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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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1794 Results
 
A doctor from MSF medical team gives ORS solution to the child with diarrhoea at MSF clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Pauk Taw township, February 3, 2013. On that day, more than 80 cases of diarrhoea were treated by MSF medical team. photo by Kaung Htet
Myanmar

MSF acknowledges encouraging dialogue on Rakhine but clinics remain closed

MSF is engaged in discussions with the Union Government of Myanmar to maintain essential medical services for patients. Press Release - 24 Mar 2014
 
Dumsani Dlamini, 28, his girlfriend just left him, he has 3-year-old daughter who lives with her mother. Use to work as a packer at one of the factories before he got ill. ‘I used to party and drink a lot, that’s why my girlfriend left me. Now I begin to understand that it was all my fault. I like to have a new girlfriend. Maybe I’ll meet someone at the support group meeting in the clinic [MSF]. Dumsami receives daily injections in the buttocks, they are painful and part of his lengthy MDR-TB treatment, that he has been ondergoing since 3 months. He is also HIV-positive. Swaziland, Matsapha industrial area. October 2013.
Tuberculosis

The new face of an old disease: Urgent action needed to tackle global Drug-Resistant TB threat

New MSF briefing paper outlines why deadly strains of DR-TB is one of the biggest global health threats we face today. Press Release - 17 Mar 2014
 
In Chujllas, patient Hilario was chosen to help the MSF staff monitor the situation in the community. Those who find vinchucas at their homes, inform him so that he can report it to the authorities.
Mexico

Agreement between MSF and state government will help prevent Chagas disease

An agreement between MSF and state government in Mexico will prevent Chagas disease Press Release - 14 Mar 2014
 
Somali refugee children who are living with their families in makeshift shelters on the outskirts of Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. MSF is the only provider of medical care in Dagahaley, one of the five camps in the Dadaab refugee camp complex. Each month, teams carry out over 20,000 outpatient consultations and admit approximately 600 patients to the hospital. PHOTO/TOM MARUKO
Kenya

Humanitarian aid must be prioritised in Dadaab camps, despite return of refugees to Somalia

MSF urges donors and Government of Kenya to improve protection of refugees in Dadaab camps. Press Release - 10 Mar 2014
 
Deplaces a l'eglise a Carnot.<br/>Forced displaced in the church in Carnot. *** Local Caption *** Since February 1st, date of the anti-Balakas takeover of the city, a thousand people (mostly Peuls/Fulani in transit on their way to Cameroon) are trapped in the city ,victims of attacks and violences.
Central African Republic

Escalating violence endangering civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid

Escalating violence is endangering civilians Press Release - 7 Mar 2014
 
To put more people on treatment (and as such combat the HIV epidemic) MSF started bringing free HIV testing to the communities. Community Health Agents (CHAPS) like Nelisiwe walk long distances to cover the households in their assigned areas. They often work in teams because of security concerns (rape, dogs, violent reactions when patients are diagnosed as HIV+).
HIV/AIDS

Two new studies point to impact of HIV treatment on transmission in high-HIV-burden African contexts

Two new studies point to impact of HIV treatment on transmission in high-HIV-burden African countries Press Release - 6 Mar 2014
 
Nyirambabazi, 30, lives in Kahe camp and is pregnant for the first time. Neighbours transported her from Kazuba to the hospital St Benoit of Kitchanga, it took them 6 hours of walking.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF releases report on shocking humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Persistent conflict and instability have led to recurrent humanitarian crises, says MSF in a report. Press Release - 3 Mar 2014
 
BIHAR, INDIA, February - 2014 Photographs of MSF projects - Kala Azar and Malnutrition in Bihar. Photo by : Sami Siva
India

A step closer to effective treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Bihar

MSF operates a Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit for treating severe acute malnutrition in children. Press Release - 3 Mar 2014
 
: A drug-resistant TB patient receives treatment at MSF’s clinic in Lashio, Shan state, Myanmar. MSF treats more than 30,000 HIV/AIDS patients across the country. C Eddy McCall / MSF
Myanmar

MSF to resume HIV/AIDS and all other activities in Kachin, Shan and Yangon but concerns remain

MSF resumes HIV/AIDS and all other activities in Kachin, Shan and Yangon but concerns remain. Press Release - 1 Mar 2014
 
MSF is one of the biggest providers of HIV care in Myanmar. Free distribution of antiretroviral therapy (ART) was started in 2003.
Myanmar

MSF concerned about the fate of thousands of patients after being ordered to cease activities

MSF has been ordered by the Union Government of Myanmar to cease all activities in the country. Press Release - 28 Feb 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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