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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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Rahma, Midwife supervisor, is holding a newborn named Rivan. “All the feedback I have received (about the facility) has been positive”, she says. “People say that our services are useful. One day, a patient left us a note to thank us, for the services but also for our attention and the human approach we’re taking (in providing our services).”
Iraq

Delivering babies in a city with few maternity services

Five years after the battle for Mosul, the healthcare system in the Iraqi city remains fragile. Pregnant women and their babies are among the most vulnerable needing access to quality healthcare. Project Update - 6 Apr 2022
 
A health promotion session in progress for Rohingya women in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Health promoters usually invite up to three families to a session, to raise awareness around the importance of seeking healthcare. The team also discusses the availability of medical and mental healthcare at MSF facilities.
Bangladesh

Unprecedented increase of scabies cases in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps

Scabies, a skin disease, is on the rise among Rohingya refugees living in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Project Update - 25 Mar 2022
 
“I want to be a police officer. I want to be a soldier,” says eight-year-old Zainidin, making his mother laugh. He has TB and needs to take five pills a day for 11 months to treat it. His mother Surayo (29) is supports him every day and motivates him to follow the treatment as she knows it is the only way for him to be completely cured. She also takes care of her daughter Bibisoleha (6) who has TB as well.
Tajikistan

Helping kids to beat TB in Tajikistan

Tuberculosis in children can be especially hard to diagnose and treat. In Tajikistan, MSF teams are working with families to help ease the burden of treatment on kids. Project Update - 23 Mar 2022
 
Venezuelan Migrants in Peru
Central American migration

Peru: Venezuelan migrants struggle to survive

Political tensions and economic hardships have caused more than 6 million people to leave their homes in Venezuela in recent years. Many are young families, walking and traveling by bus or truck, carrying their belongings in backpacks. Project Update - 18 Mar 2022
 
Martial Ledecq, MSF vascular surgeon, working in the operating theatre in Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv. 14 March 2022
War in Ukraine

Staff in major Kyiv hospital receive training for potential increase in casualties

In anticipation of a potential increase in war-wounded patients, staff from a major hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, have received training from MSF war surgeons. Project Update - 18 Mar 2022
 
Palanca refugee camp. Since most refugees are immediatly heading to cities, the camp has remain almost empty since it has been settled up. Palanca, Moldova / March 10th 2022.
War in Ukraine

Thousands of people flee bombings in south Ukraine and head west

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have arrived in Moldova, heading west, after fleeing bombs and violence in Mykolayiv, Ukraine. Project Update - 12 Mar 2022
 
Geo Barents respoded to an alert from Alarm Phone for a boat in distress and headed towards its location. Finally, 31 people were rescued around 23.40 and among them there was a pregnant woman. Everyone is safe on board with the Geo Barents.
Mediterranean migration

Survivors of “most difficult rescue” need immediate place of safety

MSF's Geo Barents rescue ship has rescued 111 people over the last few days, including one rescue described as one of the "most difficult". The survivors urgently need a place of safety. Project Update - 11 Mar 2022
 
A patient in the measles isolation ward at Boost hospital. Over 440 measles patients were admitted to the ward in January and February 2022.
Afghanistan

Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children in Afghanistan

A sharp rise in the number of measles cases in Afghanistan comes as people in the country already face high levels of malnutrition, a potentially deadly combination for children. Project Update - 9 Mar 2022
 
MSF responds to massive displacement in Twic County
South Sudan

Humanitarian aid urgently needed for thousands of displaced people from Agok

As tens of thousands of people have fled Agok due to fighting and insecurity, MSF calls on humanitarian organisations to support in the massive needs of displaced people in the area. Project Update - 9 Mar 2022
 
Late-night loading of MSF emergency medical supplies onto a train at Lviv station, to be dispatched as rapidly as possible to hospitals in Kyiv
War in Ukraine

Emergency medical supplies rushed to Kyiv by train from Ukraine warehouse

After the first MSF medical supplies arrived in Ukraine earlier, the desperately-needed items have been sent on to Kyiv by train to supply local hospitals. Project Update - 6 Mar 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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