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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 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 staff preparing a vaccine.
Access to Healthcare

Unmerited Pfizer patent on pneumonia vaccine limits access for children

“At MSF, we have watched far too many children die of pneumonia, and we’re not going to back down until price is no longer a barrier.” Press Release - 20 Nov 2017
 
Consultation avec Bachir, un soudanais de 29 ans arrivé depuis quelques jours à Paris. Medical consultation with Bachir a 29 year old man from Sudan who has arrived in Paris a few days ago.
France

Critical situation for refugees and migrants stuck on Paris streets as winter approaches

“In the middle of the night the police wake us up and make us move... I don’t have any other option but to claim asylum in France. In Sudan there is only death.” Press Release - 16 Nov 2017
 
Ncamsile, 42, was diagnosed with DS-TB in 2013. She was cured after 6-months of treatment. But in a setback, in August 2016, she was diagnosed with MDR-TB. "When I was admitted, I weighed 45 Kg and I couldn't walk. I'm happy with my recovery, now I weigh about 55 Kg", Ncamsile says. National TB Hospital, Moneni, Manzini Region, Swaziland.
Tuberculosis

Governments given deadline to increase testing and treatment

"Most countries lag behind in implementing the existing and new tools that are available to tackle TB" Press Release - 15 Nov 2017
 
This is the second time within few weeks Reda brings her son Muhatasein to the MSF cholera treatment centre. Cholera, war, poverty, malnutrition: Reda’s life is a daily fight to feed her six children, especially since her husband left them seven months ago. To come to the CTC, Reda had to wait to collect enough money. « I didn’t have enough, I had to wait a couple of days to sell two chicken ». Qaeda hospital / Ibb Governorate.
Yemen

Saudi coalition urged to immediately allow humanitarian access during blockade

“Access for humanitarian personnel and cargo into Yemen is essential to deliver desperately-needed assistance to a population already severely affected by conflict.” Press Release - 8 Nov 2017
 
People wait for their appointment at the MSF Hepatitis C clinic at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 19, April 2017.
Hepatitis C

MSF secures lower price for generic hepatitis C treatment

“History is repeating itself with hepatitis C –the medicines we need are again too expensive, but we are finding ways to make treatment affordable so that our patients can be cured.” Press Release - 31 Oct 2017
 
In the recovery tent of the cholera treatment centre at the Qaeda hospital, MSF health promotion team teaches former patients and caretakers some good practices to avoid cholera. Here, patients are taught the best way to wash their hands. Al Thawra hospital / Qaeda / Ibb Governorate.
Yemen

MSF reduces its cholera response as admissions drop

“The cholera outbreak is not over but it is no longer our medical priority in Yemen." Press Release - 30 Oct 2017
 
Nurse Maria Blanco examines a malnourished child in Masanga Anai. .
Democratic Republic of Congo

Urgent need for aid in rural areas of Kasai

“The Kasai crisis has been completely neglected... people returning to their villages and towns have been left on their own to rebuild destroyed homes.” Press Release - 30 Oct 2017
 
XDR-TB patient Nischaya, at home in the Ambedkar Nagar area of Mumbai, with her TB medication. Nischaya (not real name) is 18 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) patients in India lucky enough to be able to have acesss to the new drugs. After having been on treatment unsuccessfully for several years, Nischaya was referred to the clinic of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organisation who since 2006 provides free diagnosis, treatment and support to patients with drug-resistant TB in Mumbai.
Access to medicines

People still being denied improved treatment for multidrug-resistant TB

“Delamanid gave me a second chance at life and I wish that these tablets could be made available to the many people who are struggling with drug-resistant TB.” Press Release - 13 Oct 2017
 
One of the wards inside the ITFC, part of the paediatric unit in Magaria hospital.
Niger

“Treating children as quickly, and as close to home, as possible”

The lean season before the harvest is when the number of cases of malnutrition is at its highest; this can be lethal for young children. Press Release - 6 Oct 2017
 
Damage to one of the hospital’s ambulances. Hama Central/Sham hospital in southern Idlib governorate, Syria, was a major referral facility for the region.
Syria

Healthcare is being annihilated amid intensified bombings in Syria’s north-west

“It is evident that hospitals are not safe from bombings in Idlib at the moment, and this is outrageous.” Press Release - 28 Sep 2017
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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