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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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Driving with the equipment from the Liberian shore to Foya where MSF is running a Ebola care center.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Tackling the epidemic across country borders

MSF is working along the porous border between Guinea and Sierra Leone to improve the cross-border cooperation in the region. Project Update - 16 Apr 2015
 
People wait for a consultation at MSF’s survivor clinic in Freetown
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Surviving Survival - Life after recovery

Dr Maria Barstch spends her days in the small house that serves as MSF’s Ebola survivor clinic in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Project Update - 13 Apr 2015
 
Ebola is finally declining in Liberia, although gaps remain in infection control and prevention, surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing. Access to medical care for non-Ebola patients is still a major issue due to the collapse public health system.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

“We need to make sure that no one slips through the cracks”

Numbers of Ebola patients may be going down, but epidemiologist Amanda Tiffany, who works for MSF’s Epicentre, explains why every last contact needs to be traced to help bring the epidemic to an end. Project Update - 9 Feb 2015
 
Along with the Ministry of Health, MSF is distributing 1.8 million antimalarial treatments in Sierra Leone. This is the largest distribution in an Ebola oubreak. The picture is taken in Tombo Town.
Sierra Leone

Malaria - the other epidemic

MSF distributes 1.8 million antimalarial treatments in midst of Ebola outbreak. Project Update - 23 Jan 2015
 
Opening of the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kissy, Freetown.
Sierra Leone

MSF opens Ebola treatment centre and maternity in an Ebola hotspot

New centre to provide quality Ebola and obstetric care. Project Update - 8 Jan 2015
 
An Ebola survivor returns home. In the bag is a mosquito net, multivitamins, a bottle of water, condoms, sheets, soap, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a towel, a blanket, biscuits and ready-to-use therapeutic food to help build up their strength.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Survivors receive mixed homecoming welcome

Moses’ family has been hard hit by Ebola. Four of his family were infected with the virus. His father and brother died, but Moses and his sister both survived. Moses was recently discharged from MSF’s Ebola management centre in Bo, Sierra Leone and made the journey back to his home village, accompanied by MSF health promoter Esmee de Jong Project Update - 31 Dec 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Clinical trial for potential Ebola treatment started in MSF clinic in Guinea

The trial is taking place at MSF’s Ebola Treatment Centre in Guéckédou. Project Update - 26 Dec 2014
 
A member of the hygienist team in the MSF Ebola case management centre in Bo, Sierra Leone has left the High Risk Zone. In the undressing area he is sprayed with chlorine before undressing safely with the help of his colleague.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

On the frontline against Ebola

What hygienists in an Ebola case management centre do, and why their job is so important. Project Update - 4 Dec 2014
 
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Mali

MSF expands activities to fight Ebola outbreak

Swift and coordinated action is of paramount importance in the days immediately after new cases are reported, the medical organisation says Project Update - 20 Nov 2014
 
Staff getting dressed in full PPE in the ETC (Ebola Treatment Centre) in Bikoro.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Learn about our Ebola protective equipment

Project Update - 12 Nov 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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