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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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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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MSF Nauru mental health clinic
Nauru

Report: Indefinite Despair

MSF's report, Indefinite Despair, is based on data collected during our work on Nauru before being forced to end our mental health activities with refugees in early October 2018. It shows the extreme levels of suffering on the island and the impact of Australian policy of offshore processing. Report - 2 Dec 2018
 
MSF clinic located inside the Mykolaiv Regional Center of Palliative Care and Integrated Services.
Ukraine

"I am one of you: I live with HIV and used to live with hepatitis C"

Maksym*, a peer health educator working with MSF in Mykolaiv in the south of Ukraine, explains how he draws on his own experiences to connect with patients and make sure they complete their hepatitis C treatment successfully. Voices from the Field - 30 Nov 2018
 
Olena Melnikova, 42-years-old, taking a viral load test in the process of hepatitis C treatment. She is one of the patients who underwent the hepatitis C treatment provided by MSF in Mykolaiv.
Ukraine

Mykolaiv project shows that hepatitis C can be effectively treated in people living with HIV

In Mykolaiv, in the south of Ukraine, MSF is taking an integrated approach to hepatitis C care for people living with HIV. The recent test results from patients who finished treatment since the start of the activities one year ago are extremely positive. Project Update - 30 Nov 2018
 
The road the PoC camp and hospital to Bentiu is basically in bad conditions and unpaved and can make this trip to the administrative center, to a real challenge and can take several hours. Women are going daily for firewood or to the market, a necessary work to maintain families, especially kids. They suffer very often sexual violence, getting rapped or grabbed, meters from their home, a short dash from the UNMISS protected IDP Camp in Bentiu. A large number of the victims rarely report incidents, avoiding so to be ostracised by their families.
South Sudan

125 women and girls seek emergency assistance in Bentiu after horrific sexual violence

Over the past week, MSF teams have provided emergency medical and psycho-social assistance to 125 women and girls who were raped, beaten and brutalised in Rubkona county, northern South Sudan, in the 10 days between 19 and 29 November. Press Release - 30 Nov 2018
 
The Aquarius and its 58 survivors spent five days waiting in international waters off the coast of Malta under poor weather conditions. On Sunday morning, 30 September 2018, the strong winds and choppy water finally abated and allowed for the safe and secure transfer of all 58 people – and a dog – to Maltese authorities. The survivors were then disembarked in Malta and will be distributed to four European countries in the coming days: France, Germany, Portugal and Spain. Following the transfer, the Aquarius set course for Marseille, France in order to address its flag registration after the news a week prior that Italy had pressured Panama into removing the Aquarius from its register. Without the Aquarius, there are no search & rescue vessels in the area to conduct rescue operations and witness to the grave humanitarian needs on the Central Mediterranean. Meanwhile, people continue to flee Libya and die attempting to cross the world’s deadliest maritime route.
Mediterranean migration

Spanish fishing boat blocked by EU authorities highlights search and rescue crisis

Spanish fishing boat, Nuestra Madre de Loreto, has rescued 12 people in the Central Mediterranean, but European authorities are refusing to provide a safe port of entry to disembark them. MSF expresses our support for the rescued people and the crew. Press Release - 29 Nov 2018
 
Guinea Bissau is among the poorest countries in the world. In Simao Mendes national hospital in Bissau, the capital of the country, MSF supports activities in the paediatric emergenc unit, in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). MSF teams also run the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (CRENI) for malnourished children suffering from medical complications as well as the blood bank and medical analysis laboratory.
Guinea-Bissau

Paediatric emergency services in practice

The stories of Amadou, Janu and Sadjo's baby, each admitted in a serious condition to the paediatric emergency and intensive care services supported by MSF at Simão Mendes National Hospital (HNSM) in Bissau. Voices from the Field - 29 Nov 2018
 
Guinea Bissau is among the poorest countries in the world. In Simao Mendes national hospital in Bissau, the capital of the country, MSF supports activities in the paediatric emergenc unit, in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). MSF teams also run the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (CRENI) for malnourished children suffering from medical complications as well as the blood bank and medical analysis laboratory.
Guinea-Bissau

Five things to know about our emergency paediatric project in Bissau

Why MSF has opened a paediatric care project in Simão Mendes National Hospital (HNSM), and what our teams are doing there. Project Update - 29 Nov 2018
 
A doctor is weighing a young child in the health center of Miandja. This kid is suffering of malnutrition and thanks to the mobile clinic of MSF, he can get treatment.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Mortality among malnourished children on the rise in Masisi

In the last two months, the mortality rate in the healthcare facilities supported by MSF has risen from 6.4 per cent to 8 per cent. Project Update - 29 Nov 2018
 
Tsandia and Kristian with their medicins and recordbook, happy to get treatment, at the HIV department of Arua Regional hospital-Uganda
HIV/AIDS

Treatment scale-down ahead?

MSF report finds that available funding for HIV is being limited to a number of countries, with increasing restrictions on what it can be spent on. Report - 29 Nov 2018
 
The first HIV – AIDS test takes about fifteen minutes. If two red strips appear after this, it means that the person is probably seropositive (and has to do a second test to confirm). If only one red strip appears, the person is not seropositive Le premier test de dépistage du VIH-Sida prend une quinzaine de minutes. Si deux barres rouges s’affichent après cette durée, cela signifie que la personne est probablement séropositive (et doit faire un second test pour confirmer). Si une seule barre rouge apparaît, la personne est séronégative.
World AIDS Day

UNAIDS report overlooks significant aspects of the global HIV response

UNAIDS' 2018 World AIDS Day report is selectively silent on persistently high AIDS mortality and looming treatment rationing in light of donor disengagement. Statement - 29 Nov 2018
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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