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How we work

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How we're run

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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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MSF medical staff visiting patients in the newly opened centre for temporary isolation and oxygenation in Huacho, Huaura province, Peru. The 50-bed facility has been quickly set up to support nearby Huacho regional hospital. So far, only two percent of the Peruvian population has received the first dose of the vaccine.
Peru

COVID-19 leaves high numbers of deaths and overwhelmed hospitals in Peru

A new, brutal wave of COVID-19 has swept Peru over the past few weeks, resulting in overcrowded hospitals and high death rates, while there's a lack of access to vaccination. Press Release - 20 Apr 2021
 
Group counseling session.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Deportations put migrants’ lives at risk in Niger

Expulsion of people on the move, migrants and refugees from Algeria to Niger has not stopped. The humanitarian needs of the migrant population are immense in Assamaka, Agadez region. Project Update - 20 Apr 2021
 
Over the past few days, hundreds of people have arrived in the provincial capital city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado, fleeing from the violent attacks that took place in Palma last week. Together with the government and other humanitarian organizations, MSF will contribute to the response by providing medical support to the displaced population that is being temporarily sheltered at the stadium.
Mozambique

Fear and loss for people fleeing violence in Cabo Delgado

Attacks on Palma, have caused the loss of many family members, in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Two internally displaced women, who MSF have assisted, recount the violence that they've witnessed during these attacks. Voices from the Field - 16 Apr 2021
 
MSF supports Emergency Care Units (known locally as UPAs) in Porto Velho, Rondônia state’s capital. Due to the over-saturated health system as a result of COVID-19, the UPAs, which usually only manage the stabilisation of patients before they are transferred to higher level facilities, are having to take in more complex patients than they were designed to handle.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe

A year into the pandemic, and after recording over a quarter of the world's COVID-19 deaths last week, Brazil's coronavirus response is spiralling out of control, resulting in avoidable deaths. Press Release - 15 Apr 2021
 
Étienne Oumba, is a neighbourhood chief, and the founder and president of the Association of United Victims of the Central African Republic (AVUC). Étienne talks with Nadia, a community agent from MSF, in his office in Bangui, CAR, on 11th December 2020. Among the 3,000 victims of sexual violence he has identified so far, 700 are women. After directing a survivor to MSF for medical and psychological care, he accompanies them in their pursuit of justice. The medical certificates produced by MSF at the Tongolo centre help Étienne and the survivors as they represent proof that an incident occurred. One of his main challenges is the ongoing insecurity in CAR. “There are victims who don't want to pursue justice because sometimes their assailant influences them and says that if you bring me to justice, I'll kill you.”
Sexual violence

Healing the visible and invisible wounds of sexual violence in CAR

Sexual violence has become a healthcare crisis in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. MSF provides free and holistic care to survivors but medical support is not enough to meet their needs. Project Update - 13 Apr 2021
 
A man detained in Abu Salim detention centre. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without knowing when they will be released.
Libya

Libya: One dead and two injured in shooting in Tripoli detention centre

Tensions in the severely overcrowded Al-Mabani detention centre, in Tripoli, Libya, escalated, leaving one detained refugee dead and others injured following shots being fired into cells. Press Release - 9 Apr 2021
 
MSF clinic in Pagak reception centre. Ethiopia, March 2021.
Ethiopia

Asylum seekers trapped in appalling conditions in Gambella region

South Sudanese asylum seekers are stranded in reception centres in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia, without access to proper food or shelter. Forthcoming rains will make conditions even more difficult. Project Update - 9 Apr 2021
 
General view of Meluco, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, 20 February 2021.
Mozambique

Violence in Cabo Delgado: “Many have seen dead bodies along the way”

Over the last year, the number of people forced to flee in Cabo Delago province has increased exponentially because of the violence. There are currently around 50,000 people living either in camps or in the host community. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2021
 
Theophile, MSF emergency team doctor, examines a child with measles at the Bosobolo general referral hospital. The Bosobolo health zone in Nord-Ubangi has been affected by measles for several weeks. MSF has sent an emergency team to treat patients and vaccinate all children from six months to nine years old. In February 2021, an MSF emergency mobile team went to the Bosobolo health zone, North Ubangi, to support the provision of care to patients in eight health centers as well as in the general hospital. The team launched the vaccination of 66,000 children in this isolated health zone, and trained local health workers in patient care and epidemiological surveillance.
Democratic Republic of Congo

In DRC, measles is spreading and killing again in what seems to be a never-ending fight

Measles is once again on the rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo, shortly after the worst measles epidemic DRC has ever recorded. Project Update - 31 Mar 2021
 
MSF doctors, Nurses and physiotherapist exchange patient updates and discuss patient conditions and treatment plans during the daily morning meeting at MSF-run ward of the COVID-19 centre at Al-Kindi Hospital, Baghdad.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

“Only vaccination will end the ferocious spread of COVID-19 in Iraq”

MSF’s project coordinator in Baghdad writes about the suffering in Iraq as the second wave of the new coronavirus claims many victims. Opinion - 31 Mar 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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