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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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Yemen, Aden, 17 December 2018 - A building of Aden destroyed by fighting in 2015. On 25 March 2015, Ansar Allah troops took over the airport of Aden. Intense fighting occurred inside the city from March to August 2015, between Ansar Allah and the former President Ali Abdallah Saleh against the Southern resistance, backed by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition. During this period, MSF teams in Aden hospital mainly treated war wounded patients, being one of the very few remaining surgical hospital in Aden city.
Yemen

Chaos and fighting in Aden as over 50 wounded admitted in just a few hours

A sharp increase in fighting in Aden, in southern Yemen, resulted in over 50 people being admitted to MSF's hospital in the city in the space of just a few hours. Press Release - 29 Aug 2019
 
A doctor tends to a patient in Aden, Yemen, 1 August 2019.
Yemen

Hospital in Aden overwhelmed by wounded in intense fighting

In less than 24 hours, Médecins Sans Frontières has treated 119 people in its hospital in Aden, Yemen, and the wounded continue to pour in. Press Release - 10 Aug 2019
 
Daily life scene at the ISP camp for internally displaced people in Bunia. Thousands have fled their homes due to intercommunal violence in Ituri.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Urgent humanitarian response needed on unprecedented crises in northeast DRC

We are urging international organisations to come the aid of people in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, as hundreds of thousands are people are in need of assistance following four concurrent humanitarian crises. Press Release - 27 Jun 2019
 
General view of detention centre On September 2nd, 276 people were brought by the Libyan coast guard to Khoms (120 km east of Tripoli). They were then transferred to detention center where MSF works. Reportedly, they were in two rubber coats, one stopped due to engine failure, while the other boat continued to navigate for several hours before deflating and sinking. Survivors told MSF teams that over a hundred people died in the shipwreck.
Libya

Time running out for evacuations of trapped refugees in Tripoli amid shooting

On 23 April, reports surfaced of a violent incident in a Tripoli detention centre, where trapped migrants are being held. MSF has found evidence that multiple people were shot, and urges for all migrants' immediate evacuation. Press Release - 26 Apr 2019
 
Caretaker with a patient coming from Taiz city to the mother and child hospital in Taiz houban.
Yemen

Mothers and children left to die in Yemen without access to medical care

A new MSF report describes how pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable to high rates of mortality due to a lack of easy access to hospitals in Yemen's war-torn healthcare system. Press Release - 24 Apr 2019
 
Yemen, Aden, 16 December 2018 – Entrance of OT and ICU of MSF trauma hospital in Aden. The hospital opened in 2012.
Yemen

Medical admissions in Aden suspended after patient kidnapped and killed

MSF has suspended admissions to our hospital in Aden, Yemen, following deteriorating security in the city, including the kidnapping and killing of a patient. Press Release - 4 Apr 2019
 
One of the CTC buildings in Abs.
Yemen

Unacceptable investigation findings into Abs health centre bombing

MSF is dismayed by several findings of the team appointed by the Saudi and Emirati-led Coalition (SELC) to investigate the bombing of an MSF cholera treatment centre in Abs, Yemen, on 11 June 2018. Press Release - 6 Feb 2019
 
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Iraq

A new emergency room for Al ‘Salaam hospital, East Mosul

MSF has completed the construction of a new emergency room (ER) in the Al ‘Salaam and Al’ Shifaa hospital complex, to increase the capacity of the health facility and improve access to high-quality emergency care for the population of East Mosul. Press Release - 18 Dec 2018
 
Mohamad Abu Allola, 24 years old, was shot in his leg on 30th March while participating in the 'Great March of Return' protest at the fence in Gaza.
Palestine

Gazans’ injuries risk permanently shattering lives

The huge numbers of patients with complex and serious gunshot wounds are overwhelming the healthcare system in Gaza, leaving thousands in danger of infection and disability. Press Release - 29 Nov 2018
 
Yemen, gouvernorat de Saada, Haydan, mars 2018. A l'intérieur de l'école de Haydan, bombardée en 2016 par la coalition internationale dirigée par l'Arabie Saoudite. Saada governorate in Yemen, Haydan, March 2018.Inside Haydan school, bombarded in 2016 by the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
Yemen

Health structures threatened by fighting in Hodeidah

MSF teams have treated more than 500 war-wounded people in two weeks. We are extremely worried for the patients and staff threatened by fighting very close to our facilities. Press Release - 21 Nov 2018
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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