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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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5,000 still displaced in MSF-supported Batangafo Hospital
Central African Republic

More than 5,000 people sheltering in MSF-supported Batangafo hospital after violent clashes

Fighting between two armed groups in Batangafo, in northern Central African Republic, in late October drove more than 10,000 people to seek shelter in Batangafo hospital, where 5,000 still remain. Project Update - 14 Nov 2018
 
A baby in the New Born Unit (NBU) of Peshawar Women Hospital. The NBU is equipped with warmers, cardiovascular supports in the form of oxygen, intravenous fluids and phototherapy for neonatal jaundice.
Pakistan

Increasing newborn babies' chances of survival

MSF supports maternal and child healthcare services and awareness-raising activities in Peshawar and other areas of Pakistan, which has the highest rate of newborn mortality in the world. Project Update - 8 Nov 2018
 
MSF psychologists during a group mental health session for children in a village in Guerrero state. Violence across the region is taking a toll on children’s mental health. In many cases, patients are suffering from night terrors and display aggressive or irritable behaviour. ESP Los niños sufren asimismo la violencia y la tensión del ambiente: en muchos casos los niños presentan miedos nocturnos, agresividad o irritabilidad constante.
Mexico

Mobile teams respond to escalating violence and trauma in Guerrero state

As violence escalates in Mexico’s Tierra Caliente region, north and central Guerrero state, we are expanding our mobile teams to provide medical and psychological assistance in more areas more quickly. Project Update - 26 Oct 2018
 
Juliet a resident of Glenview, Harare, the epicenter of the cholera outbreak takes the oral cholera vaccine during the mass vaccination campaign that took place in Glenview, Harare recently. The government of Zimbabwe with support from MSF and other partners rolled out the oral cholera vaccination campaign to protect people from cholera.
Zimbabwe

A collective response to cholera in Harare

MSF is supporting local authorities and mobilising community health clubs to implement a unique combination of emergency responses and longer-term solutions in the face of the country’s second biggest cholera outbreak to date. Project Update - 25 Oct 2018
 
Parfait Dosséli, is a nurse supervisor at Bossangoa’s hospital and he is working in the nutrition department. Every day, he provides treatment to malnourished children. He is pictured here giving intravenous treatment to a child suffering from a form of malnutrition called marasmus.
Central African Republic

With improved access, malaria and malnutrition cases sharply rise in Bossangoa

In Bossangoa, CAR, MSF has seen an increase of malnutrition and malaria cases during the first half of 2018, compared to the same period last year. People have better access to health facilities, meaning more are seeking treatment. Project Update - 12 Oct 2018
 
Emergency tents established by the community affected by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake which hit Central Sulawesi on 28 September 2018, in Sigi Regency, Central Sulawesi.
Indonesia

Getting healthcare and safe water to remote areas in Central Sulawesi

An MSF team from Indonesia is helping health centres in remote parts of Central Sulawesi get back on their feet and working to ensure communities have access to safe water, having assessed the medical and humanitarian needs in areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the island on 28 September. Project Update - 11 Oct 2018
 
Every week, an MSF team of counsellors and health promoters puts on a play and conducts sensitisation activities with displaced people living outside and inside of Mweso school. Theatre is used as an effective means of health promotion and the performance touches on different themes, among them sexual and domestic violence. The MSF team use theater to present the different healthcare activities that are offered to people in Mweso.
Mental health

World Mental Health Day 2018: Beyond a healthy body

For people who have lived through violence or natural disasters, survival goes beyond ensuring physical well-being. Our professionals are there to provide mental healthcare to help heal our patients' psychological wounds. Project Update - 10 Oct 2018
 
Dans le centre médical de Tshibala (CNTA) les patients ne pouvant se rendre à l'hopital viennent se faire osculter par des médecins MSF. Si les enfants souffrent de malnutrition sévère ils seront ainsi ramenés à la base MSF et hospitalisés.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF adapts to changing needs in Greater Kasai region

Since MSF first launched an intervention to respond to the recent crisis in Kasai in May 2017, our teams have established medical projects in a total of five different locations in Kasai and Kasai Central provinces. Project Update - 9 Oct 2018
 
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South Sudan

MSF resumes medical activities in Maban after suspension

MSF has resumed the full range of medical services in Maban, South Sudan, after most of our activities were suspended following a violent attack on our office and compound on 23 July Project Update - 5 Oct 2018
 
The main street in Yambio Town
South Sudan

Helping Yambio’s demobilised child soldiers come to terms with their past

MSF’s mental health support programme helps some of South Sudan’s estimated 19,500 former child soldiers come to terms with their experiences as they reintegrate their communities. Project Update - 5 Oct 2018
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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