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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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1993 Results
 
MSF teams are focusing on Manila city and surrounding areas, one week after tropical storm Ketsana. <br/>/nAccording to official figures, the flooding killed 300 people and displaced 320,000 in and around Manila. The floodwaters have started to recede and many people are returning to their homes. However some places are still under water and it could take months for all the water to clear.
Philippines

MSF mobiles teams providing emergency assistance in newly flooded area in the northern Philippines

In Manila and its surroundings, more Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are still working to provide medical care to the most vulnerable people affected by tropical storm Ketsana, which struck the Philippines two weeks ago affecting 3.9 million people and forcing 500,000 to flee their houses. Project Update - 13 Oct 2009
 
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Afghanistan

No guns, no fees in Ahmed Shah Baba hospital, Kabul

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started working again in Afghanistan in 2009. The organisation’s return to the country – after five years – was motivated by the increasing number of signals that the overall situation for Afghans was getting worse rather than better. Project Update - 12 Oct 2009
 
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Pakistan

MSF requests permission for international medical teams to set up assistance in Dera Ismael Khan

For the past two months, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been requesting authorisations for an independent access in the area to provide emergency medical care with a team of national and international staff. Project Update - 12 Oct 2009
 
Streets of Pasig neighbourhood after the flooding.
Philippines

MSF teams assessing the situation in the northern Philippines as typhoon Parma loops back

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical doctors and logisticians are currently assessing the situation on the main island of Luzon, Philippines, as typhoon Parma continues to rain on the northern Philippines. Project Update - 9 Oct 2009
 
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Yemen

A daily challenge for MSF to adapt its activities

War in the north of Yemen has been ongoing for the past eight weeks. Andrés Romero, MSF head of mission in Sana'a, describes the evolution of MSF activities in the current context. Project Update - 9 Oct 2009
 
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India

Severe floods leave millions homeless in southern India

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent two teams to assess the needs of the affected population in the districts of Kurnool and Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh. Project Update - 7 Oct 2009
 
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Natural hazards

South Pacific region rocked by typhoons and earthquakes

More than 60 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgeons, doctors, nurses, logisticians, and others are currently part of the substantial international and local aid effort in Manila in the Philippines, Padang in Indonesia, and Samoa in the South Pacific. Project Update - 6 Oct 2009
 
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Indonesia

MSF teams work to access regions most isolated after Indonesian earthquake

About 20 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) workers - including surgeons, kidney specialists, nurses, psychologists and logisticians - have started to assess the needs in the city of Padang and in the surrounding area. Project Update - 5 Oct 2009
 
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Philippines

Flood affected communities in Philippines still very vulnerable

A second typhoon forecast for the weekend hit the northern part of the Philippines on Saturday, October 3, causing extensive damage and killing 15 people. Some 170,000 people had been evacuated in anticipation of typhoon Parma. Project Update - 5 Oct 2009
 
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Philippines

Flood victims brace themselves for the next typhoon

It has started raining again in the Philippines as another typhoon is forecast for this weekend. MSF teams have been conducting assessments by helicopter and are providing medical and non-medical support to victims of the floods at evacuation centres. Project Update - 2 Oct 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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