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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 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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After long months of intensive work, the new Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital for specialized reconstructive surgery for war victims from the Arab region is almost ready to run. The hospital will be the largest structure of its kind MSF is currently running.
Jordan

New home for MSF specialised reconstructive surgery project set for completion

After months of intensive work, the new Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) specialized reconstructive surgery hospital for war victims from the Middle East and North Africa region is almost ready to run. It will be the largest hospital for th Project Update - 22 Dec 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - 18th December 2014

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed 6,387 lives since it was officially declared. Crisis Update - 18 Dec 2014
 
MSF as started building a prefabricated hospital in Guiuan which will take patients out of the tents – unsuitable in the rainy season – until a permanent hospital can be built. The hospital, designed to last up to five years, will provide maternity care and surgery as well as inpatient and outpatient services. It is due for completion in June, when MSF will leave Guiuan, handing the hospital over to the Ministry of Health to run.
Philippines

One year after typhoon Haiyan

MSF raised €32.5m for Typhoon Haiyan emergency response. Here's how we spent it. Report - 18 Dec 2014
 
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Yemen

MSF provides medical care to IDPs and injured people lacking access in Al-Bayda governorate

The newly formed Yemen Emergency Pool has provided medical consultations and non-food items to IDPs. Project Update - 18 Dec 2014
 
Gul Bibi, 65,( was displaced from her village in Upper Kurram Agency and has been living in Sadda as an IDP for three years) with her grandson.
Pakistan

“No Place to Call Home” for Internally Displaced People

The internally displaced persons in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas have escaped the violence but are confronted with greater challenges. In the Media - 16 Dec 2014
 
B Sunday Williams is the sprayer of the MSF burial team in Monrovia. He disinfects the hosue before the rest of the team goes inside.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

A day in the life of a chlorine sprayer

The team collecting victims of Ebola – both living and dead – from the community in Monrovia face a challenging task in the fight against Ebola Voices from the Field - 16 Dec 2014
 
Registration area in the Rural Health Unit (RHU) in Guiuan that MSF is supporting to. More than one month after the typhoon Haiyan hit in the Philippines, the humanitarian needs seen by MSF teams vary from place to place, and there are still some areas that are under-served by aid. In some areas we are seeing people’s medical needs declining, but in other areas there is still a need for our support. Taking into account the progressive deployment of aid to rural areas and the number of organisations providing primary healthcare, MSF is adapting its activities in the Philippines. MSF will gradually decrease its activities in areas of Ormoc and Burauen on Leyte island, and in northern Iloilo province on Panay island, starting from the end of December. MSF will however continue working in Tacloban, on Leyte island, and in Guiuan, on Samar island, providing surgery, inpatient care, psychological care and other support until the health system is functioning again at adequate levels.
Philippines

MSF teams reach areas most impacted by typhoon Hagupit and find a population well prepared

Conclude there is no need for an MSF medical intervention Project Update - 11 Dec 2014
 
Deddeh has recovered from Ebola and celebrates her joy. Out of solidarity she decides to stay in the Ebola confirmed area to take care of Elijah, a young boy (3 months) who has lost his mother to Ebola and has been infected himself.
Liberia

Ebola outbreak contained in Lofa County, MSF hands over activities

MSF has decided to withdraw from the area. Crisis Update - 11 Dec 2014
 
A surgery to amputate the forefoot of a diabetic patient is done in tented operating theatre in Guiuan. The team is transfering the patient to observation ward. More than one month after the typhoon Haiyan hit in the Philippines, the humanitarian needs seen by MSF teams vary from place to place, and there are still some areas that are under-served by aid. In some areas we are seeing people’s medical needs declining, but in other areas there is still a need for our support. Taking into account the progressive deployment of aid to rural areas and the number of organisations providing primary healthcare, MSF is adapting its activities in the Philippines. MSF will gradually decrease its activities in areas of Ormoc and Burauen on Leyte island, and in northern Iloilo province on Panay island, starting from the end of December. MSF will however continue working in Tacloban, on Leyte island, and in Guiuan, on Samar island, providing surgery, inpatient care, psychological care and other support until the health system is functioning again at adequate levels.
Philippines

MSF teams reach affected areas of Samar and Masbate

Assess that there is no need for a surgical intervention from MSF Crisis Update - 10 Dec 2014
 
A surgical team consisting of surgeon Mikio SHIOZAWA, anesthesiologist Ikusuke HATSUKARI and nurse Yuko SHIRAKAWA leaves Tokyo International Airport for Manila, the Philippines, on the afternoon of Saturday, 6 December, 2014. They will stand by in Manila and be prepared to move in case the typhoon causes casualties. MSF has organised two helicopters that can quickly transport the team to Palo in Leyte Province, where MSF has a field project, or to another location. Yuko says, "We are closely monitoring the situation. If the typhoon strikes the country, we will react as fast as we can to reach the population in need."
Philippines

Typhoon Hagupit weakens, MSF teams to assess Samar

The level of damage does not appear to be as severe as first feared. Crisis Update - 8 Dec 2014
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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