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How we work

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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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A woman went to the MSF structure as she thinks she might be infected by the ebola virus. Sisille, an mSF nurse, is talking with her to evaluate if she presents any symptoms of the disease.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

MSF strengthens response to Guinea Ebola outbreak

MSF continues to reinforce its teams to respond to an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Guinea. Project Update - 3 Apr 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola in Guinea - an unprecedented epidemic

Video: Ebola in Guinea - an unprecedented epidemic Project Update - 1 Apr 2014
 
Since July 2007, MSF has been running a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Vaishali district, in the centre of the Indian state of Bihar. In the four years, about 8,000 patients have been treated at the Sadar Hospital, and in five MSF-supported health centres. The initial cure rate of kala azar cases is at 98 per cent. Kala azar is a disease endemic to Bihar. Transmitted by the sand fly, the disease mainly affects the spleen and, if left untreated, is fatal for virtually all patients.
India

Access to kala azar treatment in public healthcare system needs to be scaled up

MSF successfully tackles kala azar in Bihar state, India Project Update - 28 Mar 2014
 
MSF medics treat an IPD patient at Kunduz Trauma Centre in Kunduz, Northern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan

MSF treats 17 wounded after Kunduz bomb blast

MSF received 23 patients at its trauma centre following a bomb blast in Kunduz city yesterday. Project Update - 26 Mar 2014
 
Las familias de presos requieren, por lo general, atención psicológica. Mujeres, madres o hijos acusan todos la ausencia del familiar preso. En el caso de Adel, que se puso en huelga de hambre, agravó la condición de la familia. Prisoners’ families usually need psychological attention. Women, mothers, fathers, children, they are all affected by the absence of the prisoner. Adel’s case, who went into hunger strike, worsened the condition of his family.
Palestine

Growing up quickly in a West Bank refugee camp

A six-year-old growing up on the West Bank is helped by an MSF psychologist Project Update - 26 Mar 2014
 
MSF nurse, Dorothy Wanjiru, treats Sajen Mading, a severely dehydrated 7 month old baby girl. The baby arrived in Nadapal, on the Kenyan border with South Sudan, with her mother, her father and her six siblings. The family, originally from Bor, walked for 11 days to reach Nadapal. Sajen’s mother also received treatment from MSF’s medical team.
Ethiopia

MSF races against time to provide assistance to South Sudanese refugees

MSF is providing assistance to South Sudanese refugees arriving in Ethiopia fleeing violence and persecution in their country. Project Update - 26 Mar 2014
 
Kaluamba, isolation unit for suspected cases. An MSF team of nine Ebola specialists from the capitals Kinshasa, DRC, and Brussels, Belgium, is currently working in Western Kasai. Logisticians are building an isolation ward in the village of Kampungu, and putting in place all protection measures. The medical team is also providing care to all people suspected of having the disease.
Guinea

MSF reinforces teams to help control spread of Ebola epidemic

MSF continues to reinforce its teams in Guéckédou and Macenta, where the Ebola virus has spread. Project Update - 25 Mar 2014
 
PK5 is an area where traditionally Muslims and Christians live together. At the beginning of January, 30% of our patients were Muslim, but this has now decreased to only a few as they have fled or fear to go outside. Beginning of February, MSF start a mobile clinic to the large central mosque in Bangui (PK5 neighborhood), where about 2,000 displaced Muslims are living in fear and not daring to get to our clinic. MSF provides daily water supply on this site (20m3 per day) + PK 12 camps : MSF is carrying out mobile clinics in the PK12 camp, where there are approximately 1,500 displaced people.
Central African Republic

MSF treats 38 people wounded in renewed attacks in Bangui

MSF teams treated 38 wounded after renewed attacks around the PK5 and PK12 neighbourhoods in Bangui Project Update - 25 Mar 2014
 
Kaluamba, isolation unit for suspected cases. An MSF team of nine Ebola specialists from the capitals Kinshasa, DRC, and Brussels, Belgium, is currently working in Western Kasai. Logisticians are building an isolation ward in the village of Kampungu, and putting in place all protection measures. The medical team is also providing care to all people suspected of having the disease.
Guinea

Ebola epidemic declared, MSF launches emergency response

MSF launches emergency response to fight ebola outbreak in Guinea. Project Update - 22 Mar 2014
 
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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, a killer disease

On World TB Day, MSF warns that TB is again a killer disease Project Update - 21 Mar 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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