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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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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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The plastic sheeting makeshift camp made by asylum seekers and migrants in the 'jungle' in Subotica. As temperatures reach well below zero at this time of year, they use all they can to keep warm for the short naps they do until they need to go back near the fire to warm up again. They said the tent they live into was damaged by the police a few days ago. 'They came and set fire to the plastic of the tent and tore it. It didn't burn completely, but it damaged it. They hit some of us with sticks and made a pile with our jackets, blankets and other belongings right behind the camp and burnt them 4 days ago.’ : says a 17 year old Afghan migrant.
Serbia

Asylum seekers and migrants left in cold

MSF calls on Serbian authorities and EU member states to provide aid and protection to those in need. Project Update - 19 Feb 2015
 
Street scene in Aleppo, from April 2013.
Syria

MSF calls for wounded to be evacuated from Aleppo, increased humanitarian assistance

Clashes block the only road open between Aleppo and the border with Turkey, making it almost impossible to run the ambulance services and provide medical and humanitarian assistance. Press Release - 19 Feb 2015
 
Men clear debris after a shell fell near their apartment in Voroshilovsky area, in the center of Donetsk, Ukraine.
Ukraine

“Most victims are hit when they’re walking down the street or waiting for the bus”

MSF surgeon Dr Michael Roesch describes life in Gorlovka ahead of the proposed ceasefire. Voices from the Field - 13 Feb 2015
 
A preparer fills a syringe with measles vaccine. Mass vaccination campaigns in emergency situations during outbreaks or for displaced populations, often target at large number of people. The challenge is to be able to achieve this rapidly in order to control an epidemic or the risk of epidemic.<br> More than 100 staff has been recruited to perform the 5 days mass vaccination campaign in Yida. In total around 140 people is working with the campaign. Nine vaccination sites have been set up throughout Yida with teams of 12 consisting of supervisor, vaccinators, preparers, watchmen, crowd controllers and mobilizers.
South Sudan

Fighting a measles outbreak in Yida refugee camp

Project Update - 13 Feb 2015
 
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More about measles

Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. Symptoms appear between 10 and 14 days after exposure to the virus and include a runny nose, cough, eye infection, rash and high fever. There is no specific treatment. Project Update - 13 Feb 2015
 
There are around 35,000 children between 0 and 15 years in Yida. The aim is to vaccinate 90 % of them against measles and polio, in an effort to stem the ongoing measles epidemic and protect the population from future outbreaks.
South Sudan

Measles vaccination in Yida refugee camp

Photo Story - 13 Feb 2015
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Crisis Update - 12 February 2015

Since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was officially declared on 22 March in Guinea, it has claimed more than 9,100 lives in the region. The outbreak is the largest ever, and is currently affecting three countries in West Africa: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Outbreaks in Mali, Nigeria and Senegal have been declared over. A separate outbreak in DRC has also ended. Crisis Update - 12 Feb 2015
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Fighting Ebola, Ending Stigma

Voices from the Field - 12 Feb 2015
 
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Niger

Increased violence in the south leaves thousands in an alarming humanitarian situation

"The population from Diffa started to flee and it is still not clear where they have been displaced. Hundreds of vehicles have left the city since the last attacks" Project Update - 12 Feb 2015
 
In December 2014, MSF rapid response Team intervened on a remote Ebola outbreak in Quewein, Grand Bassa County, Liberia. Rapid response teams are employed across the affected countries to quickly identify, investigate and follow new cases and contacts, as well as quickly setting up isolation units within existing health structures.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Catching up with Ebola

MSF’s outreach strategy considers every new case as a full-fledged epidemic and implements simultaneously all the various aspects of the response. Voices from the Field - 12 Feb 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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