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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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Refugees look through a fence during a rain storm as they wait to be registred at the Moria Reception Centre on Lesbos island.
Greece

As a doctor, I feel outraged

"I’m afraid that European citizens do not know what kind of outrageous deal their states have signed in their behalf. If they knew, they would feel ashamed, sick, angry and betrayed, just like I do," says Federica Zamatto, MSF Medical Coordinator for Migration Programmes. Voices from the Field - 15 Apr 2016
 
A mother and her child in the Cholera treatment Unit (CTU) of Bweru. The baby is receiving treatment.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF to resume medical humanitarian assistance in the Mweso health zone after 4 months absence

MSF is set to resume medical humanitarian activities in Mweso, four months after armed men attacked a convoy and abducted two of our staff members, forcing us to close our projects in the area. Press Release - 15 Apr 2016
 
Nora Abdullah, 28 year-old from Gaza: ‘’I was preparing breakfast in the kitchen, and all of a sudden, a shell came through the window and exploded. My husband passed away immediately, and I got severely injured in my lower jaw. Luckily, none of my three daughters was hurt . The Gaza war taught us that the price of preparing a breakfast meal can prove to be very costly; we are surrounded by danger every single second.’’ Said Nora.
Jordan

Patients testimonies from the reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman

Project Update - 14 Apr 2016
 
Khadija, 42, is a mother of four from Syria who is now detained on Samos island, Greece, along with her children. She spoke to MSF from behind two metal fences. “What is going to happen next? Will they kill us here in Europe? My husband was killed and our house was destroyed by a barrel bomb in 2013. Since then we have been moving from village to village looking for safety, until I lost hope and I brought my children to Turkey. I worked many jobs but it was so hard for me to manage with four children so I decided to come here to be safe. Yet here we are behind barbed wire like criminals, this is extremely unjust. For more details see: https://lc.cx/4BCC
Greece

Will they kill us here in Europe?

Voices from the Field - 13 Apr 2016
 
People waiting to take the bus, moving to La Linière, the new camp in Grande Synthe provinding decent living conditions to the refugees.
France

Update on relocation of migrant camp in Dunkirk

Transfer of migrants from the decrepit Basroch "camp of shame" to a new MSF constructed facility took place between 7 and 9 March. Project Update - 13 Apr 2016
 
Idomeni, border between Greece and Macedonia domeni, frontière entre la grèce et la macédoine. 1 200 refugees arestuck since the closing of the border, waiting for an agreement between Europe and Turkey (which happened on March 18th 2016)
Greece

MSF treats hundreds after Greek-FYROM border violence

Events are latest consequences of absurd humanitarian crisis created by Europe Project Update - 10 Apr 2016
 
Cholera Vaccination at St Joseph Churh, one of the 15 sites of vaccination in Kanyama districts.
Zambia

Largest ever oral cholera vaccination campaign underway in Lusaka

“Lusaka has experienced regular cholera epidemics in the past, but this is the first outbreak since 2010,” says Caroline Voûte, MSF emergency coordinator. “With such a long period between outbreaks, the population has little to no acquired immunity to the disease, leaving a ‘blank slate’ for cholera transmission in these densely populated, flood-prone areas.” Press Release - 9 Apr 2016
 
In January and February MSF teams were able to send 50 trucks with approximately 550 tons of drugs, medical material, shelters and non-food items to supported medical facilities and displacement camps in Aleppo citiy and its northern coutryside.
Syria

Despite cease fire catalogue of horror continues in besieged areas

Although the cease-fire and the humanitarian convoys have contributed to a decrease in humanitarian consequences of the conflict, the situation remains critical in many besieged areas. “The catalogue of horror continues virtually unabated in many besieged areas,” says Dr Bart Janssens, MSF Director of Operations. Project Update - 7 Apr 2016
 
Bullet casings were found throughout the MSF medical centre, which was extensively looting during and after fighting in Pibor, South Sudan from Feb 23-25, 2016. Life-saving medicines, medical equipement and essential records were strewn everywhere while cabinets and shelves were tossed and emptied in a whirlwind of theft and disrespect for medical care.
South Sudan

MSF issues open letter on nationwide lack of essential medicines

“The conflict in South Sudan has now continued for over two years, heavily impacting its population,” Dr. Liu wrote, calling the worsening drug shortages “an additional and preventable medical emergency.” Statement - 7 Apr 2016
 
At the crossing of MSF vaccination team, some fishermen come close to the boat and vaccination takes place directly on the water.
Malawi

A cholera response among fishing communities on and around Lake Chilwa

Each year there are between three million and five million cases of cholera worldwide, causing between 100,000 to 120,000 deaths. In 2014, MSF treated around 21,000 cases of cholera in its projects worldwide. The first case of cholera was registered in Malawi in 1973. Outbreaks have occurred almost every year since with the highest number of cases and deaths reported in 2001–2002. Photo Story - 4 Apr 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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