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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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Omaima is 52 years old and suffers from neurological problems, asthma, hyper-tension and mental health issues. She says: "We have been in this camp for one year, it is a terrible camp; full of rats, dirt, there is not enough food and all of this causes mental health problems. The health system in the camp has deteriorated and, because I am asthmatic, I don’t want to see the doctor here because I am afraid of being put in quarantine. I prefer to be in my tent which is full of rats and snakes, but at least I am not going to be in direct contact with other sick people from different communities in the same container.”
Greece

Negligent and dangerous COVID-19 response in Vathy camp, Samos

On Greece's Samos island, the inadequate COVID-19 response in Vathy camp is dangerous and should be immediately addressed. Project Update - 26 Oct 2020
 
Patient in an MSF ambulance
Cameroon

Doctors Without Borders responds to school shooting in southwest Cameroon

Following a school shooting in Kumba, Doctors Without Borders launched a mass casualty plan, responding with our ambulance service and surgical care in the Presbyterian General Hospital. Press Release - 24 Oct 2020
 
An MSF medical team was dispatched to conduct a triage of the survivors. Following assessment by the doctor, two patients were designated as requiring of further examination in the ships hospital, onboard SeaWatch4. Both are stable but remain under observation.
Mediterranean migration

Lives on the line as legal appeal lodged to free the Sea-Watch 4

Sea-Watch, the organisation which runs the Sea-Watch 4, the search and rescue vessel on which MSF provides medical care, has lodged an appeal against the ship's detainment. Press Release - 23 Oct 2020
 
Flooding in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area, South Sudan. This year’s floods are happening against the backdrop of multiple emergencies including COVID-19, increased violence and fighting, a growing economic crisis, and high levels of food insecurity. The needs for medical care are increasing with a sharp rise in malaria cases and fears of outbreaks of other diseases
South Sudan

Worsening flooding increases health risks

South Sudan's severe floods are leaving people without adequate food, water or shelter. Malaria cases are rising and other disease outbreaks are likely. Project Update - 22 Oct 2020
 
MSF in Agok, South Sudan. South Sudan faces many challenges, including ongoing conflict, displacement, food shortages/malnutrition, lack of social services including health care, and insecurity. MSF hospitals have been under attack from different armed groups, putting the medical staff and patients at risk.
Azerbaijan

MSF response in Nagorno-Karabakh

MSF update on activities in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Project Update - 22 Oct 2020
 
Muammar Al-Hiyali (45 years) works as head of drivers in MSF’s post-operative care hospital in East Mosul. Muammar manages a team of 15 drivers. Here, he is spending a morning with some of them before going about their daily tasks.
Iraq

Humanitarians behind the scenes in Iraq

Across all of MSF's projects worldwide, the vast majority - usually more than 90% - are people hired locally in the project's area. And despite our name meaning 'doctors without borders' in English, our medical teams rely on a solid team of humanitarians who don't have a medical background. Voices from the Field - 20 Oct 2020
 
On August 24, SeaWatch4 completed its third rescue in 48 hours. Evacuated in a heavy swell, many of the some 100 survivors were hypothermic, disoriented and smelled strongly of gasoline. Emergency showers were provided for fuel exposure.
Mediterranean migration

Five things to know about the Mediterranean search and rescue crisis

Five search and rescue boats detained, including MSF's Sea-Watch 4. In five months. Here are five things to know about the current situation with search and rescue in the Mediterranean sea. Project Update - 16 Oct 2020
 
Patients and caretakers entering Boost hospital, Boost hospital, Lashkar Gah
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Afghanistan

Sharing patients’ stories “as devastating as their injuries” in Afghanistan

MSF hospital coordinator at Boost provincial hospital, Marianna Cortesi, describes the harrowing stories of two women - mothers - caught in the crossfire of the fighting in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Voices from the Field - 15 Oct 2020
 
MSF staff provide support and advice to medical staff working in quarantine centres set up by national authorities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the Venezuelan border state of Táchira. Venezuelan returnees must undergo quarantine upon their arrival in the country.
Venezuela

MSF teams improve conditions for Venezuelan returnees in quarantine centres

Venezuelan migrants are returning to their home country in light of COVID-19. MSF is providing assistance to returnees to  ensure access to safe drinking water and prevent common diseases. Project Update - 13 Oct 2020
 
Non Communicable Disease clinic (MSF) in northeast Iraq.
Iraq

MSF hands over last projects in Diyala, Iraq, after six years

MSF teams provided healthcare services in Diyala governorate from late 2014 until August 2020 when they handed over their latest projects to the Health Directorate and other local and international organisations. Project Update - 13 Oct 2020
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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