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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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Haiti

MSF aid worker rescued from Haiti rubble after almost 24 hours

Two other staff-members were also in the house on the ground floor. They managed to escape at the onset of the first tremors, just as the house crumbled. Trépanier fell through two floors and landed in a small space in the basement, under a mass of debris. Project Update - 14 Jan 2010
 
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Haiti

MSF readying temporary facilities to treat large medical demands after quake

An MSF field hospital, equipped with two operating theatres, is expected to arrive by air in the next 24 hours, along with extra surgeons and aneasthetists. Project Update - 14 Jan 2010
 
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Haiti

MSF creates tent medical facilities in post-quake Haiti

"There are hundreds of thousands of people who are sleeping in the streets because they are homeless," MSF coordinator, Hans van Dillen, said. "We see open fractures, head injuries. The problem is that we can not forward people to proper surgery at this stage." Project Update - 13 Jan 2010
 
Quelques jours après le seisme des équipes essaient de retrouver des corps. *** Local Caption *** A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital on January 12th 2010. More than 100,000 people are estimated dead, 200, 000 injured and 1 million homeless. <br/>Plus de 700 personnels de MSF travaillent actuellement pour apporter une aide médicale d'urgence aux rescapés du tremblement de terre dans et en dehors de Port-au-Prince. Les équipes MSF travaillent actuellement à l'hôpital de Choscal, au centre de santé de Martissant, à l'hôpital de la Trinité, à l'hôpital de Carrefour, à l'hôpital de Jacmel et Ils mènent également des évaluations sur d'autres sites à l'extérieur de la capitale.
Haiti

Hundreds injured and serious damage to medical facilities after Haiti earthquake

On January 12, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Ruichter scale struck about 15 kilometers southwest of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams on the ground have seen significant damage to its medical facilities, injuries to patients and staff, and an influx of wounded towards these hospitals in the capital. Project Update - 13 Jan 2010
 
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Somalia

Despite clashes, MSF continues activities in the Galgadud region of Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) continues activities in Dhusa Mareb, despite growing insecurity due to clashes on Saturday. Project Update - 6 Jan 2010
 
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Palestine

One year after the war

On December 27, 2008 the Israeli military launched Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. The operation involved raids, intensive aerial bombing and a land offensive that began on January 3, 2009. The war ended 22 days later, on January 18, 2009, and took a heavy toll. Nearly 1,300 Palestinians were killed (including 900 civilians, 300 of whom were children) and approximately 5,300 were wounded. What are the humanitarian, medical and economic impacts of that war? How are they felt today? Project Update - 5 Jan 2010
 
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Palestine

Gaza: 'War wounds test a poorly-equipped health system'

After last January's war, heightened medical and health needs prompted MSF to expand its activities to address shortfalls in specific areas, including post-operative care, physical therapy, mental health care and surgery. Project Update - 5 Jan 2010
 
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Thailand

When MSF criticised the forced repatriation of Hmong to Laos

Thai authorities are expelling the 4,000 Hmong remaining in the Huai Nam Khao camp in Thailand's Petchabun province to Laos. No third-party organization is present at the site. MSF, which left the camps in May 2009 following military pressure, had denounced the forced repatriation policy. Project Update - 31 Dec 2009
 
Datu Piang IDP camp.<br/> In October 2008 MSF started an intervention in the Philippines, working with populations displaced by the conflict on the island of Mindanao.<br/> Médecins Sans Frontières intervient depuis le mois d'octobre 2008 aux Philippines auprès des populations déplacées par le conflit sur l'île de Mindanao.
Philippines

Activities suspended on Mindanao island, Philippines, after 46 killed

Following the killings of 46 people on the island of Mindanao on Monday, November 23, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in the Philippines temporarily suspended their activities. Project Update - 25 Nov 2009
 
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Belgium

Five NGOs open a camp in the heart of Brussels

The NGOs ask that the government immediately makes vacant buildings available, so to provide housing in a dignified way for those who have not yet found shelter. Project Update - 18 Nov 2009
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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