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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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This 20-year-old girl arrived at MSF’s hospital for obstetrical emergencies—Centre de Reference en Urgences Obstetricales (CRUO)—in Port-au-Prince, suffering from a perforated uterus, excessive bleeding, and loss of fluids after an abortion performed by a non-licensed doctor, known locally as a "charlatan."
Women's health

Safe abortion: An integral part of healthcare services for women

Since 2004, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided voluntary safe abortions for women across our field operations. Catrin Schulte-Hillen, MSF advisor on reproductive health, explains the implications and difficulties of this decision. Interview - 11 Nov 2016
 
Bintou Kadiri, 8 years. It weighs 12.8 kg. His father is a farmer. His family lived in Kattere but she fled to Gajigana four months ago. Since one year, Boko Haram men came regularly to their villages to loot, but they never attacked the village. Therefore, people didn’t leave and the army is not present in the village. Boko Haram took their cows and 20 goats, together with food and money. In Gajigana, they live with relatives. Bintou is suffering from severe acute malnutrition (marasmus) and acute gastroenteritis, hypoglycemia and dehydration. He was hospitalized for two days to nutritional treatment center of Gwange in Maiduguri. The family left him with what remained of food, they had grown. But these reserves are coming to an end.
Nigeria

I kept telling the team “it’s all about food”

Voices from the Field - 11 Nov 2016
 
Tanneh, and Agnes, members of the MSF Psychosocial Team, take packages of biscuits and juice from family members to patients in the Ebola Case Management Center run by MSF in Monrovia. Their role is to counsel and encourage patients, to give them a reason to live and have hope. Both are local Liberians who are passionate about helping their 'brothers' and 'sisters'.
Palliative care

Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises

MSF's Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH) is pleased to announce the publication of the article “Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises” by James Smith and Tammam Aloudat on the blog of the Humanitarian Health Ethics research group. Journal article - 11 Nov 2016
 
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Yemen

Record number of babies born on hospital’s one-year anniversary

On 7 November, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) marked the one-year anniversary of its mother and child hospital in Taiz, assisting in the deliveries of 24 babies in a single day. Project Update - 10 Nov 2016
 
In New York, on Word Pneumonia Day 2015 (Nov 12), MSF volunteers attempted to deliver more than $17 million of fake cash - the equivalent of one day of profits from the pneumonia vaccines for Pfizer globally - to Pfizer's CEO Ian Read. The same day, MSF launched a global petition to ask Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce the price of the pneumococcal vaccine to $5 dollars per child (for all three doses) in developing countries. Credit: Edwin Torres.
A Fair Shot

World Pneumonia Day Call-A-Thon today!

12 November is World Pneumonia Day - Join our call-a-thon today! Campaign - 9 Nov 2016
 
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Greece

Providing mental healthcare to stranded asylum seekers

Interview with Melanie Kerloc’h, an MSF clinical psychologist working in Greece. Voices from the Field - 9 Nov 2016
 
Dr Ilaria Moneta examines a child in the pediatric ward of the MSF-supported Bangassou hospital.
Access to Healthcare

The reality of pneumonia

Voices from the Field - 9 Nov 2016
 
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Syria

It has taken four years and 20 surgical operations to repair the damage

East Aleppo's besieged residents have been told to leave their homes or face annihilation. As they brace themselves for what comes next, Amal Abdullah recalls the day four years ago when she was told to leave the east Aleppo neighbourhood where she grew up. Voices from the Field - 8 Nov 2016
 
When the team goes on a rescue, the first step is to distribute life jackets. On 3 October, MSF carried out a rescue in collaboration with an Irish warship. When we eventually got there, we realised that some people had been in the water for quite some time. Some of them had already inhaled fuel and drunk a lot of sea water. A 34-year-old pregnant woman from Nigeria died after we failed to reanimate her. In the midst of the busy rescue operation, there were six bodies in the water that couldn’t be recovered. These people died anonymously. A mother lost her two children. She had tried to secure them, but the boat cracked and broke and she found herself in the water, unable to hold onto them anymore.
Mediterranean migration

October - A merciless month on the Mediterranean

More than 4,200 people have died or gone missing so far in 2016 in the Mediterranean Sea. The year is not yet over, but it has now become the deadliest on record for migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean, trying to reach Europe. Here are some images taken in October aboard the MSF search and rescue boat Dignity I. Photo Story - 4 Nov 2016
 
In Tajikistan, in an attempt to breakup the everyday routine for children undergoing TB treatment, MSF’s psychosocial team organises celebration parties as part of MSF’s pediatric therapeutic play programme. hospitalized for TB treatment, as they face prolonged hospitalization and lengthy treatment regimens. The celebration parties offer a break and an opportunity for emotional support.
Tajikistan

Stories from MSF's paediatric TB projects

Delamanid is one of the first new TB medicines in over 50 years, and recently the project team in Dushanbe, Tajikistan's capital, started treating a young TB patient with it. It follows several months of preparations and negotiations with the Ministry of Health and its counterparts. Project Update - 4 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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