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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 disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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1993 Results
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Desperate situation for thousands of displaced in DR Congo's Katanga Region

"MSF was already working in the area with a hospital in Dubie and health centres in surrounding districts, but dealing with such an influx of people, many in a terrible state of health, has been overwhelming," explained MSF project co-ordinator Goedele Van Bavel. Project Update - 26 Jan 2006
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF suspends work in parts of the Congo-Brazzaville following robberies and threats

Organization calls on armed groups to respect the safety of aid workers. Project Update - 24 Jan 2006
 
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India

Assisting amidst violence in Karbi Anglong, Assam

Interview with Hilary Bower, Project Coordinator, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India
Since October 2005, Hilary Bower has worked as Project Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Karbi Anglong region of India's Assam state. MSF is bringing urgently needed assistance to local residents who have been forced to flee from their villages due to violence between members of two local tribes. Project Update - 12 Jan 2006
 
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Zimbabwe

Cholera outbreak

The outbreak appears to be under control for now, but torrential rains have been pouring down on Zimbabwe recently and could eventually worsen the situation. Containing the disease is a priority; if it reaches larger rivers and spreads to the lowlands the outbreak could be catastrophic. Project Update - 11 Jan 2006
 
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Lebanon

MSF looks back on its Lebanon emergency response

Before and after the cease-fire, the majority of medical needs were addressed directly by Lebanese health structures. MSF's work consisted mainly in supporting them. All MSF activities in Lebanon were financed through private funds. Project Update - 9 Jan 2006
 
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Mali

360 degrees of MSF

Project Update - 4 Jan 2006
 
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India

Giving psychosocial care to earthquake survivors

Althought the larger impact of the early October earthquake in the Kashmir region struck Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, India-controlled Kashmir was also badly hit. Approximately 1,400 people died and more than 6,000 were wounded in this part of the disaster zone. Project Update - 29 Dec 2005
 
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Natural hazards

Asian tsunami: One year on, health watch remains a key MSF concern

Click for MSF report on the tsunami at one year. Including all operational and financial reports for the year.
Throughout the course of 2005 MSF has responded to the devastating consequences of the tsunami in Aceh with programmes ranging from emergency relief and surgery, to mental health and the rehabilitation of health structures.
Now, a year later, MSF continues to monitor the health situation for vulnerable communities in the region and remains ready to respond to any emergencies. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005
 
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Indonesia

Asian tsunami: 'In the first days, they needed our help, not our tears'

Click for MSF report on the tsunami at one year. Including all operational and financial reports for the year.
Two days after the tsunami devastated the shoreline of the Indonesian province of Aceh, MSF teams began working alongside national efforts to provide emergency medical relief.
MSF Medical Coordinator Assistant Maria Meo was one of the first to arrive in the battered city of Banda Aceh. Below she remembers the experience. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005
 
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Mental health

Mental health care grows in strength and experience caring for tsunami survivors

Click for MSF report on the tsunami at one year. Including all operational and financial reports for the year.
MSF teams had been running mobile clinics and providing emergency relief in Aceh for only a few days before they recognised tsunami victims' need for psychological support. Psychologists were quickly dispatched to the region and integrated into all activities. Over the 11 months that have followed MSF mental health programmes across Aceh have continued to grow in strength and expertise, and now form a significant part of MSF's ongoing response to the tsunami. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005
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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