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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.

GeoMSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Cameroon

35,000 flee fighting in Central African Republic

35,000 civilians have fled the violence in Central African Republic for Cameroon Project Update - 14 Mar 2014
 
Newborn Syrian baby Zain Al-Abideen receives care from an MSF nurse in the neonatal unit at the mother and child hospital in Irbid.
Syria

MSF response to Syrian crisis

An update on MSF response to the Syrian crisis, including aid for Syrian refugees Project Update - 12 Mar 2014
 
Children in a tent. Over 15,000 displaced people have reached Melut county, in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, after fleeing violence.
South Sudan

15,000 flee clashes in Upper Nile state

Violent clashes force 15,000 people to seek seek refuge in new camps Project Update - 11 Mar 2014
 
Somali refugee children who are living with their families in makeshift shelters on the outskirts of Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. MSF is the only provider of medical care in Dagahaley, one of the five camps in the Dadaab refugee camp complex. Each month, teams carry out over 20,000 outpatient consultations and admit approximately 600 patients to the hospital. PHOTO/TOM MARUKO
Kenya

Humanitarian aid must be prioritised in Dadaab camps, despite return of refugees to Somalia

MSF urges donors and Government of Kenya to improve protection of refugees in Dadaab camps. Press Release - 10 Mar 2014
 
Somali refugees are settling the land at the edge of Dadaab refugee camp.
Kenya

Dadaab refugees: An uncertain tomorrow

MSF issues briefing paper highlighting appalling conditions in Dagahaley camp. Report - 10 Mar 2014
 
A girl sits next to relief items her family received in an MSF distribution. Since September 2008, MSF has been distributing relief items to displaced families living in improvised camps and with resident families. From September 2008 to March 2009, 30 000 people had benefited from MSF distributions in Peshawar, Charsadda and Mardan districts. *** Local Caption *** A massive influx of displaced people fleeing fighting in Bajaur Agency (500 000 people) in August 2008 and in Swat and Buner in April 2009 (1 to 2 million people) has caused significant strain on local families and health centres all around the region. Between 80 90% of the displaced population are living with resident families and improvised settlements all around the NWFP. The rest are living in official displaced persons camps. The dispersion of the displaced population over a large area and the general insecurity in the region have been major factors limiting MSF action.
Women's health

International Women's Day 2014: Forced to Flee

Stories from MSF's patients in Pakistan, Haiti, South Sudan, Philippines, Mauritania and Kenya. Voices from the Field - 7 Mar 2014
 
Deplaces a l'eglise a Carnot.<br/>Forced displaced in the church in Carnot. *** Local Caption *** Since February 1st, date of the anti-Balakas takeover of the city, a thousand people (mostly Peuls/Fulani in transit on their way to Cameroon) are trapped in the city ,victims of attacks and violences.
Central African Republic

Escalating violence endangering civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid

Escalating violence is endangering civilians Press Release - 7 Mar 2014
 
Jackson Ashiono (33) sits in the Kibera South Health Centre in Nairobi's Kibera slum, Kenya. Jackson has been diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Jackson was born in Kibera, and continues to live there. He had to give up his job as a casual labourer when he found out he had tuberculosis. 'Unfortunately they did not know it was MDR. The TB treatment was not working and I was getting worse. That is when I was brought at the MSF clinic in a very critical condition, I could not walk, I was unable to talk and I was immediately put on MDR treatment' he says. 'This clinic saved my life. The treatment is free and if this clinic was not here, I am not sure I would be alive today and I appreciate the follow up and encouragement for treatment adherence. I am also grateful as this clinic opened its doors for my daughter to be tested for TB.'
Tuberculosis

Outcomes in Adolescents Undergoing Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 2008-2013

A report into prevalence of TB in adolescents in South Africa. Journal article - 6 Mar 2014
 
To put more people on treatment (and as such combat the HIV epidemic) MSF started bringing free HIV testing to the communities. Community Health Agents (CHAPS) like Nelisiwe walk long distances to cover the households in their assigned areas. They often work in teams because of security concerns (rape, dogs, violent reactions when patients are diagnosed as HIV+).
HIV/AIDS

Two new studies point to impact of HIV treatment on transmission in high-HIV-burden African contexts

Two new studies point to impact of HIV treatment on transmission in high-HIV-burden African countries Press Release - 6 Mar 2014
 
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MSF Speaking Out

The violence of the new Rwandan regime 1994 - 1995

The ‘Violence of the new Rwandan regime’ case study is describing the difficulties and dilemmas that Médecins Sans Frontières faced in 1994 and 1995 when confronted with the abuses and crimes of the new regime that had taken over in Rwanda in July 1994: Was it acceptable for MSF, having denounced the 'génocidaires’ control over the Rwandan refugees in Zaire and Tanzania, to encourage the return of these refugees to Rwanda, given the insecurity that potentially awaited them? Did MSF have a responsibility to alert them to what was occurring in Rwanda? Could MSF – after having issued a call for an international armed intervention to put an end to the genocide – now criticise the regime that had effectively done so, thereby risking accusations of favouring the génocidaires and supporting the revisionists? Should MSF keep silent in order to continue caring for detainees who might otherwise die in the appalling prison conditions ? Speaking out - 4 Mar 2014
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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