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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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Yemen

“We can’t just stop our lives because of the war”

Interview with Céline Langlois, Medical Coordinator in Yemen. Céline explains how Yemenis cope with their daily struggle in this indiscriminate war. During five months in Yemen, Celine was astonished by people’s ability to get on with their lives amidst airstrikes and a desperate fuel and water crisis. Voices from the Field - 22 Dec 2015
 
A cholera epidemic that has been spreading in Kenya for over a year hit Dadaab refugee camp complex in November 2015. As at 16 December, around 541 people in Dadaab had reportedly been affected, the majority of whom are living in Dagahaley camp. MSF has expanded its regular hospital activities in Dagahaley and has constructed a cholera treatment centre to deal with the influx of patients. In the space of three weeks, MSF admitted 307 patients to its treatment centre.
Kenya

Cholera outbreak spreads to Dadaab refugee camp

A cholera epidemic that has been spreading in Kenya for over a year has now hit the Dadaab Refugee Camp complex, on the border with Somalia. So far around 541 people have reportedly been affected, the majority of whom are living in Dagahaley Camp. Project Update - 17 Dec 2015
 
On board of the Dignity 1
Mediterranean migration

Interiew with Madeleine Habib - Captain of Dignity

Madeleine Habib ran away to sea in her early twenties and found a perfect blend of physical work and mental challenges. She worked from boat to boat, following her love of the sea and passion for environmental and social activism. Her journey eventually brought her to MSF where she has worked on both land- and sea-based operations. Project Update - 16 Dec 2015
 
Alesi Phiri, 7yo, walks on a former field as she looks to the thick coat of dried mud. 85% of the population in the area relies on agriculture for economic survival. Consequences of the floods will likely be felt for months as all crops have been destroyed.
Global

A year in pictures 2015

Top stories and photography from the MSF Picture desk in 2015 Photo Story - 16 Dec 2015
 
In Grande Synthe, near DunKirk, France, 2000 refugees, mainly Kurds, live in inhuman conditions.
Mediterranean migration

“There are plenty of families with young children amongst the refugees camped out in the mud of Grande-Synthe Camp”

MSF logistician Nicolas Robichez is in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, where more than 2,000 mostly Kurdish refugees are camped out in conditions he describes as "inhumane". Voices from the Field - 15 Dec 2015
 
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Syria

“Life in Raqqa was terrifying. During the day we lived with the government’s airstrikes; at night there were coalition airstrikes”

“I was a paediatric doctor in Syria, married with two children. We lived in Raqqa, now known as the stronghold of ISIS. I ran a private clinic in a poor area of the city, as well as providing free healthcare to displaced people who had fled there from Homs and Aleppo.” Voices from the Field - 15 Dec 2015
 
The remains of a bed frame in a room on eastern wing of the main Outpatient Department building.
Afghanistan

Updated death toll – 42 people killed in the US airstrikes on Kunduz hospital

The total number of dead is known to be at least 42, including 24 patients, 14 staff and 4 caretakers. Statement - 12 Dec 2015
 
Kunduz 1 Month After Commemoration - Barcelona (SPAIN)
Kunduz hospital attack

MSF delivers petition calling for investigation into hospital attack

More than 500,000 people worldwide call on White House to consent to independent investigation of U.S. military attack on MSF hospital in Afghanistan Press Release - 9 Dec 2015
 
Dr. Alfonso Apolinar is the medical team leader for MSF in Nduta camp in Tanzania. With the nearby Nyarugusu camp stretched to capacity hosting around 90,000 Burundian refugees, Nduta camp was opened in October 2015 to accept new arrivals from Burundi as well as relocated refugees from Nyarugusu. Today, Nduta camp hosts around 27,000 refugees. MSF is the only medical organisation working in the camp. Teams are carrying out mobile clinics, and constructing a hospital with outpatient, emergency and intensive care services.
Tanzania

“People cope with these tough living conditions because often they haven’t known anything else.”

Dr Alfonso Apollinar is part of MSF’s emergency team responding to the refugee crisis in Tanzania, where more than 118,000 Burundians have fled to camps across the border. He describes the conditions in the increasingly overburdened camps Voices from the Field - 9 Dec 2015
 
Midwife Judith Coissy holds a newborn of Cherline Pierre, 24, at MSF’s Centre de Référence en Urgence Obstétricale (CRUO) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 16, 2015. She came in the hospital with 8 centimeters dilation and was admitted due to her high blood pressure.
Haiti

An unprecedented birth peak

Unprecedented numbers of pregnant women are seeking medical care at the Centre de Référence en Urgence Obstétricales (CRUO), a hospital in Port-au-Prince run by MSF focusing on complicated obstetrics, following funding cuts by international donors and limited Haitian government spending on healthcare. Photo Story - 8 Dec 2015
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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