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How we work

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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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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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In the early morning in a sorghum field about 30-minute-drive by car from Abdurafi town. A group of migrant workers harvest sorghum. They usually come at the start of the harvest season (June) to the area to earn their living as daily worker on the big farms. Snakebites hit the poorest of the poor: in Ethiopia’s north the remote rural communities are more at risk as they live in simple mud tukuls/huts and often have no protective measures, such as bednets and beds that can protect them against snakes and kala azar. If they are bitten or fall ill with kala azar they have very limited access to health education and medical care. Patients and their families often resort to traditional medicine, or seek medical care too late, because they cannot afford to pay for treatment. Many have to travel for hours, especially migrant workers who live in the remote fields, to reach medical facilities, while timely treatment of snakebite is crucial. The 18 years young man Getasew Dessie is from a village in South Gonder, coming to the farming region for two years. It takes him two days to reach Abdurafi. “My name is Getasew Dessie I am 18 years old, and I am from Esetia part of South Gonder. It is hard work, because it is always very hot and we live in the fields all the time, we have not free time, but work as much as we can. This is the last crop we harvest. We finish soon. I do not know if I can go home afterwards it depends on the situation. And how much money I could earn, but I would like to go home.”
Snakebite

“The first ten minutes are critical”: treating snakebite in Ethiopia

Snakebite overwhelmingly affects the rural poor, such as migrant harvest workers in northern Ethiopia. Access to treatment remains difficult, due to high prices for antivenoms, and the unavailability of effective antivenom in remote places.
Voices from the Field - 14 Feb 2019
 
More than 35,000 Nigerians have crossed into Cameroon in recent weeks following an upsurge in violence around the northeast Nigerian town of Rann. Having arrived in the village of Goura in Cameroon’s far northwest, they are in urgent need of food, shelter and water, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has launched an emergency response.
Cameroon

Nothing to drink and nowhere to sleep for thousands who’ve fled Rann, Nigeria

MSF staff have treated hundreds of people with urgent needs living in a makeshift camp in far northwestern Cameroon after 35,000 fled violence in Rann, northeastern Nigeria. Press Release - 14 Feb 2019
 
Set up of tent for admitting children to increase the capacity of Mukubu reference center.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Even during a widespread measles epidemic, we can save kids’ lives

A measles epidemic was declared in March 2018 in the former province of Katanga, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Nearly 12 months on, MSF teams are still responding to the outbreak, vaccinating and treating children. Interview - 14 Feb 2019
 
Patient in Ad Dahi emergency room
Yemen

MSF opens new emergency room in Ad Dahi hospital

MSF has opened a new emergency room in Ad Dahi hospital, Hodeidah governorate, Yemen, where 100-year old Omar was recently our first patient. Project Update - 14 Feb 2019
 
A health worker in the red zone.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Potential new Ebola drugs being trialled in MSF treatment centres

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started enrolling patients in clinical trials of four potential new treatments for Ebola in treatment centres in Katwa and Butembo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. Statement - 12 Feb 2019
 
Personnel of the Ministry of Health (Minsal) was able, thanks to the presence of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), to cross the invisible borders imposed by the situation of violence that hinders access to health in some neighborhoods in the capital.
El Salvador

Breaking the invisible barriers that divide neighbourhoods controlled by gangs

Staff from the El Salvador Ministry of Health were able, thanks to MSF's presence, to cross the invisible borders imposed by violence that hinders access to health in some neighborhoods in the capital. Project Update - 11 Feb 2019
 
A teenage girl cares for her neighbour’s baby during an awareness-raising workshop on sexual violence given by MSF in Brisas del Mar district, Buenaventura.
Colombia

Buenaventura: “MSF fills a huge vacuum in helping victims of violence”

Interview - 11 Feb 2019
 
Asefili. She arrived to Numbi 5 months ago to look for work. She is now working in the artisanal mines. When she is working she has to leave her children with the neighbours.
Photo story

South Kivu: Marathon journeys to access basic medical care

In the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), people - particularly pregnant women - face challenges in accessing health care; insecurity and conflict in the region, long distances between villages and health centres, roads that become muddy rivers in the rainy season. Photo Story - 8 Feb 2019
 
MSF, alongside other civil society organisations, protested against J&J during the Union Conference on Wednesday, the 24th.
Access to medicines

TB activists challenge patent in India, in bid to prevent J&J from extending monopoly

MSF is supporting two survivors of drug-resistant tuberculosis challenging a patent on bedaquiline. If they are successful, generic versions of the drug could be available four years earlier, saving thousands of lives. Press Release - 8 Feb 2019
 
View of Nauru from the plane. / The Republic of Nauru is 21-square-kilometres in size, with a population of around 13,000.
Nauru

MSF launches remote mental health service for former patients in distress

Press Release - 7 Feb 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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