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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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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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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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1724 Results
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

After evacuating Kayna, MSF is trying to return to assist displaced in Kanyabayonga

Before and during the evacuation, MSF was forced, several times, to hand over its vehicles to the military. This type of incident endangers the security of our teams and compromises our neutrality in the eyes of other parties to the conflict, and makes its very difficult for us to continue our actions. Press Release - 17 Dec 2004
 
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Sudan

One year in the Chad desert - the Sudanese refugees

Nearly 200,000 people from Darfur, Sudan, have fled to neighbouring Chad to evade ongoing violence. Most have lost everything, their villages have been destroyed and families murdered.

MSF has been providing relief for these refugees in Chad for over a year now and is giving medical assistance in two hospitals and four refugee camps with a total population of some 85,000 people.



For several weeks, Dr Kai Braker was the medical coordinator for the two camps in Forchana and Breidjing. He speaks about the after-effects of displacement and the wounds that will not heal. Project Update - 24 Nov 2004
 
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Sudan

Catastrophe in Darfur: Unmet promises and continuing violence

Although the amount of aid has increased during the last six months, it is still insufficient and often of poor quality. Mass displacement, precarious living conditions and food shortages have a serious impact on the health status of the population. Project Update - 18 Nov 2004
 
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Pakistan

Waiting in the 'green fields' of Chaman

or the past three years Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) had been working on a cross border project between Afghanistan and south west Pakistan, in camps around the towns of Spin Boldak, on the Afghan side, and Chaman, on the Pakistan side. In this period MSF provided medical assistance for desperate Afghans fleeing the aftermath of the 2001 war as well as the recent devastating drought, in one of the roughest and most insecure places along the border of both countries. Project Update - 15 Nov 2004
 
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Sudan

Violence and mortality in West Darfur: excerpts from the four MSF surveys

Violence in Darfur, Sudan, has rendered more than one million people internally displaced. An epidemiological study of the effect of armed incursions on mortality in Darfur was needed to provide a basis for appropriate assistance to internally displaced people. Project Update - 1 Oct 2004
 
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Sudan

Part 1 of 2: MSF establishes first medical care for thousands in Darfur village

A two-part series with Dr. Matthias Hrubey, an MSF volunteer from Germany working in Darfur, Sudan.

"Getting the clinic set up was a challenge. We started preparations as soon as I got here by identifying a site for it and then designing and building a structure with local materials. We ordered the medicines and supplies we would need and began hiring staff in preparation for opening. The biggest difficulty was not building the clinic, but trying to find the qualified medical staff and translators we would need to run it. We decided to start small by building just one local-style stick and straw structure called a "rakuba". We opened with this one building, some tables, benches and mats, and a small pharmacy." - Dr. Matthias Hrubey. Project Update - 30 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

Measles vaccination campaign in North Darfur, Sudan, hampered by insecurity

"We estimate there to be about 40,000 children between the age of 5 and 15 in these two towns and our surveys suggest that vaccination coverage in the past has been extremely poor. But we have, sadly, been forced to postpone our plans to vaccinate children in the more isolated mountainous region due to security concerns," said Dr. Natalie Civet, head of mission for Darfur. Project Update - 29 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

Malnutrition: a political problem

In Darfur, Sudan, the current violence and mass exoduses have had serious consequences on the food supply. In certain refugee camps, the high malnutrition rate among children under five has reached 25%. Project Update - 23 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

MSF support programmes for sexual violence victims among Darfur's displaced

While working in their clinics and feeding centers in Sudan's western region of Darfur, MSF volunteers regularly come across women and girls who have been raped or sexually assaulted. It generally happened when their village was attacked, or when, after having fled to displaced settlements they had to go out looking for firewood.

Joop Hegeman, a nurse and therapist, is helping to set up a response within MSF's South Darfur programs for women seeking assistance and a system to identify girls and women who need help, but are not necessarily coming forward. MSF teams in other parts of Darfur are organising a similar type of response. Project Update - 16 Sep 2004
 
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Sudan

Despite heavy mobilization of aid in Darfur, the situation remains fragile and assistance must continue

These displaced people, who have lost everything, are completely dependent on humanitarian aid. Most had their food reserves destroyed or looted and were unable to plant their fields. Their only means of survival is continued international aid. Despite harsh living conditions in the camps, they do not want to return to their home areas, mainly because they fear more attacks. It is therefore imperative that aid mobilization continue, even if media coverage stops or Sudan disappears from the international political agenda. Project Update - 15 Sep 2004
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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