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How we work

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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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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8000 Results
 
People watching for afar the dismantling of shelters in Calais' Jungle.
France

More than 4,000 migrants still entrenched in Calais Jungle

Project Update - 17 Mar 2016
 
Zwara, April 19th 2016. In one of the two operating theater of the marine Hospital.
Libya

Health system in a state of hidden crisis

Project Update - 17 Mar 2016
 
Upon return to the MSF healthcare centre in Pibor, MSF teams encountered a scene of chaos and destruction. Fans were ripped from the ceiling in the patients’ wards, electronic equipment and fuel were taken and all the therapeutic food used for treating malnourished children was stolen. Anything of value that was not bolted to the floor was carried off, even hospital beds for sick women and children. 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. (Friday, Feb. 22, 2016) (C) Loic Jaeger /MSF
South Sudan

MSF resumes limited medical activities in Pibor in response to urgent medical needs

Project Update - 17 Mar 2016
 
Family of 10 members who were displaced from their homes in the enclave in Taiz and living in abandoned houses covered with plastic sheets in Al-Mulaih area in Huban districet in Taiz.
Yemen

Dramatic influx of wounded amidst fierce fighting in Taiz

Project Update - 16 Mar 2016
 
Caption: Patients being treated in the MSF-supported Abs Hospital following an attack on a marketplace on 15 March 2016 in Khamis district, northern Hajja governorate. Immediately following the attack the Abs Hospital, which is located 50km from Khamis, MSF treated 44 people, 2 of whom died.
Yemen

MSF treats more than 40 wounded following deadly airstrike on marketplace

“Yesterday´s attack is not the first, and it is unlikely to be the last. The constant and indiscriminate violence in this area is creating humanitarian needs that are increasing by the day. Now is not the time for humanitarian organisations to downsize their responses,” says Juan Prieto, MSF Country Representative in Yemen. Project Update - 16 Mar 2016
 
Nakoch Tiek Koal (23) carries her one and a half year old daughter, Nyachot Gatluok, and a basket with her six month old boy, after walking for two days to reach the UN Protection of Civilians site in Bentiu.
South Sudan

Leer population take shelter from violence in the MSF compound

MSF asks the local authorities to take immediate action to ensure protection of civilians in Leer and other conflict affected areas of South Sudan. Statement - 16 Mar 2016
 
MSF shirt with logo Since 2002, MSF has worked to provide comprehensive care to those living with HIV/AIDS in the Nchelenge district of Luapula Province in northeastern Zambia. One in four people is estimated to be infected with HIV in Nchelenge, and many have minimal access to medical care. In addition to education and prevention, decentralized voluntary counseling and testing, care and treatment of opportunistic infections, MSF began treatment with life-extending antiretroviral medications (ARVs) in February 2004.
Humanitarian challenges

Volunteers and responsibility for risk-taking: Changing interpretations of the Charter of Médecins Sans Frontières

MSF's Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH) is pleased to announce the publication of the article "Volunteers and responsibility for risk-taking: Changing interpretations of the Charter of Médecins Sans Frontières" by Caroline Abu Sa'Da and Xavier Crombé, published in the International Review of the Red Cross. Journal article - 14 Mar 2016
 
Refugees in calais' Jungle are being squeezed from the south of the camp and pushed further north. The areas left with nobody are being bulldozed.
France

Anger, loss as French police raze Jungle camp

“The French police have no humaneness. And if the police take away all the Jungle, we will make a new Jungle somewhere,” said Ahmad, from Darfur, Sudan. Project Update - 14 Mar 2016
 
Suar absconded from military service in Syria and made a run for Iraqi Kurdistan, a journey that involved people smugglers, minefields and the loss of his most precious possessions.
Syria

My story could easily be the plot of a movie

Suar, a Kurdish refugee from Syria, describes his journey that involved people smugglers, minefields and the loss of his most precious possessions. Now settled in Domeez camp, where he works for MSF as a nurse, Suar is upbeat about the opportunities afforded him by life as a refugee. Voices from the Field - 14 Mar 2016
 
For the past four years, 59-year-old Najah, from Syria, has lived with her son Ahmad in Al Minieh, northern Lebanon. Sometimes she finds it lonely being a refugee. She can’t get used to not having her seven other children nearby, her 13 grandchildren playing around her feet, and the whole family sitting down together at mealtimes.
Syria

I have a roof over my head and good people around me. It’s better than living under bombings

Voices from the Field - 14 Mar 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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