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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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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Pont-Bascule site in Garoua-Boulai in Cameroon. The refugees on the site have started to build makeshift shelters.
Cameroon

Deplorable living conditions for CAR refugees

Living conditions are deplorable for thousands fleeing CAR for Cameroon Press Release - 28 Feb 2014
 
In Gore, in southern Chad, more than 6,000 refugees who fled violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) do their best to find a shelter in and around an old hospital . They lack everything, especially food. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is running a health center in collaboration with local authorities. MSF teams are also present in Bitoye and Sido where respectively over 6000 and 13,000 CAR refugees are in desperate need.
Central African Republic

CAR Refugees in need of emergency food aid

Refugees from CAR in Chad need emergency food aid Press Release - 28 Feb 2014
 
Photo taken by Jean-Pierre Amigo, MSF emergency coordinator, who went to support the team in Leer after he was evacuated from Benitiu. Here MSF’s medical team treats wounded people in an overcrowded outpatient department. Very few other health centres were running, and less than two weeks later the team were forced to evacuate from Leer. They have not yet been able to return.
South Sudan

Medical care under fire in South Sudan

Medical care has come under fire in Malakal and Leer, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without lifesaving assistance. Press Release - 26 Feb 2014
 
Abdul Ghani from Garsmir holds his 8 year old daughter Fatima waiting in line for an OPD appointment at Boost Hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, Southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan

The ongoing struggle to access healthcare in Afghanistan

Medical care in Afghanistan remains ill-adapted to meet growing needs created by ongoing conflict. Press Release - 25 Feb 2014
 
A lady waits for a consultation at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic set up at the camp for displaced people in the grounds of the United Nations Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Juba, South Sudan, on January 12, 2014.
South Sudan

Dozens wounded treated amid new wave of violence in Malakal

More than 150 wounded people have been treated by MSF after a new wave of violence hit Malakal. Press Release - 20 Feb 2014
 
Dr Gilles Koukpo, MSF paediatrician, is treating a little girl who just arrived at the hospital in a state of shock, severely dehydrated. If not treated on time, children with measles can develop severe medical complications.
Democratic Republic of Congo

More measles vaccinations needed

MSF remains concerned that more needs to be done to ease a measles epidemic in CAR Press Release - 19 Feb 2014
 
MSF staff at Mpoko camp are attending to the wounded man, who is about to be referred for emergency surgery at the Hopital Communautaire in another part of town, where another MSF team is working.
Central African Republic

International efforts to protect civilians in Central African Republic failing to stop slaughter

The extreme levels of violence against civilians illustrates the failure of international efforts.
Press Release - 18 Feb 2014
 
In June 2010, MSF opened a hospital on the outskirts of Al-Mazraq, in the north of Yemen’s Hajjah governorate, close to the region of Sadaa, with the aim of providing care to the displaced people living in the area. For nearly three years, MSF provided primary and specialist care to the displaced and local populations. The project closed in June 2013 because the IDP situation has stabilized.
Yemen

MSF suspends activities in Ad Dhale following security concerns

MSF suspends its support to the Al Nasser Hospital in Ad Dhale due to an increase in insecurity. Press Release - 15 Feb 2014
 
District Matoto, Zone Tombolia, Site Kokoma MSF launched a vaccination campaign against measles in an attempt to control the epidemic that was declared by the government of Guinea on 14 January 2014. Together with the Ministry of Health, the teams of MSF should vaccinate around 400 000 children, ages 6 months to ten years, in 3 districts (Matoto, Ratoma, Matam) of the capital Conakry. 400 personnel will be working for two weeks to orchestrate this emergency response.
Guinea

MSF vaccinates 400,000 children against measles

MSF launched a vaccination campaign against measles, expects to vaccinate 394,000 children. Press Release - 7 Feb 2014
 
Dorassio’s older sister, Cynthia, comes every day to provide support, help him wash and eat, and keep him company. <br/>Dorassio L. is 23. He is among the many victims of the inter-communal violence taking place in the Central African Republic today. On January 18, he was shot in the arm in Bouar, in the country’s Northwest region. His arm had to be amputated. He was treated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Bouar, and then transferred by plane to the Bangui Community Hospital, where our surgical teams continue to monitor his condition. <br/> In a poor country, where there is no treatment for people with disabilities, what kind of future will Dorassio have? *** Local Caption *** MSF has been managing surgical emergencies at the hospital since early December, treating an average of 140 patients every week. One-third of them are hospitalized so that they can be operated on. Our surgical activities focus on victims of violence (including injuries from gunshots, knife attacks, grenade explosions and arrows). The patients’ prognosis for survival is often uncertain. In many cases, patients will, unfortunately, suffer permanent consequences from open fractures and complex wounds.
Central African Republic

MSF condemns continued attacks against civilians

The extreme violence in CAR has reached intolerable and unprecedented levels, says MSF. Press Release - 7 Feb 2014
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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