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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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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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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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3348 Results
 
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Malnutrition

MSF concerned by cases of adult malnutrition

Owing to the renewed conflict, malnutrition is widespread once again and MSF is focusing on providing nutritional assistance to resident and displaced populations in many provinces. Project Update - 17 Jan 2000
 
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Somalia

Cholera treatment centre to start

Following the recent outbreak of cholera in Mogadishu, Somalia, MSF has implemented a Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) which will be up and running later in January. Project Update - 17 Jan 2000
 
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South Sudan

South Sudan faces 2000

Only two years ago, in 1998, at least 60,000 people died in the worst famine to hit Sudan during the twentieth century. Caused and exacerbated by bad harvests, civil war, limited access to populations in need and the diversion of food by warring factions, the crisis continued for most of the year. Project Update - 17 Jan 2000
 
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Venezuela

MSF explores situation in Venezuelan disaster area

MSF has dispatched an exploratory team to Venezuela after disastrous mud flows hit large parts of the coastal region. Days of continual torrential rains triggered off huge mud flows on the Venezuelan coast. Project Update - 5 Jan 2000
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

New team in Ituri

In connection with the mounting tension in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, MSF is dispatching an extra team to the region north of Bunia. Project Update - 5 Jan 2000
 
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Uzbekistan

MSF cooks for people of Munyak on last day of the year

The MSF team in Munyak, Uzbekistan, spent its last day of the year in the kitchen. From 12 noon, 15 MSF expatriates were preparing Plof, a traditional central Asian rice dish, for the whole population of the town. Project Update - 30 Dec 1999
 
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Timor-Leste

East Timorese take charge

Each day, hundreds of refugees still return from West Timor many needing medical attention for malaria, diarrhea, chest infections and other ailments. They will continue to receive assistance upon arrival, but now it will be in a new site with a team of a Timorese doctor and nurses. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) brought in international emergency medical teams to start consulting as soon as security allowed in September. Project Update - 23 Dec 1999
 
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Sierra Leone

MSF workers released in Sierra Leone

The two members of MSF who had been detained in the district of Kailahun, Sierra Leone, have been released. Project Update - 16 Dec 1999
 
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Humanitarian challenges

MSF 'Top Ten' under-reported humanitarian stories of 1999

MSF issues the "Top Ten" list of the year's most under-reported humanitarian stories. This second annual listing emphasizes forgotten wars in Angola, Burundi and Sri Lanka. Project Update - 15 Dec 1999
 
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Timor-Leste

Restricted access to camps and slow returns

The number of returnees to East Timor is still considered to be low, according to OCHA. So far, close to 115,000 people have returned through both organised and spontaneous methods. Figures released by the Indonesian Government indicate there are another 140,000 internal refugees within West Timor and other parts of Indonesia. Project Update - 10 Dec 1999
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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