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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 Websites

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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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111 Results
 
Taiz City, mother and child healthcare at Al Jamhouri hospital
Yemen

Seeking healthcare in Taiz, a city split by a frontline

More than six years of war has split the city of Taiz in two, with a frontline dividing the city from people who need access to healthcare - something often inaccessible and unaffordable in Yemen. Project Update - 24 Aug 2021
 
Self-care: Different People
Women's health

Practicing self-care: empowering women to manage their own health

For International Women's Day, we explain how we empower women and girls around the world to practice self-care, by taking charge and managing their own health. Project Update - 4 Mar 2021
 
Pakistan: Meeting regular health needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Pakistan

Meeting regular health needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

Amid staff forced to be quarantined and hospitals temporarily shutting during the coronavirus pandemic in Pakistan, MSF staff have continued to deliver thousands of babies each week and provide medication for people with hepatitis C. Project Update - 8 Sep 2020
 
MSF COVID-19 response in Mosul
Iraq

Mosul: MSF works on dual front of COVID-19 and lifesaving medical care

MSF teams in Mosul, Iraq are supporting a healthcare system severely impacted by years of conflict that now faces the COVID-19 coronavirus. Project Update - 5 Aug 2020
 
Ayilo MSF hospital, Adjumani
Women's health

Women and girls face greater dangers during COVID-19 pandemic

During COVID-19, MSF teams all over the world are seeing the challenges women face in accessing essential sexual and reproductive health services. We know the consequences can be deadly and we fear a massive increase in maternal and neonatal mortality. Project Update - 2 Jul 2020
 
Sucre: Malaria treatment at San Vicente clinic
Venezuela

MSF helps fight against malaria in Venezuela’s Sucre state

MSF teams are providing support to healthcare centres in Sucre state, on Venezuela's northern coast, where malaria is endemic and health structures are in need of improvement. Project Update - 29 Jun 2020
 
Revolting attack on pregnant women and babies
Afghanistan

Fifteen mothers confirmed killed in Kabul maternity wing attack

Three weeks after an horrific, brutal attack on MSF's maternity wing at Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, we seek an inquiry as we confirm 15 mothers were killed. Project Update - 3 Jun 2020
 
IRAQ - maternal health activities in Mosul - August 2019
Iraq

Mosul's expectant mothers just can't wait

Thousands of people are still struggling to access affordable quality healthcare in Mosul, northern Iraq, and pregnant women are among the most vulnerable. In west Mosul, two MSF maternity units welcome more than 150 babies each week. Project Update - 11 Sep 2019
 
Activities in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Honduras

Emergency contraceptive pill vital for sexual assault victims

The prohibition of ECP in Honduras urgently needs to be overturned so that a comprehensive health protocol for victims of sexual violence can be validated and put into practice. Project Update - 19 Jul 2019
 
Kenema Hospital first construction phase.
Sierra Leone

New hospital to counter high maternal and child mortality rates

On 6 March 2019, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomed the first patients in its new 63-bed hospital in Hangha town, Kenema district, southeast Sierra Leone. Project Update - 14 Jun 2019
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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