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How we work

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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
 
The MSF team prepares to move from one location to the other, Thaker, Leer County, South Sudan, March 21, 2017.
South Sudan

Continuing displacement is the new reality for many along northern frontier

“An older man came and dropped to the ground on his knees... he did not know what to do anymore. He just wept, in the middle of the group, like he had run out of hope.”
Project Update - 6 Oct 2017
 
Algoni and his wife Khadija, live in Muna Camp, having fled their homes in Dikwa, Borno state. They have been receiving treatment in MSF’s cholera treatment unit for three days.
Nigeria

MSF scales up activities as cholera spreads in Borno state

“We remain alert and through our community health workers continue to monitor the spread of the outbreak, and respond to it across Borno state.” Project Update - 19 Sep 2017
 
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Chad

In eastern Chad, cholera continues to spread

MSF is working with the Chadian Ministry of Public Health to cope with an outbreak of cholera in the east of the country. Project Update - 15 Sep 2017
 
Men detaineed in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

5 Reasons not to block migrants & refugees in Libya

5 Reasons not to block migrants & refugees in Libya Project Update - 7 Sep 2017
 
Men detaineed in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

MSF International President to speak on Libya detention centres

Dr Joanne Liu, International President of MSF, will describe horrific conditions inside Libyan detention centres and challenge the complicity of European States Project Update - 5 Sep 2017
 
A building affected by the mudslide.
Sierra Leone

MSF supports communities hit hard by mudslide and flooding

MSF is focusing on ensuring people have access to clean water and sanitation facilities, crucial for meeting people’s needs, and preventing outbreaks of diseases. Project Update - 24 Aug 2017
 
ENG 10,000 people displaced by the fighting that erupted last week in Batangafo (north of Central African Republic) are still sheltering in the compound of the hospital managed by MSF. The teams there have tried to improve water provision, sanitation and hygiene conditions. The displaced people were forced out of the camp in which they were sheltering after it was looted and burned down during the fighting. The hospital is considered just one of a handful of “safe spaces” left in Batangafo. MSF calls on those organisations responsible to facilitate the necessary conditions to ensure the safe return of the people to the camp. 11 people died, and nine wounded individuals were treated by MSF teams. SPA Alrededor de diez mil personas, desplazadas por los violentos enfrentamientos de la semana pasada en Batangafo, (en el norte de la República Centroafricana), siguen refugiadas en el recinto del hospital de la ciudad, gestionado por MSF. Los equipos están tratando de mejorar las condiciones de higiene y provisión de agua y saneamiento en la zona. La comunidad tuvo que huir del campo de desplazados en el que se refugiaban debido a la violencia. Buena parte del campo fue saqueado y posteriormente incendiado. El hospital es considerado como uno de los escasos lugares seguros en Batangafo: MSF hace un llamamiento para que se faciliten las condiciones necesarias para el retorno con seguridad de los refugiados en el recinto hospitalario al campo de desplazados.
Central African Republic

10,000 people sleep in Batangafo hospital after camp is looted and burned

Batangafo has once again been plunged into chaos, with a wave of killings and lootings. A number of aid organisations were robbed. Project Update - 10 Aug 2017
 
The nursing room of the paediatrics department in MSF’s primary healthcare clinic. The department provides around 800 consultations a month, with children suffering from upper respiratory tract infections, diarrhea, gastro intestinal diseases, and skin diseases.
Lebanon

Refugees and host community bound by suffering

Lebanese residents of the remote, high plateau area of Wadi Khaled are facing the same hardships as the Syrian refugees there. Project Update - 7 Aug 2017
 
A new born Syrian baby in the Neo-Natal care unit of the MSF Mother and Child Hospital in Irbid, Jordan.
Jordan

10,000 babies born as refugees

A maternity hospital run by MSF in Jordan’s Irbid governorate has witnessed the births of 10,000 babies – most of them Syrian – in just four years. Project Update - 4 Aug 2017
 
An MSF medics examines a patient close to the town of Horgos, Serbia, Friday, July 21, 2017.
Serbia

Children repeatedly abused by border authorities

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has exposed the violence that continues to be perpetrated on children and young people by European Union Member State border authorities and police on Serbia’s borders with Hungary, Bulgaria and Croatia in a new report titled Games of Violence. The report uses medical and mental health data and the testimonies of our young patients in detailing the violence.
 Project Update - 3 Aug 2017
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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