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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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7698 Results
 
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Armenia

First MSF patient completes treatment for drug-resistant TB in Armenian capital

"Needless to say, drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment imposes a considerable burden on the patient. But also it has been emotionally challenging and frustrating for our team, as we often felt guilty that we might be failing in our work. We are now able to respond honestly to the recurrent question from our patients: Does this treatment work? Has anyone ever been cured with this treatment?" - Robert Parker, MSF Head of Mission in Armenia Project Update - 8 Nov 2007
 
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Tuberculosis

MSF presentation to the IGWG on the need for development of TB drugs and techniques

We also see that progress is slow. This is perhaps to be expected, given that the issues that need to be resolved are both controversial and complex - and will perhaps require more time than the allocated six days to resolve. Rome was not built in a day. Interview - 8 Nov 2007
 
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Somalia

No safe place in Mogadishu

Press Release - 7 Nov 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola work in DRC coming to an end

Since the Ebola outbreak was officially declared on September 10, the MSF team has been working around the clock to isolate and treat those infected and try to halt a further spread of the deadly disease. Project Update - 6 Nov 2007
 
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Access to medicines

UN health talks could lead to new ways of developing urgently needed drugs and diagnostics

Because tests are either antiquated or too high-tech, we don't have any practical tool to diagnose TB in people with HIV - who are precisely the ones most at risk of dying. Press Release - 5 Nov 2007
 
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Thailand

The situation of the Lao Hmong refugees in Petchabun

MSF is calling upon the government of Thailand to halt forced repatriation proceedings against 7,500 ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos who are currently confined to a camp controlled by the Thai military in the northern village of Huai Nam Khao in Petchabun province. Project Update - 31 Oct 2007
 
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Iraq

Surgery for wounded Iraqis

Our teams have been working here in Jordan for over a year now. They provide care and reassurance to patients, monitor the healing process and schedule further operations if necessary. Crisis Update - 30 Oct 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Interview with Anne Khoudiacoff - Many arrive at the hospital in a critical condition

The MSF team in Masisi, made up of 100 Congolese and five international staff, works in the 120-bed hospital and a health centre. They offer surgical care to war wounded, as well as general health care and nutritional support to displaced people and the local population. Anne Khoudiacoff, 29, is a Belgian nurse who arrived in DRC in early October. Here she describes her work of the past three weeks. Voices from the Field - 26 Oct 2007
 
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Guinea

When cholera takes root in Conakry

"Even if the number of new cases appears to be decreasing, more vigilance is required at this stabilisation phase because the teams are exhausted and have lost their motivation in fighting an epidemic that has lasted more than five months," explained Isabelle Lessard, MSF field nurse with experience in cholera intervention. Project Update - 25 Oct 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

No new Ebola cases in Kampungu after incubation period runs its course

Kampungu was a difficult location to control an outbreak because it does not have any electricity or running water - water was brought in by jerry cans carried by the local population. There was no normal hospital infrastructure but nevertheless, MSF was able to provide care to the patients with facilities adapted to needs. Project Update - 25 Oct 2007
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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