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How we work

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How we're run

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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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Doctor from MSF medical team examines a child with diarrhoea at MSF clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Pauk Taw township, February 3, 2013. On that day, more than 80 diarrhoea cases were treated by MSF medical team. photo by Kaung Htet

Humanitarian emergency in Rakhine state

Project Update - 7 Feb 2013
 
Road to Guija - The floods in Mozambique forced 150,000 people to leave their homes behind.
Mozambique

Emergency response to flooding

Project Update - 7 Feb 2013
 
A Syrian refugee carries his two-year-old daughter in the rain-soaked Taybeh makeshift refugee camp outside Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, January 18, 2013. Unhygienic conditions in the camp are leading to various communicable illnesses, especially among children. The camp is home to approximately 300 people who fled conflict in Syria.
Lebanon

Aid lags as Syrian refugee numbers increase

Syrians who have fled violent conflict at home in search of safety in Lebanon do not receive anywhere near adequate levels of humanitarian assistance and are living in extremely precarious conditions, a detailed survey released today by MSF reveals. More than half of interviewees cannot afford treatment for chronic diseases and nearly one-third have been forced to suspend treatment. Press Release - 7 Feb 2013
 
Medical Referent for MSF in Hangu, Dr. Emmanuel Berbain, examining a nineteen year old blast victim. *** Local Caption *** Hangu district belongs to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and borders the tribal areas where high levels of violence and insecurity regularly lead to massive displacements of populations: sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni communities, clashes between armed opposition groups and security forces, presence of Taleban and other groups linked to Al Qaeda. In May 2010, MSF has opened a program in Hangu district hospital to provide emergency medical and surgical care 24/7. Since 2011, MSF team also supports the hospital maternity to assist Ministry of Health staff for complicated deliveries.
Pakistan

MSF treats 55 wounded after blast in Hangu

A bomb exploded outside two mosques in the Pat Bazaar area of Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Friday afternoon, killing several people and wounding dozens more. MSF and Ministry of Health staff treated 55 injured at Tehsil Headquarter hospital in Hangu. Press Release - 7 Feb 2013
 
Patients waiting at the triage area for treatment at MSF clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Pauk Taw township, February 3, 2013. photo by Kaung Htet

Months after violence, health needs are still urgent

Eight months since deadly communal clashes first broke out in Rakhine state, Myanmar, tens of thousands of people are still unable to access urgently needed medical care. Project Update - 7 Feb 2013
 
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South Sudan

Hepatitis E outbreak escalating in refugee camps

Project Update - 6 Feb 2013
 
MSF teams donated non-food items such as buckets, hygiene article and blankets to farm workers, who’ s mud huts had been destroyed by the recent floods. Kayemayema, Musina, South Africa.
South Africa

flooding displaces thousands, Mozambique worst affected

Thousands of people in Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe have been displaced, as heavy rains in the eastern part of Southern Africa have led to flooding in the area of the Limpopo river. The situation seems most critical in Mozambique, where large areas of Gaza province remain inundated. Project Update - 4 Feb 2013
 
Katrin Kisswani, MSF OCB emergency field coordinator. Speaks Swedish, English and Arabic.
Syria

'The impact of the attacks is devastating'

'We’ve been working mainly in the Jabal Al-Akkrad region, which is fairly mountainous and close to the border with Turkey. While some of these areas haven’t suffered the same frequency and intensity of fighting as areas further inland, the situation remains extremely volatile and dangerous.' Interview with Katrin Kisswani, who headed MSF activities in northern Syria for two months. Voices from the Field - 4 Feb 2013
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

65,000 children vaccinated against measles despite access difficulties

Despite insecurity and violence, MSF teams have successfully carried out a measles vaccination campaign in the region of Bunyakiri, South Kivu. Within one month, the teams vaccinated 65,000 children aged between 6 months and 15 years. Project Update - 3 Feb 2013
 
MSF has been providing surgical care to victims of violence, in a hospital set up in the north of Syria, since June 2012.
Syria

MSF criticises aid imbalances

International aid provided to Syria is not being distributed equally between government and opposition controlled areas. The areas under government control receive nearly all international aid, while opposition-held zones receive only a tiny share. Donors must support cross-border humanitarian operations to reach opposition-held areas, says MSF ahead of the Donors’ Conference for Syria. Press Release - 29 Jan 2013
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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