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How we work

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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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MSF teams checking in 800 kg of medical material at the Brussels airport on their way to Nepal in response to the 25th of April 2015 earthquake.
Nepal

MSF teams have arrived and are assessing needs

One 17-member team in Kathmandu has carried out an initial assessment of the damage by helicopter. Crisis Update - 27 Apr 2015
 
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Nepal

MSF sending teams and supplies to Nepal

MSF sent teams of medical and non-medical staff to Nepal to assist those affected by the earthquake. The teams left yesterday from Brussels (Belgium) and Bihar state in India, Project Update - 27 Apr 2015
 
New MSF surgical team who arrived on 8th April on board a boat from Djibouti, performing surgery at the MSF hospital in Aden.
Yemen

Population flees Haradh as latest attacks leave 11 dead and 67 wounded

At least 11 people have been killed and 67 injured since 21 April during constant airstrikes and shelling in Haradh district Press Release - 27 Apr 2015
 
Continuing clashes in Upper Nile state in South Sudan are leading to more deaths and displacements of people. Since the beginning of April, over 6,600 people have fled their homes to seek shelter at the congested UN protection of civilians (PoC) base in Malakal. The new internally displaced people are living in big tents, with dozens of families sharing the same tent and sleeping on the floor.
South Sudan

Nomads of war - perpetual displacements of South Sudanese families in Upper Nile

In Malakal, over 6,600 people have fled to shelter at UN base, while in Melut over 1,665 families have sought refuge since April. Press Release - 27 Apr 2015
 
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Nepal

MSF sending more medical and relief teams to assist victims of the Nepal earthquake

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Kathmandu Valley before noon on Saturday, April 25. Although the full extent of the damage is still unknown, initial reports say houses and buildings collapsed in Kathmandu and surrounding areas. Crisis Update - 26 Apr 2015
 
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Nepal

MSF is sending medical and non-medical teams to assist victims of the Nepal Earthquake

Sending four teams of staff and 3,000 kits of non-food items and medical kits to Nepal. Statement - 25 Apr 2015
 
De novembre 2014 à janvier 2015, l’Hôpital Général de Référence de Rutshuru, dans la province du Nord-Kivu, en RDC, a soigné des centaines d’enfants, premières victimes d’un pic de paludisme sans précédent. Il s’agit du pic de paludisme le plus important auquel le personnel congolais ait jamais eu à faire face, à la fois en termes de gravité, mais aussi de nombre des cas et de durée du pic. Une situation encore compliquée par des pathologies affectant les cas les plus graves: de nombreuses infections respiratoires et des états septiques sévères. L’appui de MSF à l’HGR de Rutshuru (287 lits d’hospitalisation), dans la province du Nord Kivu, a démarré en octobre 2005. MSF gère le « pôle chaud » : chirurgie, soins intensifs, urgences, grands brûlés et prise en charge des victimes de violences sexuelles. <br/> From November 2014 to January 2015, the General Hospital of reference (HGR) of Rutshuru in the province of North Kivu, DRC, has treated hundreds of children, the first victims of an unprecedented malaria peak. This is the most important malaria peak which the Congolese staff has ever faced, both in terms of severity, but also number of cases and duration of the peak. A situation worsened by pathologies affecting the worst case: many respiratory infections and severe sepsis. MSF is supporting the Rutshuru HGR (287 hospital beds) in the North Kivu province since October 2005. MSF runs the "hot pole": surgery, intensive care, emergency and burn support and case management for victims of sexual violence.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Malaria epidemic in “a pediatric unit crammed with beds”

From late November 2014 to early February 2015, Dr. Brice Daverton worked with MSF in the general hospital of Rutshuru in the North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dr Daverton explained how our medical teams treat children, the principal victims of an unprecedented malaria epidemic. Voices from the Field - 25 Apr 2015
 
Project coordinator of MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) in Sicily, Chiara Montaldo, stands next to the boats left at the landing port of Pozzallo in Sicily. Chiara together with the MSF team, works inside the reception center conducting health screening and triage for the migrants, asylum seekers and refugees upon their arrival since the beginning of 2014.
Mediterranean migration

Seeing families, children, and babies coming off the boats

Dr Chiara Montaldo is coordinating MSF’s efforts in Sicily to provide medical and psychological care to migrants rescued from boats in the Mediterranean Voices from the Field - 24 Apr 2015
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Treating children during the Malaria peak at Rutshuru General Hospital

Rutshuru, in east Democratic Republic of Congo, is subjected to an average of two malaria peaks a year.

World Malaria Day (on April 25th) is a good opportunity to take a closer look at this killer disease. Voices from the Field - 24 Apr 2015
 
Positive malaria tests in Kouango (CAR)
Malaria

Working to prevent children from falling ill

MSF Tropical Medicine Advisor discusses the recent strategies we have implemented to prevent malaria. Voices from the Field - 24 Apr 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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