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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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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 Websites

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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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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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Nurse supervisor Joseph Azeem (left) and lab supervisor James Primo share a moment of camaraderie. Joseph is a long-time nurse for MSF who began his career as a national staff in Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake that hit his country. James is South Sudanese and moved to Doro to work with MSF in the camp.
Work with MSF

Minimum field requirements

Every year, thousands of international MSF field staff provide lifesaving medical assistance to people who would otherwise be denied access to even the most basic health care. To work in the field with MSF, every applicant must meet this list of general requirements.
 
Community Mental Health worker holding MSF jacket and planner.​
Accountability and transparency

Promoting a work environment free of harassment, exploitation and abuse

We expect all staff to abide by our professional code of ethics. Our leadership has unequivocally committed to fight abuse and to reinforce mechanisms and procedures to prevent and address it. This includes enhancing grievance channels at all levels of the organisation, and supporting victims and whistle-blowers.
 
A patient with malaria being treated by an MSF doctor. In the nort-east Nigerian town of Gwoza, patients are brought to the MSF health centre in a customised three wheeler called a keke napep.
Nigeria

Crisis update: Borno and Yobe states, June 2018

Nine years of conflict between the Nigerian military and armed groups in northeast Nigeria has taken a heavy toll on the population with serious humanitarian consequences. Crisis Update - 5 Jun 2018
 
Nidal Ahmed Dahud is pictured with her son Amir Bassam Al Ahmed (1 year and a half) at MSFs clinic in Jandoula (Lebanon). Nidal is originally Palestinian and used to live in Tripoli, in Nahr al Bared camp. When she married someone from Wadi Khaled, she moved there. “Life in Wadi Khaled is extremely difficult. Families are big and services expensive. So everybody knows about MSF over here. This centre is essential for people, it’s our only resource when there is an issue with our children”, she comments. Nidal came to the MSF clinic today because her son has fever. “This is the second time I come here” she says. “The fact that services are free makes a huge difference. If I went to the doctor today, I would have to pay between 30 and 40$ for a consultation. I have 9 children and my husband is the only breadwinner in the family, so we simply cannot afford that.”
Child health

Paediatrics in West Africa: small patients, big diseases

Most West African and Sahelian countries face a significant number of childhood illnesses and diseases each year, mostly related to climate change or instability in the region. In the coming months, these countries will also contend with the usual peaks, when malaria and malnutrition are particularly risky. Health workers, paramedics and community agents are preparing once again to ensure that they do not severely affect the communities in the region. Project Update - 1 Jun 2018
 
A woman dances during a Stop Stock Outs Project activist meeting in Soshanguve, a township outside of Pretoria on April 16, 2015. As a grassroots project, SSP regularly organizes training for people living with HIV in order to equip them on the know how to monitor and report drug shortages.
South Africa

Country takes landmark step for access to medicines

MSF applauds effort to ‘take off patent blindfold’ and change patent laws to increase access to affordable medicines
 Press Release - 31 May 2018
 
Women carry Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) equipment as the medical team moves from one location to the other to be flown out of the area after having finished their work at various MSF outdoor support clinics, close to Thaker, Leer County, South Sudan, March 23, 2017.
South Sudan

People caught in the frontlines of intense fighting in country’s north

Since the end of April, the conflict-ravaged counties of Leer and Mayendit, in South Sudan’s north, have once again been wracked by violence. Thousands of people are caught between the frontlines of the fighting, and health facilities have been attacked. The high level of violence prevents many people from reaching basic services, including healthcare. Press Release - 31 May 2018
 
Gloria Chipasula (Left), 11 years old, HIV and TB positive patient, stands outside her family house as MSF international staff doctor from Rwanda checks her X-Ray looking for TB evidences.

International Financial Report 2017

Annual Report - 30 May 2018
 
Frontline worker been vaccinated in Bikoro, Equateur Province, DRC. Participants to the vaccination receive information on the vaccine before consenting, and will be carefully monitored over a period of time. Participation is voluntary and the vaccination is free.
DRC Ebola outbreaks

MSF starts Ebola vaccination targeting remote communities

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) yesterday started vaccinating Ebola frontline workers in Bikoro, Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where teams have been working with the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) over the past few weeks. The trial vaccination will also be offered to contacts of patients. Press Release - 29 May 2018
 
Mary Horgan, MSF specialist psychologist, and Kumbulani Kaliwo, MSF social worker, in the corridors of the Queens Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre where MSF runs the cervical cancer project.

Resource centre

We believe in openness, honesty and self-reflection as a way to constantly improve our work. Evaluation and operational research contribute to better understanding the contexts we work in and the projects we implement. This helps improve the effectiveness and quality of the medical care we deliver, and provides us with the tools to convince others to take action or change their treatment protocols.
 
Dr Abdu Samya Bashagha checking X-ray scan of a patient in Abu Sitta Hospital where MSF is running TB support activities

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Our medical research helps us improve the medical care we deliver, as well as helping other medical practitioners in the field. We produce medical guidelines in a number of languages - including in French, Arabic and Spanish - for a number of different diseases and medical protocols. We also produce drug procurement guidelines, a list of essential medicines, and information for drug manufacturers on having their medicines qualified for use by MSF.
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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