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How we work

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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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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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MSF activities with a set-up adapted to Covid19. Triage / Consultation (close physical examination) of patients with symptoms similar to covid19. New waiting area for patients with symptoms similar to COVID-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Five things we can do to protect people on the move during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting people on the move - including refugees - who are among the world's must vulnerable. How can we protect them during a pandemic?

 Project Update - 18 May 2020
 
The main hall of the MSF hospital in Bentiu Protection of Civilians (PoC) site.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

People in protection of civilians camps in South Sudan found to have COVID-19

In a worrying sign, people in two overcrowded protection of civilians camps in South Sudan - in Juba and Bentiu - have been found to be positive for COVID-19, sparking fears of an outbreak. Project Update - 13 May 2020
 
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started taking care of patients affected by the COVID-19 pandemic on April 28 at the Nongo Epidemic Treatment Center in Conakry. More than 80 patients are already hospitalised. The Nongo Epidemic Treatment Center (CTEpi Nongo) is a well-known structure of MSF. The humanitarian organization had in fact set up this center with its own funds in 2015 during the Ebola epidemic which had severely affected Guinea. "To face with the new COVID-19 pandemic which is affecting Guinea, we have rehabilitated a good part of the structure to bring it up to standard and welcome the first patients" explains KEÏTA Guéya Bonaventure, Technical and Logistics Coordinator of MSF in Guinea. "The establishment of this care unit was urgent given the congestion at Donka hospital. First, we can provide care for patients with mild symptoms of the disease but who require hospitalisation. " Initial support of three months is planned by MSF for the Nongo site.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF supports the COVID-19 pandemic response in Guinea

MSF is sending additional resources to support the COVID-19 response in Guinea, one of the countries on the African continent most affected by the virus. Project Update - 12 May 2020
 
MSF mobile team collects samples of healthcare workers at Krasnohorivka hospital, in Eastern Ukraine, to test for COVID-19.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to COVID-19 in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine

Project Update - 8 May 2020
 
MSF staff familiarise themselves with the circuit that patients and health workers will follow in the stadium. –––– Personal de MSF se familiariza con el circuito que seguirán pacientes y sanitarios en el estadio.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF provides critically-needed COVID-19 medical care in Tijuana

MSF staff will be treating patients with coronavirus COVID-19 in a specially modified basketball stadium in Tijuana, Mexico, in a bid to relieve the local healthcare system. Project Update - 7 May 2020
 
Nazrul Islam, medical assistant and Mahabuba Khatun, nurse aid, triage a patient at MSF’s Jamtoli primary healthcare clinic in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps. As part of MSF’s preparations for COVID-19, all patients arriving at MSF clinics are screened and triaged, where they are asked if they have a cough, fever or sore throat. Patients with respiratory symptoms are sent to a separate waiting area, to minimise the chances of possible cross infection amongst patients.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Five challenges for the Rohingya in Bangladesh amid COVID-19

Bangladesh, one of the world's most densely-populated countries, also houses nearly one million Rohingya refugees in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions - as COVID-19 spreads. These are the five key challenges to overcome. Project Update - 6 May 2020
 
Twins Elisabeth and Sophie, were first treated for measles and then for acute malnutrition at the MSF-supported pediatric unit at the Baboua district Hospital. “Nobody had ever come to our village to visit our children, we had never heard of measles before. I have spent my whole life in my village, this is the first time I have come to a hospital” Cecile (mother) says. “Elizabeth and Sophie have been the first children in my community who contracted measles: they have been treated with traditional medicine first, we didn’t’ know what they were suffering from. But they were not feeling better and that’s why I brought them to the vaccination, I hoped I could find some help” Cecile explained. Cécile comes from a very remote village on the axe Galo-Zaoro, where MSF emergency teams carried out a vaccination campaign on 14th/15th March, 2020. During the vaccination MSF teams visited the little twins and referred them to the closest health centre, for a first medical screening, and from there to Baboua, because the little girls presented complications due to measles.
Measles

Measles is a steady, silent killer among COVID-19

While much of the world’s attention is on battling the COVID-19 pandemic, measles continues to silently kill large numbers of mostly children in DRC, CAR and Chad. Project Update - 5 May 2020
 
MSF staff member squeezes out the last drop of vaccine for a young child.
Vaccination

Overcoming barriers so vaccines can save lives

Vaccines can save lives but we need to overcome barriers - such as logistics and high prices - to get them to people first. Project Update - 29 Apr 2020
 
El equipo de MSF visita la Residencia Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de El Royo (Soria). // MSF in the elderly care home (Residencia Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes) in El Royo, Soria province.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Out of view, but not out of mind: MSF's response to COVID-19 in care homes

COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll in care homes for elderly people, who need a special level of care. MSF are training care home staff to help cope with the increased needs. Project Update - 24 Apr 2020
 
Staff members wait for the first visitors on opening day of MSF's shower trailer in Manhattan. MSF is offering free warm showers to the homeless and other people who currently lack access to hygiene facilities during the pandemic.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Vulnerable communities in the US in urgent need of protection from COVID-19

MSF has started responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, addressing the needs of vulnerable people and communities in hard-hit New York. Project Update - 24 Apr 2020
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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