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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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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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2094 Results
 
Salamata, has been living for more than two years with her husband, children and nearly 2,000 other people in the camp at the edge of the town of Barsalogho, north central region, Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso

Four things to know about the crisis in Burkina Faso

With months of violent tension in Burkina Faso culminating in military takeover on Monday 24 January, people are paying the price - here are four key things to know about the current crisis. Project Update - 28 Jan 2022
 
MSF stretcher bearers in the hospital after installing a patient inside the ambulance for referral. MSF supports a referral system between its supported hospitals in Ibb and Taiz governorate. MSF also supports a referral system in other governorates such as Aden, Abyan, Lahj, Amran, Sa’ada and Hajja.
Yemen

‘Unjustifiable’ Saudi-led coalition air strike on prison kills and injures hundreds

An air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa'ada City Remand Prison in the early hours of January 21 has killed at least 82 people and injured 266, according to the Ministry of Health, with the death toll likely to increase as researchers still comb the rubble. Press Release - 22 Jan 2022
 
View of Rhoe Internally displaced people camp at sunset. As a result of successive attacks in the region, more than 40,000 additional people have been forced to take refuge in the Rhoe site in 2 months, bringing its population to more than 65,000 displaced.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of people in precarious conditions as violence set to repeat in Ituri

As cycles of violence return to Ituri province, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes and are living in precarious and dangerous conditions in displacement camps. Project Update - 19 Jan 2022
 
Someone shows a bullet that landed on France's property in Damala, a neighbourhood parallel to the road where the fighting happened on 13 January 2021. France Beldo, 31, was wounded during this clash between rebel groups and the national forces supported by their international allies on the outskirts of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Another bullet is still lodged in her shoulder. France says: "We cannot stay in such violence all the time, with the sounds of guns. Fear is winning people over. We cannot go out, if we do, we are always fearful."
Central African Republic

A visual journey through a year of renewed violence in an old conflict

We take a visual journey through a photo essay detailing the struggles of people in CAR and how our teams support those with myriad needs through medical care. Project Update - 17 Dec 2021
 
In the ER section of a makeshift hospital in Syria that MSF has converted from a farm.
Syria

Casualties arrive en masse at MSF hospital following an airstrike in Idlib

Following an airstrike in Idlib governorate, northwest Syria, a number of people, including young children, have been severely injured. MSF medical teams are responding. Press Release - 13 Dec 2021
 
MSF teams have treated 163 patients with shrapnel, blast and other conflict-related injures at its trauma hospital in Mocha, Yemen between November 8th and November 28th as conflict heavily intensified, raising urgent concerns for the health and safety of the population as well as the capacity of the health system to cope with influxes of conflict-related injuries. Since the middle of November, MSF began to receive large influxes of war wounded patients. On November 12-13, teams received 34 wounded in two days and surgical teams worked around the clock to perform 20 surgeries in a single day. The following week, a second mass influx of 45 patients arrived to the hospital, including seven in critical condition. Of the 163 patients received by MSF since November 8th, 96 have arrived in with serious or critical condition.
Yemen

Hundreds of people with shrapnel injures treated at trauma hospital in Mocha

MSF teams have treated 163 patients with shrapnel, blast and other conflict-related injures at our Mocha trauma hospital in Yemen over a period of just 20 days.

Project Update - 6 Dec 2021
 
Humanitarian aid needs courageous people who act decisively and humanely despite adverse circumstances in the crisis areas of this world.
Iraq

Mosul: A city recovering from war

It's been four years since the battle to retake Mosul, Iraq. Although the devastating effects of the conflict are still visible, there is also hope in Mosul’s people. Voices from the Field - 19 Nov 2021
 
Makkia holding her sister Fatima’s baby in the post-operative ward of the Al-Qanawis mother and child hospital supported by MSF in Hodeidah, Yemen. Fatima was admitted to the ward after a C-section.
Yemen

Newborn babies struggle to survive in war-torn Yemen

In war-torn Yemen, while our teams are working to keep newborn babies healthy, those who cannot reach us are dying unnecessarily due to a lack of access to healthcare. Voices from the Field - 22 Oct 2021
 
Tufah, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, July 2001 Tufah is a neighbourhood of Khan Younis. At the very end of a street that leads to the Al-Mawassi checkpoint, one arrives in Tufah. The neighbourhood has been hard hit. Many houses are completely or totally destroyed due to Israeli shelling. Tents have been set up in the street by the United Nations for those who no longer have a roof over their heads, but some families leave their houses at night to find refuge elsewhere. And come back in the morning to sleep in their houses during the day. Tuffah, Khan Younis, Bande de Gaza juillet 2001 Tuffah est un quartier de Khan Younis. Tout au bout d une rue qui conduit au check point de El Mawassi, on arrive à Tuffah. Le quartier a été rudement touché. De nombreuses maisons sont détruites ou partiellement détruites en raison des tirs israéliens. Des tentes ont été installées dans la rue par les Nations unies pour ceux qui n ont plus de toit. Mais certaines familles quittent leur maison la nuit pour aller se réfugier ailleurs. Et reviennent le lendemain pour dormir chez eux dans la journée.
War and conflict

Adding salt to the wound: Counter-terrorism and healthcare

An MSF report on the experience of MSF frontline workers providing impartial healthcare in counter-terrorism environments. Report - 18 Oct 2021
 
Mosul’s old town experienced intense shelling, aerial bombing and attacks with improvised explosive devices (IED) during the conflict to retake the city from the Islamic State group in 2016/17. Much of the old city is still inaccessible due to the destruction and presence of IEDs, unexploded ordinance (UXO) and booby traps. Between 5,000 and 7,000 people have returned to their homes in Mosul’s old city, despite the danger of explosive remnants of war. They face extremely difficult conditions, often living without water and electricity and in partially damaged houses.
War and conflict

Counter terrorism “adds salt to the wound” in providing medical care in conflict

A new report paints a bleak picture of the reality of trying to provide impartial medical care to people in conflict, often undermined by counter-terrorism measures. Project Update - 18 Oct 2021
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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