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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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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 Websites

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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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MSF teams run mobile clinics to provide medical care for IDPs. They provide primary healthcare consultations, chronic disease treatment as well as reproductive healthcare consultations. On average, the team is performing 60 consultations each day.
Iraq

Hospitals destroyed by air strikes leave Iraqis without healthcare

Hospitals destroyed by air strikes leave Iraqis without healthcare in Iraq Press Release - 24 Jul 2014
 
Kelly Dilworth, MSF anesthetist, in the intensive care unit of the burnt service of Shifa hospital where two brothers, 8 and 4 years old, are hospitalized after being severely burned when a missile fell on their house.
Palestine

Israel Must Stop Bombing Trapped Civilians

The majority of the dead and wounded in Gaza are civilians and medical workers are also coming under fire Press Release - 21 Jul 2014
 
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Central African Republic

Retrospective mortality study reveals massive levels of death due to violence against Muslims during peak of conflict

Report demonstrates massive amount of violence directed at Muslims Press Release - 16 Jul 2014
 
El Sereif camp, near the South Darfur State capital Nyala, saw an influx of newly displaced people in March and April, fleeing conflict and the total destruction of their villages in areas to the southwest of Nyala. The MSF medical team that had been working in the camp since August 2013 was already responding to the health consequences of poor living conditions. While some of the new arrivals have now left the camp, the 4,500 that have stayed are in particularly terrible conditions, sheltering on a patch of desert with almost none of the basics essentials to sustain life. Before the new influx, camp residents were surviving on less than five litres of water per person per day when the recognized minimum for emergencies is 15 litres – and the new arrivals have access to even less water, not enough to adequately sustain human life.
Sudan

Extremely poor living conditions in Darfur camp

Refugees have barely even essential items to survive Press Release - 2 Jul 2014
 
The South Sudanese key strategic town of Malakal came under attack on February 18. The clashes between government and opposition forces forced thousands of people to flee to other locations or to the UN compound in the town. The Malakal Teaching hospital was attacked by armed men. Upon their return to the hospital, MSF teams found eleven bodies. Some patients had been shot in their beds.
South Sudan

Pervasive violence against healthcare

Violence and destruction of medical facilities are denying medical services to the most vulnerable people Press Release - 1 Jul 2014
 
NFI distributions for 250 families done in Bashiqa, Ninewa side of the border, today. A second distribution is planned for after tomorrow.
Iraq

MSF calls for respect of medical facilities

All parties to the conflict in Iraq must spare civilians and health structures Press Release - 18 Jun 2014
 
On 20 January 2015, the hospital managed by MSF in Frandala village, South Kordofan region in the Nuba Mountains, has been directly targeted during a bombing lead by Sudanese Air Force (SAF). This is one of the indiscriminate bombing occurring regularly in South Kordofan in the war between Khartoum Authorities and the rebels groups in the Nuba Mountains. The Frandala hospital was previously bombed on 16 June, 2014. That attack took place despite Sudanese government’s knowledge of the MSF presence.
Sudan

MSF hospital bombed in Sudan

Amidst Bombing of South Kordofan Village, MSF Facility Attacked Press Release - 17 Jun 2014
 
Many people displaced by the conflict have found refuge in Mboko airport, Bangui, CAR.
Central African Republic

Systematic violence affecting civilians and exposing them to more displacement and disease in Ouaka Region of CAR

Systematic violence affecting civilians and exposing them to more displacement and disease Press Release - 16 Jun 2014
 
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Central African Republic

Fresh attack on MSF in Ndélé

Following fresh attacks in Ndélé (CAR), MSF evacuated a number of staff members Press Release - 3 Jun 2014
 
Access to hospitals and health centres has been a challenge for MSF teams in Bangui while fighting has been taking place in the city. In the pictures, a support team heading to Castors Health Centre has to take cover from gunfire.
Central African Republic

MSF calls upon government and all parties to the conflict to publicly condemn attacks against civilians and humanitarian workers

CAR: Following the massacre in Boguila and abuses against civilians, MSF reduces medical activities Press Release - 5 May 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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