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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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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
 
MSF Nurse taking vitals of 10 years old girl, XDR-TB survivor during her post treatment six monthly follow-up at MSF independent Clinic, Mumbai-India
Tuberculosis

Sustainable solutions for children and adolescents at risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis

Between 25,000 and 30,000 children are estimated to become sick with DR-TB annually yet child-focused diagnostic, treatment and prevention strategies lack. Project Update - 30 Mar 2021
 
GREECE. Lesbos, 09 September 2020. Moria camp. The day-after a fire destroyed the majority of the refugees camp. Refugees and asylum seekers leaving the camp.
Greece

Open letter to Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner of Home Affairs

Read an open letter to Yiva Johansson, European Commissioner of Home Affairs, by the medical coordinator of MSF's project in Lesbos, Greece. Open Letter - 29 Mar 2021
 
Kundeya school, in the city of Axum, central Tigray, where thousands of displaced people have taken refuge in recent weeks.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Tigray’s cities fill with displaced people fleeing insecurity and in need of aid

Tens of thousands of people displaced by insecurity have arrived in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region. They lack food, water, shelter and hygiene. Voices from the Field - 29 Mar 2021
 
MSF COVID Intervention in Aden, Al Gomhuria Hospital
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 support desperately needed as second wave overwhelms Yemen

The second wave of COVID-19 in war-torn Yemen is resulting in hospitals stretched to breaking point, with a lack of critical supplies to treat patients, including oxygen. Press Release - 25 Mar 2021
 
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
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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