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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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Haiti

Violence intensifies in Port au Prince

One injured man, transported to St. Joseph's by a local taxi, was arrested right in front of two stretcher-bearers before they could take him out of the vehicle, and driven by the police to Port-au-Prince's general hospital, where he died an hour later, under police guard and without care. Project Update - 13 Jul 2005
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Looting causes suspension of MSF project in North Kivu

Consequently MSF has decided to withdraw its five expatriates from the project and has suspended most of its activities in the area. Although the team member who was present was unhurt, the incident has had a significant impact on the security of the staff. Project Update - 20 Jan 2005
 
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Global

Beyond the headlines: MSF issues list of the year's 'Top 10' most underreported humanitarian stories

"Millions are living through catastrophes in places that are never even mentioned," de Torrente said. "But people we meet all over the United States tell us they are eager for information, because they want to play a part in speaking out and acting against such crises."
Read the 2004 Top Ten list Press Release - 19 Jan 2005
 
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Somalia

Serious rise in numbers at MSF feeding centre in Galcayo

People are coming from cities as far away as Bosasso, some 600 kilometres to the north, as well as neighbouring Ethiopia. Project Update - 3 Jan 2005
 
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Sudan

The Sunday Times Darfur Appeal

The Sunday Times Darfur Appeal Press Release - 26 Dec 2004
 
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Sudan

Sudanese MSF aid worker killed in South Darfur

Aid workers increasingly at risk; the neutrality of humanitarian workers should be respected Press Release - 22 Dec 2004
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

After evacuating Kayna, MSF is trying to return to assist displaced in Kanyabayonga

Before and during the evacuation, MSF was forced, several times, to hand over its vehicles to the military. This type of incident endangers the security of our teams and compromises our neutrality in the eyes of other parties to the conflict, and makes its very difficult for us to continue our actions. Press Release - 17 Dec 2004
 
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HIV/AIDS

MSF and HIV/AIDS: Expanding treatment, facing new challenges

MSF has been caring for people living with HIV/AIDS since the mid-1990s. Project Update - 6 Dec 2004
 
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Sudan

Renewed violence in North Darfur state forces MSF to evacuate from health centre

There is now not only a lack of emergency care for those wounded during the ongoing violence, there is also a total absence of basic health care to deal with diseases such as diarrhea, malaria and respiratory infections.

"When children are dying of these easily treatable illnesses, its incredibly frustrating that our medical work is being jeopardised by insecurity," said an MSF volunteer. Project Update - 26 Nov 2004
 
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Sudan

One year in the Chad desert - the Sudanese refugees

Nearly 200,000 people from Darfur, Sudan, have fled to neighbouring Chad to evade ongoing violence. Most have lost everything, their villages have been destroyed and families murdered.

MSF has been providing relief for these refugees in Chad for over a year now and is giving medical assistance in two hospitals and four refugee camps with a total population of some 85,000 people.



For several weeks, Dr Kai Braker was the medical coordinator for the two camps in Forchana and Breidjing. He speaks about the after-effects of displacement and the wounds that will not heal. Project Update - 24 Nov 2004
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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