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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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Mist rises out of the forest at dawn over the village of Ngomashi in Masisi territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on August 15, 2014. Ngomashi is four hours trek over mountains and through bush from the end of the nearest road, and holds the main health centre providing health care to many of the remote villages in the area.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Gallery: An ambitious vaccination campaign in war-torn Congo

Photo Story - 8 Dec 2014
 
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Palestine

"I'm talking to you, but I am dead"

Gilles Pelissier, MSF project coordinator in Gaza, took advantage of the cease fire to go south of the Gaza Strip to see what conditions the numerous families in schools and emergency accommodation centres were living in. Voices from the Field - 8 Dec 2014
 
Kailahun. Sierra Leone. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola Treatment Centre. MSF staff show the way inside the Treatment Centre to a patient most likely infected with the Ebola virus.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

FAQ - Ebola, About the Disease

Ebola is one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is a highly infectious virus that can kill up to 90 percent of the people who catch it, causing terror among infected communities. Project Update - 8 Dec 2014
 
A surgical team consisting of surgeon Mikio SHIOZAWA, anesthesiologist Ikusuke HATSUKARI and nurse Yuko SHIRAKAWA leaves Tokyo International Airport for Manila, the Philippines, on the afternoon of Saturday, 6 December, 2014. They will stand by in Manila and be prepared to move in case the typhoon causes casualties. MSF has organised two helicopters that can quickly transport the team to Palo in Leyte Province, where MSF has a field project, or to another location. Yuko says, "We are closely monitoring the situation. If the typhoon strikes the country, we will react as fast as we can to reach the population in need."
Philippines

MSF teams are preparing for typhoon Hagupit

MSF reinforces its teams and a dozen volunteers prepare to take in wounded Crisis Update - 5 Dec 2014
 
10 beds: The MSF Transit Unit at Redemption Hospital has a 10-bed capacity. Suspected patients are admitted to individual rooms at this short -stay center while waiting for the response of their blood tests. If the test comes back negative, they will be discharged. If positive, they will be transferred to an Ebola Management Center.
Liberia

MSF Ebola Transit Unit to support the safe re-opening of Redemption Hospital for regular service

As part of continuing efforts to combat Ebola in Liberia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a ten-bed Ebola Transit Unit near Redemption Hospital in the densely populated slum community of New Kru Town on the outskirts of Monrovia. Project Update - 5 Dec 2014
 
MSF staff members travel door-to-door in Dera Murad Jamali, Dera Allah Yar and Usta Muhammad, checking children for malnourishment. The identified malnourished children are then enrolled in feeding programmes at centers established in these areas
Pakistan

A guide to malnutrition in Balochistan

Portraits of patients and staff in MSF's therapeutic feeding programme Voices from the Field - 5 Dec 2014
 
A member of the hygienist team in the MSF Ebola case management centre in Bo, Sierra Leone has left the High Risk Zone. In the undressing area he is sprayed with chlorine before undressing safely with the help of his colleague.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

On the frontline against Ebola

What hygienists in an Ebola case management centre do, and why their job is so important. Project Update - 4 Dec 2014
 
MSF has worked in Kirkuk since 2010 and since July has rapidly increased its assistance to the displaced population, operating mobile clinics in six locations throughout the city, focusing on chronic disease and maternal and pediatric care. Since July, MSF teams provided 5.821 medical consultations. MSF is also distributing 25,000 blankets and more than 3,700 kits with hygiene items to displaced families in Kirkuk.
Iraq

Thousands of displaced in Kirkuk lacking essential aid

Thousands fleeing violence are in desperate need of care. Press Release - 4 Dec 2014
 
Fatimatou Oumarou and her grand-daughter at MSF ITFC in the district hospital of Batouri. She fled the Central African Republic with her brother, mother and pregnant daugher when the anti-balaka burnt down their house. They walked for months in the forest before reaching Cameroon. Her daughter died a month after giving birth in Cameroon. Fatimatou doesn't know what happened of her husband or her daughter's husband. Since May 2014, MSF provides medical care for severely malnourished children in the ITFC of the district hospital of Batouri. Currently, around 80 patients are taken care of daily. Most of them have fled the violence in the Central African Republic and walked for months towards Cameroun. Between January and October 2014 almost 130,000 Central African seek refuge in Cameroun, 97,000 of them in the East Region of the country.
Cameroon

Gallery: Central African refugees in Cameroon

Photo Story - 4 Dec 2014
 
A tent at the Police Station of Kos is used as a bedroom and health screening room at the same time, due to lack of proper facilities “Most of these people have been rescued at sea. When we examine them, they are usually very cold and have suffered considerably. From what I’ve seen, the conditions on arrival are inadequate for their needs, and major improvements need to be made” says Dimitris Jannussis, MSF Doctor.
Greece

Testimonies from Syrian refugees and MSF staff

The people who arrive in the Greek islands have gone through a lot of hardship. We have seen people suffering from hypothermia and respiratory tract infections. They have suffered a lot, both physically and psychologically. Voices from the Field - 3 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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