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How we work

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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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Access to medicines

New MSF report shows up to 500% price rise for less-toxic, WHO recommended, first-line regimen

MSF's experience trying to obtain newer AIDS medicines over the past two years has shown that significant delays persist between when newer treatments become available in wealthy countries, and when they become available in the developing world. Press Release - 23 Jul 2007
 
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Pakistan

MSF provides vital assistance to areas in Pakistan devastated by floods

"As people are drinking unsafe water, we are now treating people with acute watery diarrhoea who have cholera-like symptoms. In areas where displaced people are taking shelter in tents with inadequate sanitation, temperatures reaching 50 degrees and little available water, the situation is quite serious," said Tony Marchand, MSF Emergency Co-ordinator in Turbat. Project Update - 23 Jul 2007
 
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Cambodia

Cases of dengue decrease in Takeo hospital but efforts to control outbreak must continue

The shortage of blood for transfusions, needed in case of complications, is also a concern. Project Update - 17 Jul 2007
 
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Italy

Lampedusa shipwrecks - and the number of victims continues to increase

Each summer, Italy receives thousands of migrants arriving in boats from Africa. Lampedusa, a small island south of Sicily, is a landing spot for more than 18,000 immigrants per year. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides medical care at the port where boats land after hazardous trips across the Mediterranean Sea. In recent weeks, a series of rather dramatic landings have been recorded in the Canal of Sicily, with people arriving in a very bad state.
Luciano Grisio, a doctor with MSF, describes what he sees during his work on the island. Project Update - 12 Jul 2007
 
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Thailand

Hmong refugees in Thailand are a population in danger

Project Update - 10 Jul 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Emergencies in the 'Town of Stones'

During the last days of 2006, the Katanga Province region was affected by terrible floods. We estimate that a total of 32,000 people were affected by the floods - which amounts to half the population of Bukama."
Celine Zegers, MSF nurse and Head of the Emergency Operations in Bukama, has just spent six weeks in Bukama. She describes the difficult survival conditions for the homeless population, but also the positive impact of her team. Project Update - 3 Jul 2007
 
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Sudan

Darfur, interview with MSF's International President Dr. Christophe Fournier

Darfur, Sudan, interview with MSF's International President Dr. Christophe Fournier Interview - 25 Jun 2007
 
Having fled persecution in Myanmar(Birma) and lived in appalling conditions for many years in Bangladesh, This is the situation facing thousants of families based in a makeshift camp near Teknaf since years. "Tal" camp, as it is commonly referred to, consists of small ramshackle shelters situated in an area between the river Naf and the highway leading to the city of Cox's Bazaar. More than 6,000 men, women and children have sought refuge on a stretch of land 800 meters long and 30 meters wide, where food and potable water is scarce and access to health care limited. The Muslim refugees, who are ethnically referred to as "Rohingya", have been fleeing Myanmar's Northern Rakhine State for many years from which, they say, they were subject to severe abuses such as forced labour, restrictions on movement and land confiscation. For many years they have lived in extremely vulnerable conditions, stateless within their own country and denied refugee status in Bangladesh. "Going back is like drowning in the sea," says a woman from Tal camp. "We had lots of sufferings there (Myanmar). If we ate once, we couldn't eat the next seven times." The situation facing the refugees in Bangladesh is a similar one. "We are forced to do the hardest and cheapest work, the work in the brick factories, salt fields and shipwreck yards are places to find the us Rohingya's at work". woman are forced to prostitute themself for survival of their familie. If no durable solutions are found to improve their living conditions and access to services, thousands of Rohingya people are likely to continue to be exposed to disease and malnutrition, after having suffered displacement, exploitation and abuse throughout their lives, both in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Bangladesh

Stateless Rohingyas in Bangladesh: No one should have to live like this

The Rohingya people from Myanmar seeking refuge in Bangladesh. An MSF briefing paper. Report - 19 Jun 2007
 
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Somalia

Stories of people who fled Mogadishu

In March and April, 2007, heavy fighting in Mogadishu resulted in a large number of civilian casualties and thousands of people fleeing the capital. In all of the projects around the country, MSF staff witnessed displaced people arriving from Mogadishu. Although by the end of May it was estimated that two thirds of the people displaced by the fighting had returned to Mogadishu, many are unwilling or unable to do so.
MSF interviewed some of these people who came to its hospital in South Galcayo during the month of May. Voices from the Field - 11 Jun 2007
 
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HIV/AIDS

MSF reaction to G8 declaration on Africa and innovation

"G8 leaders have been talking out of both sides of their mouths. No progress was made here on access to medicines." "G8 leaders are sending out contradictory messages: on one hand they pledge more money, and on the other, they want to increase intellectual property protection which is known as a key a barrier to access to affordable medicines." Statement - 8 Jun 2007
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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