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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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2094 Results
 
Taking care of the injured in the triage zone, red zone. First aid is delivered on benches or on the floor, before patients are hospitalised or transported to the surgical block. Violent armed clashes took place in Bangui. In a few hours, MSF teams have joined the Community Hospital to cope with the influx of wounded. Our medical teams are working now in emergency departments, surgical and hospitalization. Most people have supported injury by firearms or knives (machetes and knives). A second operating theater was opened, and several tents to receive the wounded and increase hospital capacity.
Central African Republic

MSF still responding to emergencies 10 days after violence breaks out

Project Update - 17 Dec 2013
 
The camp is an anarchic constellation of improvised tarp, stakes, mats and umbrellas threadbare. The luckiest families squatting had dilapidated cabins, others sleep in the open, exposed to mosquitoes and rain. Abandoned, the displaced people try to organise. A small market is taking place, but only the wealthy can find something to eat, and the savings are depleted. Single mothers and pregnant women are most vulnerable. 40,000 IDPs fleeing fighting and looting that shook the city since December 5, massed on the outskirts of Bangui airport. Where they survive without any assistance, latrines, shelter or food. The camp is a chaotic result of improvised tarpaulins, poles and umbrellas. Many displaced sleep in the open, exposed to mosquitoes and weather. Together with the ICRC, MSF is now the only active NGO in the camp. Local airport security are requisitioned. MSF set up a mobile clinic that will gradually become a fixed clinic, with observation services, minor surgery and maternity.
Central African Republic

MSF providing emergency care at Bangui airport

MSF is providing a round-the-clock medical service, but the situation remains dire
 Project Update - 13 Dec 2013
 
Syrian children play on makeshift swings at Harmanli Camp in Bulgaria where more than 1300 mostly Syrian asylum seekers are awaiting registration in crowded and unsanitary conditions.
Bulgaria

MSF provides essential aid to Syrian refugees facing harsh winter

With a harsh winter looming, MSF teams are providing essential medical assistance to Syrian refugees in Bulgaria Voices from the Field - 13 Dec 2013
 
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Central African Republic

UN must urgently and radically change its humanitarian response

Press Release - 12 Dec 2013
 
Since December 5, a wave of violence has swept through Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated 280 wounded in the Community Hospital. Most have injuries by gunshots or weapons like machetes and knives. More than 60 surgical operations were performed. More than 100 people are still hospitalized.
Central African Republic

The aid world has failed the people of the Central African Republic

For months CAR has experienced increasing levels of violence. The UN-led humanitarian response to the suffering is too little, too late
 Statement - 12 Dec 2013
 
Since December 5, a wave of violence has swept through Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated 280 wounded in the Community Hospital. Most have injuries by gunshots or weapons like machetes and knives. More than 60 surgical operations were performed. More than 100 people are still hospitalized
Central African Republic

Open letter to the UN humanitarian system

Open Letter - 12 Dec 2013
 
A consultation in the out-patient department, in a disused school, in one of MSF's medical projects in Syria.
Syria

"Hospitals don't even have the most basic of medicines"

Just back from his mission, an MSF doctor describes the appalling conditions in the hospitals of eastern Aleppo Voices from the Field - 11 Dec 2013
 
MSF doctors check the pulse of a patient after anaesthetising him, before operating on him. MSF's Emergency Trauma Surgical Project in Ramtha Governmental Hospital opened in September 2013. It has treated hundreds of war wounded coming from Syria.
Syria

MSF treats hundreds of victims of civil war in emergency programme in Jordan

Emergency surgical programme in Al Ramtha Hospital in Jordan treats hundreds of war wounded patients from Syria Project Update - 10 Dec 2013
 
Taking care of the injured in the triage zone, red zone. First aid is delivered on benches or on the floor, before patients are hospitalised or transported to the surgical block. Violent armed clashes took place in Bangui. In a few hours, MSF teams have joined the Community Hospital to cope with the influx of wounded. Our medical teams are working now in emergency departments, surgical and hospitalization. Most people have supported injury by firearms or knives (machetes and knives). A second operating theater was opened, and several tents to receive the wounded and increase hospital capacity.
Central African Republic

Violence in Bangui Hospitals

MSF calls for a ban on any armed presence in healthcare facilities following summary executions inside Bangui hospitals. Press Release - 9 Dec 2013
 
MSF’s mobile emergency team in Bangui is providing medical care at three camps for displaced people, following an outbreak of violence that has swept through the capital since 5 December. MSF’s clinic at the airport is addressing the medical needs of more than 100,000 displaced people who have sought refuge at the airport. MSF is primarily providing dressing for wounds, abscesses and burns and treating respiratory tract infections and malaria, but also providing referrals of medical and surgical emergencies to hospital structures in the city, such as the Castor Maternity, the Community Hospital or the Pediatric Complex in Bangui.
Central African Republic

Hundreds of wounded treated in Bangui and thousands of displaced in need of aid

Project Update - 8 Dec 2013
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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