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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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MSF staff registers the number of displaced families from the village of Tindinbawen, northern Mali, for the upcoming distribution of non-food item kits. MSF staff distributes non-food items kits to the 80 displaced families from the Tindinbawen village in northern Mali.
Mali

“People arrived exhausted; they ran out of water and food during the journey”

MSF provides emergency medical care after an attack on Tindinbawen village, Ansongo district, in northern Mali. Project Update - 27 Aug 2018
 
Water pools flowing the first thunderstorms of this year’s monsoon limit movements and access in the Rohingya refugee camp.
Rohingya refugee crisis

One year on, Rohingya refugees live in dire camps, facing an uncertain future and legal limbo

One year since over 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee from Myanmar into Bangladesh, denial of their legal status and unacceptable living conditions continue to trap refugees in suffering and poor health. Project Update - 24 Aug 2018
 
A view of the Kedida health center and of the IDP settlement around it.
Ethiopia

Nearly one million displaced people in urgent need of assistance

MSF has launched an emergency response to a recent surge in intercommunal violence that has displaced over 900,000 people between Gedeo and West Guji zones in southern Ethiopia. Project Update - 23 Aug 2018
 
KABALA, SIERRA LEONE - Health Promoter and IEC officer Sama T Marah talk to mothers at the neonatal ward at Kabala General Hospital on November 10, 2017 in Kabala, Sierra Leone. Photo by Xaume Olleros / MSF
Sierra Leone

Learning from the past, preparing for the future

Paul Jawor, an MSF water and sanitation (WATSAN) expert who has been working on the post-Ebola response in Sierra Leone since 2016, recounts the progress he has seen in the Mongo and Kabala regions in the north of the country over the last three years. Project Update - 21 Aug 2018
 
Bihać, Bosnia: One – and only one – room in this five-story abandoned concrete dormitory features bunk-bed cots for refugees and migrants to sleep. Flooding throughout the building is a frequent problem.
Bosnia-Herzegovina

Push-backs, violence and inadequate conditions at the Balkan route’s new frontier

As the stream of people arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina rises, basic humanitarian conditions in the two largest points of congregation along the border remain alarmingly inadequate. Project Update - 17 Aug 2018
 
Ebola DRC MSF treatment centre opens in Mangina
DRC Ebola outbreaks

MSF Ebola treatment centre opens in Mangina, North Kivu

MSF has opened an Ebola treatment centre at the epicentre of the outbreak, where 31 confirmed Ebola patients and six suspect cases are currently hospitalised.

Project Update - 16 Aug 2018
 
Khawla, pharmacist, joined MSF in 2012. (Refer to staff profile)
Lebanon

One year after the battle, medical needs remain high in Arsal

MSF has been continuously providing free medical care for vulnerable communities of Syrian refugees and local Lebanese residents in Arsal, on the Lebanon-Syria border, since 2012. Despite improvements in the security situation, key gaps in healthcare remain. Project Update - 16 Aug 2018
 
Surgeons and nurses operating on a patient in an operating theatre in the Nap Kenbe centre in Tabarre.
Haiti

First-class surgery for all in Tabarre hospital

Since 2012, 60,000 Haitians from all walks of life have benefited from free, first-class surgical trauma care through MSF’s Nap Kenbé hospital in the Tabarre neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Project Update - 15 Aug 2018
 
Nurses monitor vital parameters of children admitted in the wards, including temperature, breathing rate, heart rate. The most severe patients need to be checked every 30 minutes, and those who are really getting better up to every 4 hours.
Chad

Treating severely malnourished children in N’Djamena

Urgent action is needed to increase inpatient capacity and provide early treatment in outpatient facilities. In partnership with Chadian health authorities, MSF has opened an inpatient facility and admitted over 100 children within a fortnight. Project Update - 10 Aug 2018
 
Behind him, Bader, an MSF physiotherapist, observes how Majid has progressed in recent weeks. “When he arrived here, he had lost a lot of weight, he could hardly move. Slowly, he’s getting back his strength”, explains Bader.
Iraq

Helping victims of war get back on their feet

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened the Baghdad Medical Rehabilitation Centre (BMRC) a year ago to support victims of war in Iraq. The centre provides much needed post-surgical rehabilitation care, including physical and psychological support. Project Update - 9 Aug 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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