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How we work

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How we're run

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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
 
MSF runs a clinic for women and children providing general outpatient consultations, nutrition screening, mental health and sexual and reproductive health services in H2 area, Hebron city, West Bank.
Palestine

Palestinians in Hebron suffer from lack of healthcare and psychological distress

While Palestinians in Hebron struggle to access healthcare due to movement restrictions, both adults and children are also suffering from the psychological distress of living under Israeli occupation. Project Update - 25 Jul 2022
 
A home surrounded by stagnant water during monsoon season in Ah Nauk Ye internal displacement camp in Pauktaw township, Rakhine state, on 9 June 2021
Myanmar

Ten years in dire conditions perpetuates severe mental health problems for Rohingya

10 years after being forced to flee violence, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are still living in horrendous conditions with serious mental health conditions. Project Update - 14 Jul 2022
 
An MSF team distributes kits of essential items such as tents, jerrycans and mosquito nets in Ntele, in Montepuez district, in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.
Mozambique

Three new developments in the Cabo Delgado crisis

The northern province of Cabo Delgado is one of Mozambique’s most volatile regions. An intense conflict began in the region in October 2017, which has resulted in some 800,000 people fleeing from their homes. These are the latest developments. Project Update - 11 Jul 2022
 
A photo of the partially functioning fifth bridge, once known as the city’s biggest bridge, near the remnants of the historic Qera Serai Castle (The Black Palace). Due to the ongoing rehabilitations of this bridge, crossing the Tigris River from this point still takes a lot of time for the people of Mosul as the work provokes traffic congestions at peak times.moh
Iraq

Mosul: A slow road to recovery for the city of two springs

It's been five years since the bloody and destructive battle of Mosul ended. Today, the city is still in recovery, with multiple needs, but life is slowly returning to normal. Project Update - 7 Jul 2022
 
New displaced people arrive in large numbers with their belongings to Ain Issa IDP camp, one of the largest in the area. The camp is a home for people coming from with refugees from Raqqa, Deir Ezzor but also people from Iraq. MSF have a vaccination team in the camp to provide measles and routine EPI vaccinations to vaccinate children under five. Moreover, MSF teams are now managing the Out Patient Department (OPD) ,which provides primary care, chronic disease consultations and physiotherapy.
Syria

Access to healthcare in northwest Syria at risk over potential border crossing closure

MSF calls on the United Nations Security Council to renew the cross-border resolution for the provision of humanitarian aid through the Bab Al-Hawa crossing point into northwest Syria. Project Update - 29 Jun 2022
 
Gorom Gorom (Sahel region of Burkina Faso): a camp for internally displaced people with limited access to basic resources such as water and food. Access to health care also remains challenging for those who have lost everything in their escape from armed conflict.
Burkina Faso

Enormous needs for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by ongoing conflict and insecurity

An urgent upscale in humanitarian funding is essential as 1.9 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Burkina Faso due to conflict. Project Update - 27 Jun 2022
 
An MSF assessment team leaving for Paktika Province, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Deadly earthquake in Khost and Paktika leaves hundreds killed and thousands injured

Following an earthquake that struck Khost and Paktika provinces in Afghanistan, where hundreds of people have been killed and over a thousand wounded, we've sent response teams to the worst-affected areas. Project Update - 27 Jun 2022
 
Measles patients in BRH isolation ward where they're receiving treatment.
Somalia

Drought intensifies health crises across Somalia and Somaliland

Somalia is facing one of its worst droughts in decades, following poor rainy seasons and a locust invasion. MSF teams are responding to measles, cholera, and acute malnutrition. Project Update - 7 Jun 2022
 
A resident of the Bogouyo IDP site in front of the emergency water point set up by MSF when the teams arrived.
Central African Republic

Violence and displacement in Ippy mirror people’s daily reality in CAR

Far from international media attention, armed violence continues to rage in many parts of the Central African Republic (CAR), forcing entire communities from their homes and onto a path of death and despair. Project Update - 23 May 2022
 
Roughly 200 people from two boats in distress were rescued on the morning of May 9. Everyone is now safe on board the Geo Barents while we continue the search for more boats in distress. Right after the rescue we saw the Libyan Coast Guard navigating at a very close distance from the Geo Barents.
Mediterranean migration

After seven rescues from the central Mediterranean, 470 people need a place of safety

MSF teams conducted seven rescue operations from the central Mediterranean within 72 hours during which 470 people were rescued and brought upon the Geo Barents. The survivors need a safe place to disembark. Project Update - 16 May 2022
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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