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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.

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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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TB doctor Irma Davitadze at work at the Regional Center of Infectious Pathology, AIDS and Tuberculosis in Batumi, a beach resort town on the Black Sea. MSF has worked here since 2014.
Access to medicines

Public health groups welcome agreement for development of promising new TB drug

While deal marks a critical step in the fight against TB, health groups warn that the deal lacks safeguards that would ensure worldwide affordability. Press Release - 26 Jan 2017
 
Since the beginning of 2016, more than 400,000 South Sudanese new refugees have arrived in Uganda, usually entering through informal border points or arriving through DRC. The vast majority come from the Central Equatoria State between Juba and the DRC border. The first waves of refugees were fleeing following the clash that erupted in Juba last July between SPLA and SPLA-IO, while the most recent ran away from widespread insecurity around the town of Yei. Most of the new arrivals have been hosted in the main Bidibidi Refugee Complex, which is approximately 32 km long from north (zone 2) to south (zone 4 Annex) and 20 km long from east (zone 5) to west (zone 4). MSF provides medical care and water supply.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda

MSF provides medical care inside the refugee complex. Most common pathologies are malaria and diarrhoeas but chronic diseases and mental health are also an issue.
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A student of a girls’ school in Port-au-Prince walks by a mural depicting the suppression of women in Haiti. [The graffiti artist is Jerry Rosembert.]
Women's health

The Mexico City Policy endangers women's lives

Unsafe abortion is one of the five main causes of maternal mortality worldwide, together with haemorrhage, eclampsia, sepsis and obstructed labour. Statement - 26 Jan 2017
Palliative care

Palliative Care in Humanitarian Medicine

UREPH is pleased to announce the publication of the article “Palliative Care in Humanitarian Medicine” by James Smith and Tammam Aloudat in the journal Palliative Medicine. Journal article - 25 Jan 2017
 
Emergency Gap
Access to Healthcare

Insecurity - always an insurmountable obstacle?

This paper attempts to offer a reflection on the subject of risk acceptance, and some of the underlying factors that – apart from the actual security threat – influence security decision-making in the humanitarian sector. Report - 25 Jan 2017
 
Centraal Afrikaanse Republiek, CAR, Bangui, Februari 2014. Many people displaced by the conflict have found refuge in Mboko airport, Bangui, CAR. Foto: Sven Torfinn
Central African Republic

Five reasons to care about the closure of Mpoko camp

Mpoko has now closed. What became a symbol of the huge needs of the Central African people has disappeared, but the country's problems persist. Project Update - 24 Jan 2017
 
Manono General Hospital.
Democratic Republic of Congo

More than 200 people treated for injuries at Manono hospital, Tanganyika

"In December, the hospital's surgical department was overwhelmed. There were people everywhere, lying on the floor waiting to be treated," says Gaudia Sironi, MSF Field Coordinator. Voices from the Field - 23 Jan 2017
 
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Log Manager Abdoulaye Chaibou helps Bollosse village inhabitants during the distribution of aid packages by MSF to the most remote areas of Jérémie and Cayes. Haiti, Friday 6 January 2017.
Haiti

Massive distribution of building materials, three months after Matthew

"In remote areas of the mountains, people were forced to hastily rebuild by salvaging materials that had been blown around by the wind, often broken and full of holes. The poor construction quality of the buildings does not provide adequate shelter," says Lily Caldwell, MSF's emergency team coordinator. Project Update - 23 Jan 2017
 
Mohammed, Medco is evacuating wounded people after the bombing of one IDP camp in Rann. “There are no health facilities in Rann. Nothing. The first health facilities are 2 hours away from Rann. Most of the victims that we saw where children”. Mohammed Musoke, medical coordinator for OCP based in Maiduguri.
Nigeria

"Most of the dead and injured were women and children"

My colleague and I personally evacuated a number of severely injured patients, taking them to various hospitals in Maiduguri. Voices from the Field - 20 Jan 2017
 
Rann IDP camp after the bombing.
Nigeria

Death toll rising in Rann attack

“The people of Borno should be entitled to guarantees of protection and assistance. All parties to the conflict must ensure the safety of civilians, and we urge the Government of Nigeria to ensure the protection of its people,” says Bruno Jochum, MSF General Director. Statement - 19 Jan 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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