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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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Outreach workers talk to communities in Port Moresby tell them about tuberculosis, the symptoms and the treatment. Health talks are organised on a regular basis to reach more people.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Three questions on worrying COVID-19 surge in Papua New Guinea

In PNG, the health system is at risk of collapsing following an increase in the number of COVID-19 patients. Given the staff shortages, patients have little to no access to regular basic health care. Interview - 25 Mar 2021
 
Hebron- Medical Activities
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Vaccines urgently needed as Palestine struggles under surge of COVID-19

MSF is urging Israeli and Palestinian authorities to immediately scale-up efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 in the West Bank, as hopsitals become saturated. Press Release - 24 Mar 2021
 
Mr Mncwabe is a patient at Doris Goodwin Hospital and is enrolled on the TB Practecal Clinical Trial Pietermaritzburg KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Tuberculosis

Drug-resistant TB clinical trial ends enrolment early after positive initial data

Patient enrolment on an-MSF sponsored clinical trial, TB-PRACTECAL, has ended early after an independent data safety and monitoring board indicated that the new MDR-TB regimen being studied by the trial is vastly superior to current care. Press Release - 24 Mar 2021
 
View of a section of the Jamtoli refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, south-east Bangladesh.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Three questions on life for the Rohingya in Bangladesh

More than three years since Rohingya refugees left Myanmar en masse for Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, living conditions in the mega camp continue to deteriorate. People face a tough choice on whether to stay or leave. Interview - 18 Mar 2021
 
“The problem of insufficient water is very serious,” says Fati, another displaced person who has settled in Pulka. “When we have money, we buy water from the well, but if we don’t have any, we have to fetch it from the pond and this makes our children sick.”
Nigeria

Pulka, where water is the source of life… and disease

A lack of clean water for displaced people in Pulka, Borno state, Nigeria is causing illness among people; MSF is urging other organisations to act and improve access to a vital resource. Project Update - 16 Mar 2021
 
Images taken by MSF staff from inside Selekleka Hospital in Tigray, Ethiopia. As a result, the Hospital is now closed and unable to function, leaving a huge gap in the needs of the local population.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

People left with few healthcare options in Tigray as facilities looted, destroyed

An MSF assessment of healthcare facilities in violence-racked Tigray region, northern Ethiopia, finds 70% have been targeted by armed groups - leaving people with a serious lack of access to healthcare. Press Release - 15 Mar 2021
 
Dr. Abdukareem Saleh patient Abas Muhammad in the mobile clinic in the Hygiene Fund camp, a camp for African migrants who work as cleaners to clean the city under the contract with the Hygiene Fund. الدكتور عبدالكريم صالح وهو يقوم بفحص المريض عباس محمد في العيادة المتنقلة في مخيم صندوق النظافة وهو مخيم خاص بالمهاجرين الأفارقة الذين يعملون كعمال نظافة لمدينة مأرب بالتعاقد مع صندوق النظافة.
Yemen

Health needs grow for people in former safe haven of Marib

During the six years of war in Yemen, many people have sought refuge in Marib governorate. However fighting in what was once a safe haven is now displacing people - who have little access to healthcare. Project Update - 11 Mar 2021
 
Gennaro is a specialist of water and sanitation. In the hospital, one of the key aims of his daily job is to protect hospital staff from being infected with the virus. Before going in a covid ward, he’s wearing a personal protective equipment for protecting himself and the colleagues of a risk of infection.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

A year of a pandemic: our response to COVID-19 in pictures

For the last year, MSF teams around the world have been responding to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Here are our teams at work in pictures. Photo Story - 11 Mar 2021
 
The epidemic has had an enormous psychological impact on health workers in Manaus. MSF is trying to address that with mental health support at the José Rodrigues Emergency Unit (UPA) - in this photo - and 28 de Agosto hospital in Manaus, one of the biggest in the Amazonian capital. Psychological support is offered to all hospital staff, medical and non-medical. What we are seeing is not only professionals who have had to deal with long shifts and a high number of patients, but also manage their own concerns about getting contaminated and contaminating their loved ones. Sometimes they have already experienced loss of family and friends but have to move on with their everyday duties, without time to mourn the ones who are gone.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

One year of a pandemic

MSF's Brice de le Vingne reflects on our response to COVID-19, one year after WHO declared the outbreak of the new coronavirus a global pandemic. Opinion - 11 Mar 2021
 
Aerial view of the banner deployed by MSF in front of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva calling on certain governments to stop blocking the landmark waiver proposal on intellectual property (IP) during the pandemic. March 04, 2021
Access to medicines

Countries obstructing COVID-19 patent waiver must allow negotiations to start

A small number of wealthy countries continue to block a waiver on intellectual property rights on COVID-19 tools, preventing wide-scale production that could save more lives. Press Release - 9 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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