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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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Staff members wait for the first visitors on opening day of MSF's shower trailer in Manhattan. MSF is offering free warm showers to the homeless and other people who currently lack access to hygiene facilities during the pandemic.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Vulnerable communities in the US in urgent need of protection from COVID-19

MSF has started responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, addressing the needs of vulnerable people and communities in hard-hit New York. Project Update - 24 Apr 2020
 
MSF works in Nablus since 2004, providing psychotherapeutic and psychiatric assistance, group therapy, group mental health awareness sessions and psychosocial support activities in two clinics in Nablus and Qalqylia and in a new consultation room opened in Tubas in December 2019. In 2002, the Israeli Government launched the construction of a barrier in and around the West Bank with the stated purpose of preventing violent attacks by Palestinians in Israel. Land for construction of Barrier sections inside the West Bank has been requisitioned from Palestinian landowners. Approximately 65.3 per cent (465km) of the projected 712-kilometre-long structure has been completed, of which 85 per cent runs inside the West Bank.
Palestine

Like a virus, violence spreads in the West Bank amid COVID-19

While lockdowns are new for many parts of the world, for Palestinians, it's been their daily reality for years. But amid the COVID-19 pandemic, violence and mental health issues are on the rise. Project Update - 23 Apr 2020
 
A staff member prepares to enter the high-risk zone at the Ebola Treatment Center in Beni. MSF took over the well-equipped structure from ALIMA to ensure continuous capacity.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

New Ebola cases confirmed in DRC days before expected end of outbreak

Just two days before the Ebola outbreak in DRC was expected to be declared over, new cases of the disease have emerged in Beni, in a setback for the region. Project Update - 23 Apr 2020
 
Covid-19 epidemic has drastically changed life inside nursing homes. For weeks, guests have not been able to receive visits from loved ones for safety reasons: the staff have also become their family.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

A race against the pandemic – MSF COVID-19 crisis update

MSF teams are racing to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the more than 70 countries in which we run programmes, while opening projects in new countries as they become pandemic hotspots. Crisis Update - 23 Apr 2020
 
Shoaib and Sajjad are nurses on duty at COVID-19 screening pre-triage set up by MSF at Timergara DHQ hospital in Lower Dir. They ask everyone entering the hospital some basic questions to see whether the person has any symptoms of COVID-19.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF launches a COVID-19 emergency response in Timergara, Pakistan

As COVID-19 infects people across Pakistan, MSF teams have sprung into action across the country, including in Timergara, where teams have implemented a rigorous triage system. Project Update - 22 Apr 2020
 
WHEN POSTING PLEASE ADD: Twitter: @rikkileaks Twitter:@Wearepresence OCA commissioned British artist Richard Swarbrick to create a rotoscope animation about the enduring plight of the Rohingya, who have faced structural and physical violence in Myanmar for decades. Since a concerted campaign of violence against the Rohingya in August-September 2017, their inequality has been more visible to the international community, but media interest is fading fast. The animation, which is accompanied by a specially-mixed version of the song Give me Hope by the band Three Laws, aims to put a human face on the lived experience of violence and displacement of the Rohingya but also more generally on all displaced people.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Rohingya refugees left to starve at sea

A group of around 400 survivors - all Rohingya refugees - of a boat that drifted at sea for weeks before being rescued have told MSF staff of their harrowing story. Voices from the Field - 22 Apr 2020
 
MSF evaluates and screens homeless people in shelters in downtown São Paulo. Activities also include health promotion.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF provides care to vulnerable people during COVID-19 response in Brazil

MSF teams are working in São Paulo and Roraima in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, focusing on the welfare of homeless people and migrants. Project Update - 22 Apr 2020
 
A young girl looking through a closed fence in Al Hole Camp, Eastern Al- Hasakah Governorate, Northeastern Syria. 09/03/2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Concerns mount over COVID-19 response in northeast Syria

As the first death from COVID-19 is reported in northeast Syria, MSF has mounting concerns on the region's ability to respond, as we urge authorities to let in vital supplies and personnel. Press Release - 22 Apr 2020
 
One of the consultation rooms at the advanced health post.
Burkina Faso

COVID-19 will worsen access to healthcare in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is experiencing a fast-growing humanitarian crisis with high numbers of people with COVID-19; access to healthcare in this insecure area has now become even more difficult. Project Update - 21 Apr 2020
 
Dr Khalid Abderrahman, MSF tropical medicine specialist, addresses an audience of healthcare professionals from public and private health facilities in Khartoum state as part of an MSF MSF training of trainers on infection prevention and control (IPC) for COVID-19, done in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. Sudan, 23 March 2020.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF provides support to hospitals and sites in response to COVID-19 in Sudan

Following confirmation of the first cases of COVID-19 in Sudan, MSF has started supporting authorities in Sudan with logistics, technical assistance, and training of healthcare staff. Project Update - 20 Apr 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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