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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 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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XDR-TB patient Hanif, taking his daily TB medication at home in the Govandi area of Mumbai. Hanif is 25 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) patients in India lucky enough to be able to have acesss to the new drugs. After having failed treatment for the fourth time, Hanif was referred to the clinic of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organisation who since 2006 provides free diagnosis, treatment and support to patients with drug-resistant TB in Mumbai.
Tuberculosis

Out of Step: Deadly Implementation Gaps in the TB Response

A survey of eight countries reveals that efforts to control the epidemic are out of step with international recommendations. Report - 19 Oct 2014
 
Landing of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees mainly Eritrean and Gambian few hours after being rescued at sea.
Italy

Government must not betray its commitment to continue saving refugees at sea

Italian Ministry of Interior has announced that Mare Nostrum search & rescue operation will cease. Press Release - 17 Oct 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - 16th October 2014

Crisis Update - 16 Oct 2014
 
Salome Karwah – Ebola survivor turned caretaker at MSF’s Elwa 3, Monrovia
Liberia

“I survived Ebola for a reason – to help others”

Ebola survivor Salome Karwah tells how she came to work for MSF in the treatment centre Elwa 3 in Liberia Voices from the Field - 16 Oct 2014
 
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Syria

Hundreds of wounded in Syria after crowded market is bombed in besieged Damascus suburb

he bombing of a crowded market on 9 October caused hundreds of casualties in Erbin town in the East Ghouta suburban area near Damascus. Some 50,000 people have been under siege here for more than two years. The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which supports more than 100 health facilities throughout the country, including in East Ghouta, is deeply concerned that doctors in Erbin, as in other besieged areas, are struggling to respond to the massive influxes of wounded. Press Release - 16 Oct 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Treatments and vaccines could help bring outbreak under control

Why MSF is taking exceptional measures in facilitating clinical trials Voices from the Field - 15 Oct 2014
 
Siblings Haja, Abivatu and Lamphia Ngegba, with nurse Sallia Swarroy, celebrate having survived Ebola at MSF’s newest treatment centre in Bo, Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone

MSF’s newest Ebola treatment centre in Bo

MSF’s newest Ebola treatment centre, built in just five weeks, opened its gates on September 19th. Project Update - 15 Oct 2014
 
MSF Land Cruisers, including some which have been converted to ambulances to transport patients to the Gondama Referral Centre. A 200 bed emergency paediatric and obstetric hospital run by MSF in Bo, Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: Paediatric & maternal services paused

Medical activities at Gondama Referral Centre suspended due to strain of Ebola outbreak Press Release - 15 Oct 2014
 
MSF medical specialist Maartje Hoetjes carrying out a mobile clinic by boat in Jigmir, Upper Nile State, South Sudan
South Sudan

“At night I lie awake thinking of those who did not survive”

Maartje Hoetjes flew to one of South Sudan’s more remote areas to meet displaced families and assess their health. Voices from the Field - 14 Oct 2014
 
The MSF clinic is situated on a busy street of the neighborhood. Penina spent several hours in the clinic’s observation room. Now her and her mother are leaving the clinic as one of the last people today before the clinic closes at 1 pm.
Central African Republic

Upsurge in violence hindering access to medical care in Bangui

Recent violence in Bangui is making access to medical care virtually impossible. Project Update - 14 Oct 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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