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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 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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Waiting area before medical consultations in Kourgui health centre, on the outskirts of Mora. MSF runs the primary health services and reproductive health, and teams also manage Severe Acute Malnutrition.
Cameroon

Conflict in Far North region strips people of hope

Protracted conflict in the Lake Chad region continues to affect people in the Far North region of Cameroon. They face violence and extreme poverty. Project Update - 3 Dec 2019
 
Austin with assistance of MSF Clinical Officer Mentor Christopher Banda, boarding an ambulance from Ndamera Health Centre to Nsanje District Hospital.
Malawi

New model of care aims to reduce deaths among advanced HIV patients

In the Nsanje district of Malawi, the percentage of HIV positive people is higher than elsewhere in the country. A new care model aims to reduce deaths. Project Update - 1 Dec 2019
 
Manfred at Ndamera Health Centre. After Manfred had been discharged from Nsanje District Hospital, he was told that after two weeks he should go to Ndamera health centre for medical checkup. However, within less than two weeks he got ill again. In the picture, Manfred is at Ndamera Health Centre with his medical passport in hand going for a consultion..
HIV/AIDS

AIDS death toll stagnating due to lack of testing at community level

Hundreds of thousands of people still die from AIDS because countries are ill-equipped to detect and treat them, new MSF report "No time to lose" reveals. Press Release - 1 Dec 2019
 
Condition de vie des réfugiés à la Porte de la Chapelle. Life condition of the refugees at Porte de la Chapelle.
France

Real solutions for migrants needed following evacuation of Paris camps

Following he evacuation of a makeshift camp in Porte d’Aubervilliers, Paris, France, many migrants have been left on the streets with nothing.
 Press Release - 29 Nov 2019
 
A girl in front of her tent in the olive grove next to the official camp in Moria. At the moment, 13,000 people stranded in a camp designed to host just 3,000. People in the olive grove have to share their tents with other people with whom, they don’t have any previous relationship. The level of hygiene is very low and people have to share a toilet with another 90 people and a shower with 200. When it rains the tents are getting wet and the area turns into a muddy swamp. MSF team in the pediatric clinic in Moria see an average of 100 children and pregnant women per day. Currently with the recent increase of arrivals our team is struggling to respond to the need that arising. Most of the children our teams see are suffering from diseases which are directly connected with the living conditions such, respiratory tract infections, skin diseases, fever and diarrhea. We also receive children with chronic and complex medical cases who need specialized attention that is not available. Yet, they have to spend months living in unhygienic and unsafe conditions before they are moved to mainland in order to get the much-needed treatment.
Greece

European leaders: Stop punishing asylum seekers on the Greek islands

MSF International President Dr Christos Christou saw the horrific conditions asylum seekers are living in on camps on the Greek islands and has a message for European leaders - the suffering must stop now. Open Letter - 27 Nov 2019
 
Lita Gerald is a 20 year old lady that is HIV positive with history of having challenges in adhering to treatment. Lita is someone who was once on ARV treatment then she had to disengage for two months before getting reengaged again through Nsanje District Hospital’s Rapid Assessment Unit (RAU). Lita over the course of her time at the hospital she has been showing signs and conditions like fever, swelling legs and abdominal distension.
HIV/AIDS

MSF report "No time to lose" examines the fight against AIDS in 15 countries

In a new report, "No time to lose", MSF reveals how the AIDS deaths toll is stagnating due to a lack of basic testing at a community level. Report - 27 Nov 2019
 
On 21 November, 2019, MSF and SOS Méditerranée teams rescued 90 people from a rubber boat in distress, located following a search effort which lasted almost 24 hours. Survivors report having left Libya on Tuesday night: 2 days at sea before they were finally spotted 82 NM from the coast. Among those rescued were 7 very young children, as well as 17 unaccompanied children under 18 years of age.
Mediterranean migration

Survivors disembark in Italy amidst deadly week in the Mediterranean

As search and rescue survivors disembark in Italy, MSF and SOS MEDITERRANEE urge EU governments to stop hindering lifesaving search and rescue operations. Press Release - 25 Nov 2019
 
Fatouma Admaou, MSF nurse, is talking to a mother in the phase 2 tent during the evening visit.
Niger

Fifteen years treating malnutrition and malaria around the clock

In southern Niger, the combination of ‘hunger gap’ and rainy season triggers an annual spike in rates of malnutrition and malaria. Read about our work there. Project Update - 25 Nov 2019
 
In Fori, in the south of the state capital Maiduguri, MSF runs an inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC) with more than 70 beds. The centre opened in January 2017 and treats severely malnourished children with medical complications such as tuberculosis, cerebral malaria, acute watery diarrhoea and respiratory tract infections. Severely malnourished children without medical complication and children with moderate acute malnutrition are enrolled in MSF’s outpatient feeding programme, which admits 130-300 children each month. From January to June 2019, MSF provided inpatient nutritional treatment for 1,161 children, ambulatory nutritional treatment for 1,216 children, and treated 1,436 patients with malaria and 555 with measles.
Nigeria

Is counter-terrorism killing humanitarian action in Nigeria?

In Nigeria, the essence of humanitarian action is threatened if entire communities are considered "the enemy", says MSF's director of operations. Op-Ed - 22 Nov 2019
 
A female nurse weights a boy in the paediatric outpatient ward at Mudug Regional Hospital in Galkayo city, in the Mudug region of Somalia.
Somalia

From malnutrition to tuberculosis: responding to needs in North Galkayo

MSF activities have expanded in Somalia's Puntland state, to meet the needs of locals, internally displaced people and patients from as far as Ethiopia. Project Update - 21 Nov 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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