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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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Somalia

MSF is extremely concerned as tens of thousands of displaced fleeing violence in Mogadishu

Insufficient medical and sanitary response by aid actors hampered by access difficulties and precarious security situation in and around the capital city. Press Release - 24 Apr 2007
 
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Sudan

MSF regains access to some isolated communities in North Darfur

One of the main difficulties humanitarian organisations face in Darfur is to move around. Fighting and deteriorating security have prevented MSF and other organisations from reaching populations affected by the conflict in outlying areas. Project Update - 16 Apr 2007
 
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Sudan

MSF projects in Darfur

An overview of MSF projects throughout the Darfur region of Sudan. Project Update - 6 Apr 2007
 
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Chad

In south-east Chad, MSF is stepping up assistance to displaced people

The displaced are forced to leave their homes with few belongings. They struggle to survive with little food and without the means to support themselves and are prevented from returning to their homes by patrolling gunmen. Many displaced remain in informal settlements in insecure areas where they get no or only little assistance. Project Update - 2 Mar 2007
 
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Sudan

'Maybe there is just too much real grief here'

A letter from MSF medical doctor Joe Jacob.
"I am writing from a town called Muhajariya, population 36,000, a significant proportion of whom are displaced refugees within their own country. Here we run a clinic where we are the only medical and surgical referral centre in this region, attending to the needs of a wider population of 200,000 people. Life is far from easy here, but the happiness and sheer enjoyment of living today that envelopes and dissipates the ever-present fear here, would certainly make you think otherwise." Voices from the Field - 1 Mar 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Offering free health care in a neglected region of the DRC

By taking over the hospital in Lubutu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Médecins Sans Frontières aims to fight mortality in an area hit by a catastrophic health crisis. Project Update - 26 Feb 2007
 
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Access to Healthcare

INVISIBLES: A film with five stories about forgotten crises

The INVISIBLES are those we do not want to see, but who end up appearing inside our fears and our unease, among other things, because they never stop existing. Project Update - 16 Feb 2007
 
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Guinea

Curfew and airport closure hamper emergency care in Guinea

"How are we supposed to transport patients that need specialist treatment if we are not allowed to move between health facilities? We are trying to get an exemption, but up till now none has been granted," asks Sergio Martin, MSF head of Mission in Guinea. Press Release - 13 Feb 2007
 
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Guinea

MSF emergency response in Conakry and Gueckedou

"Is not the first time that we have to set up an emergency preparedness plan in Conakry. In fact, we already did it less than one month ago, when the situation deteriorated as a consequence of another general and unlimited strike," said Sergio Martin, MSF Head of Mission in Guinea. Project Update - 13 Feb 2007
 
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Chad

Stepping up assistance to displaced in southeast Chad amid deteriorating security

Since early 2006, attacks on civilians in southeast Chad have resulted in the displacement of more than 100,000 Chadians. About 40,000 of them fled their homes in November and December alone when violence peaked. Project Update - 7 Feb 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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