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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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7998 Results
 
Falling into the gap between child- and adulthood, HIV+ adolescents (defined by WHO as young people between 10-19 years of age) are a particularly vulnerable but often overlooked group in the HIV response – globally, regionally but also often within MSF HIV cohorts. With harrowing results: In Myanmar, MSF’s adolescent patients are almost three times more likely to fail their first line antiretroviral treatment (ART) than their adult counterparts. This result confirms a global negative trend in that age group, which registers a rise in new infections and AIDS-related deaths. More research and attention is needed to make sure HIV care provider and others give HIV+ youth with the support they need, including a treatment and counseling model that is specifically adapted to their needs.
Myanmar

Don't let adolescents with HIV slip away

In Myanmar, adolescents make up around 5 per cent of our total HIV cohort of nearly 35,000 people. Project Update - 29 Nov 2016
 
A hospital in east Aleppo is patched up with sandbags after it was hit by airstrikes in April 2016, killing one doctor and injuring several nurses.
Syria

Crisis update — 28 November 2016

After five and a half years of intense conflict, the situation in Syria keeps deteriorating, with ever-increasing unmet needs and suffering. Crisis Update - 29 Nov 2016
 
ketch of Umm Leen to support the first person piece about giving birth in east Aleppo. Copyright Natasha Lewer/MSF Umm Leen is a mother of seven and has lived in east Aleppo all her life. She has a three month old baby boy who was born under the siege and recent heavy bombardments. ¨When a baby is born, some people believe they are making up for the children they have lost. But for me, in these conditions, I think it’s a huge mistake. After I gave birth to him, I felt so sad. Did I give birth to him to see a life like this? I don’t even know if we’ll survive this. The children get so frightened whenever they hear a plane – they run towards me. It breaks my heart. ¨
Syria

Pregnancy and childbirth in besieged east Aleppo

Voices from the Field - 29 Nov 2016
 
Alice Otiato, MSF’s Project Coordinator at the Epworth Clinic on Harare’s outskirts. Alice Otiato talks to a mother at Epworth Clinic. Her child is severely handicapped and the mother is upset that people have told her she is to blame. Alice encourages the mother to be strong and not to listen to unfriendly words from other people. ‘The only thing that matters is your child,’ Alice reassures her.
Zimbabwe

A decade later in Epworth, life grows

"My typical day at Epworth, it’s a busy day. You never know what’s going to come up. We have a cohort of over 11,000 patients, so on average we see 350 to 400 patients," says Alice, MSF’s Project Coordinator at the Epworth clinic on Harare’s outskirts. Voices from the Field - 28 Nov 2016
 
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Syria

Alarm bells ringing on mass casualty numbers in Damascus and Homs regions

Project Update - 25 Nov 2016
 
At the mental health department in Dolo. Play is an important way of getting children to overcome the trauma they have experienced and their journey to Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Refugees in border town of Dolo Ado escape drought and insecurity of Somalia

Project Update - 25 Nov 2016
 
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Syria

Perhaps we should live underground to survive

Voices from the Field - 25 Nov 2016
 
Tripling the number of children admitted while keeping the same level of care... that’s a recurrent challenge for MSF teams in Niger. The rainy season corresponds to the lean season, therefore malaria and malnutrition peak coincides. For children in particular, it is the most difficult period of the year and represents a real fight for survival. This chronicle crisis is being prepared months in advance. This year, MSF strategy has been to open an autonomous pediatric unit in Dungass, two hours ride from Magaria city. Thanks to this center, the hospital bed capacity for children in the region has been scaled up to 700 beds. The fully functioning hospital, built in a few months on a stretch of sand, successfully managed to function as a buffer during the peak. More than 200 staff, essential medical doctors and nurses, have been recruited and trained. In September 2016 only, about 2500 children were admitted in MSF supported hospitals of Magaria region.
Niger

Sharp increase in malaria cases in recent months

In Niger, after a significant decline of malaria cases over the last three years, there was an alarming resurgence of the disease this summer. Project Update - 25 Nov 2016
 
Mashiri is 42 years old and was diagnosed HIV positive in 2006. He started treatment that same year. Duduzile is 40 years old and was diagnosed with HIV in 2007. They met and fell in love after meeting at an HIV community support group at Epworth, on Harare’s outskirts, in 2015.
Zimbabwe

Surviving AIDS in Zimbabwe

Today, the number of people who are HIV positive in Zimbabwe has reduced to 15 per cent, but major gaps in treatment remain. Photo Story - 25 Nov 2016
 
12-year-old Nyanjima Mayot with her mother Adau Wek. Nyanjima is one of the first patients on MSF’s home insulin treatment programme in Agok, South Sudan. She can administer her own treatment at home under the supervision of her mother, only needing a medical check-up once a month.
South Sudan

Bringing diabetes treatment home

MSF decided to train patients and their caretakers on how to administer the insulin so that they would no longer have to come to the hospital every day. Voices from the Field - 25 Nov 2016
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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