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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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Yemen, gouvernorat de Saada, Haydan, mars 2018. L'école de Haydan, bombardée en 2016 par la coalition internationale dirigée par l'Arabie Saoudite. Saada governorate in Yemen, Haydan, March 2018.Haydan school, bombarded in 2016 by the international coalition led by South Arabia.
Yemen

Crisis update – 3 March 2016

Crisis Update - 3 Mar 2016
 
Syrian refugees are blocked at the Greek border with Macedonia (FYROM)
Greece

"Help us to find a safe path"

Piman, who worked as an English teacher before leaving Syria, has been on the road for two months now. “I’m here with my family, sleeping in this small tent, we never thought to find us in this horrible situation." Voices from the Field - 3 Mar 2016
 
Malakal: MSF teams in Malakal worked through the nights of Wednesday and Thursday to deal with injured patients after fighting erupted in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site on Wednesday that resulted in 18 people dead, two of them MSF South Sudanese staff members. Seventy-three patients have been admitted so far to the hospital, 46 of them with gunshot wounds. One of MSF’s main concerns is the fate of 43,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) who took shelter in the UNMISS compound. They have been squeezed into a very tight area and access to water and sanitation is of real concern. MSF does not know how long they will be permitted to remain in the facility.
South Sudan

MSF condemns outrageous attack in UN protection site in Malakal

“This brazen violence and terrorization of civilian populations cannot continue. We are heartbroken and devastated by the senseless killing of our two colleagues,” says Raquel Ayora, MSF Director of Operations. “The violence in the Malakal PoC clearly demonstrates that protection of civilians and provision of humanitarian assistance can only be attained with a change of course in the conduct of hostilities by all parties to the conflict." Press Release - 2 Mar 2016
 
A child at the Family Support Centre in Tari, Hela Province, in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea. MSF sees an average of 100 survivors of family and sexual violence a month at the Centre. Despite having some of the highest rates of violence against women and girls in the world outside of a conflict zone, in Papua New Guinea there are only 6 safe houses in the country, five of them are in the capital, Port Moresby and there are none in Tari. Children are often unable to express or articulate their experiences and emotions following incidents of abuse and need tailored child-friendly counselling in a safe space, with approaches that aim to establish and build trust. However, there are few trained counsellors in the country and even fewer with child-specific training.
Papua New Guinea

Cycles of abuse and gender based violence revealed in Papua New Guinea

A new MSF report “Return to Abuser” uncovers the gaps in services and systems in Papua New Guinea, trapping women and children in cycles of severe family and sexual violence. Photo Story - 1 Mar 2016
 
Doctors examine an x-ray at the bedside of a patient, 20 February 2016, in the MSF-run Khmer Hospital in Amran, Yemen.
Yemen

Practising medicine under fire

"Even though conditions here are not easy, and the work can be challenging, I am pleased to be working here," says Dr Mariela Carrara. Voices from the Field - 26 Feb 2016
 
Hep-C patient being counselled by Psychosocial counsellor at MSF Mumbai clinic on dealing with side effects of the treatment regimen.
India

Patent challenge hearing on Gilead hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir starts in India

‘Patent opposition’ seeks to ensure millions of people left out of Gilead licensing deals can access affordable generics Project Update - 26 Feb 2016
 
Psychosocial and health promotion workers organize group sessions to pass health related messages to the community. Poor living conditions and an uncertain future have a great impact on the wellbeing of residents. Many people have left the camp to try to reach Europe and many more are making plans.
Iraq

Seven months in an endless race to provide access to aid

"A number of our staff left Iraq to go to Europe in search of a better life, especially staff who were themselves refugees in Iraq. Some left with their families – despite knowing the risks they faced they saw no alternative," says Robert Onus, MSF logistics team leader. Voices from the Field - 25 Feb 2016
 
The weather is cold, rainy, muddy and windy, there are many puddles of water. Asylum seekers in the jungle are trying to improve their living conditions.
France

Refugees face ‘slow death’ in Calais' Jungle

“This is how we live. Since when do people in modern Europe live like this? They put us in camps without decent food. We just sit around. We count the days. It’s a slow death,” says said Mohammad who fled Syria’s war. Voices from the Field - 25 Feb 2016
 
NFI distribution to 450 families who lost their belongings in a fire in Batangafo IDP camp
Central African Republic

MSF distributes relief item kits to fire-displaced families in Batangafo

Project Update - 25 Feb 2016
 
TB-cabinets are important for an effective walk-in treatment. Here ambulatory treatment, psychosocial counselling for patients and their families, and social packages (nutritional support, hygiene kits and transport money) are provided to help patients adhere to treatment. Ashyrkan Turdusheva (chief-nurse) storing patient data.
Project Update

Developing countries hit with high price for important new tuberculosis drug

More than two years after drug approved, only 180 people globally have received it
 Press Release - 24 Feb 2016
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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