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How we work

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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 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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The Turquesa River passing through the town of Bajo Chiquito, in the Emberá-Wounaan region of Panama. People arrive here on foot or in canoes. El río Turquesa a su paso por el pueblo de Bajo Chiquito (comarca Emberá-Wounaan), en Panamá. Aquí llegan a pie o en piraguas.
Panama

Violence and danger for people crossing Panama’s Darien jungle

Medical coordinator Guillermo Gironés, recently returned from Panama, describes the horrific levels of violence and danger that migrants crossing the Darien jungle face on their route north. Interview - 19 Nov 2021
 
On the occasion of International Safe Abortion Day on 28 September, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) launches its report Unsafe abortion, women at risk (link), based on data collected during its work across the country. Eighty-eight percent of the 428 patients treated by MSF in 2017-18 faced at least one barriers.
Safe abortion care

Putting patients first for safe abortion care

How MSF integrated safe abortion care into our medical projects around the world Interview - 18 Nov 2021
 
Flooding in and around Leer county in Unity State, South Sudan
South Sudan

Third year of severe floods leaves nearly 800,000 people struggling

Some of the worst floods in decades have left hundreds of thousands of people across northern South Sudan in urgent need of assistance. Crisis Update - 17 Nov 2021
 
After a distress call from Alarm Phone, confirmed by Sea Bird, the afternoon of the 16th of November, 2021, 99 survivors were rescued by the Geo Barents at approx 30 miles from the Libyan shores. At the bottom of the overcrowded wooden boat, 10 people were found dead. 10 persons who died from suffocation, after 13 hours adrift at sea. The deadly central Mediterranean route.
Mediterranean migration

Ten more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route

MSF search and rescue teams found 10 people dead on a wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean Sea after 186 others were rescued within 24 hours. Press Release - 17 Nov 2021
 
Diawara Fatouma Dicko, from the Yirimadio health centre, in a consultation with a patient. Throughout October 2021, free breast and cervical cancer screening is available to all women in this facility and 20 others in Bamako.
Mali

Three questions on the challenges of treating cancer in Mali

In Bamako, Mali, MSF screened thousands of women for cervical and breast cancer during October, in a bid to raise the profile, and reduce deaths, from the diseases. Interview - 11 Nov 2021
 
A traffic accident victim arrives at MSF's Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince. The hospital specializes in treating people with severe traumatic injuries or burns. A political and economic crisis in the capital has led to widespread insecurity and a fuel shortage, which is forcing medical facilities to limit the services they can provide due to transportation difficulties, staffing shortages and a lack of energy to power the facilities.
Haiti

Shortages of fuel, water threaten medical care in Haiti

As tensions and armed conflict escalate in Haiti's capital, shortages of fuel, transportation and drinking water are putting medical facilities and patients at risk. Press Release - 10 Nov 2021
 
Psychologist Rasmia Ali Mohammed conducing a counselling session with Alima* at the mental health clinic supported by MSF at Al-Gamhouri Hospital in Hajjah, Yemen.
Yemen

The rise of severe mental health conditions in Yemen

The crisis in Yemen is in its seventh year and conflict continues to have a devastating impact on people’s wellbeing - especially their mental health. Interview - 10 Nov 2021
 
MSF’s Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITFC) at Herat Regional Hospital. Only women, except the staff, are allowed to enter in the facilities. The gate is hidden by a large curtain, the "parda" in dari (which means curtain).
Afghanistan

Malnutrition soars in Herat as healthcare reaches breaking point

Malnutrition in Afghanistan is becoming a cause for concern, and already increasing numbers of cases have been exacerbated by the Taliban’s takeover and uncertainty in the country. Interview - 10 Nov 2021
 
Woman uses a canoe to move through floodwaters in Wangchot village, Old Fangak. Since July 2020, severe flooding have affected an estimated 800,000 people across a wide swathe of South Sudan, inundating homes and leaving people without adequate food, water or shelter. As of beginning of December 2020, in Fangak county, Jonglei state, the water levels remain high, and in some areas continue rising, affecting people on a daily basis.
Climate emergency

The climate crisis is a health and humanitarian crisis

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is attending the COP26 Climate conference in Scotland this week. Here's why. Project Update - 5 Nov 2021
 
Members of the MSF mobile response team head towards a school building which was temporarily used to house people isolating with COVID-19.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Providing support for COVID-19 in Manipur

Following a severe wave of COVID-19 in India, MSF teams responded in Manipur state, providing treatment to patients and supporting the local health system. Project Update - 5 Nov 2021
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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