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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 Websites

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Our offices around the world
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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.

GeoMSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Tounfafi, a village of 6,000 people, is one of the sites within the Madaoua district where seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) has been implemented in Niger. The combination of malnutrition and malaria is fatal. Both diseases pose a threat to younger children between June and October. It is a critical period because of the so-called hunger gap in between harvests when child malnutrition increases and because during the rainy season malaria cases are more frequent. In 2013, MSF and the Ministry of Health jointly implemented seasonal malaria chemoprevention for the first time in Niger - a strategy that consists of administering a full anti-malarial treatment course during the seasonal malaria peak to children between 3 and 59 months of age. During these four months, children take three amodiaquine tablets and one sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine tablet for three days each month.
Malaria

MSF provides preventive treatment to 735,000 children in Niger, Mali and Chad

“This year, we have treated more than double the number of children we treated last year and we have reached more areas” Project Update - 14 Nov 2014
 
In South Sudan, 40,000 people are crowded into a flooded United Nations Protection of Civilians compound in Bentiu, Unity State. Living conditions are horrific but it is the only refuge they have from widespread armed violence outside. (August 2014)
A Fair Shot

Gallery: Preventing Pneumonia in Emergencies

Photo Story - 13 Nov 2014
 
Helena gets a chance to talk to her son Moses who is an Ebola confirmed patient. A MSF health promoter supports this difficult moment for the young mother as she is too overwhelmed with what to say. The health promoter advises her to say positive things such as „I am waiting here outside for you“ or „I am thinking of you non Stop“
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

First trials for Ebola treatments to start at MSF sites in December

MSF will host clinical trials in three Ebola treatment centres in West Africa. Press Release - 13 Nov 2014
 
Staff getting dressed in full PPE in the ETC (Ebola Treatment Centre) in Bikoro.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Learn about our Ebola protective equipment

Project Update - 12 Nov 2014
 
Staff getting dressed in full PPE in the ETC (Ebola Treatment Centre) in Bikoro.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola online briefing now available to the public

Journal article - 12 Nov 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Statement by MSF aid worker Dr. Craig Spencer

Hello, my name is Craig Spencer. I am a physician and aid worker for Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF. I'm proud to be among the ranks of more than 3,300 Doctors Without Borders responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

 Statement - 11 Nov 2014
 
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United States of America

Aid worker recovers from Ebola

Dr. Craig Spencer Discharged from HHC Bellevue Hospital Center Press Release - 11 Nov 2014
 
MSF started activities in Mpoko in January 2014 to respond to the medical needs of the displaced people in the camp.
Central African Republic

Violent attacks against MSF threaten the supply of humanitarian assistance

Difficulties in supplying MSF projects and the danger our teams are exposed to could force us to cut back assistance upon which hundreds of thousands depend. Press Release - 11 Nov 2014
 
The incredible story of 6 young survivors, all coming from the same village (Nyokotahun).
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Hard-won gains in Liberia must not be undermined

International response must adapt to changing epidemic pattern Press Release - 10 Nov 2014
 
An MSF nurse and two village health workers are visiting the remote village of Kuruk Pata in Alikadam Upazilla to provide malaria treatment to the population. To reach the village the MSF team had to travel 3 hours by boat. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1985 and has responded to several emergencies in the country, particularly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. During its malaria intervention in the Bandarban district, MSF has been working along with other national and international organisations such as UNDP, BRAC or GRAUS, as well as with the Ministry of Health.
Bangladesh

MSF responds to an upsurge in Malaria cases

Nearly 1,700 people receive treatment in Chittagong Hill Tracts, a remote area where the infectious disease is endemic Press Release - 7 Nov 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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