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How we work

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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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MSF Access

MSF Access pushes 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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Geo MSF

The GeoMSF platform is a dynamic one-stop-shop website for all of MSF's GIS related services and products. Access maps and applications through the catalogue, request geographical support, or produce a map on GeoMSF.

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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Health workers attend to patients in the outpatient department at the MSF supported Bay Regional Hospital in Baidoa, Somalia.
Somalia

Barriers to care have deadly consequences for women and children in Baidoa

People in the Bay region of Somalia's South West state face significant challenges in accessing healthcare. Women and children often bear the brunt, with delays in accessing care causing unnecessary deaths. Project Update - 8 Aug 2024
 
MSF midwife providing care for two newborns at Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

Living conditions threaten the lives of pregnant women and newborns in Gaza

MSF is tackling critical medical challenges in southern Gaza, where living conditions and a lack of access to care are endangering the lives of pregnant women and newborns. Project Update - 18 Jul 2024
 
People continue to be displaced due to surging conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seeking refuge near Goma. Basic needs such as food, water and sanitation are unmet, and there is a critical lack of measures to protect people from further harm. The lack of security and means to survive has proven particularly dangerous for women, as evidenced by the high number of cases of sexual violence seen in Kanyaruchinya’s health facilities supported by MSF.
Women's health

Women on the frontline: Defying the consequences of conflict to care for each other

Women’s regular health needs don’t disappear when conflict or war breaks out, they only become more critical. This International Women's Day, we share stories of women affected by conflict caring for their own communities. Project Update - 8 Mar 2024
 
Women wait at the outpatient department (OPD) supported by MSF at Jahun general hospital.
Nigeria

An arduous journey for pregnant women to access healthcare in northwest Nigeria

Nigeria is the third country in the world where a woman is most likely to die giving birth. MSF collaborates with the Jigawa state Ministry of Health to provide comprehensive emergency obstetrics, newborn care and care for fistula. Project Update - 7 Mar 2024
 
In June, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, MSF team has started supporting Umdawanban hospital in Khartoum State, to improve healthcare services for the communities. Our teams are working to enhance essential paediatric, nutrition, and maternity services. Additionally, we provide vital support in energy, water, sanitation, and hygiene, in the hospital. MSF bought a generator for the hospital and is working on the water supply lines. In the first two weeks of the intervention, we've reported: approximately 250 admissions in maternity, 107 normal deliveries, and more than 80 admissions for paediatrics with 20% newborns.
Conflict in Sudan

Addressing myriad medical needs amidst conflict in Sudan

Our deputy medical coordinator in Sudan, Dr Mohammad Bashir, shares his experiences in providing desperately needed healthcare in the country amidst the relentless conflict. Voices from the Field - 15 Feb 2024
 
An MSF speed boat leaves Toch to deliver hepatitis E vaccines to the MSF hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State.
South Sudan

MSF launches mass vaccination campaign amid deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan

As hepatitis E spreads in Old Fangak, we aim to vaccinate over 12,000 women and girls, who are at greatest risk of death from the deadly disease. Press Release - 30 Jan 2024
 
MSF nurse is assisting patient in the Emirati maternity hospital, Rafah. MSF is supporting the hospital with postnatal care to increase the monitoring period of post-delivery. Due to the lack of medical supplies and the overwhelming needs the Emirati hospital is forced to discharge patients only a few hours post-delivery or caesarian sections. “Without enough supplies and too many patients, the healthcare system is overstretched, and mothers are forced to be discharged just hours after giving birth”, explains MSF midwife activity manager Rita Botelho da Costa. “The first 24 hours of postpartum are the riskiest for complications, and with people living in dire conditions, it´s important to keep the patient in the hospital as long as possible.” The war in Gaza has completely disrupted access to maternity care, exposing both mothers and their children to serious and even life-threatening health risks. In the south of Gaza in the Rafah area, the Emirati hospital stands as the main remaining facility catering to the maternal health needs of over 1.5 million displaced people.
Gaza-Israel war

Displaced pregnant women at high risk amid dire conditions in Rafah

As pregnant women face severe health risks in Gaza, we stress the urgency to restore the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza upon which the survival of mothers and children critically depends. Project Update - 29 Jan 2024
 
Two mothers carrying their children in the New Natal Ward.
Afghanistan

Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in Afghanistan’s northern provinces

We are striving to reduce paediatric and neonatal mortality rates in the northern provinces of Afghanistan as the healthcare system continues to face massive strains. Project Update - 18 Dec 2023
 
MSF gynecologist following up on a patient in the maternity section for women having given birth through a C-section, Klouékanmè Hospital. Dr Dieudonné has been on assignement at the Klouékanmè Hospital since October 2023. He supports the medical team, provides training in Obstetrical care and helps organize the Department.
Benin

Limiting maternal and child loss in communities in Benin

After a 15-year absence, MSF launched two projects in Benin last year. One targets better healthcare for mothers and children in the southwest, while the other assists those impacted by malaria and recent violence in accessing medical care in the north. Project Update - 21 Nov 2023
 
Entrance of the Sinuni general hospital.
Iraq

MSF hands over medical activities at Sinuni General Hospital in Sinjar

MSF hands over its medical activities at Sinuni General Hospital in Sinjar, Iraq, to the Ninewa Directorate of Health and another humanitarian organisation after five years of activities. Project Update - 2 Nov 2023
Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.
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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