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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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Flooding in and around Leer county in Unity State, South Sudan
South Sudan

Lacklustre humanitarian response leaves people dangerously exposed in Bentiu floods

Humanitarian agencies, the UN and the South Sudanese government must urgently scale up their response to devastating floods which have left thousands displaced. Press Release - 23 Nov 2021
 
After a distress call from Alarm Phone, confirmed by Sea Bird, the afternoon of the 16th of November, 2021, 99 survivors were rescued by the Geo Barents at approx 30 miles from the Libyan shores. At the bottom of the overcrowded wooden boat, 10 people were found dead. 10 persons who died from suffocation, after 13 hours adrift at sea. The deadly central Mediterranean route.
Mediterranean migration

Ten more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route

MSF search and rescue teams found 10 people dead on a wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean Sea after 186 others were rescued within 24 hours. Press Release - 17 Nov 2021
 
A traffic accident victim arrives at MSF's Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince. The hospital specializes in treating people with severe traumatic injuries or burns. A political and economic crisis in the capital has led to widespread insecurity and a fuel shortage, which is forcing medical facilities to limit the services they can provide due to transportation difficulties, staffing shortages and a lack of energy to power the facilities.
Haiti

Shortages of fuel, water threaten medical care in Haiti

As tensions and armed conflict escalate in Haiti's capital, shortages of fuel, transportation and drinking water are putting medical facilities and patients at risk. Press Release - 10 Nov 2021
 
Angumu is a remote and mountainous area of the Ituri Province of north-eastern DRC. Access to the area is limited and roads are hard to travel.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Activities suspended in Ituri health district following attack on vehicle

MSF teams have suspended our activities in a health district in Ituri province, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, following an armed attack on an MSF vehichle, wounding two staff. Press Release - 30 Oct 2021
 
Main entrance of Tabarre hospital.
Haiti

Haiti fuel crisis severely limits access to vital medical care

A fuel shortage in Haiti is causing serious disruptions to medical care in the country, limiting MSFs ability to treat patients and essential medical staff from reaching healthcare facilities. Press Release - 27 Oct 2021
 
Patients wait for their medications at Doris Goodwin Hospital, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Tuberculosis

Clinical trial results offer hope to DR-TB patients with short, effective treatment

New results from MSF's PRACTECAL clinical trial show a much shorter treatment regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis is superior to current care. Press Release - 20 Oct 2021
 
Shanti (name changed) is a 38 year old semi-literate woman living in Mumbai. She has been living with HIV and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) for the past 5 years. Before coming to MSF, she had undergone TB treatment three times, but, instead of improving, each time her health had worsened. She started her treatment for MDR-TB from MSF Mumbai Project in November, 2010. Given the side effects of anti-Tb medicines and high pill burden, she finds it difficult to continue with the treatment. â??If pill burden is reduced it would be a great relief. It seems that it is the medicines which have become my food now. There are more medicines in my stomach than food. The doctor says that when my weight will increase, the amount of medicines will decrease.â? Her husband provides her hope and courage to continue with the treatment . â??If my husband were not there I would have left the treatment long ago. It is his courage and faith that keeps me going.â?
Tuberculosis

EndTB clinical trial for multidrug-resistant TB completes enrolment

The endTB partnership has just completed the enrolment of 750 patient volunteers in a worldwide clinical trial which aims to find safer, shorter, effective treatment for MDR tuberculosis. Press Release - 18 Oct 2021
 
A patient receives care in the COVID-19 ward of Raqqa National Hospital, in northeast Syria. MSF has now moved it's COVID-19 response from Raqqa National Hospital to Raqqa Covid-19 centre.
Syria

Worst wave yet of COVID-19 in northern Syria overwhelms health system

The already-struggling health system in northern Syria has been hit hard by the most severe wave of COVID-19 yet. Healthcare facilities and humanitarian organisations are struggling to cope with the extent of this new wave. Press Release - 13 Oct 2021
 
Muawia fled from the war in Darfur, Sudan to Libya 10 years ago. He left his family behind. He now survives with the help of some friends and some daily jobs in Tripoli. He says that the living conditions for migrants and refugees are very dangerous, as they are continuously subjected to robbery and violence in the streets and are often kidnapped for extortion. He says he was kidnapped twice by criminal groups and during this time endured torture, including by the use of hot objects to burn his flesh.
Libya

Thousands beaten up, detained following days of mass arrests in Tripoli

Thousands of refugees and migrants have been rounded up in mass arrests - often violent - in Libya's capital Tripoli, where they are being held in crammed and awful conditions in detention centres. Press Release - 6 Oct 2021
 
Around 500 migrants started a caravan on Saturday 4 September from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula towards the northern part of the country in order to protest about their precarious situation. Dozens of thousands of migrants from Central America and South America have been trapped in Tapachula for months, after being deported from the USA or crossing from Guatemala. An MSF team accompanied the migrants during the first part of the caravan to provide medical assistance to them.
Central American migration

US and Mexico asylum policies leave migrants in deplorable and dangerous conditions

Mass deportations and failed asylum policies leave tens of thousands of migrants stranded and in danger along Mexico’s border cities. Press Release - 9 Sep 2021
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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