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How we work

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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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Head of Mission Chris Lockyear at work in Pakistan during the earthquake in 2008.
Pakistan

MSF still without authorisation to enter earthquake-affected Awaran area

Despite daily discussions with the Government of Pakistan, MSF has not yet been granted permission to work in the earthquake affected Awaran area. Project Update - 4 Oct 2013
 
Syrian refugees transporting their goods and luggage's using a donkey for passing the borders between Syria and Iraq Kurdistan.
Syria

MSF provides emergency care to families fleeing to Iraq

Some 60,000 refugees from Syria have crossed the border into the Kurdish region of Iraq since it reopened on 15 August after being closed for three months. Project Update - 2 Oct 2013
 
MSF Nutrition intervention in Afar. Teru Woreda (district)in Afar, where MSF intervened is one of Ethiopia's most neglected and remote areas. Access to healthcare is a general problem in Afar especially in the rural areas. The Afari are a pastoral nomadic people.
Ethiopia

MSF treats people isolated and malnourished in rural Afar, Ethiopia

Project Update - 24 Sep 2013
 
On the N25 road to Isiro between Nia Nia and Wamba. When trucks cannot go through because of the rain, transport is done with motorbikes.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Innovative vaccination strategies to respond to measles epidemic

Tessy Fautsch, a nurse, went with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to Wamba in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to take part in a measles vaccination campaign, part of a new project responding to the epidemic that has been devastating the country since 2010. Project Update - 23 Sep 2013
 
Lulingu's main hospital has become the epicentre of an outbreak of severe malaria. 2500 people have been treated for the disease since May.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treats 7,600 malaria patients in Lulingu

Project Update - 18 Sep 2013
 
From June 2010, MSF teams provided comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services –including family planning, ante and postnatal care and assisted births– in the Luwingu District Hospital and several rural health centres. Emergency obstetric referrals were made from rural centres to the hospital. The project closed at the end of June 2013. The decision to close the programme was based on the improvement of medical indicators in the area and came after a long hand over process with the Zambian Ministry of Health.
Zambia

MSF hands over maternal health programme in Luwingu district

Three years after MSF began an intervention to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services in Luwingu district, Northern Province, Zambia, the medical situation of people in the area has improved and the work has been handed over to the Zambian Ministry of Health. Project Update - 17 Sep 2013
 
A HIV-positive breastfeeding patient on treatment is at home with her second and third children who do not have the virus. In February 2013 in Swaziland, M?ecins Sans Fronti?es began using an approach called PMTCT B+ with HIV-positive pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Eswatini

MSF rolls out innovative medical approach to prevent mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission

Stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS from mothers to their children is an essential step in curbing the disease’s epidemic in Swaziland Project Update - 17 Sep 2013
 
For the past two weeks, several tens of thousands of displaced people have been living in precarious conditions in the region of Ituri, in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 22 August, fighting has broken out between the Congolese armed forces and the militia group, Force de Résistance Patriotique de Ituri (FRPI), to control the southern zones of Ituri, in Orientale Province. Thousands of people have fled their homes to avoid the fighting. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has strengthened its medical activities in Gety to aid the displaced populations.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF assists displaced people in Ituri

Project Update - 12 Sep 2013
 
An antenatal consultation in MSF supported Yambio hospital (South Sudan).
South Sudan

MSF and traditional birth attendants save lives

Project Update - 2 Sep 2013
 
MSF staff prepare for the rush of patients at a mobile clinic for IPDs in Kabul.
Afghanistan

Preventative mobile clinics in Kabul

MSF conducts preventive mobile clinics in ten locations in the suburban areas of Kabul, in order to reach out to isolated communities. Project Update - 30 Aug 2013
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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