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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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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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7697 Results
 
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South Africa

Lusikisiki celebrates 2,200 people on ARV treatment at hand-over ceremony

HIV/AIDS partnership celebration in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: "Implementing comprehensive HIV services in Lusikisiki has needed many 'out-of-the-box' solutions to overcome the challenges we faced," said Dr Hermann Reuter, MSF project co-ordinator. "The only way to make this programme sustainable and replicable is to ensure that those solutions are urgently translated into policy changes at National and Provincial levels." Press Release - 12 Oct 2006
 
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Russia

Helping to reconstruct those damaged by war in Chechnya

MSF works with prominent Chechen surgeons, like Professor Yandarov (left), and Dr Khunarikov (right), a vascular specialist, coordinates the program. Both men worked in Chechnya during some of the heaviest phases of the war, living in basements and operating on patients in makeshift field-hospitals and administrative buildings. Project Update - 11 Oct 2006
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Dirty hands disease: MSF emergency team fights typhoid fever epidemic in Kikwit

Since August 20, more than 650 cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Kikwit, Bandundu Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A team from Médecins Sans Frontières' Pool d'Urgence Congo (PUC) is providing support to Kikwit's main hospital to ensure treatment of patients free of charge. Community workers are raising awareness among the population about basic hygiene practices, in order to halt this serious epidemic of the so-called "dirty hands disease." Project Update - 11 Oct 2006
 
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Pakistan

Interview with national staff, Usman Abid, assistant logistician in Islamabad

"Being the month of Ramadan, it was really painful to see the destruction of houses and dead bodies of people. Many people's reaction was thinking that it was the day of justice." Project Update - 10 Oct 2006
 
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Pakistan

One year after the earthquake in Kashmir: Interview with national staff member, Sajjad Hussein Khan, Assistant Administrator in Bagh

"The first priority was to transport injured people to Rawalpindi or Islamabad to receive adequate treatment, given that the Bagh hospital had collapsed and was completely destroyed. Voices from the Field - 10 Oct 2006
 
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Pakistan

Interview with national staff, Samran Afzal Emanuel, Supply Officer in Islamabad

"I joined MSF just a few days after the earthquake, on October 22, 2005, as a supply officer. At that time MSF was fully involved in their struggle to save the dying population." Voices from the Field - 10 Oct 2006
 
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India

As Novartis challenges India's patent law, MSF warns access to medicines is under threat

"The public health safeguards of the Indian Patent law have given hope to many who depend on generics manufacture. The Novartis litigation is a direct challenge to those safeguards," said Leena Menghaney, MSF Campaigner in India. Press Release - 26 Sep 2006
 
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Malaria house calls in Sierra Leone

MSF has been looking at ways to change the situation where so many children get infected then develop life-threatening, severe malaria. Project Update - 25 Sep 2006
 
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Sudan

What impact does the security situation have on MSF work in Darfur

Interview between Denis Lemasson, Operations Desk for MSF in France and Bruno Jochum, Director of Operations for MSF in the Switzerland office. Voices from the Field - 17 Sep 2006
 
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Sudan

In the Darfur trap

"We have very limited access to the north of Darfur. So we don't even know what kind of state the people in some areas are in, whether they have access to water, health or food. Neither the government nor the different rebel groups give us the access we need; we are targeted from all corners. There is no question that we are unable to function as we would like," concludes Jean Sebastien Matte. Project Update - 11 Sep 2006
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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