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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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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 outbreak is spreading rapidly in Monrovia, overwhelming the few medical facilities accepting Ebola patients. Much of the city’s medical system has shut down over fears of the virus among staff members and patients, leaving many people with no healthcare at all, generating an emergency within the emergency. MSF is rapidly scaling up its operations in Liberia as the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues to be chaotic and entirely inadequate. In its first week, MSF’s ebola management centre – also known as ELWA3 – in the capital Monrovia, is already at capacity with 120 patients, and a further expansion is underway. The centre has eight tents, each with 15 beds, in separate sections for suspected and confirmed Ebola patients. On site, MSF is preparing for further construction and to erect three larger tents with space for 40 beds each. The team is planning to admit patients in these tents in the coming week. (MSF caption)
Liberia

MSF distributing family protection kits

“We know these kits are not the solution to the Ebola crisis in Monrovia” Project Update - 3 Oct 2014
 
The Oaxaca Health Secretariat has initiated Chagas diagnosis and treatment activities in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Santa María Tonameca Municipality, Oaxaca State, Mexico. The 43,000 inhabitants in San Pedro Pochutla and Mazunte towns now have access to medical care for Chagas in primary healthcare facilities.
Mexico

Chagas diagnosis and treatment a reality in Oaxaca state

Residents now have access to diagnosis and treatment for Chagas. Press Release - 2 Oct 2014
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treating patients in difficult conditions

The Ebola outbreak has not yet been contained. Project Update - 2 Oct 2014
 
Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees mainly from Eritrea and Gambia land a few hours after being rescued from the sea.
Italy

Italy and the EU must not abandon refugees at sea

The European Union must continue active search and rescue operations to save lives in the Mediterranean. Press Release - 1 Oct 2014
 
MDRTB patient Heshi, 28, showing her daily dose of pills given to her by the MSF staff nurse. Churchandpur, Manipur, India, 24 October 2012. Heshi has MDRTB. When she first got sick she did not know what was wrong with her, she could not sleep because of pain in her lungs and when she coughed she also felt pain. She had been on treatment for one month when this photo was taken and is feeling much better than before. She doesn't cough any more and can sleep again. When she started the treatment she thought she was going to die, she was depressed, but now she is very positive and looks forward to finishing her treatment.
India

MSF urges PM to resist US patent pressure

"India’s production of affordable medicines is a vital life-line for MSF" Press Release - 26 Sep 2014
 
Medical coordinator Vanessa Cramond is examining a patient. On Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 June, approximately 11,000 refugees were relocated from the temporary site known as K18, to another temporary site next to Jamam refugee camp. MSF provided each family with plastic sheeting, blankets and high-energy biscuits upon arrival and set up a mobile clinic. After six centimetres of rain in just an hour and a half on the night of the 28th, parts of the transit camp were flooded. Amongst the mud, MSF staff provided consultations in its mobile clinic, including many for children with diarrhoea, malnutrition or eye infections.
South Sudan

In Bentiu camp, floodwaters recede but tension remains

Thousands of people have taken refuge in a camp near Bentiu and set up spontaneously after violence swept across the country. Voices from the Field - 26 Sep 2014
 
Operation by Belgian and Cambodian MSF-surgeon in hospital of Kompong Thom. Years of civil war and terror caused by the Khmer Rouge regime (during which many trained/educated people, like doctors, were killed) ruined Cambodia's infrastructure and health care. The country is also littered with mines.
Global

Why Humanitarian Aid Became Professional - the experience of MSF

This article describes the history of Médecins Sans Frontières’ move towards professionalisation in response to the challenges it faced in the field and explores the sometimes unintended organisational consequences that accompanied this move. Journal article - 26 Sep 2014
 
The team in Kailahun, Sierra Leone - September 2014
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - Sept 25th

Crisis Update - 26 Sep 2014
 
Dr. Joanne Liu, International President. October 2013
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

MSF President urges UN General Assembly to act NOW

High-level Meeting on Response to the Ebola Disease Outbreak Speech - 25 Sep 2014
 
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South Sudan

"The humanitarian community should be doing everything in its power to prevent this unnecessary loss of life"

Address by Jerome Oberreit, Secretary General, Médecins Sans Frontières, at the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly Speech - 25 Sep 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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