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How we work

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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 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.

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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Yesterday night fire erupted in Moria, Lesbos, burning to the ground the entire camp and forcing 12000 people to evacuate the site. They are all on the streets now with no place to stay. "We saw the fire spread across #Moria and rage all night long. The whole place was engulfed in flames, we saw an exodus of people from a burning hell with no direction. Children scared and parents in shock. We are working now to address their needs." Marco Sandrone, MSF Project Coordinator in Lesbos.
Greece

All people in Moria camp must be evacuated to safety in wake of destructive fire

In the wake of a fire which destroyed Moria refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, MSF is urging Greece and the EU to immediately evacuate the 12,000 men, women and children to safety. Project Update - 9 Sep 2020
 
A baby is undergoing phototherapy treatment for jaundice in the newborn unit at Timergara DHQ hospital, Lower Dir.
Pakistan

Meeting regular health needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

Amid staff forced to be quarantined and hospitals temporarily shutting during the coronavirus pandemic in Pakistan, MSF staff have continued to deliver thousands of babies each week and provide medication for people with hepatitis C. Project Update - 8 Sep 2020
 
In Gwoza, a garrison town (towns occupied and controlled by the military as strategic bases in the ongoing conflict) in Borno state, more than 60’000 people live in very precarious conditions and are dependent on humanitarian aid and healthcare.
Nigeria

“Children can draw assault rifles better than a football” in Borno state

In Gwoza, northeastern Nigeria's Borno state, children who have witnessed traumatic events - including those who have been abducted - are receiving care from MSF mental health teams. Interview - 8 Sep 2020
 
Samar is 3 years old. She came with her father to the MSF medical point to receive wound care. Samar was going with her father out of their building on the day of the explosion and the steal gate caused her facial injuries and burns. She already had reconstructive plastic surgery. MSF has established a fixed point in the Mar Mikhael and Karantina neighborhoods in Beirut, two of the areas most impacted by the blast, to provide medical support to the people affected by the explosion. The team provides wound care (dressings), rapid consultations for people with non-communicable diseases, as well as psychological first aid.
Lebanon

“The explosion did not distinguish between its victims and neither should the aid response”

A month after a massive explosion tore through central Beirut, Lebanon, MSF's Jonathan Whittall explains the situation and our response. Interview - 4 Sep 2020
 
Medical staff inside the MSF-supported Bolomba Ebola treatment center.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Responding to new Ebola outbreak in Équateur province

Since the declaration of a new outbreak of Ebola in DRC, the country's eleventh, in Equateur province, MSF teams are responding in the most remote, affected health areas. Project Update - 4 Sep 2020
 
Yasin is a 9-year-old boy from Afghanistan, who visits the MSF pediatric clinic once a week with his father Mohtar, to consult with a child psychologist. Yasin suffers from nightmares and is constantly afraid that something bad will happen to him in Moria. When he grows up, he wants “to help children like his psychologist” in the MSF pediatric clinic that is located right across from Moria. Yasin lives in a makeshift shelter in the olive grove, with his 3-year-old brother and their parents.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Greek police enforce unwarranted and cruel quarantine of Moria camp on Lesbos

In the wake of a confirmed case of COVID-19 in Moria refugee camp, on Lesbos, Greek authorities are enforcing lockdown on residents that MSF says is cruel and unwarranted. Statement - 3 Sep 2020
 
At the dawn of August 23, 2020, seawatch MSF teams rescued 97 people from an overcrowded rubber boat. The men, women & children in distress were spotted in international waters, some 30 nautical miles from Libya.
Mediterranean migration

Sea-Watch 4 is allocated a port of safety 11 days after first rescue

Eleven days into its new mission, the Sea-Watch 4, the search and rescue ship run by Sea-Watch and MSF, finally gets a port of safety for the more than 350 people plucked from the Mediterranean Sea. Interview - 2 Sep 2020
 
People prepare evening meals during sunset in the streets of Mbawa camp.
Nigeria

“When I think about going home, I remind myself that a live dog is better than a dead lion”

A multi-layered and complex conflict between farmers and herdsmen in Nigeria's 'food basket' middle belt states has escalated in recent years, forcing thousands of people to become displaced with a lack of access to healthcare and food. Project Update - 1 Sep 2020
 
A patient with crutches is leaving Saint Mary Soledad’s outpatient consultation corridor, Bamenda, North-West Cameroon.
Cameroon

A hospital at the heart of the North-West crisis in Cameroon

More than three years of armed violence in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon have led to a humanitarian crisis, severely damaging local health systems. Access to healthcare has become a daily challenge. Project Update - 1 Sep 2020
 
Al-Hol Camp.
Syria

“In Al-Hol camp, almost no healthcare is available”

MSF emergency manager for Syria Will Turner describes the situation across northeast Syria and in Al-Hol camp for displaced people as COVID-19 spreads. Interview - 27 Aug 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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