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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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On Monday 10th of May, Médecins sans frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) started supporting the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jerusalem to assess and stabilize hundreds of Palestinians injured by the Israeli police.
Palestine

MSF urges Israel to stop attacks on Gaza as trauma clinic is damaged in shelling

MSF has urged Israel to stop the attacks on Gaza and immediately allow for safe access of humanitarian staff supplies as our trauma and burns clinic was damaged in shelling. Project Update - 17 May 2021
 
SeaWatch4 already has 201 survivors on board, denied a place of safety until date release of this photo. Yet as EU & maritime authorities again turn a deaf ear to the cries of people in distress at sea - and despite still being over 6hrs away - the ship has altered course toward MVLouiseMichel.
Activity Report

Year in Review 2020

Read the Operations Directors' review of MSF activities in 2020. Project Update - 17 May 2021
 
MSF mobile team treating a patient in the village of Arka, in Leilek district of Batken region, Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan border clashes leave thousands in shock and homeless

MSF teams are providing counselling to people in Kyrgyzstan, following tensions which have flared on the Kyrgyz/Tajik border, which has left some people displaced after their houses were damaged. Project Update - 10 May 2021
 
MSF medic examines a child during a mobile clinic in the village of Adiftaw, in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

People in rural Tigray hit hard by conflict and neglect

People in rural areas of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, are finding themselves without access to healthcare and humanitarian assistance during the crisis. Project Update - 5 May 2021
 
Mariam and her child visiting MSF’s mobile clinic in Sirfou, a village in Burkina Faso’s North region. “I’m here with my sick child. We both are sick, and the free services are such a relief”, says Mariam. Since they fled their hometown, Mariam has been finding it difficult to access healthcare, either due to the absence of the services or due to financial barriers. This is Mariam’s first visit to MSF’s mobile clinics.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Burkina Faso: providing healthcare in a region ravaged by violence

MSF’s mobile teams provide healthcare in Burkina Faso’s north region, where internally displaced people who fled violence lack access to basic services. Project Update - 4 May 2021
 
Sheetal Jainavar, Community health educator doing health promotion and conducting small group session giving information about covid-19 preventive measures at Designated COVID-19 health centre at Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Shatabdi hospital located in Govandi M East ward Mumbai. MSF has closely been working in co-ordination with the government to prevent the spread of Covid-19 since June 2020. MSF is distributing cloth masks & soaps to patients visiting fever clinic at the hospital. Their main activities are Health promotion, informing on prevention measures such as washing hands and learning how to identify first symptoms and Hygiene kit (mask and soap) distribution. On a daily basis MSF conducts health promotion for nearly 100 patients and their family members at the hospital premises per day.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19

The increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in the second wave in India have been devastating to the healthcare system. Medical facilities and staff are struggling to cope with the surge in cases, namely in Mumbai.
 Project Update - 30 Apr 2021
 
Migrants who travel with their children getting on the moving train to reach the northern border of Mexico. Personas migrantes que viajan con sus hijos se arriesgan a subir al tren en movimiento para poder llegar a la frontera norte de Mèxico.
Central American migration

Migrants through Mexico further criminalised, exposed to danger, through militarised border pact

The recent agreement between the United States and Central America to reinforce the militarisation of borders has exposed migrants to greater danger and a lack of protection, especially in Mexico. Project Update - 27 Apr 2021
 
MSF supervisor Jeanine Arakaza is following one of the teams in charge of spraying houses against mosquitoes on the Ruyaga hill, Kinyinya health district..
Malaria

Pumps, bicycles and satellites: fighting malaria in Burundi

In Ruyigi province, Burundi, MSF teams have carried out a large-scale indoor spraying campaign as a preventative measure to protect people's homes from malaria. Project Update - 22 Apr 2021
 
Group counseling session.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Deportations put migrants’ lives at risk in Niger

Expulsion of people on the move, migrants and refugees from Algeria to Niger has not stopped. The humanitarian needs of the migrant population are immense in Assamaka, Agadez region. Project Update - 20 Apr 2021
 
Étienne Oumba, is a neighbourhood chief, and the founder and president of the Association of United Victims of the Central African Republic (AVUC). Étienne talks with Nadia, a community agent from MSF, in his office in Bangui, CAR, on 11th December 2020. Among the 3,000 victims of sexual violence he has identified so far, 700 are women. After directing a survivor to MSF for medical and psychological care, he accompanies them in their pursuit of justice. The medical certificates produced by MSF at the Tongolo centre help Étienne and the survivors as they represent proof that an incident occurred. One of his main challenges is the ongoing insecurity in CAR. “There are victims who don't want to pursue justice because sometimes their assailant influences them and says that if you bring me to justice, I'll kill you.”
Sexual violence

Healing the visible and invisible wounds of sexual violence in CAR

Sexual violence has become a healthcare crisis in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. MSF provides free and holistic care to survivors but medical support is not enough to meet their needs. Project Update - 13 Apr 2021
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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