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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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2017 Results
 
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Pakistan

For those caught in the fighting in Pakistan, it is 'too dangerous to stay, even more dangerous to go'

Chris Lockyear spent most of 2008/9 as MSF Head of Mission to Pakistan. This was his sixth mission with MSF, following periods in Somalia, North Sudan and Darfur.
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Somalia

Security incidents amidst large-scale humanitarian care by MSF in Somalia during first six months of 2009

Intense fighting among various armed groups claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and displaced thousands more in Somalia in the first half of 2009. Project Update - 1 Sep 2009
 
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Pakistan

The strain on the host families is tremendous: Internal displacement from the Swat valley

This year’s violence in northern Pakistan has clearly led to the most severe humanitarian crisis since the earthquake in Kashmir in 2005. Project Update - 28 Aug 2009
 
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Pakistan

MSF reinforces its presence in Mardan and Lower Dir

As displaced people return home to the Swat Valley and Buner district in Pakistan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is increasing its support to local health care providers in Mardan and Lower Dir districts to respond to a sharp increase in cases of acute diarrhoea. Project Update - 26 Aug 2009
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Survivors of a horrific attack tell their story

Since September last year inhabitants of the Haut Uélé district in northeastern DRC have been living in constant fear and are facing a critical humanitarian situation. They are trapped in a region wracked by waves of violence. The conflict between armed forces and the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army is estimated to have displaced around 250,000 people. Voices from the Field - 21 Aug 2009
 
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Yemen

MSF assists victims of new wave of warfare in Yemen

Following clashes over recent weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have evaluated the needs in the villages of Baqim and Yesnem, in the north of Saada, and are now organising medical aid for the roughly 30,000 people who have sought refuge there. Project Update - 19 Aug 2009
 
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Sri Lanka

The war in Sri Lanka has ended but the suffering continues

Even if the services are gradually expanding in the camps with Ministry of Health clinics in all the camps and the medical staff doing what they can, the needs are vast and the facilities are overstretched. Project Update - 13 Aug 2009
 
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Sri Lanka

It's amazing what you can be thankful for: surgery in northern Sri Lanka

Tim Pruchnic, an Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgeon who has been working in Pompaimadhu hospital since May, describes his experience there. Project Update - 13 Aug 2009
 
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Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan government has an obligation to release civilians and provide adequate assistance

Hans van de Weerd, General Director of MSF Holland, has recently returned from Sri Lanka. Here we ask him about the situation in the northern district of Vavuniya. Voices from the Field - 13 Aug 2009
 
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War and conflict

MSF continues to assist populations in violent areas of northern DRC and southern Sudan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been providing assistance to the displaced and resident populations, by offering free healthcare and psycho-social support, and by improving the people's living conditions. Project Update - 5 Aug 2009
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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