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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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Migrants in Assamaka.
Niger

Niger, at the crossroads of migration

People forced to leave home have one objective: to find safety. On their journeys, many transit through Agadez in central Niger, where MSF teams provide care to people who have been through often traumatising experiences. Photo Story - 17 Dec 2019
 
Bardarah Refugee Camp, Iraq. October 31, 2019. Syrian Kurdish refugees play soccer inside the Bardarash refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as of November 6th more than 14,000 Syrian Kurds have fled their homes in Rojava, the Syrian-Kurdish enclave along the Turkish border in north-east Syria, and have taken refuge in camps inside Iraqi-Kurdistan. Bardarash camp houses over 12,000 Syrian-Kurdish refugees.
Photo story

A year in pictures 2019

MSF's A Year in Pictures collection for 2019 looks back on 12 months of providing medical care in extreme conditions and contexts across the globe. Photo Story - 17 Dec 2019
 
A child goes out from his family hut at the Bukombo IDP Camp in Masisi territory.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Extra humanitarian assistance urgently needed in southern North Kivu crisis

There are few organisations providing support to a humanitarian crisis that is affecting southern North Kivu province, where over 687,000 people are displaced and levels of malnutrition and sexual violence are high. Press Release - 16 Dec 2019
 
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Nigeria

MSF condemns the killing of four aid workers in northeast Nigeria

Statement - 13 Dec 2019
 
An MSF medical team performs a blood transfusion on Bawagana, a patient being treated for malaria in MSF’s clinic in Bama.
Nigeria

Malaria season ends, but healthcare challenges remain in Borno state

As the seasonal malaria peak ends in Nigeria's Borno state - where MSF staff treated thousands of children - a lack of affordable healthcare options means many people struggle to access healthcare. Project Update - 13 Dec 2019
 
Villages on the road from Mambasa to Biakato.
Democratic Republic of Congo

As security situation deteriorates, MSF withdraws staff from Biakato

After a series of attacks on Ebola responders and infrastructure, and a deteriorating security situation, MSF has taken the difficult decision to withdraw staff from Biakato, in DRC's northeastern Ituri province. Statement - 6 Dec 2019
 
Republic of Nauru Hospital and local community houses. Nauru school in the background.
Nauru

Medevac repeal entrenches dangerous precedents on denial of medical care

The decision to repeal Australia’s ‘Medevac’ legislation - put in place in response to the need to medically evacuate people from detention on Nauru - endangers patients in need and ignores the ethical framework of the entire medical profession. msf.org.au - 4 Dec 2019
 
Alix Clautilde a été blessée à la jambe par une balle perdue lors d’une fusillade au quartier de Cité Soleil à Port-au-Prince, où elle habite.
Haiti

MSF opens trauma hospital in Port-au-Prince amid deepening health crisis

As the political and economic crisis in Haiti intensifies and affects the health system, MSF opens a hoospital specialised in treating serious injuries. Press Release - 4 Dec 2019
 
MSF stunt in Berlin outside the venue of the Gavi replenishment meeting, demanding GSK and Pfizer to reduce their price for the pneumococcal vaccine to $5 per child. The stunt involves world leaders spinning a wheel of chance in which - when it comes to the PCV vaccine - pharma almost always wins.
Access to medicines

Pharma giants shouldn’t receive multi-million dollar pneumonia vaccine subsidy

After raking in billions of dollars on their pneumonia vaccines, pharma giants GSK and Pfizer are still being paid a subsidy by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. MSF says it must now stop. Press Release - 3 Dec 2019
 
Patient story with images: “I want to go back to Myanmar. Myanmar is Myanmar – it is my homeland.” Abdul Halim, 17, stands at the entrance of his makeshift shelter in a camp for Rohingya refugees. Halim and his twin Abdul Hashim seek treatment for psychosis at MSF’s primary health centre in Jamtoli, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Psychosis is a severe mental disorder that can require lifelong psychotropic treatment.
Bangladesh

Rohingya refugee crisis: Unseen wounds need to heal

Traumatic memories, anxiety, poor living conditions and no access to basic services have severely affected Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Project Update - 3 Dec 2019
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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