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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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8000 Results
 
Makhmood is a taxi driver. He had brought his wife to the clinic in Hutheima who is complaining of strong headaches. "We went to Dohuk to see a specialist, he says. She had a scan and was given medication but it didn't work. It's not easy to go to Dohuk, you need a referral and permission from the police unless it's an emergency. We asked the only local doctor for a referral and were granted one. Then we went to the police and we got permission in a few hours. The journey to dohuk was smooth and we had no problems at the checkpoints".
Iraq

I left all my memories in Mosul

"People started to flee. I didn’t know what to do: I was torn between the need to get my family to a safe place and my commitment to the hospital. It was a time of great uncertainty," says Baroj, assistant coordinator of MSF’s project in Ninewa, Iraq. Voices from the Field - 10 Jun 2016
 
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Iraq

Displaced people face their third summer in harsh conditions

Project Update - 10 Jun 2016
 
The mobile team and I took an hour speedboat ride, a long hot and sweaty hike through forest and farmland and a short canoe paddle through swamp to get here.
South Sudan

Protecting children from preventable diseases

Skye Giannino is a nurse from Victoria State in Australia. In April 2016 she supervised a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) vaccination campaign in Old Fangak, North-West of South Sudan. She shares a day in the life of this challenging assignment. Voices from the Field - 9 Jun 2016
 
The operating theatre is an essential part of emergency health services for women and children in Aweil. Young Wol Wol is deceptively tall at only 5 years old. He was climbing mango trees with his friend when he fell. And because it is the end of the season mangos only remain higher up in the trees, so he had to climb higher to reach the very last fruit and then fell. The boy sustained a head injury, open elbow fracture and displaced wrist fracture (in a displaced wrist fracture the bones are misaligned and won’t heal correctly unless they are realigned). Armelle will put the child to sleep under general anaesthetic, and the MSF medical team will do the debridement (removing damaged tissue) and washing of the wound, then the Ministry of Health surgeon will do the reduction of the wrist fracture. After surgery, Wol Wol’s arm had to be put in a plaster cast. The operating theatre team undertakes surgery for an average of more than 200 children like Wol Wol per month. The team manages many dressings for burns, orthopaedic cases like fractures, and drainage of abscesses. “For maternity patients we also do emergency obstetrics surgery. We complete around 20 to 15 caesarean sections every month”, explains Armelle Vanderhaghen, anaesthetist nurse.
South Sudan

Paediatric care and treating malnutrition in Aweil

Project Update - 9 Jun 2016
 
The MSF health post in Yebi before it was completely destroyed on 19 May 2016. It served a population of about 20,000 people. In the site of Yebi, in Bosso district, thousands of people displaced from the Lake Chad area have settled looking for refuge.
Niger

Tens of thousands of newly displaced without assistance in the Diffa region

Project Update - 8 Jun 2016
 
MSF Medical Doctor Pippa Pett examines a child in the MSF IPD ward in Thonyor, South Sudan.
Child health

First ever MSF Paediatric Days

Newborns, children and adolescents constitute a major part of MSF patients worldwide. Committed to enhancing the quality of care and address current paediatric issues, MSF is now organising its first paediatric days in Stockholm 23-24 September. Project Update - 8 Jun 2016
 
MSF Medical Doctor Pippa Pett examines a child in the MSF IPD ward in Thonyor, South Sudan.
Child health

First MSF Paediatric days to be organised in Stockholm

New-borns, children and adolescents constitute a major part of MSF patients worldwide. Committed to enhancing the quality of care and address current paediatric issues, MSF is now organising its first paediatric days in Stockholm 23-24 September. Event - 8 Jun 2016
 
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HIV/AIDS

Governments at UN must address severe lack of treatment access in West and Central Africa during High-Level Meeting

Ahead of the UN High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS this week (8-10 June), the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) commended governments for deliberating a critical goal that 30 million people should be reached with life-saving HIV treatment by 2020, but also warned that governments need to speed up the scale-up of treatment for people in countries where critical medicines reach fewer than one-third of those in need. Press Release - 7 Jun 2016
 
Shad Shouqi, A three years old child injured after two rockets hit his house. A rocket caused these 3 kids from the same family to get injured by shrapnel and blasts. Two rockets destroyed their home in Taiz, Yemen, killed their mother, their father is still missing.
Yemen

122 people severely wounded in one day as fighting pounds the city of Taiz

Project Update - 6 Jun 2016
 
6-year old Nyajinma was bitten by a snake as she was sleeping. Her mother carried for an hour and a half to the nearest health centre only to discover that no treatment was available. She was referred to the MSF hospital in Agok where she immediately received two doses of antivenom.
South Sudan

Little hope of a cure for the most vulnerable

Project Update - 3 Jun 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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