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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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Our offices around the world
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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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Promotion material for the new medical guidelines application for Android and iOS.
Medical resource

MSF releases new medical guidelines app

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released medical guidelines, available to access through a mobile application and a website. Press Release - 22 Sep 2017
 
MSF nurses treating internally displaced people in the city of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. MSF provides free consultations, medication and psychological support to people affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine

MSF launches new mobile health clinic in eastern Ukraine

“As we were facing a large number of patients in some locations we decided to increase the frequency of some of the mobile clinic sites, to ensure that we can see as many patients as possible.” Press Release - 21 Sep 2017
 
People in the rain at a border crossing on the Naf river, near Teknaf, September 19.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Immediate action needed to avert massive public health disaster

“Hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in an extremely precarious situation, and all the preconditions for a public health disaster are there.” Press Release - 21 Sep 2017
 
Un hotel en ruinas por el terremoto que azotó Oaxaca el 7 de septiembre A hotel in ruins due to the earthquake that hit Oaxaca on 7 September
Mexico

MSF assists people following Mexico City earthquake

Thirty nine buildings have collapsed in Mexico City, while in the state of Morelos at least 2,000 houses have been damaged. Press Release - 21 Sep 2017
 
Rohingya who crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar that started on 25 August. This massive influx, coming on top of 75,000 people who have arrived since violence began in October 2016, represents one of the largest influxes ever of Rohingyas into Bangladesh.
Rohingya refugee crisis

International humanitarian access to Rakhine State must urgently be permitted

“To ensure access to medical care and to be able to provide assistance to conflict-affected people, MSF... must be allowed immediate and unhindered access to all areas of Rakhine State." Press Release - 18 Sep 2017
 
At least 164,000 people have now crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar that started on 25 August. This massive influx, coming on top of 75,000 people who have arrived since violence began in October 2016, represents one of the largest influxes ever of Rohingyas into Bangladesh.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh urgently require medical and humanitarian assistance

By 6 September, over 146,000 people had crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar. Press Release - 6 Sep 2017
 
A child from Muna Camp, undergoing treatment, at MSF’s Cholera Treatment Unit in Dala, Maiduguri. Children, especially if they are undernourished are at a greater risk of death, if infected by cholera.
Nigeria

MSF scaling up efforts to contain cholera in Maiduguri

"To contain the spread of cholera in Maiduguri, the need for a coordinated response from the health authorities to this outbreak cannot be overstated." Press Release - 1 Sep 2017
 
Men detained in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

Arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants must stop

“Detainees are stripped of any human dignity, suffer ill treatment, and lack access to medical care.” Press Release - 1 Sep 2017
 
July 2017 - Syria - Kurdish province - Aïn Issa displaced camp. MSF Clinic. Patients registration. Juillet 2017 - Syrie - Province kurde - Camp de déplacés d'Aïn Issa. Clinique MSF. Enregistrement des patients.
Syria

Conflict brings new arrivals every day to Ain Issa camp

“We are worried because we don’t have any information about what’s going on inside Raqqa. The main issue for us is the welfare of the wounded.” Press Release - 31 Aug 2017
 
Three-year-old Salomon looks on as he undergoes treatment for cholera at the general hospital in Minova, where MSF teams are supporting the Ministry of Health to contain a raging cholera epidemic.
Democratic Republic of Congo

South Kivu cholera outbreak threatens to spread out of control

“People need to be provided with drinkable water, and health centres need to be equipped with the materials essential to treat everyone affected as quickly as possible” Press Release - 30 Aug 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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