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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 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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Damage of Al Thawra hospital in the besiged area in Taiz.
Yemen

Medical supplies reach hospitals in besieged Taiz

MSF has successfully delivered two truckloads of essential medical supplies to the the besieged area of the city of Taiz, in southern Yemen. “During war, people have a right to medical care. Blocking people from health care should never be used as a military tool," says Karline Kleijer, MSF’s emergency manager for Yemen. Statement - 19 Jan 2016
 
Oct. 24, 2016. Oussama Omrane, a cultural mediator for MSF, helps a Nigerian woman, who was saved off the Libyan coast by the MSF search and rescue vessel the Dignity I, to disembark. The Dignity I arrived at the port of Trapani, in Sicily, Italy, on Oct. 24, 2016, with 548 people of different nationalities on board, who had been saved off the Libyan coast.
Mediterranean migration

European policies dramatically worsened the so-called 2015 “refugee crisis”

A new report titled “Obstacle Course to Europe” details the humanitarian consequences of Europe’s actions and explains how Europe’s walls forced MSF and other humanitarian organisations to radically scale up activities at the entry points of Europe. Report - 19 Jan 2016
 
The Shiara hospital, an MSF-supported facility in Razeh district (Northern Yemen), was hit by a projectile in northern Yemen on January 10thm resulting in five deaths, eight injured and the collapse of several buildings of the medical facility. One of the critical injured victim, passed away on Sunday 17th after being transferred to the ICU at the MSF hospital in Saada. More than 130 health centres and hospitals have been affected by the conflict ravaging the country in the last ten months.
Yemen

Our patients and staff need to feel safe

Interview with Juan Prieto, general coordinator of MSF projects in Yemen Voices from the Field - 18 Jan 2016
 
Garbage collection is an issue in the camp. MSF has been developping garbage collection activities including garbage bags distribution.
France

MSF continues to assist refugees in Calais

Project Update - 18 Jan 2016
 
MSF assists the South Sudanese population displaced by the conflict in the Upper Nile State. MSF runs a hospital inside the POC (protection of civilians) UN site in Malakal, where approximately 50,000 are currently living, and a clinic in Wau Shiluk, a village on the West Bank of the Nile that has become an IDP settlement with nearly 20,000 persons. MSF assists the South Sudanese population displaced by the conflict in the Upper Nile State. MSF runs a hospital inside the POC (protection of civilians) UN site in Malakal, where approximately 50,000 are currently living, and a clinic in Wau Shiluk, a village on the West Bank of the Nile that has become an IDP settlement with nearly 20,000 persons.
South Sudan

Fighting in Malakal site leaves at least 18 dead, two of them MSF staff

MSF teams treated dozens of wounded people after last night’s violence Press Release - 18 Jan 2016
 
Close to 3.000 Mozambicans refugees have fled Tete province to Kapise village in neighboring Malawi, where they live in precarious conditions with limited access to shelter, mosquito nets, clean water and sanitation. MSF is providing assistance with mobile clinic as well as water and sanitation activities.
Malawi

Waves of Mozambicans fleeing violence seek refuge in Malawi

Interview with Bote Zamadenga, the MSF’s medical activities manager for the Corridor project in Malawi. Voices from the Field - 18 Jan 2016
 
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Syria

Five more starvation deaths in Madaya since humanitarian convoy arrival

MSF urgently calls for medical evacuations for eighteen patients whose lives are in the balance Press Release - 15 Jan 2016
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

The Ebola outbreak - a brief history

A short video looking back on MSF's response to the West Africa Ebola epidemic Project Update - 14 Jan 2016
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - 14 January 2016

Today should be a day of celebration and relief, but the world also needs to learn its lessons from this epidemic. Crisis Update - 14 Jan 2016
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

End of Ebola outbreak in West Africa: World must learn lesson for future outbreaks

As Liberia celebrates 42 days without any new Ebola infections - effectively marking the end of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa - MSF calls on the global health community to draw on lessons learned in order to be better prepared for similar outbreaks in the future. Project Update - 14 Jan 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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