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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 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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View of the city of Mariupol severely affected by the war.
War in Ukraine

Corridors are not enough for civilians and humanitarian aid in Ukraine

Following the ongoing reports about an agreement for safe passage of civilians in Ukraine, opportunities for civilians to escape from areas of violent warfare should not be one-off or time-limited. Project Update - 5 Mar 2022
 
UKRAINE. Mariupol. 24 February 2022. A civilian house destroyed by a rocket. MSF has been working in eastern Ukraine for the last eight years, trying to improve access to health care for remote, conflict-affected populations.
War in Ukraine

Civilians must be allowed safe passage out of dire conditions in Mariupol

Heavy shelling and a lack of water, electricity and heating has made living conditions in Mariupol, southern Ukraine, extremely difficult. MSF urges for safe passage for people out of the city fleeing the war. Project Update - 5 Mar 2022
 
A second cyclone called Emnati hit the town of Mananjary on the eastern coasts of Madagascar on 22 February. MSF teams set up emergency tents near the main hospital, partially destroyed by the first cyclone, in order to start medical consultations as soon as they can.
Madagascar

Cyclones cut people off from healthcare in eastern Madagascar

Cyclones Batsirai and Emnati hit the east coast of Madagascar in quick succession in February, destroying numerous healthcare centres and leaving people without access to healthcare. Project Update - 2 Mar 2022
 
View of the temporary accommodation site in Korczowa, southeastern Poland, for people who fled Ukraine because of the Russian invasion. The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than a half a million people had fled Ukraine since Russian invasion.
Ukraine

MSF mobilises response in Ukraine and nearby countries as conflict escalates

As conflict in Ukraine escalates and hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes, MSF emergency teams are mobilising a response in Ukraine and neighbouring countries. Project Update - 1 Mar 2022
 
MSF health promoters, Joseph Ibeabuchi (male) and April Ozibo Chinezon (female) educating the public about lassa fever in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. They are creating awareness about the disease to stop the spread and reduce the stigma towards patients of the disease.
Nigeria

Tackling deadly and difficult-to-diagnose Lassa fever

In Nigeria, Lassa fever is endemic. Since 2018, our teams have been working closely with the Ministry of Health to treat patients suffering from Lassa fever. Our health promotion teams are also educating people about the disease to prevent its spread and reduce stigma and misinformation. Project Update - 25 Feb 2022
 
Aerial view of the north part of Nosy Varik
Madagascar

Cyclone Batsirai leaves people vulnerable to food shortages and malaria

After Cyclone Batsirai destroyed towns in Madagascar, people have been left without access to healthcare with possible food shortages. Project Update - 14 Feb 2022
 
An MSF-supported surgical team at Al-Shifa’s burn unit, in Gaza city changes patient’s dressing under anesthesia. Al-Shifa’s burn unit is the main referral unit for all hospitals in Gaza where on average 270 patients are treated annually.
Palestine

Gaza: Burn injuries are a chronic health problem

Each year MSF clinics in Gaza treat 5,000 new burn victims, the vast majority of whom are children injured in domestic accidents, exacerbated by the blockade on the region. Project Update - 10 Feb 2022
 
A worker shows the mercury-gold amalgam at the Bagega gold processing site. The sand containing the gold has been added to a bowl that also contains mercury. The mercury attracts the gold and both elements are combined, extracting the gold from the sand and stones and elements, like lead. This then goes into a small cloth, and any moisture in the mercury-gold combination gets squeezed out. Leaving a neat ball of mercury and gold. After this the mercury will be burned, and what is left is gold.
Nigeria

Prevention is key to stop children from dying of lead poisoning

Almost 12 years after our teams first started intervening in the area, MSF has handed over its lead poisoning project to state authorities as no more children are dying of lead poisoning in Zamfara. Project Update - 7 Feb 2022
 
A man and woman carry a set of relief items distributed by an MSF team for newly arrived displaced people at the resettlement site of Eduardo Mondlane, in the town of Mueda, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
Mozambique

Attacks and violence in Cabo Delgado displace thousands as cyclone season begins

As continued conflict forces thousands of people from their homes, cyclones and heavy rains further threaten an already extremely vulnerable people in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Project Update - 4 Feb 2022
 
In front of the health promoters' tent. Every Thursday, health promotion teams organise activities to help mothers and Children to cope with their situation. This Thursday, health promoters organised cooking workshop in order to create a collective moment preparing Moringa and Tourteau mind laugh and singing.
Niger

Working with the community to counter malaria and malnutrition

In 2018, 850 children were arriving at our paediatric ward in southern Niger every week, but with a new community-led approach to combat malaria and malnutrition, hospitalisations have dropped. Project Update - 3 Feb 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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