humanitarians / Muammar Al-Hiyali
Iraq

Humanitarians behind the scenes in Iraq

Across all of MSF's projects worldwide, the vast majority - usually more than 90% - are people hired locally in the project's area. And despite our name meaning 'doctors without borders' in English, our medical teams rely on a solid team of humanitarians who don't have a medical background. Voices from the Field - 20 Oct 2020
 
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Mediterranean migration

Five things to know about the Mediterranean search and rescue crisis

Five search and rescue boats detained, including MSF's Sea-Watch 4. In five months. Here are five things to know about the current situation with search and rescue in the Mediterranean sea. Project Update - 16 Oct 2020
 
NCD - Khanaqin-Alwand, Iraq
Iraq

MSF hands over last projects in Diyala, Iraq, after six years

MSF teams provided healthcare services in Diyala governorate from late 2014 until August 2020 when they handed over their latest projects to the Health Directorate and other local and international organisations. Project Update - 13 Oct 2020
 
World Mental Health Day Package-Lebanon
Lebanon

“I needed to make myself useful to overcome the panic”

MSF psychologist Sara Tannouri in Lebanon speaks of the blast that devastated her home city Beirut, and its impact on mental wellbeing, including her own. Voices from the Field - 9 Oct 2020
 
COVID-19 ward in Al-Kindy hospital, Baghdad
Iraq

COVID-19 outbreak in Baghdad is “very alarming”

Iraq has registered 320,000 cases of COVID-19 and an average 4,000 new cases are reported daily. The health system is under huge pressure. Project Update - 24 Sep 2020
 
Surge in COVID-19 cases adds new challenges to the humanitarian response in north-west Syria
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Ten-fold increase in COVID-19 cases adds new challenges in northwest Syria

In just a month, the number of COVID-19 cases in northwest Syria have increased 10-fold, putting added pressure on the health system and creating more challenges in an already-dire situation.
 Project Update - 22 Sep 2020
 
Palestine: Tackling COVID-19 in Hebron, the epicenter of the outbreak
Palestine

Tackling COVID-19 in Hebron, the epicentre of the outbreak in Palestine

MSF teams are supporting local health authorities in Hebron, Palestine, in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, in an area where a third of cases in the West Bank have been reported. Project Update - 21 Sep 2020
 
Wound and burn care medical point
Lebanon

“The explosion did not distinguish between its victims and neither should the aid response”

A month after a massive explosion tore through central Beirut, Lebanon, MSF's Jonathan Whittall explains the situation and our response. Interview - 4 Sep 2020
 
Al Hol Camp - Eastern Al Hasakah Governorate
Syria

“In Al-Hol camp, almost no healthcare is available”

MSF emergency manager for Syria Will Turner describes the situation across northeast Syria and in Al-Hol camp for displaced people as COVID-19 spreads. Interview - 27 Aug 2020
 
Wound and burn care medical point
Lebanon

MSF provides medical and mental health support to Beirut's most affected communities

A week after the blast in Beirut, Lebanon, MSF’s emergency response focuses on three main areas of intervention to help the most affected communities. Project Update - 12 Aug 2020
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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