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How we work

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How we're run

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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 Websites

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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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280 Results
 
The emergency room of the university hospital Escuela, the main public hospital in Honduras, is always extremely busy, seeing some 260 patients per day. In 2013, MSF helped reorganise services and is working on improving emergency management to better deal with large influxes of patients and to reduce chances of death or permanent disability arising from inadequate trauma care.
Honduras

MSF Projects in Tegucigalpa

MSF runs a comprehensive programme offering treatment and follow-up to victims of violence. Photo Story - 10 Sep 2014
 
Nasir South Sudan
South Sudan

"Just a few hours old but already fleeing violence"

A new-born baby is caught up in violent conflict Voices from the Field - 3 Sep 2014
 
Dr Raid Umran, Head of paediatrics. Al Zahaara hospital, Iraq
Iraq

“We have managed to reduce the mortality rates, even though admissions have risen”

A doctor describes effective MSF strategies to reduce mortality rates Voices from the Field - 22 Jul 2014
 
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HIV/AIDS

We see pregnant women dying from HIV

Mamotsieleli Molofotsane from Lesotho is around 20 years old. She has three children and is pregnant with her fourth. Mamotsieleli has been tested HIV positive and is on ARV treatment. Her three children have been tested HIV negative. Project Update - 22 Jul 2014
 
Chaman (Baluchistan) – MSF provides comprehensive emergency obstetric care, neonatal nursery, paediatric and gynaecological inpatient care, emergency referrals, and nutrition services at a hospital of the Ministry of Health. Women rush to collect a token number for the antenatal clinic. All are wearing the traditional burka or long shawls (chaddar) to cover themselves. They are being attended by a health educator.
Pakistan

For women in Pakistan to deliver a baby is a battle between life and death

For women in Pakistan to deliver a baby is a battle between life and death Voices from the Field - 23 Jun 2014
 
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Slideshow: Giving birth in Central African Republic - Sonia's story

In pictures: Giving birth in Central African Republic - Sonia's story. Voices from the Field - 27 Mar 2014
 
Carolina Lopez, Spanish MSF Health Promoter explains to the Health Promotion team how to interact with women at the West Imey Market. It is their first Health Promotion activity at the market. They will explain to women the importance for pregnant women to go to the MSF clinic for maternal care, what is available to them and stress the signs of difficult pregnancies and deliveries to watch out for.
Women's health

Do non-monetary incentives for pregnant women increase antenatal attendance among Ethiopian pastoralists?

Studies on the relationship between antenatal attendance and non-monetary incentives. Journal article - 21 Mar 2014
 
Muriya, Somali refugee and her newborn in MSF Dagahaley hospital in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, 2013 *** Local Caption *** Since 1991 successive crisis in Somalia have triggered several waves of displacement. Since the last famine episode mid-2011, half a million Somalis refugees now live in Kenya.
Women's health

Forced to Flee - women's health and displacement

On International Women’s Day 2014, as on every day, thousands of women will be forced to flee their homes. They
will join the 45 million other people worldwide who are displaced, whether due to conflict, persecution, or natural disasters. More than half of all those displaced are women and children. Report - 8 Mar 2014
 
A girl sits next to relief items her family received in an MSF distribution. Since September 2008, MSF has been distributing relief items to displaced families living in improvised camps and with resident families. From September 2008 to March 2009, 30 000 people had benefited from MSF distributions in Peshawar, Charsadda and Mardan districts. *** Local Caption *** A massive influx of displaced people fleeing fighting in Bajaur Agency (500 000 people) in August 2008 and in Swat and Buner in April 2009 (1 to 2 million people) has caused significant strain on local families and health centres all around the region. Between 80 90% of the displaced population are living with resident families and improvised settlements all around the NWFP. The rest are living in official displaced persons camps. The dispersion of the displaced population over a large area and the general insecurity in the region have been major factors limiting MSF action.
Women's health

International Women's Day 2014: Forced to Flee

Stories from MSF's patients in Pakistan, Haiti, South Sudan, Philippines, Mauritania and Kenya. Voices from the Field - 7 Mar 2014
 
Today, Sonia continues to care for her child. But tensions in the neighborhood of PK5 remain. Shootings and exactions happen daily. Sonia is 21 years old. She came to the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in M’Poko camp to deliver in the proximity of the Bangui international airport. Last December, while Sonia was more than 7 months pregnant, a wave of extreme violence struck Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic, obliging her to flee her neighborhood and seek refuge at the M’Poko camp. Today, the M’Poko Camp hosts around 40,000 people. The assistance is insufficient. People living there lack water, food and shelters while the rainy season approaches. Since December, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) intervenes in the camp. Today, through a field hospital and three health posts in the camp, every day the MSF teams provide over 1000 consultations and help at least 10 women to give birth daily.
Women's health

Forced to Flee: Humanitarian Disasters Leave Women at Higher Risk

Tane Luna Ramirez from Médecins Sans Frontières reflects on the challenges of providing care for pregnant women as well as the heightened risk of sexual violence in disaster settings. Journal article - 7 Mar 2014
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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