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How we work

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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 Websites

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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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8007 Results
 
NFI distribution to 450 families who lost their belongings in a fire in Batangafo IDP camp
Central African Republic

MSF distributes relief item kits to fire-displaced families in Batangafo

Project Update - 25 Feb 2016
 
At Manono General Hospital, MSF has set up extra tents to increase pediatric care capabilities (fifty additional beds have been made available for intensive care and fifty for the nutritional therapeutic unit). 1424 patients have been treated in the pediatric ward between January 19 and February 8, 2016. An intensive nutritional therapeutic unit takes care of malnourished children with complications. More than a hundred children have been admitted in this unit since the beginning of operations.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Children who survived measles are now suffering from malnutrition and malaria

"In a region where supplies to treat severe acute malnutrition are constantly out of stock, leaving after the measles epidemic amounted to abandoning the malnourished children to their fate, especially those who had survived measles," says Narcisse Wega, an MSF emergency coordinator. Project Update - 24 Feb 2016
 
TB-cabinets are important for an effective walk-in treatment. Here ambulatory treatment, psychosocial counselling for patients and their families, and social packages (nutritional support, hygiene kits and transport money) are provided to help patients adhere to treatment. Ashyrkan Turdusheva (chief-nurse) storing patient data.
Project Update

Developing countries hit with high price for important new tuberculosis drug

More than two years after drug approved, only 180 people globally have received it
 Press Release - 24 Feb 2016
 
MSF has a medical team which works in day and night shifts to provide medical care to the people. To protect people from freezing winter temperatures MSF is setting up large shelters. Which will temporarily house to up to 150 people each.
Mediterranean migration

EU Migration Crisis Update - February 2016

Project Update - 24 Feb 2016
 
MSF also supports the CAR’s National Program, which is supposed to vaccinate all children following a predefined timetable. Unfortunately difficulties of access, the failures of the health system and the recent upsurge in violence have long interrupted the program.
Vaccination

High vaccine prices hamper immunisation efforts in Africa, but are missing from agenda of key vaccination conference

"If vaccine prices continue to spiral out of control, we will continue to see countries in Africa and around the world faced with difficult decisions about which deadly diseases they can and can’t afford to protect their children against," says Dr Myriam Henkens, International Medical Coordinator at MSF. "Ministers at this conference literally can’t afford to waste this opportunity to again speak out against high prices and push for change." Press Release - 24 Feb 2016
 
MSF hospital in Pibor, South Sudan, purposefully damaged to render it inoperable The damage was purposefully conducted to render the hospital inoperable. This leaves around 100,000 people, who had fled into the bush seeking safety from the conflict deprived of healthcare. The MSF hospital is the only hospital facility for Pibor county, the nearest alternative being more than 150km away. 3,000 patients have been treated over the first three months of the year in this hospital. More than 100 patients, including SPLA soldiers, received surgery for war wounds.
South Sudan

MSF compound looted, medical teams treating wounded amid fighting in Pibor

Project Update - 24 Feb 2016
 
Afghans at the fence of the crowded Greek - Macedonian (FYROM) border during a protest. The FYROM authorities have closed the border to Afghan refugees.
Greece

Thousands stranded as new arbitrary border restrictions expose refugees to violence

Thousands of men, women and children are stranded between Greece and the Balkans after the sudden imposition of new border restrictions for Afghan refugees on the Western Balkans route this week. Refugees are being provided with no information, little-to-no humanitarian assistance and are at risk of violence and abuse. Crisis Update - 23 Feb 2016
 
NAIROBI, 22 February 2016: As the rainy season approaches in Wajir in northeastern Kenya, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is warning that the substandard water and sanitation situation is creating ideal conditions for a future increase in cholera cases. While today patient numbers in the cholera treatment centre in Wajir Hospital are stable, the organization is urging for an immediate improvement in sanitation services to avoid another spike in the outbreak.
Kenya

MSF warns of future cholera spike if poor water and sanitation conditions in Wajir are not urgently addressed

MSF is warning that the substandard water and sanitation situation in Wajir, northeastern Kenya, is creating ideal conditions for a future increase in cholera cases. Project Update - 22 Feb 2016
 
The MSF-supported hospital in Ma’arat Al Numan before it was attacked and destroyed on Monday 15th Feb. At least 25 people were killed, including nine staff members. The 30-bed hospital had 54 staff, two operating theatres, an outpatient department and an emergency room. The outpatient department treated around 1500 people a month, the ER carried out an average of 1,100 consultations a month, and around 140 operations a month, mainly orthopaedic and general surgery, were carried out in the operating theatres. MSF has been supporting this hospital since September 2015 and covered all the needs of the facility including provision of medical supplies and running costs.
Syria

Our bombs are smarter than yours

"All four permanent members of the UN Security Council currently participating in the conflict must respect their own resolutions and assure that their own military. Opinion - 22 Feb 2016
 
MSF operates a 50-bed hospital in Malakal, including a 24-hour emergency room, as well as a separate emergency room inside the PoC site.
South Sudan

73 wounded treated in Malakal PoC after new fighting erupted on Thursday

MSF teams in Malakal worked through the night to deal with new patients, injured after fighting erupted in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site on Thursday that resulted in 18 people dead. Crisis Update - 19 Feb 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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