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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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JAMAM, SOUTH SUDAN - JULY 17: Sudanese refugees wait in line in the out patient department at the MSF ( Medecins Sans Frontieres ) field hospital July 17, 2012 in Jamam refugee camp, South Sudan.
South Sudan

We did not want to leave but we could not stay

Sudanese refugees have begun crossing the border into South Sudan again Voices from the Field - 7 Jan 2013
 
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Somalia

Operating at our own risk in Somalia

A year after one of the “worst famines”1 Somalia has ever known, the attention of the international community has turned elsewhere. While the food and nutrition situation is slowly improving, it remains fragile: according to the United Nations' Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit, one in five children are acutely malnourished, and more than two million people are still facing acute food insecurity. Project Update - 2 Jan 2013
 
Assessment of the municipal health unit in Baganga, Davao Oriental. MSF is currently running four mobile clinics in eight districts in Cateel and Baganaga municipalities on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines following the destructive Typhoon Bopha earlier in December.
Philippines

MSF team runs mobile clinics following typhoon

After Typhoon Bopha devastated coastal parts of Mindanao island in the Philippines earlier this month, MSF has dispatched two teams to run mobile clinics to provide basic healthcare, monitor for outbreaks of disease and support recovery efforts. Project Update - 31 Dec 2012
 
MDR-TB section in Blue House Clinic, Mathare, Nairobi.<br/> Patients receiving treatment in Blue House, a clinic on the edge of Mathare, one of the Kenyan capital Nairobi's more violent slums, where MSF treats people with TB and HIV. Drugs used to treat TB are from the 1950s and a course of treatment for uncomplicated TB takes six months. Poor treatment management and adherence has led to new strains of bacilli that are resistant to one or more anti-TB drug. Multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is a serious form of this, identified when patients are resistant to the two most powerful first-line antibiotics.<br/> Treating DR-TB is complicated from a programmatic perspective: treatment is individualised, tailored according to which drugs a patient is resistant to. It is long and taxing, requiring people to take a course of antibiotics for up to two years and endure often intolerable side effects.
Tuberculosis

Bedaquiline: First new tuberculosis drug in 50 years

MSF welcomed the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of bedaquiline, the first new drug active against tuberculosis (TB) to be registered since 1963. The drug is active against drug-resistant forms of the disease, making it a potential game-changer for TB treatment. Press Release - 31 Dec 2012
 
Recently arrived Somali refugees wait at the official reception center in Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya.
Kenya

Dadaab: A new influx of refugees will worsen already dire situation

MSF is deeply concerned about the medical consequences following recent public statements from Kenyan authorities exhorting thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya to leave urban areas and go to remote and already saturated camps. Any potential influx of new arrivals will put further pressure on the existing precarious situation. Statement - 28 Dec 2012
 
The male attendants’ waiting area in Machar Colony clinic, Karachi
Pakistan

MSF opens new clinic in Karachi

A new clinic providing essential basic medical care as well as emergency and obstetric services has been opened in Machar Colony by MSF together with Sina Health, Education and Welfare Trust (SINA). The clinic first opened its doors in mid-October 2012, and in its first month more than 100 consultations took place daily. Press Release - 27 Dec 2012
 
MSF organizes mobile clinic for the displaced populations in the town of Ndélé, following the attack of the towns on December the 10th. As of today 4 of these mobile clinics were organized, and MSF received more than 300 patients in consultation.
Central African Republic

MSF extends medical activities amid increasing violence

Fighting and violence continued over the past week in several areas in the north and centre of Central African Republic (CAR). Increased military movements and hostilities between rebels and the army have forced civilian population to leave their homes, preventing them from accessing the basic services they need, in particular medical aid. Project Update - 24 Dec 2012
 
MSF opened in May 2012 a primary health care centre (PHCC) in the Domeez Syrian refugee camp. MSF is the main health actor in the camp and provides medical consultations, mental health care and training for the health staff in the camp.
Syria

Response to increasing suffering inadequate

The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to worsen as the war escalates and attacks against health facilities continue. Project Update - 21 Dec 2012
 
Since July 2007, MSF has been running a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Vaishali district, in the centre of the Indian state of Bihar. In the four years, about 8,000 patients have been treated at the Sadar Hospital, and in five MSF-supported health centres. The initial cure rate of kala azar cases is at 98 per cent. Kala azar is a disease endemic to Bihar. Transmitted by the sand fly, the disease mainly affects the spleen and, if left untreated, is fatal for virtually all patients.
Access to medicines

Medicines shouldn't be a luxury

MSF Access Campaign and its current activities. Project Update - 19 Dec 2012
 
Heavily pregnant women relax In the dormitory at the Village des Mamans in Masisi. The free antenatal care set up for pregnant women with potential complications, became so popular that MSF constructed bunk beds to accommodate the influx of women. At first, the women were nervous about sleeping on bunks which provided a talking point in the Village. This photo was taken as part of the www.msfdelivers.org fundraising campaign.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ethnic violence in Masisi limits access to treatment

While people living in Goma and sheltering in nearby camps continue to live in fear of new clashes between an armed group called theM23 and loyalist forces, MSF is witnessing increased violence in Masisi some 80km to the north-west. In this isolated area of North Kivu, the medical emergency organisation is providing support to the region’s primary hospital. Voices from the Field - 19 Dec 2012
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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