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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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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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South Sudan

Medical Care Under Fire in South Sudan

Video: Medical Care Under Fire in South Sudan Project Update - 4 Jul 2014
 
Patients at the MSF health clinic in the Domiz refugee camp in northeast Iraq, November 6, 2013. The clinic provides primary health services to the camp's approximately 60,000 refugees from Syria. Domiz Refugee Camp was established by local authorities back on in April 2012 to host the Syrian Kurds. The camp located 20 kms southeast of Dohuk city, in Iraqi Kurdistan and some 60 km from Syria/Iraq border. So far the total number of Syrian refugees in Kurdistan region is 60,151.
Central African Republic

A Year in Focus 2013-2014

A Year in Focus 2013-2014 Project Update - 30 Jun 2014
 
Women and children from Central Darfur (Sudan) at the MSF Health Centre in Um Doukhoum (Chad). The organization provides free medical activities focusing on malnutrition screening and treatment for local population and for people coming from the other side of the border in Sudan, including wounded patients victims of the ongoing violence.
Chad

MSF treats wounded patients after a new wave of violence in Darfur

When violence erupts in the Darfur area, people flee across the border into Chad in search of safety. Project Update - 27 Jun 2014
 
African Union Soldiers from MISCA guarding Muslim IDP camp in Carnot Catholic Church
Central African Republic

Humanitarian impasse in a Muslim enclave

More than 90% of the western CAR's Muslim inhabitants have fled violence in the past few months Project Update - 24 Jun 2014
 
Tents and barbwire fence in the refugee camp in Cegrane in Macedonia
Albania

MSF case studies: Violence against Kosovar Albanians, NATO's intervention 1998-1999

MSF is publishing the Speaking Out Case Studies "Violence against Kosovar Albanians, NATO's intervention 1998-1999" Project Update - 20 Jun 2014
 
National TB Centre, Abovian, Armenia ¿ February 2010. Dr Shahidul Islam, an MSF TB doctor, examines a patient on the DR TB ward in the national TB centre. Many patients are unable to complete the grueling course of drugs.
Armenia

MSF: 25 years in Armenia

A video illustrating the 25-years presence of MSF in Armenia, from 1988 earthquake to today's DR-TB programme Project Update - 5 Jun 2014
 
Children playing in Harmanli camp. The biggest of Bulgaria’s emergency centres for refugees is in the town of Harmanli, about 30 kilometres away from the Turkish and Greek borders. Over the past seven months, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have provided medical and psychological healthcare, distributed essential aid and made improvements to buildings and facilities in three reception centres for asylum seekers in Bulgaria. The centres were MSF worked, in Harmanli and in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, are currently home to more than 1,500 refugees, many of whom have fled war-torn Syria, making a long, often dangerous journey to Europe in search of safety and protection. MSF started working in Bulgaria last November, after finding appalling conditions that included lack of food, shelter, medical or psychological care. Despite the winter, people were sleeping in unheated tents, and up to fifty people were sharing one toilet. Now that the authorities have had the chance to expand their capacity and conditions have improved, MSF is handing over the provision of medical and psychological healthcare services to the Bulgarian government and to other humanitarian organisations.
Bulgaria

MSF projects for refugees in Bulgaria coming to a close

Over the past seven months, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have provided medical and mental healthcare, distributed essential aid and made improvements to buildings and facilities in three reception centres for asylum seekers in Bulgaria. Project Update - 5 Jun 2014
 
PK5 is an area where traditionally Muslims and Christians live together. At the beginning of January, 30% of our patients were Muslim, but this has now decreased to only a few as they have fled or fear to go outside. Beginning of February, MSF start a mobile clinic to the large central mosque in Bangui (PK5 neighborhood), where about 2,000 displaced Muslims are living in fear and not daring to get to our clinic. MSF provides daily water supply on this site (20m3 per day) + PK 12 camps : MSF is carrying out mobile clinics in the PK12 camp, where there are approximately 1,500 displaced people.
Central African Republic

New Violence in Bangui - A Day in the General Hospital

A Day in the General Hospital Project Update - 29 May 2014
 
MSF team member preparing the oral cholera vaccine.
Cholera

MSF rapidly scales up response to contain cholera outbreak in South Sudan

MSF rapidly scales up response to contain cholera outbreak Project Update - 23 May 2014
 
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Central African Republic

Doctors on the frontline

The critical work MSF medical teams are doing on the ground in Bossangoa Project Update - 16 May 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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