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How we work

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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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Nigeria

“There are only two doctors in the whole of north Borno State”

Our programme manager in Nigeria tells us what MSF has achieved in the country and the organisation’s plans for 2015. Voices from the Field - 13 Jan 2015
 
Opening of the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kissy, Freetown.
Sierra Leone

MSF opens Ebola treatment centre and maternity in an Ebola hotspot

New centre to provide quality Ebola and obstetric care. Project Update - 8 Jan 2015
 
Aminata Sankoh greets her youngest child when she returns as a survivor from MSF's Ebola Treatment Center in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone

Aminata Sankoh, from critical condition to caretaker

“She advocated for everyone in the wards; she saved children’s lives,” Voices from the Field - 8 Jan 2015
 
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Liberia

Oxford University begins trial of possible Ebola treatment at MSF Treatment Centre in Liberia

A clinical trial of a possible treatment for Ebola began on the 1st of January at ELWA 3, MSF’s Ebola Management Centre in Monrovia. Press Release - 7 Jan 2015
 
MSF IEC teams travel to villages in Yambio to conduct health education.
South Sudan

Improving maternal outcomes with community outreach

In Yambio, most women are afraid of delivering in a hospital. MSF's Information, Education and Communication (IEC) teams are trying to change that. Voices from the Field - 7 Jan 2015
 
Nawaf, a 45-year-old patient:“I was blown up by a landmine while herding sheep and I lost both my legs. Two weeks later, my brother was also wounded in the same way. After four months of treatment, I tried on my prosthetics two days ago, I feel so happy. It’s a feeling that you can’t explain. I didn’t know that it would be possible. I can’t wait to go back to Syria to show my family that I can walk again.”
Syria

From bad to worse

"Syria remains the most serious humanitarian crisis in the world" - Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, Head of Mission of the MSF team in Aleppo in 2014
Op-Ed - 7 Jan 2015
 
An Ebola survivor returns home. In the bag is a mosquito net, multivitamins, a bottle of water, condoms, sheets, soap, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a towel, a blanket, biscuits and ready-to-use therapeutic food to help build up their strength.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Survivors receive mixed homecoming welcome

Moses’ family has been hard hit by Ebola. Four of his family were infected with the virus. His father and brother died, but Moses and his sister both survived. Moses was recently discharged from MSF’s Ebola management centre in Bo, Sierra Leone and made the journey back to his home village, accompanied by MSF health promoter Esmee de Jong Project Update - 31 Dec 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Clinical trial for potential Ebola treatment started in MSF clinic in Guinea

The trial is taking place at MSF’s Ebola Treatment Centre in Guéckédou. Project Update - 26 Dec 2014
 
Access to health is extremely hard for a significant part of population in DRC. Health actors like MSF have to cope with various hurdles to bring assistance to mothers and their newborns.
Democratic Republic of Congo

One fewer mother every 25 minutes

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 21,000 women died last year due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Literally, one thousand times more than in Spain. Project Update - 23 Dec 2014
 
Dr Yuri Orlov, a local Ukrainian doctor working at a health centre in Donetsk called Ambulatory #6. In response to the difficulties people now face in accessing basic healthcare, the MSF team is expanding its medical support to health centres in conflict-affected areas of Donetsk. One of the first of these outreach clinics is called ‘Ambulatory #6’ in Novostroika, a small coal mining village on the outskirts of Sharkhtiorsk in a rebel-held part of Donetsk. It is the first-line health service for some 7000 people living in five nearby villages, providing primary healthcare and referring people to hospital when needed. This small health centre has not received any medicines from the state system since August, and salaries for medical personnel have not been paid since the summer. With medical supply lines in the east of the country severely disrupted or cut entirely, and 2014 budgets exhausted months ago, many state institutions like ‘Ambulatory #6’ rely on volunteer support from local organisations for food, and from MSF for medical supplies and support to the health staff.
Ukraine

MSF outreach clinic a vital lifeline for eastern rural areas

After months of protracted fighting in eastern Ukraine, the conflict is having a devastating impact on people living on both sides of the frontline. Voices from the Field - 23 Dec 2014
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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