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How we work

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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 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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Syria

Women treated for gunshot wounds amidst violence and unrest in Al-Hol camp

MSF teams have treated women for gunshot wounds after shooting broke out in Al-Hol camp, northeastern Syria. Press Release - 30 Sep 2019
 
n March 2017, organisations from 17 European countries filed an opposition to Gilead Science's patent on the highly effective hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir. On 13th and 14th of September 2018, the hearing took e place before the European Patent Office in Munich. Activists held a protest in front of the European Patent Office for affordable medicines at the start of proceedings on 13 September.
Access to medicines

20 years on, the access-to-medicines battle is going global

MSF started the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines back in 1999 when our field staff didn't have the appropriate tools and medicines to treat our patients. Now known as the Access Campaign, they are taking the fight for access to medicines global. Op-Ed - 27 Sep 2019
 
Activists from Doctors Without Borders protest vaccine pricing policies in front of the Pfizer World Headquarters in New York NY, Thursday, April 22, 2015. Pfizer refuses to publish the price of the pnuemococcal vaccine, preventing developing countries from negotiating a fair price for the drug. Photograph: Victor J. Blue
Access to medicines

6 things Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know!

Think the pharmaceutical industry is looking out for your best interests when it comes to your health? Think again! Here are six of Big Pharma's dirty little secrets they'd prefer you didn't know... Project Update - 26 Sep 2019
 
MSF teams have seen a general increase in the number of women, children and whole families traveling North.
El Salvador

El Salvador is not a safe country for refugees or asylum seekers

El Salvador is not a safe place for asylum seekers turned away from the United States, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) following a recently announced agreement. Press Release - 26 Sep 2019
 
Health promotion lay counsellor, Bilqees Fatima provides hepatitis C prevention information to patients in the clinic's waiting room.
Pakistan

Working to turn the tide of hepatitis C in Karachi’s Machar Colony

Pakistan has the world's second-highest number of people with hepatitis C. Médecins Sans Frontières is focusing on tackling the viral infection in Karachi. Project Update - 20 Sep 2019
 
Muhammad K., 25 years old, is a Rohingya refugee who works as a construction workers on a vast condominium project in the Bayan Lepas district of Penang. Like many other workers, he also lives on site, sharing very basic accommodation.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Healthcare for struggling refugee communities in Malaysia

Rohingya are among the refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia who live in constant fear of arrest, detention and deportation. Project Update - 20 Sep 2019
 
Kubro is pointing out Libya on the map of Africa on the side of the women's shelter. Kubro was rescued from a boat in distress on the Mediterranean Sea on September 9 and transferred to the Ocean Viking. With 84 people on board - from two separate rescue operations - the Ocean Viking has requested a place of safety for their disembarkation.
Mediterranean migration

Ocean Viking survivors to disembark in Lampedusa six days after the first survivors were rescued at sea

The Italian authorities’ offer of a place of safety within six days of the first rescue at sea is a clear demonstration of humanitarian values, and represents a positive step towards a more humane response to the suffering that continues on the Central Mediterranean Press Release - 14 Sep 2019
 
Des réfugiés se réchauffent au dessus d'une aération du métro à la Porte de la Chapelle. Refugees warm themselves above an aeration of the subway at la Porte de la Chapelle.
France

Unaccompanied minors, symbols of a policy of mistreatment

Young foreign nationals continue to arrive unaccompanied in France and for some, recognition of their minority status can be an arduous process. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a report based on our experience with vulnerable minors at our dedicated day centre in Paris. Report - 10 Sep 2019
 
Pantin, Monday, September 17, 2018. Young people wait in the waiting room of the center. Often fatigued by their difficult situation, they take advantage of these moments of calm to rest. The medical and administrative reception and orientation center for unaccompanied minors in Pantin (93- France) was opened by MSF in December 2017. The center provides young migrants, who claim to be unaccompanied minors, with support for four areas of activity: legal, medical care, mental health and social assistance. The center welcomes between 30 and 35 young people per day by appointment from 9am to 5pm. --------------------------------------- Pantin, le lundi 17 Septembre 2018. Des jeunes attendent dans la salle d'attente du centre. Souvent fatigues par leur situation difficile, ils profitent de ces moments de calme pour se reposer. Le centre d’accueil et d’orientation medical et administratif destine aux mineurs non accompagnes a Pantin (93- France) a ete ouvert par MSF en decembre 2017. Le centre apporte a de jeunes migrants, qui se declarent mineurs non accompagnes, un soutien autour de quatre poles d’activites : juridique, soins medicaux, sante mentale et assistance sociale. Le centre accueille entre 30 et 35 jeunes par jour sur rdv de 09 à 17h.
France

Rejected and traumatised: Unaccompanied minors arriving in France

Dissuasive migration policies are making the journeys of minors arriving in France increasingly dangerous. Their distress is exacerbated by abuse and organised institutional rejection. Project Update - 10 Sep 2019
 
Women and children queue at a water point in the Malakal Protection of Civilian (PoC) site, in north-east South Sudan, where over 29,000 internally displaced people continue to live today.
South Sudan

The beauty of movement: Helping young minds in South Sudan

blogs.msf.org - 9 Sep 2019
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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