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How we work

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How we're run

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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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Tanzania

Cholera outbreak among Burundian refugees

A cholera outbreak has struck overcrowded camps where thousands of Burundian refugees are gathering in Tanzania. According to the World Health Organization, 31 people have died of the disease, and more than 3,000 acute diarrhoea cases have been reported among the refugees. In collaboration with local authorities, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is opening rehydration points and cholera treatment centres in Kagunga and Kigoma camps. Press Release - 24 May 2015
 
Continuing clashes in Upper Nile state in South Sudan are leading to more deaths and displacements of people. Since the beginning of April, over 6,600 people have fled their homes to seek shelter at the congested UN protection of civilians (PoC) base in Malakal. The new internally displaced people are living in big tents, with dozens of families sharing the same tent and sleeping on the floor.
South Sudan

"The situation has been tense"

An MSF doctor describes his experience while working in a Protection Of Civilians site outside Malakal where about 30,000 people displaced by civil war are living. Voices from the Field - 22 May 2015
 
Nepalese sit on stone steps in their destroyed village in the Tsum valley of Gorkha District, Nepal on May 7 2015. On 25 April a magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 8,000 people and destroyed massive amounts of property, including numerous temples that were on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Nepal

"Everyone is afraid" says head of mission

I did not see any patients entering the hospital buildings. All the patients are outside. These people, who were injured during the quakes and underwent orthopedic surgery, are hospitalized in tents. Voices from the Field - 22 May 2015
 
Consultations by MSF in the "Protection of Civilians" site near Bentiu.
South Sudan

Alarming humanitarian situation as conflict escalates

Escalating fighting is exposing civilians to widespread violence and severely restricting the provision of desperately needed aid. Press Release - 22 May 2015
 
MSF Doctor Clement Van Galen carries a child with meningitis in critical condition.
Niger

‘It was chaos – the hospital was full to bursting’

A meningitis epidemic sweeping across Niger has already infected more than 6,500 people and claimed 443 lives according to the authorities. MSF’s Dr Clément Van Galen, in Niamey, reports on MSF’s emergency response. Voices from the Field - 21 May 2015
 
A Congolese boy plays between the tents at the camp in Isipingo, Durban, that is one three in the city for people displaced by a recent outbreak of xenophobic violence. Before the events of three weeks ago, many of the children in these camps were attending school. Now they are living in overcrowded tents among strangers, with their parents uncertain about when they will see the inside of a classroom again. They are also susceptible to opportunistic diseases such as measles, chicken pox and influenza.
South Africa

MSF adapts medical response to needs of people displaced by xenophobic violence, providing psychological care for those traumatized

One month into its medical humanitarian intervention following a series of violent xenophobic attacks in South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal (KZN) province, a team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is reorienting their work to meet the psychological needs of traumatized foreign nationals sheltering in the single remaining displacement camp, as well as offering medical support in Malawi and Zimbabwe. Press Release - 21 May 2015
 
Joanne Liu (International President), Ronald Kremer (OCA Health Advisor) and Brice dele Vigne visited the ebola treatment centre in Kailahun, Sierra Leone yesterday.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

On Ebola and WHO reform

Speech by MSF International President at World Health Assembly, MSF side event, Palais des Nations Speech - 20 May 2015
 
Sham 6 months old baby from Homs, she arrived to MSF OPD is Irbid suffering from breathing difficulty where she received needed care. He mother and other 2 sisters crossed border to Jordan in 2013.
Jordan

MSF scales up activities in Irbid due to increasing health needs of Syrian Refugees

Press Release - 20 May 2015
 
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Yemen

Life in the MSF hospital in Aden, Yemen

A video illustrating life in the MSF hospital in Aden, Yemen. Filmed before the ceasefire. Project Update - 20 May 2015
 
Najiba is 14, she was in her kitchen when a rocket fell on her house and caused the roof to collapse on her. When her family found her body, they thought she was dead. But the villagers realized that she was still breathing and took her to Kunduz City, to the MSF trauma Center.
Afghanistan

MSF treats war wounded as spring offensive rages in the north

Heavy fighting between Afghan forces and armed opposition groups in the north-eastern province of Kunduz is increasingly isolating people living in the districts from the provincial capital, where Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) trauma centre has been receiving wounded patients. Press Release - 19 May 2015
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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