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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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MSF Websites

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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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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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452 Results
 
Covid-19 in Amazon region
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 2 – June to August 2020

Read the second in a series of accountability and operational activities outline on MSF's response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Report - 2 Dec 2020
 
HIV project - Bangui
HIV/AIDS

HIV is in a state of silent crisis in Central African Republic

While CAR has the highest HIV prevalence in West and Central Africa, access to information, early detection, treatment and care remains extremely scarce for people. Project Update - 30 Nov 2020
 
Ebola intervention in Equateur province
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Improved medical response sees the end of DRC’s eleventh Ebola outbreak

Almost six months since the eleventh outbreak of Ebola was declared in DRC, new tools and an improved medical response have seen the epidemic come to an end. Project Update - 19 Nov 2020
 
Ebola intervention in Equateur province
DRC Ebola outbreaks

New strategies at work in eleventh Ebola outbreak in DRC

In an interview, Guyguy Manangama who is leading MSF's Ebola response in Équateur province, describes the eleventh outbreak, which has lower levels of mortality than the previous outbreak. Interview - 4 Nov 2020
 
Ebola intervention in Equateur province
DRC Ebola outbreaks

DRC's eleventh Ebola outbreak

On 18 November 2020, DRC declared over an outbreak of Ebola in Équateur province, which had been the country’s eleventh in 40 years, and the third in the last two years. Crisis Update - 3 Nov 2020
 
Malaria peak in Batangafo
Central African Republic

In times of COVID-19, malaria remains the number one killer of children in CAR

While COVID-19 makes the headlines, malaria remains one of the biggest causes of death in the Central African Republic; it is the biggest killer of children under five. MSF teams are providing preventive medication to people in Batangafo, in the country's northwest. Project Update - 15 Sep 2020
 
Ebola outbreak in DRC's Equateur province
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Responding to new Ebola outbreak in Équateur province

Since the declaration of a new outbreak of Ebola in DRC, the country's eleventh, in Equateur province, MSF teams are responding in the most remote, affected health areas. Project Update - 4 Sep 2020
 
Covid-19 in Amazon region
Brazil

Chasing COVID-19 in the Brazilian Amazon

As MSF's response to COVID-19 winds down in the Amazon region of Brazil, our staff reflect on our activities and the challenges they faced in responding to the pandemic. Exposure.co - 4 Aug 2020
 
Lesbos MSF forced to close Covid 19 facility
Greece

MSF forced to close COVID-19 centre on Lesbos

Local authorities on Lesbos, Greece, issuing fines and the threat of criminal charges, have forced MSF to close our COVID-19 isolation centre in Moria, which could have grave consequences. Press Release - 30 Jul 2020
 
COVID-19, Ayderkan
Kyrgyzstan

In remote Kyrgyzstan, COVID-19 puts a strain on the health system

MSF teams in Kyrgyzstan are bracing for further cases of COVID-19, especially in remote areas of the country, where resources and staff were already stretched. Project Update - 22 Jul 2020
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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