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How we work

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How we're run

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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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India

Access Campaign: MSF launches global campaign urging India to protect access to affordable medicines

Global campaign urging Indian PM to stand strong in the face of pressure to change India’s laws and policies in ways that would severely restrict the country’s ability to produce affordable medicines, Campaign - 11 Jun 2015
 
Majid, 11 years old, has been admitted to Lazaret center 6 days earlier. He lives in Dan Zama neighborhood in Niamey. His mother think that he was infected at school where two other students suffered from meningitis. He is already feeling well and can return home with his family now.
Niger

Meningitis epidemic on the decline

The number of patients with meningitis decreased by nearly 98 per cent, dropping from 279 admissions a day in early May 2015 to 4 admissions a day in early June 2015. Crisis Update - 10 Jun 2015
 
Measles is almost endemic in Katanga. A significant increase in the number of cases was recorded in early March 2015, mainly in the Malemba Nkulu health zone.
Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: Measles in Katanga - "We’re facing a genuine epidemic emergency."

Interview with Dr Louis Albert Massing about the worst measles epidemic in Katanga since 2011. Voices from the Field - 10 Jun 2015
 
Mohammad Akhtar 40 years old with his daughter Rubbina 10. From Mamozai - took them 6 hours to get to the hospital by foot. His wife has a kidney problem. 7 children. Rubbina has Leishmaniasis - skin condition.
Pakistan

Gallery: Behind the Headlines

A photography exhibition exploring the lives and stories of the residents of Kurram Agency, Pakistan, by photographer Sa'adia Khan and journalist Shaista Aziz Photo Story - 10 Jun 2015
 
MSF staff collect a suspected Ebola patient from an ambulance that broke down just before reaching MSF Ebola management centre in Kailahun. The ambulance has come from the Kissi Tang Chiefdom, a three hour drive from Kailahun. December 2014.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola healthcare workers: a hazardous and isolating job

This paper discuss the high risks healthcare workers faced in combating Ebola. Journal article - 10 Jun 2015
 
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Niger

“They need somewhere to settle in peace to regain their dignity”

Interview with Aissami Abdou, MSF field coordinator in Diffa, Niger Voices from the Field - 9 Jun 2015
 
Maternity ward.
Côte d'Ivoire

Strengthening maternity care in Katiola

"Around half of babies continue to be born at home in this region of Côte d’Ivoire and, when there are complications, the distance to health facilities poses a real problem for the health of both mother and baby." Voices from the Field - 9 Jun 2015
 
An old man has come to MSF mobile clinic in Shurawa Hama Gerib, a Kurdish village a few miles from Tuz Kurmatu now hosting 170 IDP families, because of high blood pressure: “You might not believe it, says his son who has come with him, but this man has a soft spot for women you know. Back at home in Dakuk he fell in love with a neighbour, a widow just as old as him. She is also displaced now living in in Tuz, and he calls her up every day and spends ages chatting to her on the phone. He misses her so much, not one day passes without him calling his beloved Kadjja ”..
Iraq

Increasing numbers of Iraqis in need of humanitarian assistance

“Iraq is experiencing its worst humanitarian crisis of recent decades. Thousands of people, particularly in central Iraq, are not receiving the humanitarian assistance they urgently need.” Voices from the Field - 8 Jun 2015
 
On 04 June, a missile strike hit a town centre in Idlib Governorate, northern Syria, and between 3pm and 7pm 130 wounded patients arrived at the small 12-bed facility. 80 were treated in the hospital, and 50 were referred to another medical facility as the nearest hospital became overwhelmed. See the PR and the testimony for more info."
Syria

“Bodies were everywhere - on the tables, in the hallways, on the floor.”

An MSF-supported hospital director describes horror of a mass-casualty influx in northwestern Syria Voices from the Field - 5 Jun 2015
 
Pina, a psychologist with MSF, during a group therapy session at the Gerico CAS (Centro di seconda accoglienza – secondary reception centre). MSF provides psychological support in Sicily to help monitor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, as often the difficulties of the journey to Europe can lead to various psychological issues.
Italy

MSF provides psychological first aid to survivors of fatal sea crossing

On Sunday 31 May, MSF provided emergency psychological support to 18 out of 454 migrants who had been rescued at sea. Early Monday morning, the MSF Bourbon Argos rescued 325 more people from three different boats. Project Update - 3 Jun 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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