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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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Caretaker with a patient coming from Taiz city to the mother and child hospital in Taiz houban.
Yemen

Mothers and children left to die in Yemen without access to medical care

A new MSF report describes how pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable to high rates of mortality due to a lack of easy access to hospitals in Yemen's war-torn healthcare system. Press Release - 24 Apr 2019
 
Chechele IDP camp, one of the largest sites near the small town of Banko Gotiti, in the Gedeo area of south Ethiopia. Thousands of people live in the camp, in huts made of leaves from the common ‘false banana’ tree. These huts will not withstand the heavy downpours of the approaching rainy season, and will not provide protection when the nights become bitterly cold.
Ethiopia

Alarming rates of malnutrition among displaced people in southern Ethiopia

Alarming rates of malnutrition among children and pregnant women in displaced people’s camps in southern Ethiopia have forced MSF to launch an emergency response. Press Release - 17 Apr 2019
 
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Libya

Detained refugees trapped, Libyan families flee, as fighting worsens in Tripoli

The worsening fighting in Tripoli continues, forcing thousands of Libyans to flee and trapping refugees and migrants in detention centres. MSF teams are on the ground, providing healthcare and emergency food and water. Project Update - 17 Apr 2019
 
MSF provides primary health care, family planning, mental health care, and information on social services for venezuelan migrants and colombians returning from Venezuela in the border departments of Colombia.
Colombia

Assisting Venezuelan migrants in Colombia

The crisis in Venezuela has forced a million Venezuelans to flee to Colombia, where the healthcare system is struggling to cope with the new arrivals. MSF is providing healthcare to Venezuelans and Colombians living in the departments along the border. Project Update - 17 Apr 2019
 
Women walk down a market street in the Protection of Civilians site in the northern town of Malakal, South Sudan.
South Sudan

There’s a lot to be done to address the uncountable health needs

Africa's newest country, South Sudan, is still feeling the effects from violence since 2013, including a decimated health system where there are few local medical staff and people can walk up to 7 days to a hospital, explains Endashaw Mengistu. Voices from the Field - 16 Apr 2019
 
Destructions of the road between Nhamatanda and Tica.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

From emergency to recovery: Mozambique one month after Cyclone Idai

One month since Cyclone Idai tore through Beira and surrounding towns in Mozambique, life is starting to return to normal in many areas - but thousands still face challenges with clean water, food, shelter and avoiding cholera. Project Update - 12 Apr 2019
 
MSF medical doctor, Stefanos Tsallas vaccinates a child from refugee camp against pneumonia
Access to medicines

Humanitarian mechanism for vaccines used for first time in Europe to counter high prices

MSF has used a new humanitarian mechanism for vaccines to provide affordable pneumonia vaccinations to refugee children in Greece, to protect them against deadly pneumonia . Press Release - 12 Apr 2019
 
On August 16, MSF launched inpatient services for severely malnourished children under five years-old, as well as paediatric care for patients under 15 years-old with severe malaria and other diseases, in a facility with a capacity of 30 beds. The medical intervention began as a response to a lack of healthcare assistance to newly arrived displaced people in Bama. Over 1.7 million people have been displaced by the conflict between the Nigerian military and non state armed groups in northeast Nigeria.
Lake Chad Crisis

Borno State: “We don’t know anything of the people living in regions outside army control”

Interview - 11 Apr 2019
 
A shipwreck survivor in detention centre. His testimony : “The sun was really strong and the boat started to deflate. All the babies died. How can we stay so many hours in the water without being rescued? People started to drink salty water. Why they left us die at sea?”
Libya

Trapped refugees must be released and granted safety from Tripoli fighting

Fighting that has broken out in Tripoli, Libya, over the last week, has trapped and further endangered the lives of refugees and migrants who are being held in detention centres. We call for their immediate release to a place of safety. Project Update - 11 Apr 2019
 
The remains of Ngangu village in Chimanimani, eastern Zimbabwe where many people were affected by cyclone Idai. MSF is working with the Ministry of Health and Child Care and partners to provide medical assistance where needed including treating trauma & providing medication for those who lost theirs in floods. Many residents lost their medications in the floods, in addition to their homes and livelihoods.
Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Chimanimani: A community in distress after Cyclone Idai

Nearly a month since Cyclone Idai tore through parts of Manicaland province, Zimbabwe, communities around Chimanimani are still struggling to come to terms with with the destruction the cyclone caused. MSF teams are there to help. Project Update - 10 Apr 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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