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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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1993 Results
 
NFI distributions and water provision in various camps of Northwest Syria.
Syria

Advancing frontlines, mass exodus and reduced access to hospitals in Idlib

While thousands flee the latest military offensive in Idlib, Syria and the frontline advances, many hospitals have been partially or completely destroyed. Project Update - 31 Jan 2020
 
Lutumba est âgée de 14 mois. Elle est arrivée le 25 décembre dans la soirée avec de la fièvre, de la toux et des diarrhées. Elle a la rougeole et est soignée au centre traitement de la rougeole (CTR) de Muanda. Elle restera dans le CTR 3 jours en observation puis suivra 3 jours de traitements ambulatoires avant d'être totalement guérie. - Lutumba is 14 months old. She arrived on December 25 evening with fever, cough and diarrhea. She has measles and is being treated at the Muanda Measles Treatment Center (CTR). She will remain in the CTR for 3 days under observation and will then follow 3 days of outpatient treatment before being fully cured.
Measles

Tackling a massive measles outbreak in DRC's Kongo Central province

The Democratic Republic of Congo is in the grips of the biggest currently active outbreak of measles in the world. The outbreak has affected all of DRC's 26 provinces; MSF teams are currently responding in Kongo Central. Project Update - 31 Jan 2020
 
Tenosique Train station
Central American migration

Despite kidnapping and continued risks, migrants continue journey north through Mexico

A group of young Hondurans who were kidnapped and physically and sexually assaulted in Tenosique, Mexico, by a criminal group, have chosen to continue on their journey north towards the US, despite the further risks of assault. Project Update - 30 Jan 2020
 
Salwa, 11, before entering the operational theatre at Dar Salam Hospital for surgery. Salwa survived an Israeli airstrike that killed her family during the military escalation between the Israeli army and the Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza strip in November 2019. She was referred to MSF hospital with open fractures of the right foot that required debridement and two main surgical procedures to be repaired. Before her last surgical procedure, the Operating theatre (OT) team welcomed her with balloons and sons to help her overcome fear and relax. “I remember when Salwa arrived, a few days after the airstrike. It was very sad for all the team. I cried when I left the hospital. We have been taking care of Salwa like she was our daughter since then. We want to make this experience more bearable for her. We all wish she’ll be fine soon” says Mohammad Wadi, MSF Operating Theatre supervisor.
Palestine

Deaths and broken lives, the aftermath of airstrikes in Gaza

Salwa is ten-year-old girl who is the sole survivor in her family of a recent Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Palestine. Severely injured, MSF-supported hospitals are one of the few options open to people like her to start her long recovery.
Project Update - 17 Jan 2020
 
Two adolescents are going back to their tent in an IDP camp located in the Jebel Harem area of Northwest Syria. They’ve been collecting wood in the mountain and around the camp, to use it as heating material during winter.
Syria

Afraid of the bombs: why people discuss the weather in northwestern Syria

A new military offensive in Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee, joining more than 1.5 million displaced already living in dire conditions during a cold and wet winter. Project Update - 9 Jan 2020
 
Joseph Drobho Giria holds his two-year-old daughter, Bhileru Drobho, who suffers from measles, in the measles unit run by MSF at Biringi Hospital, Ituri Province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on 06 November 2019. PHOTO: ALEXIS HUGUET/MSF
Democratic Republic of Congo

More effort needed to stop deadly measles epidemic

A massive measles outbreak is currently gripping all 26 provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo. MSF teams are treating cases and vaccinating people all over the country to try to halt the spread of the deadly disease. Project Update - 20 Dec 2019
 
Waiting area before medical consultations in Kourgui health centre, on the outskirts of Mora. MSF runs the primary health services and reproductive health, and teams also manage Severe Acute Malnutrition.
Cameroon

Conflict in Far North region strips people of hope

Protracted conflict in the Lake Chad region continues to affect people in the Far North region of Cameroon. They face violence and extreme poverty. Project Update - 3 Dec 2019
 
Abedi Hakizimana, a Burundian health worker, disinfects an ambulance which has recently transported a cholera patient outside the MSF-supported new cholera treatment centre in Bujumbura.
Burundi

Cholera epidemic: "Thankfully, my family all came back cured"

The rapid response to the large-scale cholera epidemic that hit Burundi in June prevented many deaths. Here's how MSF joined the fight against the disease. Project Update - 19 Nov 2019
 
An MSF staff distributes aid among people displaced by the floods in Beledweyne district, central Somalia.
Somalia

Floods leave thousands of people vulnerable and in need

Back from Somalia, MSF humanitarian affairs advisor Mohamed Kalil recounts his experience in a district where flooding has displaced 270,000 people. Project Update - 19 Nov 2019
 
Nyakun Kuok and her family standing outside her house in Dagahaley camp
Kenya

Shut out and forgotten, refugees in Dadaab appeal for dignity

Kenya's Dadaab refugee camps have existed for decades and many people have spent their lives there. But long-term encampment has devastating consequences. Project Update - 18 Nov 2019
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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