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How we work

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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 and haemorrhagic fevers

Race against time to control the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

Video: Race against time to control the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Project Update - 21 Jul 2014
 
MSF teams run mobile clinics to provide medical care for IDPs. They provide primary healthcare consultations, chronic disease treatment as well as reproductive healthcare consultations. On average, the team is performing 60 consultations each day.
Iraq

“Today the greatest medical needs remain in areas that are extremely difficult and dangerous to reach”

MSF is providing healthcare for those trapped in Iraq Project Update - 21 Jul 2014
 
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Afghanistan

MSF cares for dozens of wounded following heavy fighting in central and northerm Helmand province

MSF cares for dozens of wounded following heavy fighting in Helmand province Project Update - 18 Jul 2014
 
In January, Bauchi State, northeastern Nigeria, Bauchi state were affected by a cholera outbreak. More than 15,500 cases were reported in 5 months and about 14 000 of those were treated by MSF teams two treatment of cholera center. 40 to 45% of cases were severe, requiring hospitalization for intravenous rehydration. 30 oral rehydration points were set up by MSF in the district to treat non-severe cases.<br> It is also important to contain the outbreak through preventive measures such as targeted hygiene measures to avoid contamination (especially of drinking water). In Bauchi, water supply is mainly from either public or private wells. A total of 3 536 wells were chlorinated, 33 150 house hold contacts were traced and about 6 000 modified hygiene kits were distributed to the most affected population.
Nigeria

MSF treats overs 13,500 cholera patients

MSF combats the cholera outbreak in Nigeria Project Update - 17 Jul 2014
 
MSF is working in kabo hospital with all the illness and all the diferent patients that come to kabo hospital *** Local Caption *** Depuis 1999, MSF fournit des soins medicaux aux populations centrafricaines touchees par une tres grande pauvrete, la violence et l?insecurite, en particulier dans le nord de la republique Centrafricaine. MSF travaille dans des hopitaux, des centres de sante en peripherie afin de fournir un acces aux soins aux populations, y compris celles qui vivent dans les zones les plus isolees, grace a des cliniques mobiles.
Central African Republic

Suitcase or Coffin

Video: Central African Republic - Suitcase or Coffin Project Update - 16 Jul 2014
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF team treats survivors of abduction, sexual slavery and torture in mining region of eastern Congo

MSF treats survivors of sexual slavery in DRC Project Update - 16 Jul 2014
 
Kailahun. Sierra Leone. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola Treatment Centre. Receiving 'confirmed' Ebola positive tested patients. Two ambulances, one from the Sierra Leonese Red Cross and another one from the Ministry for Health bring eight confirmed patients to the MSF Ebola Treatment Centre.
Sierra Leone

Race against time to control the Ebola outbreak

MSF teams race to control the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Project Update - 11 Jul 2014
 
*** Local Caption *** The outreach team visits the schools of Korogocho. On the east part of Mathare slums, this area is facing a major waste dump of East Nairobi. The inhabitants are leaving in dramatically bad social and sanitary conditions. On this April 15th, Mohamed Juma and John Abang’a, community mobilizers with MSF, have an appointment with more than half of the teachers of this 800 student’s school. During two hours, after having introduced MSF, its mission and history, they will develop a participative animation session on the issue of sexual violence. They will bring the teachers to express what they know about this issue in their community. They will lead them to take conscious of their key role, as community leaders and on the front line with the children, to identify signs of potential victims’ behavior. They help putting words on the issue, express personal experience… At the end of the session they distributed small cards and posters with the emergency numbers to be contacted 24 hours a day to report an aggression, making sure they understand that every hour counts.
Kenya

Recovering from sexual violence

MSF is treating victims of sexual violence in Kenya Project Update - 9 Jul 2014
 
MSF intensive Therapeutic feeding center. Children under 5 account for around 90% of impatients.
Ethiopia

Critical conditions for South Sudanese refugees in Gambella

Critical conditions for South Sudanese refugees in Gambella, Ethiopia Project Update - 8 Jul 2014
 
Mother & Child at MSF Outpatient consultation in Berberati Regional University Hospital
Central African Republic

Health chaos in Central African Republic

Since December 2013, CAR has been torn apart by a conflict with increasingly religious overtones. Project Update - 7 Jul 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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