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How we work

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How we're run

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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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MSF and SOS Mediterannee search and rescue personnel transfer an infant child to their dinghy in appalling conditions in the Mediterranean sea, 28 December 2016, as they help a boat in distress full of refugees and migrants off the northern coast of Libya.
Mediterranean migration

How to stop the rising tide of death in Mediterranean

"The EU needs to take urgent action to provide safe and legal channels for people to seek asylum and create legal migration pathways that make wider use of legal entry schemes," says Jens Pagotto, head of MSF's mission in Libya and its search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean. Voices from the Field - 18 Jan 2017
 
In late June, MSF and the health authorities have launched a study to confirm the preliminary resultsthat pointed out a drug intoxication as cause of the dystonic sydrome, and rule out any hypothesis. Community agents went to the communities to investigate.
Democratic Republic of Congo

An epidemic of dystonic reactions in central Africa

In December, 2014, an outbreak of suspected meningitis was investigated in Ituri District, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Lancet Global Health - 17 Jan 2017
 
A bombing by the Nigerian Army has occurred in an internally displaced person camps in Rann, Nigeria. MSF teams have seen 120 wounded and at least 50 dead following the bombing. Teams are trying to provide emergency first aid in its facility and are stabilizing patients to evacuate wounded. We are asking the authorities to put all measures in place in order to facilitate the emergency evacuation of wounded (by air and land). Our medical and surgical teams in Cameroon and Chad are ready to treat wounded patients.
Nigeria

MSF strongly condemns the aerial bombing of a camp for displaced people in Rann

At least 120 people were wounded and 52 killed today in a bombing by the Nigerian Army on a camp for internally displaced people in Rann. Statement - 17 Jan 2017
 
In late June, MSF and the health authorities have launched a study to confirm the preliminary resultsthat pointed out a drug intoxication as cause of the dystonic sydrome, and rule out any hypothesis. Community agents went to the communities to investigate.
Democratic Republic of Congo

The alarming consequences of poor quality medicines

"Poor quality medicines negate all the modern advances made in pharmacy and public health," says Dr Peyraud Journal article - 17 Jan 2017
 
People fetch water in the Funu district of Bukavu early on a Sunday morning. In Bukavu most people still don´t have access to running water. Many rely on wa-ter from lake Kivu or surrounding rivers and streams.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence and its humanitarian impact: the case of Kivu

Research carried out by Duncan Maclean looking at the impact of violence on medical and humanitarian services in North Kivu, carried out for the MSF Analysis department of the operational centre in Brussels, MSF-Analysis - 16 Jan 2017
 
Anaesthesia technician writing down given treatment during surgery in MSF supported hospital, Thi As Sufal district, Ibb governorate.
Yemen

A day at the general rural hospital in Thi As Sufal district

MSF teams work in the emergency room, inpatient ward and operating theatre, and support the maternity and outpatient departments with medications and equipment. MSF also manages laboratory and physiotherapy services, and the x-ray department. Photo Story - 14 Jan 2017
 
Taisiya Gregorivna, 82 years old. She lives alone in her house located in Pavlopil. Since 2014 her house was shelled twice. This great-grandmother of eight had to leave for a while and find refuge in the house of one of her daughters in the city of Mariupol. With the support of her family, Taisiya’s house has been repaired. She can now take care of her house and garden again. Taisiya is receiving medical care and mental health support from MSF via its mobile clinic in Pavlopil.
Ukraine

“Pavlopil used to be a nice place to live”

"All the families here have been deeply affected by the conflict," says Taisiya Gregorivna, an 82-year-old widow from Pavlopil in eastern Ukraine. Voices from the Field - 13 Jan 2017
 
Tatiana Ivanovna, 65 years old, during a consultation with Elena Pylaeva, psychologist. This MSF mobile clinic is located in the village of Pavlopil, about five kilometers from the contact line.
Ukraine

“Your entire universe falls apart”

Interview with Elena Pylaeva, a psychologist working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Voices from the Field - 13 Jan 2017
 
Women stand in line to receive donations of rice, beans,oil, salt and sugar from MSF teams.
Central African Republic

MSF distributes food to 10,500 displaced and vulnerable people in the north

Some 10,500 people in northern CAR have received emergency food supplies from MSF. Press Release - 12 Jan 2017
 
Hospital White Nile, Sudan Mothers wait for a consultation in White Nile State Hospital
Sudan

White Nile State becomes a haven for those fleeing South Sudan's war

MSF currently runs a 40-bed hospital in White Nile State. It is based just outside Al Kashafa camp where over 17,000 refugees have been allowed to settle. Project Update - 10 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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