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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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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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1718 Results
 
Cholera vaccination at Nyaragusu refugee camp in Tanzania
Tanzania

Services in Nyarugusu refugee camp ‘stretched beyond their limits’

"Now, as organisations are stretched beyond their limits as they try to cope with the increase of people arriving on a daily basis, this vulnerable population is more at risk. Reduced access to water, sanitation, shelter and healthcare puts them at a high risk of communicable and preventable diseases. Action needs to happen now, before the situation deteriorates even further.” Voices from the Field - 8 Jul 2015
 
Idomeni migration route, Greece
Greece

Thousands of migrants & refugees blocked at borders

“The situation will become much worse if more people get stranded in the area, because there are no basic facilities here and people are scared of what will happen to them” says Antonis Rigas, MSF project coordinator in Idomeni. "It’s absurd how people who are fleeing war and violence are forced to risk their lives in order to finally reach safety in countries that are able to ensure their protection.” Voices from the Field - 7 Jul 2015
 
Idomeni migration route, Greece
Greece

Testimonies from migrants blocked at borders

MSF is offering medical consultations, psychological support and relief items to migrants and refugees in Evzonoi and Idomeni, close to the Macedonian border. Most of the people seen by MSF’s medical team are fleeing war and violence in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Voices from the Field - 7 Jul 2015
 
Mediterranean migration

Testimonies from the Bourbon Argos

Testimonies from the Bourbon Argos, the MSF search-and-rescue ship. Voices from the Field - 7 Jul 2015
 
Fresghy: “I knew how dangerous the travel is – my friends had told me on Facebook. But I had no choice.”
Mediterranean migration

Testimonies from the MY Phoenix

Testimonies from migrants rescued by the search and rescue ship, MY Phoenix Voices from the Field - 7 Jul 2015
 
Yemen - Ahem Market, Harad
Yemen

MSF treats dozens wounded after attacks on markets and residential areas

“It is unacceptable that airstrikes take place in highly concentrated civilian areas where people are gathering and going about their daily lives, especially at a time such as Ramadan”, said Colette Gadenne, MSF Head of Mission in Yemen. Press Release - 7 Jul 2015
 
Refugees at Mbera camp in Mauritania’s desert
Mauritania

Malian refugees at risk of increased malnutrition following cancelled food distributions

“The timing of the gap in food distributions is all the more cruel because people are already fasting during daylight hours for the month of Ramadan, and now they have little food to break their fast at sunset,” said Maya Walet Mohamed, leader of the women’s committee in the camp. Press Release - 2 Jul 2015
 
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Italy

“I had no idea how bad it would be. The journey to Europe was worse than what I left behind in Somalia.”

"I did not know how hard the journey would be. What I experienced reaching Europe was worse than what I left behind in Somalia." , says a Somali migrant arrived in Pozzallo, Sicily, after having endured a six-month ordeal in the hands of smugglers, travelling through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya and finally crossing the Mediterranean in a small plastic dinghy. Voices from the Field - 2 Jul 2015
 
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Libya

The challenge of medical aid

“We had a lot of problems delivering all these drugs and medical supplies,” says Dr. Anne-Marie Pegg, MSF’s head of mission in Libya. “It was a challenge to find an airplane that transports freight to Libya. And then road transport is very dangerous because of the insecurity in both the east and the west.” Voices from the Field - 1 Jul 2015
 
Niger: thousands facing precarious conditions after being forced to leave Lake Chad
Lake Chad Crisis

Around Lake Chad: People living in fear

First published in the International Activity Report 2015 Photo Story - 1 Jul 2015
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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