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How we work

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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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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Parents and their children are waiting for the vaccination in Etebe health area Des parents et leurs enfants attendent la vaccination dans l’aire de santé d’Etebe.
Democratic Republic of Congo

A deadly measles outbreak is spreading like wildfire

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is experiencing its deadliest measles epidemic since 2011-2012. Without the necessary assistance, it is only getting worse. Project Update - 16 Aug 2019
 
Tents located behind Boa Vista’s bus station, where Venezuelan migrants and asylum seekers – who are not in shelters or in another type of housing – stay at night. They are allowed to access this site every day late afternoon and they must leave it in the following day by 6.a.m.
Brazil

The struggle of Venezuelan migrants and asylum seekers in northern Brazil

Thousands of people who have fled crisis-ridden Venezuela are now living in precarious conditions and struggle to find proper medical care in the Brazilian state of Roraima. Project Update - 14 Aug 2019
 
Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state, hosts around one million displaced people from across the region. Many of them live in the camps informally set up where basic needs such as shelter, food, hygiene facilities and healthcare are insufficient and people are living in dire conditions.
Nigeria

Ten years and counting: Needs in northeast Nigeria remain dire after a decade of conflict

The decade-long conflict in northeast Nigeria is far from over and hundreds of thousands of people remain entirely dependent on humanitarian aid for survival. Project Update - 12 Aug 2019
 
Many children in Pulka have experienced very distressing situations – such as losing parents and relatives to the violence and witnessing killings. MSF’s mental health team provides indoor and outdoor recreational activities for children and encourages them to express themselves, for example in drawing sessions, to help identify who needs their support.
Nigeria

More mental health support needed for people in Pulka

Desperate living conditions and a lack of protection in Pulka, northeastern Nigeria, are exacerbating people’s acute mental health needs. Project Update - 5 Aug 2019
 
After their decontamination work, and a visit to a risk area, the men in turn are decontaminated with chlorine. Après leur travail de décontamination, et un passage dans une zone à risque, les hommes se font à leur tour décontaminer au chlore.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

10 facts on a year of Ebola in DRC

Read some of the facts behind the Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a year ago on 1 August 2018. Project Update - 2 Aug 2019
 
The laboratory technician observes the work of the teams and looks in particular at how they will succeed in disinfecting the microscope and the tools in their laboratory. Some elements such as paper will be burned because they cannot be decontaminated. Le laborantin observe le travail des équipes et regarde notamment comment ils vont réussir à désinfecter le microscope et les outils de son laboratoire. Certains éléments comme du papier seront brûlés car impossible à décontaminer.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

DRC Ebola outbreak response struggling one year on

One year into the Ebola outbreak in northeastern DRC, response teams are struggling to stay on top of the epidemic due to a number of issues, including insecurity and a lack of trust from local people. Project Update - 31 Jul 2019
 
In northern rural Idlib, MSF is running a mobile clinic in a camp in Deir Hassan where the number of IDPs has increased by 10 500 people in two months, following the bombing and shelling on the southern Idlib and northern Hama countryside.
Syria

Escalating conflict in Idlib leaves increasing numbers dead, wounded or displaced

The level of conflict in Idlib and Hama governorates has increased exponentially over the last three months, resulting in hundreds of deaths, thousands of people injured, and forced nearly half a million from their homes and into camps in appalling conditions. Project Update - 31 Jul 2019
 
Hepatitis C treatment in Mykolaiv
Ukraine

Effective drugs and patient support to combat Ukraine’s hepatitis C epidemic

A combination of generic drugs coupled with a comprehensive patient support model has shown promising results in a pilot project run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Ukraine. Project Update - 25 Jul 2019
 
Khen Sophea carries out information and education activities during an active Hepatitis C case finding campaign in a village in Moung Ruessei district in Cambodia. Active case finding helps identify patients with Hepatitis C before symptoms develop. If tested positive, people go for a second screening to the local health center and receive subsequent treatment if necessary.
Cambodia

Affordable drugs and new hepatitis C treatment method save lives

MSF is working with the Cambodian Ministry of Health to increase access to care for people with hepatitis C and has introduced innovative ways of diagnosing and treating the disease. Project Update - 24 Jul 2019
 
Local volunteers, health workers and MSF staff members celebrated the opening of mental health activities in West Point, Liberia.
Liberia

Providing psychiatric care close to home

MSF is expanding its free treatment programme for people with mental health disorders in Liberia with activities beginning this month in the densely populated township of West Point in Monrovia. Project Update - 24 Jul 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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