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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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7996 Results
 
Eighty refugees and migrants from Bangladesh and Pakistan live inside this large accommodation tent.
Türkiye

Two years on, deal continues to fail thousands of people seeking asylum

We will not stop demanding that the EU and the Greek authorities end this cynical strategy of containment, to stop further damaging the health of our patients and respect their dignity. Statement - 16 Mar 2018
 
Aiful 25 years old from Bangladesh prepares food outside a large accommodation tent. Sail was a taxi driver in his country. After some political issues he fled to Iraq. Because of the war he wasn’t able to stay there and he went to Turkey where he was tortured. He decided to reach Greece, and he arrived in Lesvos on July 2016. He has been living in Moria camp since 8 months. “…here we are really scared for what they decide for us, many of us are getting reject answer from asylum department and after they’ll send us back to turkey, and turkish forces keep us for two years in prison so we are voluntarily returning back to our country, even if our life are in danger…this is totally torturing our mind and life.”
Greece

MSF activity update – March 2018

MSF has been providing medical and humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers and migrants in Greece since 1996. In 2014, MSF expanded its activities in Greece to meet the needs of asylum seekers arriving on the Greek islands and mainland from Turkey. Project Update - 16 Mar 2018
 
MSF has trained an all-female team to spread messages about sexual and reproductive health in the community. MSF believes the cases it receives represent just a fraction of the actual number of Rohingya who have survived sexually assault or rape. Survivors are often reluctant to seek services because of the shame and stigma associated with sexual assault, and in general knowledge about the medical consequences of sexual violence is very limited. The team works to improve people’s knowledge and to highlight the medical and psychological support available to them.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Crisis update - March 2018

More than six months into the beginning of the latest Rohingya exodus, people continue to flee from Myanmar into Bangladesh fearing for their lives and seeking safety. A total of 3,236 refugees are reported to have entered Bangladesh in February alone. Crisis Update - 15 Mar 2018
 
An inflatable operating theatre is erected inside this MSF makeshift hospital in Syria (a converted chicken farm) as it is an efficient way to maintain a sterile environment. Surgeon Steve Rubin operating.
Syria

The voice from the hospital basement in East Ghouta

‘This has to end, we cannot continue to watch children die.’ Statement - 15 Mar 2018
 
Subi Katum, 70, arrives near Sabrang on the Bangladeshi side of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar on 7 March 2018. “My husband was killed and my daughter’s husband disappeared. Many people have been killed or are lost. I hope all of this will finish one day but I can’t tell what the future holds. Like many others, we were obliged to abandon our villages, our houses, our land, our animals. People are desperate to leave but many don’t have any possibility. I feel exhausted and unable to walk. I haven’t eaten for three days. It’s very hard.”
Rohingya refugee crisis

“We don’t have anywhere else to go”

Having fled indescribable violence in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh must now contend with new dangers: precarious living conditions, the upcoming rainy season and fears for personal safety after dark. Voices from the Field - 15 Mar 2018
 
MSF staff giving vaccinations in Douentza.
Mali

Medical services in northeastern Mali

Photo Story - 13 Mar 2018
 
Village of Kier. MSF nurse Furaha Bazikanya shows members of the mobile medical team how to read the results of urine test strips.
South Sudan

MSF’s newest project takes medical care to remote locations

It’s 8am, and the MSF compound in Akobo, eastern South Sudan, is a hive of activity. In front of the logistics tent, staff carefully load tables, chairs, floor mats, septic boxes, medicines and other supplies into the back of a vehicle. Nearby, the Project Coordinator manages to simultaneously gulp down a cup of coffee while mumbling into a dusty handset radio. With still-unbuttoned life jackets resting squarely on their shoulders, a team of clinical officers, nurses, and community health workers discuss the day’s strategy. Voices from the Field - 13 Mar 2018
 
Ospedale di Bili. Reparto di malnutrizione.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF in DRC: Annual Report 2017

Médecins Sans Frontières en RDC, rapport annuel 2017 . Report - 13 Mar 2018
 
A Rohingya refugee in Jamptoli makeshift camp, where more than 50,000 people are sheltering.
Rohingya refugee crisis

‘No one was left’ - Death and Violence Against the Rohingya

MSF releases new advocacy report which explains 2017 Rohingya violence survey findings
 Report - 9 Mar 2018
 
IDPs taking refuge in the MSF hospital in Bossangoa, CAR. The new wave of violence that is engulfing the Central African Republic has left tens of thousands of displaced people and many wounded. More than 30.000 are sheltered in precarious conditions in different locations in Bossangoa and in Bouca and the majority of towns in the area of Bossangoa are completely deserted. MSF providing emergency medical care at Bossangoa hospital, as well as emergency humanitarian support in three makeshift camps.
Central African Republic

Survivors describe a mass rape ordeal outside Bossangoa

“What’s most concerning about the number of sexual violence cases we have recorded is that the real number is likely to be much higher." Project Update - 8 Mar 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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