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How we work

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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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Syria

Khan Sheikhoun victims have symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical substances

The MSF team provided drugs and antidotes to treat patients, and protective clothing for medical staff in the hospital’s emergency room. Statement - 5 Apr 2017
 
MSF teams in and around Mosul have received more than 1,800 patients in need of urgent or lifesaving care in the last two months. 1,500 of them needed treatment for conflict related trauma. As the scale of the non-trauma needs also became apparent, MSF opened maternity services in eastern Mosul at the beginning of February, and since then the teams have assisted 100 births and performed 80 C-sections.
Iraq

The patients we receive are the “lucky ones”

"Every day, we see the worst of the worst injuries inflicted by this war" Voices from the Field - 4 Apr 2017
 
Patients in the waiting room at Meshta Nour Hospital, Kobane, 23 january 2017.
Syria

Describing the toll of war on health in absentia

"In war-torn Syria, patients are besieged and in inaccessible areas. True numbers are unknown but those we do see paint a picture so bleak that the size and scale of an emergency health response seem unimaginable." Journal article - 3 Apr 2017
 
Blood types are identified in the maternity's laboratory.
Iraq

Stabilising emergencies in a pocket of safety

MSF has expanded its activities in the Tal Afar district, northwest of Mosul, where the population has little access to healthcare Project Update - 3 Apr 2017
 
Mortar remnants of war amid the rubble, Kobane, January 23, 2017.
Syria

Explosive devices have deadly impact on people fleeing or returning home

“Booby-traps have been planted everywhere – under the carpet, in the fridge, even in children’s teddy bears,” says Karline Kleijer, MSF’s emergency manager for Syria. Report - 2 Apr 2017
 
During the second week of July 2016, MSF organised an exploratory mission and an emergency distribution for more than 15,000 displaced people leaving in dire conditions in the city of Banki, in Borno State – Nigeria.
Nigeria

Case Study on humanitarian response in North-east Nigeria

This case study examines the humanitarian response to the conflict-related crisis in the North-East of Nigeria, focusing primarily on the period from 2015 to the end of 2016. The aim is test the central hypotheses of the Emergency Gap project: that the current structure, conceptual underpinning and prevalent mindset of the international humanitarian system limits its capacity to be effective in response to conflict-related emergencies. Emergency Gap - 1 Apr 2017
 
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Syria

Medical staff and patient killed in an attack on MSF-supported hospital

A hospital in northern Syria supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been hit in an aerial attack. Press Release - 31 Mar 2017
 
The Al Salamah hospital has become a reference in the area. In 2016, it had 46,337 outpatient consultations, 2,489 inpatient consultations, 26,091 emergency room treatments, 1,933 surgical procedures and there were 578 deliveries. It refers also patients to Turkey. In the picture, a doctor who is operating an old lady places a sonda in her.
Syria

An obligation to tell the world

This case study illustrates the article: "No eyes on the ground. MSF’s dilemmas of using third party medical data and patient testimonies". Project Update - 30 Mar 2017
 
Portrait of 58 year old Magaret at home. Magaret lives in a very remote village around Chimombe Hospital. During her last VIAC test, in February 2016, nurses discovered less than 75% lesions on her cervix. Right away, they performed cryotherapy to froze these lesions. She has to check again in July to see if the lesions have disappeared. Testimony taken in March 2017 “My eldest daughter died of cervical cancer and we found out too late because she didn’t tell us. In February 2016, I heard about the screenings from the nurses at Chimombe rural hospital. Even though I’ve been divorced for eight years and had no symptoms, I decided to have the screening, because they explained I was still at risk. On the day of the hospital appointment, I walked for two hours to get there. After the screening, I learned that I had lesions on my cervix. The medical staff asked if they could perform cryotherapy straight away, which treats lesions with the freezing method. At first, it was difficult to accept, because I thought I had cancer, but the nurses reassured and counselled me. The cryotherapy was a little uncomfortable, but I was determined to have it done. After the treatment, I walked for two hours to get home. I wasn’t in pain or sick from the procedure. In August 2016, I came back for a follow-up appointment to see if the cryotherapy was successful. They told me I had no lesions anymore. I also had an HIV test, which came back negative, so I don’t have to come back for my next screening for another three years. I’ve tried convincing my two daughters to have the screening, but they saw their sister die of cervical cancer and are still too scared. They say, ’I’d rather die undiagnosed than screen for cancer.’
Zimbabwe

Preventing cervical cancer

With so many Zimbabwean women missing out on screening and treatment and dying unnecessarily, MSF started working with the health ministry in 2014 to bring preventive screenings to Epworth polyclinic in Harare. Project Update - 28 Mar 2017
 
Shaukat (30) from Abidabad is in his first week of Hep C treatment and is getting tested to see how he is responding to the treatment. “I have heart problems which makes it very difficult for me to make a decent daily wage. I couldn’t afford the medication on my own so I am happy I get it here for free. My mother-in-law has the same symptoms as me, I will bring her for a checkup.”
Hepatitis C

MSF joins Europe-wide action challenging patent on key hepatitis C drug

“With an estimated 80 million people worldwide living with hepatitis C, treatment should be available to everyone who needs it,” said Dr Isaac Chikwanha, hepatitis C medical advisor for MSF’s Access Campaign. Press Release - 26 Mar 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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