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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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Camp for displaced people in Al Mazraq, northwestern Yemen, in 2013.
Yemen

MSF treats 34 wounded after airstrike on camp for displaced people

Bombardment hit the Al Mazraq Camp in Hajjah Governorate. Wounded brought by ambulance to Haradh. Twenty-nine people were dead on arrival, and 34 were treated for their wounds. Press Release - 30 Mar 2015
 
The Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos teacher training college in Ayotzinapa, where the 43 missing students were studying, is in the Tixtla municipality, Guerrero. It is one of the poorest states in Mexico. MSF has been providing psychosocial support to the parents, families and classmates of the missing.
Mexico

Life stands still for 43 families in Ayotzinapa

Since October, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing psychological support to the families and classmates of the 43 missing students from the teacher training college in Ayotzinapa Voices from the Field - 30 Mar 2015
 
Teme Hospital in Port Harcourt Nigeria was opened by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to treat trauma patients. Over 50% of the patients treated are injured in road traffic accidents. The hospital is located in a very impoverished area of Port Harcourt and also receives a high number of victims of violence.
Nigeria

MSF prepares to treat victims of possible electoral violence

Denis Mbae, has just come back from a year’s mission with MSF in Nigeria. This Kenyan nurse’s first assignment was during a cholera outbreak in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, in early 2014. Since last July he had been working with the emergency preparedness team in Abuja, the capital of the country. Voices from the Field - 30 Mar 2015
 
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Yemen

MSF receiving large numbers of patients in Aden, as security situation in Yemen deteriorates

Scores of people have been wounded in fighting in Yemen over recent days, with many treated at the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in the southern city of Aden. Crisis Update - 26 Mar 2015
 
Besieged, bombed, attacked, displaced, the Syrian population is devastated by four years of war. Basic services - access to health care, water, electricity, food Ethnic foods are no longer available in most of the country's governorates. In IDP camps in Bab Al Hawa and Atme, living conditions are more than precarious.
Syria

Providing medical care in Anadan, a city located between three frontlines

A doctor from Anadan (Aleppo area) describes the different hospitals where he was and is working. Voices from the Field - 25 Mar 2015
 
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Syria

“We created a new medical network in the region because the health care system was destroyed”

The medical coordinator of the Hama Health Directorate describes the health system that has been set up in Hama area, in the rebel held zone and how teams are working in a medical post next to the frontline, in a partly destroyed hospital and in primary health care centres. Voices from the Field - 25 Mar 2015
 
Viktor (36) has been in jail for more than 2 years : The first time I got the treatment, I stopped because I was sick all the time, I had fever. Now I take it but I stop when the side effects are too heavy. Most of the time, after one week, I have fever and insomnia, and I start hallucinating. But I have a long sentence, so I have a lot of time to take my treatment and get better.
Tuberculosis

MSF urges EU Health Commissioner and EU Health Ministers not to skip critical regional Ministerial conference on TB next week

Urges leadership in all European countries to commit to sending high-level political representation to first-ever Eastern Partnership Ministerial Conference on Tuberculosis and Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Riga, Latvia. Press Release - 24 Mar 2015
 
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South Sudan

Innocent victims of the civil war

Caches of unexploded ordnance left behind by armed groups are still claiming innocent victims like 14 year old Kume. Voices from the Field - 24 Mar 2015
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Crisis update - 23 March 2015

Crisis Update - 24 Mar 2015
 
On arrival at the hospital, Hawsak was admitted immediately. She was suffering from severe acute malnutrition with complications. Meeting the little girl in the hospital’s stabilisation centre, four days after her admission, she still looked tired, but her eyes were slowly starting to sparkle with life. Ibrahim Mohammed, the MSF nurse at the stabilisation centre confirmed to us that Hawsak was then in a much better condition than when she was first admitted.
Ethiopia

Treating children against the ‘evil eye’ of malnutrition in the pastoralist community of Fiq

Local beliefs regarding the causes of malnutrition pose serious challenges to health organisations like MSF attempting to address the disease from a medical perspective Voices from the Field - 24 Mar 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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