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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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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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Destroyed Ambulances in East Ghouta, Syria
Syria

Medical services stretched beyond limit after shelling in East Ghouta

MSF calls for due precautions to be taken by all belligerents, in accordance with International Humanitarian Law, to avoid hitting civilians and civilian infrastructure including hospitals and residential areas. Statement - 27 Nov 2017
 
Crisis in Borno, Nigeria
Nigeria

What’s happening in the northeast?

More than two million people have fled their homes, with little chance of returning in the near future. An unknown number of people are out of reach of any humanitarian assistance. Project Update - 23 Nov 2017
 
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Central African Republic

MSF suspends humanitarian relief activities following attack in Bangassou

Following a violent armed robbery on Monday 20 November that threatened the lives of its workers, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has evacuated all 58 national and international staff, and suspended medical operations from Bangassou, a town in southeastern Central African Republic. Press Release - 22 Nov 2017
 
MSF Response Rohingya Crisis
Rohingya refugee crisis

Crisis update – November 2017

Since 25 August, more than 620,000 Rohingya refugees have fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh. Crisis Update - 20 Nov 2017
 
Medical care in Ain Issa camp
Syria

“During the battle for Raqqa, nobody cared about the civilians”

"People described how many inhabitants who were forced to go out into the street to find water ended up wounded or dead." Voices from the Field - 15 Nov 2017
 
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Mediterranean migration

"The Crossing", night portraits on the rescue boat Prudence

"The Crossing" is a photographic project by Andrew McConnell/Panos Pictures based on night portraits and testimonies from people rescued by the search and rescue Prudence boat in international Mediterranean Sea waters in July 2017. Photo Story - 15 Nov 2017
 
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Myanmar

Destruction of MSF Clinics in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar

Maps detailing the destruction of MSF's clinics in northern Rahkine State, Myanmar Report - 15 Nov 2017
 
First rescue seen from rhib 2
Mediterranean migration

Nearly 600 people rescued but unknown number missing presumed drowned

Five hundred and eighty-eight people are now safely onboard Aquarius, a search and rescue vessel run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and SOS Méditerranée , but an unknown number of people are missing, presumed drowned, after a gruelling day of rescues in the Mediterranean on 1 November. Project Update - 3 Nov 2017
 
MSF President Joanne Liu visits emergency projects in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Rohingya refugee crisis

“The scars of this atrocity will run generations deep”

MSF International President Dr Joanne Liu recently returned from a visit to Bangladesh, where she saw the Rohingya crisis unfolding firsthand. On 23 October 2017, Dr Liu attended a Pledging Conference in Geneva, organised by OCHA, IOM and UNHCR and co-hosted by the European Union and Kuwait, to discuss the plight of refugees sheltering in informal settlements in Cox’s Bazar. Speech - 30 Oct 2017
 
MSF President Joanne Liu visits emergency projects in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Rohingya refugee crisis

“People are in survival mode”

“This pledging conference should be a wake-up call. It is our chance to mobilise and avert a second catastrophe to restore the dignity of a population in great need.” Speech - 23 Oct 2017
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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