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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 Websites

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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.

GeoMSF
2109 Results
 
MSF maintains its medical activities all around CAR, those already set up before the March coup d’Etat and those recently established to respond to the acute needs of the population affected by displacement, high levels of malaria and the collapse and absence of the public health system in the country. MSF is operating eight regular projects in CAR, while it has recently started emergency operations in three locations more. In the pictures, patients attended in Bouca (325 km north of Bangui).
Central African Republic

MSF denounces targeting of civilians in new wave of violence

Teams treat 26 patients in Bouca suffering machete and gunshot wounds
 Statement - 11 Sep 2013
 
Belgian nurse Caroline Scholtes examines a baby during an MSF mobile clinic in Dorain, Jonglei State, South Sudan (2013)
South Sudan

The clock is ticking for 80,000 people cut off from humanitarian aid

Voices from the Field - 9 Sep 2013
 
enfants regardant dehors travers un mur d truit par un obus. Children looking through a wall destructed by shrapnels
MSF Speaking Out

Somalia 1991-1993: Civil War, Famine Alert and a UN “Military-Humanitarian” Intervention

The ‘Somalia 1991-1993: Civil War, Famine Alert and a UN “Military-Humanitarian” Intervention‘ case study describes the constraints, questions and dilemmas faced by MSF during the first year of its intervention to assist the populations of Somalia, after the civil war started in 1991. Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Sep 2013
 
Mohammad Zaher, 70, was sitting in front of his shop in central Lashkar Gah on 8th October 2012, when a bomb exploded reportedly killing two and injuring at least 15. His suffers from various wounds and his still suffering from shock. The MSF medical team in the emergency room of Lashkar Gah’s Boost hospital is examining him.
Afghanistan

"Conflict still rages and humanitarian needs will only grow"

Interview with Renzo Fricke, MSF’s operational coordinator for Afghanistan Voices from the Field - 30 Aug 2013
 
Patients in the waiting room of MSF clinic at Bab el Tabbaneh dispensary. MSF worker is registering a patient
Lebanon

Bringing healthcare to neighbourhoods isolated by sectarian violence

Violent sectarian clashes between residents of two of Lebanon’s most deprived districts are leaving ordinary people caught in the crossfire as they struggle to access healthcare and get on with their daily lives. Project Update - 29 Aug 2013
 
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Syria

MSF statements should not be used to justify military actions

Response to the US administration and other governments referring to MSF Statement of August 24
 Statement - 28 Aug 2013
 
A woman gathers rain water as it falls from the roof of a shop in the Gumuruk market, Jonglei state, South Sudan. There is no water point in Gumuruk, people have no other choice but collecting rain water or fetching water from the nearby river.
South Sudan

Fear and rainy season keep people from seeking care in Pibor

Fear and floods are keeping people from seeking assistance in Pibor county, in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. Around 90,000 people are still missing, hiding in fear in the bush. Some 28,000 people are accounted for, but few of these people are receiving the assistance they need. Project Update - 20 Aug 2013
 
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Somalia

Why MSF decided to leave Somalia

International President Dr Unni Karunakara explains the difficult decision to close MSF's medial programmes in Somalia Opinion - 20 Aug 2013
 
An MSF doctor examines a child at a makeshift clinic in the bush in South Sudan's Pibor County As at July 2013 around 100,000+ people are hiding in the bush in Pibor County, South Sudan, following tribal clashes and intense fighting between a rebel militia group and the South Sudan Army (SPLA). MSF is slowly gaining access to those who have fled into the bush. MSF emergency medical teams in Bor town and in various locations in Pibor county are trying to provide assistance to direct and indirect victims of this fighting on both sides of the clashes.
South Sudan

Medical needs urgent for 100,000 people as violence continues in Jonglei

Project Update - 1 Aug 2013
 
Following an attack in Kamango village in DRC the 11th of July around 50000 people fled and crossed the border to take refuge in Uganda along the border. Most of refugees stayed at bordering areas within the hosting community and in a transit camp called Bubukwanga, 18 km from the Congolese border (close to Bundibugyo town) where 17000 have been registered by the UNHCR. MSF team has started an emergency intervention in the Transit Centre of Bubukwanga since 18th of July : OPD (300 consultations per day (malaria, Acute respiratory infection, water diarrheas, malnutrition), IDP (30 beds), measle vaccination etc + water supply and sanitation.
Uganda

MSF provides emergency assistance to Congolese refugees

Ruben Pottier, MSF's head of mission in Kampala, Uganda provides an update on MSF's work in a transit camp near Bundibugyo, where 20,000 people are staying, and along the border, where refugees have settled. Interview - 29 Jul 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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