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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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MSF medical doctor, Stefanos Tsallas vaccinates a child from refugee camp against pneumonia
Access to medicines

Humanitarian mechanism for vaccines used for first time in Europe to counter high prices

MSF has used a new humanitarian mechanism for vaccines to provide affordable pneumonia vaccinations to refugee children in Greece, to protect them against deadly pneumonia . Press Release - 12 Apr 2019
 
Over 30,000 people who were forced to flee to the town of Monguno following clashes that erupted in Nigeria’s Borno state in late December are in acute need of shelter, water, sanitation, food, protection, medical care and mental health support. MSF is running a 10-bed emergency room for adults in a ministry of health facility in Monguno as well as providing people with mental health support. MSF teams have also set up 100 tents and are ready to put up 700 additional shelters. People in Borno state are caught up in a cycle of violence, which has forced tens of thousands from their homes, fields and livelihoods, and left them struggling to survive with very little means.
Nigeria

Over 30,000 people in acute need in northern Borno state

Displaced people in Monguno, northern Borno State, Nigeria are living in poor conditions, with little sanitation, and a lack of safe drinking water and adequate shelter as the rainy season approaches. Press Release - 4 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
 
A mother holding her child in MSF supported cholera treatment center in Al-Sadaqa hospital. The child had cholera and was suffering from acute watery diarrhea.
Yemen

MSF treats exponential increase in cholera cases since start of 2019

Since the start of 2019, MSF staff in Yemen have recorded and treated exponential increase in cholera cases across 4 governorates in Yemen over the last three months. Press Release - 27 Mar 2019
 
Refugees and migrants detained in the detention centre get rice or pasta for lunch and dinner. For breakfast people receive bread with some cheese. Food is prepared in-house and is served in large metal bowls to be shared by five to 10 people.
Libya

Alarming rates of malnutrition and inhumane conditions in Tripoli detention centre

One in four refugees and migrants being held in a Libyan detention centre are malnourished or underweight, an MSF assessment shows, provoking calls to improve the inhumane conditions. Press Release - 20 Mar 2019
 
This little girl is from Afghanistan and arrived in Samos in early March. Since then, she's been living in Vathy camp her her parents and three siblings. Her mum, Farida, is worried that the camp is not safe for her and that she does not have space to be a child.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

EU-Turkey deal continues cycle of containment and despair

For the past three years, the EU-Turkey deal has trapped thousands of people in overcrowded, unsanitary, camps in Greece, with little access to basic health services. Press Release - 18 Mar 2019
 
Health workers move a patient to a hospital after he was cleared of having ebola inside a MSF supported Ebola Treatment Centre(ETC) on November 04, 2018 in Butembo.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola response failing to gain the upper hand on the epidemic

MSF International President Dr Joanne Liu highlights contradictions, shortcomings and the need to restore patients’ and communities’ faith in the response to the largest ever Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Press Release - 7 Mar 2019
 
Recently, an upsurge in threats from armed groups operating between the borders of Mali and Niger has caused a new wave of displacement. More than 8,000 people have been forced to settle in improvised camps around the village of Kongokiré, Tillabéry region, where they live in appalling conditions, in a zone also considered as insecure. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has intervened with essential relief items, medical aid and water and sanitation activities to cover the most pressing needs.
Niger

Over 8,000 people displaced by armed group on Mali border

Press Release - 1 Mar 2019
 
Republic of Nauru Hospital and local community houses
Nauru

Nauru blocks new remote mental health service with telemedicine ban

MSF has been forced to suspend desperately-needed mental health services on Nauru for the second time, after the Nauruan government banned telemedicine projects in the country. Press Release - 1 Mar 2019
 
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DRC Ebola outbreaks

North Kivu: Ebola centre inoperative after violent attack

An MSF Ebola treatment centre in North Kivu, DRC was partly burnt down, forcing us to suspend activities, hampering the outbreak response in the area. Press Release - 26 Feb 2019
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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