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How we work

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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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Herman (r) gets tested for HIV in the PODI Ouest in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The PODIs, which are run by the RNOAC group of people with HIV, offer testing, support and Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to stable HIV patients in the capital.
HIV/AIDS

HIV response in West and Central Africa will not succeed if key barriers remain unaddressed

“This is a pivotal opportunity to anchor governments’ efforts... to tackle the many obstacles people living with HIV face every day." Press Release - 3 Jul 2017
 
Head of Mission Karin Fischer Liddle examining X-ray photo of chest of TB patient at the TB department of the MSF hospital in Galcayo North.
Tuberculosis

Out of Step 2017

Out of Step 2017 includes the results of a 29-country survey on national TB policies and practices. The report was created to identify gaps in implementation and monitor progress towards ending TB. msfaccess.org - 1 Jul 2017
 
Between August and November 2015, MSF and the Ministry of Health of Mali launched a chemoprevention campaign against seasonal malaria, the leading cause of infant mortality in the country, which reached more than 45,000 children between three months and five years old in the Ansongo district, in the Gao region in the north of the country. During the campaign, MSF took the chance to complete the children’s vaccination records.
Mali

MSF suspends activities in Kidal region

MSF suspends activities in Kidal, Mali after a third robbery and attempted break-in Statement - 30 Jun 2017
 
A child is tested for malnutrition in the triage tent of the MSF-supported primary healthcare centre in Hammam al-Alil. Where children are screened for malnutrition and referred to the nutritional programme.
Iraq

Crisis update - 29 June 2017

MSF has started to provide life-saving trauma assistance for the war-wounded at a medical structure in the Old City of west Mosul, the final conflict area, where an estimated 60,000 residents remain. Crisis Update - 29 Jun 2017
 
Nontobeko Magagula MoH Cough Officer is counseling a patient suspected to have TB, in the TB screening department of the MSF Matsapha clinic. Matsapha, Manzini Region, Swaziland.
Eswatini

"A long and gruelling seven years and now it is over"

“I am very grateful for the medical breakthrough. I think introducing these new medicines will help a lot of people.” Voices from the Field - 29 Jun 2017
 
MSF Medical referent on Torture and Deputy CO at Cell 2 (Italy, Greece, Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania, Serbia)
Torture

Everything you don’t want to know about torture

"In 2017, torture is still used in countries all over the world, but the global medical community is still largely unprepared to spot victims of torture among patients." Voices from the Field - 26 Jun 2017
 
The Outreach Team sets up its clinic under a tree. local pastoralist families come waiting to have their children screened for malnutrition and inoculated for measles.
Ethiopia

MSF sees tenfold increase in children with malnutrition in Doolo zone

"What we are seeing is a humanitarian emergency." Project Update - 26 Jun 2017
 
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Somalia

MSF resumes medical activities

Nearly four years after withdrawing its teams from Somalia, MSF has started treating patients again in the country. Project Update - 23 Jun 2017
 
Men detained in Abu Salim detention centre, in Tripoli, Libya.
Libya

Providing assistance to migrants and refugees

Jean-Guy Vataux, head of mission in Libya, explains how MSF is providing assistance to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Voices from the Field - 23 Jun 2017
 
Banywich Bone, 18 ans, was reffered to Agok From Mayom, where MSF runs a primary health center. He was bitten by a snake three years ago, while he was sleeping at home. When he arrived in the hospital, he presented an infected wound for which doctors blame the snake bite. His left leg had necrotic tissus and pain, the wound was infected and MSF surgeon had to amputate the leg above the knee.
Snakebite

MSF welcomes WHO decision to include snakebite on Neglected Tropical Diseases list

Despite the fact that snakebite is estimated to kill over 100,000 people every year there are hardly any resources to prevent and treat it, and access to life-saving anti-venom therapy is very limited. Statement - 23 Jun 2017
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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