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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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Kenya

The hidden crisis of Mount Elgon in Kenya: We eat from the hands of others

MSF is one of the very few aid organizations helping the people touched by the conflict in the area. It is the only international aid actor on the ground on a permanent basis. Project Update - 10 Sep 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treating victims of violence in Masisi region, North Kivu

"Masisi is completely isolated. The main road between Masisi and Goma (60 km) is highly insecure. On top of this, the bad condition of the roads, due to heavy rains, probably impedes the return of other displaced people. We are concerned by the bad living conditions of these people. But we haven't been able to reach them because of the security situation." - Philippe Havet, MSF emergency team coordinator. Project Update - 7 Sep 2007
 
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Cameroon

Critical nutritional situation for Central African refugees entering Cameroon

The civil war and violence that are tearing apart the Central African Republic (CAR) have lead to the exodus of some 78,000 people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to Chad, Sudan and Cameroon Press Release - 31 Jul 2007
 
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Chad

Chad's rainy season, with ongoing violence and displacement, brings the health situation closer to emergency levels

Attacks from rebels on the civilians living in villages and in camps will most probably diminish during the rainy season, as it is not only MSF that has problems in reaching the population: also the rebels can not cross the wadis once they are filled with water. Project Update - 30 Jul 2007
 
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Somalia

New wave of violence prevents people from getting medical assistance

The increasing insecurity is having an effect on access to the recently opened MSF clinic, as patients have more and more difficulties in trying to reach it. People are too scared to walk in the streets and the public transport services are getting worse because of the deteriorating security situation. Project Update - 26 Jul 2007
 
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Somalia

Situation worsens in Afgooye following the arrival of newly displaced families from Mogadishu

Thousands of families are currently fleeing Mogadishu where continuing acts of violence, including bombings, threaten the safety of the civilian population. MSF estimates that close to 4,900 families have arrived in the area in the last three weeks. Press Release - 23 Jul 2007
 
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Sudan

Darfur, interview with MSF's International President Dr. Christophe Fournier

Darfur, Sudan, interview with MSF's International President Dr. Christophe Fournier Interview - 25 Jun 2007
 
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Central African Republic

'People are trapped in the middle of the conflict'

Since mid-2006 violence has dramatically increased in scale and intensity in the northern parts of Central African Republic - with grave consequences for the civilians who are caught in the crossfire of a number of armed groups.
More recently, the north-eastern province of Vakaga has also become caught up in violence. MSF was the first international aid group to be active in this very remote region bordering Chad and Sudan (Darfur). An interview with MSF's outgoing Head of Mission, Heinz Henghuber. Project Update - 2 Jun 2007
 
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Palestine

MSF reacts to charges issued against Palestinian staff member

Mr. Mossaab Bashir, a member of the staff of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Gaza Strip, was charged by an Israeli court with "contact with a foreign agent" and "conspiracy to commit a crime". Project Update - 17 May 2007
 
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Nigeria

Providing emergency medical care to victims of violence in the Niger Delta

As in other countries, massive wealth derived from abundant natural resources â€" oil, in Nigeria's case â€" contrasts with widespread poverty and inadequate medical services. Project Update - 11 May 2007
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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