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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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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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2018 Results
 
The tough decision to leave your country
Syria

The tough decision to leave your country

Testimonies from MSF staff who made the tough decision to leave Syria. Voices from the Field - 29 Oct 2015
 
Sana’a. Yemen
Yemen

Antiretroviral treatment beneath the bombs

More than 1,300 people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral treatment in Yemen, around half of them in Sana’a, the capital. Dr Abdulfattah Al-Alimi, Field coordinator and medical team leader of MSF's HIV/AIDS project in Yemen, discuss how the current war is affecting the patients' treatment. "In the end, this is our job and responsibility: to find a way so no one has to interrupt their treatment because of the war," says Dr Abdulfattah Al-Alimi. " These are difficult times for my country, but we are trying to prevent them from being even more so for people living with the virus." Voices from the Field - 29 Oct 2015
 
Massive displacement
Syria

Massive displacement in Northern Syria as violence escalates and intensifies

At least 35 Syrian patients and medical staff have been killed, and 72 wounded, in a significant increase of air strikes on hospitals in Northern Syria, according to health staff supported by MSF inside Syria. As a result of the wider attacks in the region, tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes. Crisis Update - 29 Oct 2015
 
District Headquarter Hospital
Pakistan

Earthquake response – after initial influxes of injured, MSF assessing further needs

Following the 26 October earthquake that rocked parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, MSF's medical projects in north western Pakistan were faced with an initial influx of seriously wounded. After treating the injured, the next priority is to assess the needs and identify if there are any urgent follow-up requirements. Crisis Update - 28 Oct 2015
 
Yemen

MSF hospital destroyed by airstrikes

Airstrikes carried out late last night by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen destroyed a small MSF supported hospital. Hospital staff and patients managed to escape before subsequent airstrikes occurred over a two hour period. With the hospital destroyed, at least 200,000 people now have no access to lifesaving medical care. Press Release - 27 Oct 2015
 
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Yemen

Medical aid blocked from entering besieged area in Taiz

Despite weeks of intense negotiations with Houthi officials, stocks of essential medical supplies cannot be delivered to two hospitals in a besieged enclave of the city of Taiz, in southern Yemen. Today MSF’s trucks have been stopped again at Houthi’s checkpoints and denied access to the area. Press Release - 25 Oct 2015
 
Kunduz Hospital After the Attack
Afghanistan

Death toll from the MSF hospital attack in Kunduz still rising

As of 23 October the revised figures now stand at 13 MSF staff dead and 1 MSF staff presumed dead, 10 patients dead and 2 patients presumed dead. Efforts are ongoing to determine the identities of seven other unrecognisable bodies found in the wreck of the hospital, all of whom have now been buried. These unfortunately may not be final numbers. Crisis Update - 23 Oct 2015
 
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Palestine

MSF attends five times more patients than in regular activities after peak in violence

Since 2 October, MSF teams haves provided mental health psycho-social services to around 521 patients with 40 group psycho-educations sessions at community level and 95 psychological first aid services. Project Update - 22 Oct 2015
 
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Syria

Crisis Update - October 2015

What was an already dismal situation for millions trapped by conflict in Syria at the beginning of 2015 deteriorated further throughout the year, pushing hundreds of thousands of people to make the hard decision to make a dangerous and sometimes deadly crossing into Europe Crisis Update - 22 Oct 2015
 
Medical and mental healthcare for people displaced by violence in the Lake Chad area.
Chad

Plunging from one nutrition crisis to the next

MSF's medical teams are responding to a nutrition crisis in Bokoro, in the Hadjer-Lamis region of central Chad.“Providing feeding programmes and medical assistance to acutely malnourished children is essential, but it is simply not enough to stop hundreds of thousands of children across Chad repeatedly descending into emergency levels of malnutrition,” says Alberto Jodra, MSF head of mission in Chad. “Far more needs to be done to address malnutrition’s multiple structural causes and to ease the suffering of communities like Bokoro from plunging from one hunger crisis to the next.” Project Update - 16 Oct 2015
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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