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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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7691 Results
 
Condemned to drown at sea or be locked up in Libya
Libya

Over 80 refugees and migrants forcibly disembarked in Misrata after 10-day standoff

On 20 November, Libyan security forces conducted an operation to forcibly disembark 81 refugees and migrants from a cargo ship in Misrata. Since then, we have not had access to any members of the group. We are extremely concerned about their location and medical status. Statement - 23 Nov 2018
 
North Yemen: living under daily coalition airstrikes
Yemen

Health structures threatened by fighting in Hodeidah

MSF teams have treated more than 500 war-wounded people in two weeks. We are extremely worried for the patients and staff threatened by fighting very close to our facilities. Press Release - 21 Nov 2018
 
Mobile Clinic - Moria Camp
Greece

Vaccinating over 2,000 refugee children in Moria, Lesbos

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will conduct a multi-antigen vaccination campaign for all migrant children aged under 16 on Lesbos island from 21 to 23 November Project Update - 21 Nov 2018
 
Am Timan Hospital, Chad - January 2017
Chad

MSF hands over medical programmes in Am Timan

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has completed the handover of its medical programmes in Am Timan, Salamat, Chad, to the Ministry of Public Health. Project Update - 20 Nov 2018
 
Trapped in Moria
Greece

Psychotherapy with children in Lesbos

Myriam Abdel Basit, an Arabic-speaking cultural mediator, recounts her work with displaced children in Moria camp, on Greece’s Lesbos island. Voices from the Field - 20 Nov 2018
 
Aquarius leaves Valencia to SAR
Mediterranean migration

Sinister attacks by Italian authorities on lifesaving search and rescue in the Mediterranean

MSF strongly condemns the Italian judicial authorities’ request to seize the Aquarius for alleged anomalies in its disposal of on-board waste – a disproportionate and unfounded measure, purely aimed at criminalising lifesaving action at sea. Statement - 20 Nov 2018
 
Sleeping sickness

Fexinidazole: A doctor's dream

The faces behind the development of a new drug for sleeping sickness. dndi.org - 19 Nov 2018
 
Portrait Alpha Diallo Watsan DRC
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Ebola in DRC: Cutting the chains of transmission

To run Ebola treatment centres, our teams rely on experienced staff to share their expertise in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, in the fight against this deadly disease. One of them is Alpha Diallo from Guinea who works as an expert in water and sanitation, also known as WatSan. Voices from the Field - 19 Nov 2018
 
دعم خدمات الإسعاف في السلفادور
El Salvador

Additional ambulances increase access to healthcare

With two additional vehicles, one of which is equipped to provide medical treatment, MSF is increasing its support of the Comandos de Salvamento ambulance service and the communities it serves in Soyapango, a town close to the capital, San Salvador. Project Update - 16 Nov 2018
 
Bilya, noma survivor
Noma

The neglected disease that destroys faces and lives

Noma, a neglected and little-known non-contagious disease, mostly affects children under five living in poverty. Nigeria’s Sokoto Noma Hospital, supported by MSF, is one of the few in the world fully dedicated to treating this deadly bacterial disease. Project Update - 15 Nov 2018
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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