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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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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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MSF clinic and people waiting in the shade of trees in Goz Aschiye.
Chad

In eastern Chad, people fleeing Sudan continue to face unmet needs amid limited response

In eastern Chad, people escaping the relentless violence in Sudan persistently encounter unmet needs amidst a constrained response. Press Release - 20 Feb 2024
 
Nasser hospital
Gaza-Israel war

Displaced people forced to evacuate Nasser hospital have nowhere to go in Gaza

Israeli Forces have issued an evacuation order to thousands of displaced people sheltering inside Nasser hospital, Gaza, Palestine, leaving them with nowhere to go. Press Release - 14 Feb 2024
 
Medical staff providing treatment inside the MSF-supported Bolomba Ebola treatment center.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Vaccination halves mortality among people infected with Ebola

A study conducted by MSF's Epicentre and other research organisations confirms the importance of vaccination against Ebola during epidemics: vaccination reduces not only the risk of infection, but also the risk of death. Press Release - 8 Feb 2024
 
View of the intensive care unit building at the general referral hospital of Mweso, North-Kivu, supported by MSF teams since 2005 in partnership with the Ministry of Health. Between January and June 2023, about 1,400 admissions were recorded in the intensive care unit.
Democratic Republic of Congo

People and medical facilities caught in crossfire as violence escalates in North Kivu

A new wave of armed clashes in North Kivu, DRC, over the past couple of weeks has caused thousands of people to flee and MSF medical teams receiving huge influxes of war-wounded patients. Press Release - 7 Feb 2024
 
[FR] Pendant la nuit du mercredi 24 et du jeudi 25 janvier, une petite embarcation semi-rigide (appelée aussi « small boat ») quittait le canal de Gravelines, près de Grand-Fort-Philippe, dans le nord de la France, en direction de l’Angleterre. La police essayait d’empêcher les dernières personnes d’embarquer le semi-rigide avant qu’il ne prenne le large pour tenter la traversée de la Manche. 25/01/2024, Gravelines, nord de la France. [EN] During the night of Wednesday January 24 and Thursday January 25, a small boat left the Gravelines canal, near Grand-Fort-Philippe in northern France, for England. Police were trying to prevent the last people from boarding the boat before it set off to attempt the Channel crossing.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF offers temporary shelter for people stuck in dire conditions in Calais

Our teams have launched an emergency accommodation system for the most vulnerable people, including migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, living in terrible conditions in Calais, northern France. Press Release - 6 Feb 2024
 
The MSF flag flutters in the wind at MSF’s clinic in Al-Tanideba camp for Tigray refugees, in Eastern Sudan.
Sudan

Urgent response needed amid high death rates and malnutrition crisis in North Darfur

MSF calls for urgent, mass mobilisation to save lives in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, where a malnutrition crisis is causing an alarming number of deaths. Press Release - 5 Feb 2024
 
An MSF speed boat leaves Toch to deliver hepatitis E vaccines to the MSF hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State.
South Sudan

MSF launches mass vaccination campaign amid deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan

As hepatitis E spreads in Old Fangak, we aim to vaccinate over 12,000 women and girls, who are at greatest risk of death from the deadly disease. Press Release - 30 Jan 2024
 
"I guess the war has been going on for so long now, and people have been displaced for so long now, that any sort of coping mechanism that they had at the beginning of the war, any money saved up, are probably now exhausted."
Gaza-Israel war

UNRWA funding suspensions jeopardise lifeline for millions in Palestine

We are deeply alarmed by the decision of some countries to suspend their funding to UNRWA, the UN agency for relief of Palestinians. Press Release - 29 Jan 2024
 
Hundreds of people camp in temporary shelters in the south of Gaza. The general conditions for most of these people are appalling: they live in temporary structures made of a few pieces of wood banged together and covered in plastic sheeting. Gaza, 24 November 2023.
Gaza-Israel war

With Nasser hospital out of commission, people in southern Gaza run out of healthcare options

Amid ongoing heavy fighting and bombing in Khan Younis, south Gaza, vital medical services have collapsed at Nasser hospital, currently the largest functioning health facility in the enclave.
 Press Release - 26 Jan 2024
 
My Name is Souad Abdullah, I came all the way from Mayo, south Khartoum to Wad Madani in journey of three days. we did not have enough money to cover transportation costs We have a donkey and a caro, which is a wooden cart pulled by a donkey. Six of my children had to ride with me. I was five months pregnant at the time. When we arrived here, we were suffering; there were no bathrooms, water, food, or drinking water. The organizations then arrived and intervened, providing us with water, soap, and buckets, and our conditions improved slightly. Doctors Without Borders intervened and took care of us from the beginning, as the children suffered from sunstroke. The organization was present throughout the week. They also help me delivering my baby girl and did their best In this school, it's not safe; there are scorpions and snakes It has been more than a month since the organizations came to us. I have no prospect of returning to Khartoum because of the huge destruction that has occurred there, as well as the demolition of institutions and hospitals.
Sudan

Restrictions and lack of medicines deprive people in Khartoum state of lifesaving care

In Sudan's ongoing conflict, healthcare access is limited in Khartoum state due to closed facilities, scarce medicines, and restrictions on travel. Press Release - 18 Jan 2024
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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