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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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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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Sudan

What impact does the security situation have on MSF work in Darfur

Interview between Denis Lemasson, Operations Desk for MSF in France and Bruno Jochum, Director of Operations for MSF in the Switzerland office. Voices from the Field - 17 Sep 2006
 
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South Africa

Guardian in South Africa: A new hope

This series of articles and audio/video files was researched and written by Guardian newspaper journalists and was a feature series running in the UK publication and website throughout the Christmas season. Click logo to acces the full series on the Guardian website
In the latest in his Aids in Africa series, photographer Gideon Mendel now focuses on a remote rural project that is not only treating the sick - but may be a model for the continent. Voices from the Field - 29 Dec 2005
 
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Natural hazards

Basic needs are all important in Asian quake epicenter

Appearing on BBC Newsnight, October 11, MSF Project Coordinator Jan Peter Stellema talked about the basic supplies he is trying to bring back to Lamnian, the village where he was working with two other MSF staff members when the earthquake struck. Voices from the Field - 12 Oct 2005
 
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Indonesia

Tsunami at six months - the trauma continues

Although many people have successfully turned their back on the pain and moved on, there are others for whom the trauma continues. The importance of reaching out to these individuals couldn't be greater. Voices from the Field - 24 Jun 2005
 
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Sudan

A Financial Controller's Story

Voices from the Field - 13 Apr 2005
 
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Aceh tsunami - one month later, the first volunteer looks back

Ibrahim Younis, a member of the MSF Emergency team based in Brussels, Belgium, was the first MSF staff member to arrive in Banda Aceh, Indonesia following the December 26 earthquake and tsunami that has devastated the region. He was the first MSF staff member to reach the Indonesian disaster scene in the Aceh province and was there for the first month of operations. Voices from the Field - 27 Jan 2005
 
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Sudan

Human Resources In The Humanitarian Frontline

Katherine Galliano, head of Human Resources at MSF in London, has spent the last six weeks in South and West Darfur, in Western Sudan. Katherine's a trained nurse and midwife but her job in Darfur is to help manage the flow of MSF's Sudanese national staff, dealing with our biggest humanitarian medical emergency in the world today. Voices from the Field - 1 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

Precarious conditions remain for Sudanese trying to flee ongoing violence

More than 100,000 refugees from the Darfur region in Western Sudan are living in increasingly precarious conditions on the border in Chad, as the security situation continues to deteriorate. Cross-border attacks have increased and are now an almost a daily occurrence. Voices from the Field - 22 Mar 2004
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

Malnutrition, violence and displacement in western Côte d'Ivoire

"I am P. and I come from a village near Ity. One day, soldiers speaking French and English came to our village and started killing the men. I managed to flee into the bush with my husband and child. The next day we returned and I saw the corpses of my brothers. They had been tied up and had their throats slit. We were hiding in the bush for two weeks. We would keep moving all the time and gave our child whatever we found to eat, in order to keep her quiet. We were scared that her crying would attract attention and that we would be attacked again." Voices from the Field - 10 Jul 2003
 
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South Africa

AIDS - When there is nothing left to lose

Zoliswa Magwenthsu, living in Site C in Khayelitsha is a mother of five children and living openly with HIV. Voices from the Field - 30 May 2003
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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