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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 Websites

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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
 
Cholera Vaccination at St Joseph Churh, one of the 15 sites of vaccination in Kanyama districts.
Zambia

Encouraging new results further demonstrate effectiveness of the single dose oral cholera vaccine

“While the availability of vaccines has improved in recent years, the number is still far from being sufficient to tackle the large-scale outbreaks we are currently seeing" Press Release - 9 Feb 2018
 
Patient sitting in the courtyard of the Harare Central hospital psychiatric unit.
Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe mental health project

In 2011, an MSF medical team was shocked by what they saw during a visit to the overcrowded Chikurubi Maximum Security Security Prison’s Psychiatric Unit on Harare’s outskirts. Here’s what happened next. Photo Story - 8 Feb 2018
 
In Borgo Mezzanone, near Foggia, there is a governmental reception center with more than a 1,000 asylum seekers (on the left). Around the center, along an abandoned airport runway, a shantytown is growing: tens of containers and plastic, zinc and paper-made shacks. From 500 to 2,000 migrants and refugees are living in the informal settlements mostrly coming from Sub- Saharian Africa and Somalia: many of them are involved in the agricultural seasonal works, mostly in summer time.
Italy

Migrants and refugees on the margins of society

“Two years after it was first published, the ‘Out of Sight’ report is still a sad survey of vulnerability and marginalisation.” Report - 8 Feb 2018
 
young child receiving vaccine.
Pneumonia

MSF challenges Pfizer’s monopoly on lifesaving pneumonia vaccine in South Korea

“In our work, we see many children with life-threatening respiratory infections; many deaths could be prevented if more kids were vaccinated with PCV.” Press Release - 6 Feb 2018
 
These Syrian children have just arrived at their new home, a makeshift tent that is not yet completed but will house their family indefinitely. Fleeing renewed fighting in northwest Syria, the children are wearing the only clothes they have. They have no access to clean water, drinking from a rusted barrel. وصل هؤلاء الأطفال السوريون للتو إلى منزلهم الجديد، وهو عبارة عن خيمة مؤقتة لم تكتمل بعد، ولكنها ستؤوي عائلتهم إلى أجل غير مسمى. ومنذ نزوح عائلاتهم نتيجة تجدد القتال في شمال غرب سوريا ولا يزال هؤلاء الأطفال يرتدون قطع الملابس الوحيدة التي يمتلكونها. كما أنّهم لا يستطيعون الوصول إلى مصدر مياه نظيفة، ولذلك يشربون الماء من برميل صدئ.
Syria

Idlib’s population suffers the consequences of heavy fighting and airstrikes

Bit by bit, these families have lost everything; some only have their tears left. Voices from the Field - 5 Feb 2018
 
A nurse analyses a blood sample to perform a coagulation test following a snake bite at the Paoua hospital in northwestern Central African Republic, supported by MSF.
Snakebite

Affordable and quality antivenoms needed for snakebites

Photo Story - 5 Feb 2018
 
An MSF medical team is working together with MoH staff in the cholera treatment center in Al-Sadaqa hospital in Aden. Besides the medical support, MSF logistic team has repaired the center as the building had been abandoned for two years after the war. MSF proceeded to emergency rehabilitation as it required heavy cleaning work, electricity, water system repairs as well as installing air conditions. Considering the hot and humid weather during the summer, heat becomes an issue in any health structure in the coast, most especially when it comes to hospitalise severely dehydrated patients.
Yemen

“On an average day in Taiz, we hear around five explosions per minute”

Arunn Jegan is an Australian project coordinator who has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières since 2016. He was with MSF in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and recently started his mission in Taiz, Yemen. Voices from the Field - 1 Feb 2018
 
Bardnesville Junction Hospital, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia
Liberia

MSF opens paediatric surgery programme

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a paediatric surgical programme at Bardnesville Junction Hospital (BJH) on the outskirts of Liberia's capital Monrovia on 11 January, with a goal of making surgical care more available for children in the country.
 Project Update - 31 Jan 2018
 
Bria hospital, Doctor Victor Fayette (MSF) tends to Mahamat Sale's wound. He is the leader of the UPC rebel group (Union for Freedom in Central African Republic) and was shot during skirmishes in Batangafo, a district close to Bria.
Central African Republic

Renewed violence threatens people and healthcare in Bria

The cycle of attacks and violence in 2017 has left neighbourhoods in Bria, in eastern Central African Republic (CAR), entrenched or emptied by their inhabitants. Project Update - 31 Jan 2018
 
Nurse Pélé and a pharmacist in Mbalazime health centre do an inventory of the latest MSF supply delivery.
Central African Republic

“It was horrible leaving our patients behind when they needed us”

Pelé Hubert has worked in Bangassou, Central African Republic as an outreach nurse supervisor for MSF since 2015. Voices from the Field - 31 Jan 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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