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How we work

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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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2094 Results
 
Hundreds of displaced people have taken shelter at a school in the town of Minova, in South Kivu province of eastern DRC.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of families caught in neglected crisis in South Kivu

Over 80,000 people have fled violence in North Kivu, currently displaced in extremely precarious conditions in South Kivu, without basic services and vulnerable to disease. Project Update - 30 May 2023
 
Nora Zergi, anesthetist, preparing a patient for a bullet extraction operation.
Conflict in Sudan

Vital humanitarian activities in parts of Sudan may grind to a halt

We call on all parties of the conflict to ensure humanitarian access, to allow us to assist the Sudanese people. Statement - 26 May 2023
 
Destroyed hospital in Lyman, Donetsk Oblast.
Global health

G7 countries must commit to safeguarding humanitarian assistance

Dr Christos Christou, MSF International President, calls on leaders to safeguard civilians and humanitarian workers, by promoting and protecting principled humanitarian action, ahead of G7 summit. Statement - 19 May 2023
 
More patients are arriving at Bashair Hospital as it is the only accessible hospital in southern Khartoum. With the presence of MSF team, Bashair can support most of the critical cases and other departments at the hospital have started to operate as well.
Conflict in Sudan

Five things to know about the violence in El Geneina, Sudan

Widespread looting, destruction and burning of property took place in El Geneina city, the capital of West Darfur in Sudan including El Geneina Teaching Hospital. This violence impacts the provision of healthcare services to a large degree. Project Update - 18 May 2023
 
More patients are arriving at Bashair Hospital as it is the only accessible hospital in southern Khartoum. With the presence of MSF team, Bashair can support most of the critical cases and other departments at the hospital have started to operate as well.
Conflict in Sudan

Hundreds of trauma patients arrive at Khartoum hospital

In just over one week, hundreds of people with life-threatening injuries have arrived at a hospital in Khartoum, where MSF teams have performed lifesaving surgical interventions. Press Release - 18 May 2023
 
BEFORE THE APRIL 15, 2023, ESCALATION. In 2020 MSF upgraded the so-called rural hospital to a secondary healthcare facility in Rokero town. We manage the inpatient department (IPD), the emergency room (ER), the ITFC, the maternity and delivery and paediatric wards and the observation room. We build new ER, maternity, paediatric wards, observation room and ITFC. It is the only secondary healthcare facility in the locality in north Jebel Marra, patients were moved there in late March early April 2023.
Conflict in Sudan

Communities continue to face the severe impact of conflict in Sudan

Communities in Jebel Marra continue to face the indirect impact of the escalation of conflict in Sudan. MSF project coordinator Nkemju Rosevelt reflects on his experience in the country. Project Update - 16 May 2023
 
Heavy wind and rain have destroyed a number of shelters across Umm Rakouba and Tanideba. These storms also ruined peoples stored food and caused flooding of or destruction of latrines. The poor sanitation and hygiene conditions in the camps are leading to an increase in cases of diarrhea, as well as an outbreak of hepatitis e, which is spread through contaminated food or water.
Conflict in Sudan

Refugees seeking safety in Sudan trapped in another stream of violence

Since the conflict erupted in Sudan on 15 April, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced along with the millions of refugees already living in vulnerable conditions in the country, many of whom are in need of medical assistance. Project Update - 11 May 2023
 
The mobile clinic team receives a briefing from MSF project coordinator Diana Manilla Arroyo and MSF medical referent Roger Ngueremi in front of the MSF office located in Delmas 48 before leaving to Bel Air, a neighborhood located in the center of Port-au-Prince. The team brainstorms about the priorities of the day, security updates and potential challenges.
Haiti

People trapped by violence in need of medical assistance

People in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are trapped in their neighbourhoods by ongoing violence. We are running mobile clinics to bring healthcare services closer to those affected by the current humanitarian crisis. Project Update - 10 May 2023
 
MSF staff members bring belongings of the patients evacuated from Kharkiv city, eastern Ukraine, to a bus that will drive them to hospitals in Kyiv.
Ukraine

One year of emergency healthcare in war-torn Kharkiv 

MSF teams continue to support people living in the Kharkiv region who have been cut off from healthcare by providing general healthcare and mental health support. Project Update - 8 May 2023
 
Mothers in line waiting for their BP-5 boxes
Burkina Faso

Severe humanitarian crisis persists for people living under blockade in Djibo

People in Djibo, Burkina Faso, have been living under blockade for over a year, largely cut off from food and aid. Our teams are responding by providing healthcare, distributing food, and rehabilitating water points in the town. Project Update - 5 May 2023
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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