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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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1993 Results
 
The outbreak is spreading rapidly in Monrovia, overwhelming the few medical facilities accepting Ebola patients. Much of the city’s medical system has shut down over fears of the virus among staff members and patients, leaving many people with no healthcare at all, generating an emergency within the emergency. MSF is rapidly scaling up its operations in Liberia as the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues to be chaotic and entirely inadequate. In its first week, MSF’s ebola management centre – also known as ELWA3 – in the capital Monrovia, is already at capacity with 120 patients, and a further expansion is underway. The centre has eight tents, each with 15 beds, in separate sections for suspected and confirmed Ebola patients. On site, MSF is preparing for further construction and to erect three larger tents with space for 40 beds each. The team is planning to admit patients in these tents in the coming week. (MSF caption)
Liberia

MSF distributing family protection kits

“We know these kits are not the solution to the Ebola crisis in Monrovia” Project Update - 3 Oct 2014
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treating patients in difficult conditions

The Ebola outbreak has not yet been contained. Project Update - 2 Oct 2014
 
Sehlelo Ndlovu, 41, is a member of the Lindani CAG, in Tsholostho district. The CAG is a simple and inexpensive initiative, which aims to improve the retention of patients on ARV, reducing the number of visits to the health centre or hospital to collect their medicines.
Zimbabwe

Community ART groups lighten the load for HIV patients

Community ART Groups in Zimbabwe lighten the load on HIV patients Project Update - 22 Sep 2014
 
Views from Shejaaia, most affected by the bombings of all northern Gaza neighborhoods.<br> After 50 days of "protective edge" operation started July 8, 2014, a cease-fire was declared on August 26 in Gaza. In addition to the material destruction, the death toll is particularly heavy with more than 2,000 casualties, including about a quarter of children, and more than 10,000 wounded. Medical needs remain very high, especially in terms of postoperative care, rehabilitation and mental health. MSF supports the burn unit of Shifa Hospital and runs a clinic postoperative care in central Gaza.
Palestine

Gaza: Between relief and pessimism

Gaza returned to a semblance of calm: damage is immense and the situation does not give cause for optimism.
Project Update - 19 Sep 2014
 
Ayla Hamdo, 3.200 kg and 62 Cm born the 04.08.2014, is the first baby of the new maternity run by MSF in Domeez refugee camp. Ayla’s first cares after the delivery .
Iraq

Safe births for Syrian refugees in Domeez

An update from MSF's new maternity unit in Domeez refugee camp Project Update - 18 Sep 2014
 
MSF's mobile clinics in the villages around Bambari. Schools and other public areas are often used by MSF for the consultations. Most patients visited during the mobile clinics are women and children under five.
Central African Republic

A day in the bush

An MSF team takes a mobile clinic to a remote village, many of whose inhabitants are living in the bush, too fearful to return home Project Update - 17 Sep 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Explore an Ebola Care Centre

Explore our interactive guide to an Ebola care centre. Project Update - 15 Sep 2014
 
French hygienist Jerome GUILLAUMOT is sprayed clean with a chlorine solution as he is undressing.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF opens Ebola treatment centres in Lakolia and Boende

MSF opens two Ebola treatment centers in Boende health zone: 40 beds in Lokolia and 10 in Boende. Project Update - 9 Sep 2014
 
Kailahun. Sierra Leone. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola Treatment Center. MSF hygienists put aside the bodies of two children who passed away during the day.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Eric's last walk

A moving account of the ultimate sacrifice made my three MSF staff members Project Update - 5 Sep 2014
 
Kaluamba, isolation unit for suspected cases. An MSF team of nine Ebola specialists from the capitals Kinshasa, DRC, and Brussels, Belgium, is currently working in Western Kasai. Logisticians are building an isolation ward in the village of Kampungu, and putting in place all protection measures. The medical team is also providing care to all people suspected of having the disease.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF reinforces response to DRC Ebola outbreak in Boende

DRC: MSF reinforces response to DRC Ebola outbreak in Boende Project Update - 29 Aug 2014
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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