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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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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
 
Anaesthesia technician writing down given treatment during surgery in MSF supported hospital, Thi As Sufal district, Ibb governorate.
Yemen

A day at the general rural hospital in Thi As Sufal district

MSF teams work in the emergency room, inpatient ward and operating theatre, and support the maternity and outpatient departments with medications and equipment. MSF also manages laboratory and physiotherapy services, and the x-ray department. Photo Story - 14 Jan 2017
 
MAKHMOUR, IRAQ - OCTOBER 30: Dr Mahmoud Habeb, a psychologist speaks with his patient at a healthcare facility in Debaga 1 with Mental Health Activity Manager Bilal Budair. Scenes at MSF facilities at Debaga camp in Debaga outside of Erbil, Iraq. IDP's seek mental as well as primary healthcare from MŽdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) International. (Photo by Monique Jaques/ For MSF)
Iraq

MSF assists traumatised people from Mosul

Some 30,000 people are living in camps in Hassansham and Khazer, 35 kilometres east of Mosul. MSF’s mental health teams see around 45 patients a day. Project Update - 10 Jan 2017
 
New maternity clinic ensures women deliver safely in Tal Afar district, Iraq
Iraq

New maternity clinic ensures women deliver safely in Tal Maraq in the northwestern district of Tal Afar

MSF has opened a maternity clinic in Tal Maraq, where the conflict has taken a heavy toll on the population. Project Update - 4 Jan 2017
 
A hospital worker salvages the remains of undamaged medication and equipment left in the emergency room after the 15 August Saudi-led coalition airstrike which destroyed the hospital killing 19. In a country where access to healthcare is already extremely limited, the Abs hospital was the only facility catering to over 2,000 IDPs in the area and thousands more along the coast, from the northwestern border of Yemen to the outskirts of Hodeidah. With the destruction of Abs hospital, the closest hospital is now over 3 hours drive away.
Yemen

Crisis update - December 2016

There is an urgent need for the warring parties to reduce the disproportionate impact this war is having on civilians, and for humanitarian actors to scale up assistance for the population. Crisis Update - 31 Dec 2016
 
"Eighteen months ago, my body could no longer bear the weight of the world, and I suffered a heart attack. I arrived at the hospital a lifeless body – the hospital's report said ‘presumed dead’. My heart had stopped completely; it was defibrillated five times and I was given an injection to jump-start it. After undergoing multiple psychosocial support sessions at the Irbid clinic, I gained psychological stability, and overcame my fears of suffering another health complication.” - Muwaffaq Mreish, 51-year old Syrian patient.
Jordan

Even those who’ve managed to dodge bullets can’t escape fatal diseases.

Voices from the Field - 28 Dec 2016
 
" I registered my mother as a patient at MSF’s clinic in Irbid. A medical team pays her home visits each month for a medical check-up as she’s physically unable to get to the clinic." - Muwaffaq Mreish, 51-year old Syrian patient. On 15 December 2014, MSF launched its non-communicable diseases (NCDs) project in two clinics located in Irbid governorate, near the closed borders with Syria. Both clinics continue to provide free-of-charge quality medical treatment to Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians suffering from chronic diseases, in addition to psychosocial support sessions which were introduced in April 2016.
Jordan

Clinic to treat ‘silent killers’ sees patient numbers rise

Statement - 28 Dec 2016
 
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Syria

MSF delivers medical supplies to hospitals and relief items to displaced families from East Aleppo

Project Update - 23 Dec 2016
 
A room on the second floor of the hospital. Since 2013, MSF has been providing drugs, supplies and medical equipment to health facilities in east Aleppo.
Syria

MSF sends medical supplies to the wounded evacuated from east Aleppo

MSF teams are supporting the humanitarian evacuation of east Aleppo. Yesterday our medical and logistic teams conducted first needs assessments in the area. Project Update - 16 Dec 2016
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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