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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
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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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5-year-old Umeda has MDR-TB. Here she holds up her star chart. She gets a sticker every time she takes her medicine properly. Treating young children with MDR-TB can be very difficult and incentives like these are used to help them take the drugs they need during their treatment.
Tuberculosis

Ready, set, slow down: New and promising DR-TB drugs are grabbing headlines but not reaching patients

Fewer than 1,000 people worldwide have been able to access the two new TB drugs – just a fraction of those who desperately need them. Project Update - 23 Mar 2015
 
A Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center on October 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The girl and her mother, showing symptoms of the deadly disease, were awaiting test results for the virus. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola: Pushed to the limit and beyond

MSF releases a critical analysis of the global Ebola response one year into the deadliest outbreak in history. Report - 23 Mar 2015
 
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Yemen

MSF receives over 60 patients after Aden clashes

It is crucial that all parties to the conflict facilitate unhindered access of patients and ambulances to health structures. Press Release - 20 Mar 2015
 
Dr Alexander Pieto attends to patients in the Malalaua TB OPD.
Tuberculosis

Leading medical organisations team up to bring new TB treatments to those in need

endTB will provide access to new anti-TB drugs for more than 3,000 people and run clinical trials to identify safer and more effective treatments. Press Release - 19 Mar 2015
 
Antonyna, 79, in her home in the village of Kuteynikovo, Donetsk region., where MSF runs a mobile clinic. She has many health problems and has not received her pension for more than eight months so can’t afford to buy medicines. Before MSF gave her the necessary medications, she was using plants to treat herself. -- The village’s doctor was moved to another town when the conflict began so the community has been without a regular doctor for months. The local pharmacy is closed because it has not been possible to getNow an MSF doctor visits twice a week to provide free consultations and medicines.
Ukraine

Patient and staff testimonies from Lugansk and Donetsk

Antonyna, 79, lives in Kuteyniekovo, Donetsk region, where MSF runs a mobile clinic. Voices from the Field - 19 Mar 2015
 
MSF staff deliver medicines, to treat chronic diseases, to Hospital no.6 in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Ukraine

Reaching the vulnerable

Photo Story - 19 Mar 2015
 
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India

Indian generic companies should reject Gilead’s controversial hepatitis C ‘Anti-Diversion’ programme

Programme could compromise patient treatment and privacy rights. MSF releases briefing note on Gilead’s anti-diversion programme and analysis of company’s license agreement.
 Press Release - 19 Mar 2015
 
Chad - Distribution of hygiene and shelter kits to people displaced by Boko Haram attacks
Chad

Thousands of Nigerian refugees seek safety

MSF begins activities to assist refugees in the Lake Chad region Project Update - 18 Mar 2015
 
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Syria

Use of chlorine in an attack on a village in Northern Syria

“The air smelt of cleaning products and their clothes had the distinctive smell of chlorine.” Press Release - 18 Mar 2015
 
"My daily routine starts with having breakfast, working out for a bit, surfing the net, and socializing with family and friends who live close by." Omar Al Balkhi, 29, was injured in a bomb blast in Daraa, Syria and treated at first in a field hospital. He was later transferred to the MSF War Trauma surgical project at Al Ramtha hospital in Jordan in order to undergo multiple surgeries.
Jordan

Gallery: Omar Al Balkhim, surviving the wounds of Syria

Voices from the Field - 18 Mar 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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