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How we work

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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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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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Niger, April 2010<br/> These photos were taken on the opening day of a meningitis vaccination campaign that ran for approximately two weeks. MSF assisted the government with the logistical organisation of the campaign, which succeeded in vaccinating 300,000 children and young adults between the ages of 2 and 30 in Zinder, Maradi and Madaoua. The campaign was executed in response to an epidemic of W135 meningococcal meningitis- the vaccine protects against the A, C and W135 strains of the disease for 3 years.
Burkina Faso

MSF to support roll-out of promising new vaccine for meningitis

“Thanks to an innovative way of doing research and development where the need for an affordable product was factored in from the very start, this vaccine costs only 40 US cents per dose” said Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Director of MSF's Access Campaign. “But despite its low price, no donor has yet come forward to offer financial support to implement the vaccine beyond the first three countries. Press Release - 6 Dec 2010
 
Waiting room at the 1 de Junho, a Health Center, assisted by MSF in Mavalane, Maputo, Mozambique.
Mozambique

MSF points at achievements and challenges in fighting HIV in Mozambique

Although important achievements in the last decade have allowed over 200,000 people living with HIV in Mozambique to receive life-saving treatment, many challenges remain in the fight against HIV/AIDS warns the international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report. Press Release - 21 Nov 2010
 
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Haiti

Cholera in Haiti: MSF calling on all actors to step up response

Despite the huge presence of international organizations in Haiti, the cholera response has to date been inadequate in meeting the needs of the population. Press Release - 18 Nov 2010
 
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Kenya

Urgent humanitarian assistance required for Somali refugees living outside Dagahaley camp

At least 700 Somali families who fled the war in Somalia now face unacceptable living conditions in spontaneous settlements outside the overcrowded refugee camp of Dagahaley in Kenya. The rainy season having just started, their situation has become even more precarious. MSF urgently calls upon the Kenyan authorities and aid actors to reach an agreement to ensure appropriate humanitarian assistance. Press Release - 12 Nov 2010
 
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Myanmar

MSF calls for increased response to Cyclone Giri aftermath

More than two weeks after Cyclone Giri struck the west coast of Myanmar on October 22, the emergency response is insufficient to meet people’s needs. The cyclone caused massive destruction in villages east and south of Sittwe, Rakhine State. Press Release - 10 Nov 2010
 
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Global

Open letter to the U.S. government about the quality of food aid

"On the eve of World Food Day 2010, I write on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to urge the U.S. to stop supplying nutritionally substandard food to malnourished children in developing countries". - Sophie Delaunay, Executive Director?U.S Section of MSF Press Release - 15 Oct 2010
 
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Global

Reforming quality of global food aid critical to fight childhood malnutrition

Top donor countries must end double standard of supplying nutritionally substandard foods to young children in malnutrition 'hotspots' Press Release - 13 Oct 2010
 
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Access to medicines

First patent goes into the medicines patent pool drug companies must now follow suit

The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced today it will license a patent on the HIV medicine darunavir to the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism designed to boost access to more affordable AIDS drugs in the developing world. The move acts as a wake-up call to pharmaceutical companies to put patents on key AIDS medicines into the Pool, according to international humanitarian medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or MSF). Press Release - 30 Sep 2010
 
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Morocco

MSF raises concern over the medical condition of migrants after mass expulsions by the Moroccan police

"Our team has witnessed the direct impact of these mass raids and expulsions on the medical condition and mental health of the migrants," said Jorge Martin, MSF's head of mission in Morocco. Press Release - 30 Sep 2010
 
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Access to medicines

Lack of funding undercuts opportunities to overcome global health threats

Fight against childhood malnutrition and HIV could be transformed by innovative funding mechanisms currently tabled at UN Millennium Development Goals Summit. Press Release - 20 Sep 2010
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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