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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.

GeoMSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treating patients in difficult conditions

The Ebola outbreak has not yet been contained. Project Update - 2 Oct 2014
 
Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees mainly from Eritrea and Gambia land a few hours after being rescued from the sea.
Italy

Italy and the EU must not abandon refugees at sea

The European Union must continue active search and rescue operations to save lives in the Mediterranean. Press Release - 1 Oct 2014
 
MDRTB patient Heshi, 28, showing her daily dose of pills given to her by the MSF staff nurse. Churchandpur, Manipur, India, 24 October 2012. Heshi has MDRTB. When she first got sick she did not know what was wrong with her, she could not sleep because of pain in her lungs and when she coughed she also felt pain. She had been on treatment for one month when this photo was taken and is feeling much better than before. She doesn't cough any more and can sleep again. When she started the treatment she thought she was going to die, she was depressed, but now she is very positive and looks forward to finishing her treatment.
India

MSF urges PM to resist US patent pressure

"India’s production of affordable medicines is a vital life-line for MSF" Press Release - 26 Sep 2014
 
Medical coordinator Vanessa Cramond is examining a patient. On Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 June, approximately 11,000 refugees were relocated from the temporary site known as K18, to another temporary site next to Jamam refugee camp. MSF provided each family with plastic sheeting, blankets and high-energy biscuits upon arrival and set up a mobile clinic. After six centimetres of rain in just an hour and a half on the night of the 28th, parts of the transit camp were flooded. Amongst the mud, MSF staff provided consultations in its mobile clinic, including many for children with diarrhoea, malnutrition or eye infections.
South Sudan

In Bentiu camp, floodwaters recede but tension remains

Thousands of people have taken refuge in a camp near Bentiu and set up spontaneously after violence swept across the country. Voices from the Field - 26 Sep 2014
 
The team in Kailahun, Sierra Leone - September 2014
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - Sept 25th

Crisis Update - 26 Sep 2014
 
Dr. Joanne Liu, International President. October 2013
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

MSF President urges UN General Assembly to act NOW

High-level Meeting on Response to the Ebola Disease Outbreak Speech - 25 Sep 2014
 
MSF experts provide in-house training in Brussels to MSF staff volunteering for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Because Ebola is highly contagious, the main priority is training health staff to reduce the risk of catching the disease while caring for patients. Staff treating patients suffering from the disease must wear personal protective equipment to prevent transmission. MSF is carrying in-house training for other NGO's
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola workers at risk: the tragic reality of the Ebola response in West Africa

Despite intense precautions, Ebola workers remain at risk of infection Statement - 25 Sep 2014
 
Field Communications Officer, Caitlin Ryan, speaks to a patient inside ELWA3 - the Ebola Case Management Center run by MSF.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

My friend from across the fence

Psychologist Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter remembers the first child to survive survive Ebola. Voices from the Field - 24 Sep 2014
 
MSF pharmacy store keeper in Yemen checking stocks.
Yemen

MSF supports public and private hospitals in Sana'a

MSF is responding to increasing needs in Sana'a due to recent conflict. Press Release - 24 Sep 2014
 
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Palestine

Gaza: Confronting violence with psychosocial support

Amira* is a 63 year old woman who lives in Haska, Hebron Governorate in the West Bank.

This is one of the villages most affected by the intense search operation carried out by the Israeli army after the three Israeli teenagers went missing from Hebron on 12 June 2014. The Israeli forces spent 20 days. Voices from the Field - 23 Sep 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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