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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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452 Results
 
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Somalia

Measles treatment in Somalia requires an adapted response

As the conflict in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, reaches new heights, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is still managing to curb the worst effects of an ongoing measles outbreak in neighbouring regions. Project Update - 3 Jul 2009
 
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Chad

Measles vaccination in eastern Chad is a human and logistical challenge

Since February 7, MSF teams have been vaccinating tens of thousands of children against measles in the district of Abéché, Chad. This emergency operation - to fight against an epidemic that has been ongoing for several week - is mobilizing significant human and logistical resources. Project Update - 18 Feb 2009
 
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Zimbabwe

Raging cholera just tip of Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis

MSF appeals to the government of Zimbabwe to immediately remove existing barriers and facilitate independent assessment of needs in order to be able to provide timely, essential humanitarian and medical aid.
Press Release - 17 Feb 2009
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

With 21 days since the last infection, DRC Ebola outbreak is under control

Since Thursday, January 22, all patients have been discharged from the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) isolation centre in Kampungu, in the province of Western Kasai, central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Project Update - 26 Jan 2009
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

New Ebola patients in Western Kasai

Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Western Kasai province, DRC. The Zaire-type of Ebola kills 70 to 90 percent of those infected but we could actually be in the presence of a 'less lethal' Ebola strain. Still we can not forget that 13 suspected patients also died, making the death toll 14 people. Project Update - 14 Jan 2009
 
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South Africa

MSF increases role as Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak crosses into South Africa

Cholera spread rapidly throughout Zimbabwe's provinces and then into neighbouring countries, particularly its southern neighbour, South Africa, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) immediately reinforced its teams. Project Update - 22 Dec 2008
 
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Zimbabwe

MSF responds to Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak

MSF has been treating cholera in Zimbabwe since the outbreak in August and will continue to care for patients throughout the country as long as it is needed. Project Update - 4 Dec 2008
 
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Zimbabwe

Impact of cholera in Beitbridge, southern Zimbabwe

On Friday, November 14, when the Zimbabwean health authorities in Beitbridge first reported cholera to MSF, there were five cases. Two days later, there were already more than 500. By the end of the week, over 1,500. Project Update - 4 Dec 2008
 
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Zimbabwe

MSF teams react to 'biggest ever' cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe's capital

In Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to a cholera outbreak, which the local Ministry of Health has declared "the biggest ever in Harare": up to 1.4 million people are endangered if the outbreak continues to spread. Project Update - 18 Nov 2008
 
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Zimbabwe

Sewage problems cause cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe

MSF is committed to assisting the community in need and will be involved in identifying solutions with all actors on the ground, not only to avert a greater public health crisis in the future, but also to aid in restoring the dignity of this at-risk suburb. Project Update - 17 Sep 2008
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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