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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Kailahun. Sierra Leone. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola Treatment Center. MSF hygienists put aside the bodies of two children who passed away during the day.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Eric's last walk

A moving account of the ultimate sacrifice made my three MSF staff members Project Update - 5 Sep 2014
 
*** Local Caption ***Heavy rains and a storm on August 24 have caused serious damages in Lietchuor camp, host to around 36,000 South Sudanese refugees in Gambella region. Shelters were blown down and the road, built on a strip of elevated land, is the only remaining inhabitable area. MSF's hospital , maternity and ITFC, all set up in tents, (107 beds in total) and the clinic continue to operate because the ground level was previously raised with earth. MSF's hospital (120 beds) in Itang, near Kule and Tierkidi camps, has been also flooded. Some patients were transferred to other tents, while others have been referred to other health facilities.
Ethiopia

Refugees attempt to survive in flooded camps

With the rainy season, Lietchuor refugee camp, which shelters some 40,000 people from South Sudan, has become a lake. Press Release - 4 Sep 2014
 
Tawhid is a logistician of MSF in Yemen.
Yemen

Bangladesh Without Borders: Saving lives in Yemen

Tawhidul Hamid, also known as Tawhid, was born 33 years ago in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Voices from the Field - 4 Sep 2014
 
Arif Uddin is a medical doctor of MSF in Swaziland. In the photo he has a look at an X ray.
Eswatini

Bangladesh Without Borders: Reducing the burden of HIV and tuberculosis in Swaziland

Arif Uddin Kazi was born near the Sundarbans, a mangrove forest in Bangladesh, almost the size of the small African country where he currently works. Voices from the Field - 4 Sep 2014
 
Ambrose Toppo is the financial coordinator of MSF in Papua New Guinea. In the photo he is at work in his office.
Papua New Guinea

Bangladesh Without Borders: From Africa to Oceania, a humanitarian life dedicated to numbers

Ambrose Toppo, Financial Coordinator in Papua New Guinea, is in charge of the calculator in MSF. Voices from the Field - 4 Sep 2014
 
Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. MSF has been running a malnutrition project based on the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) model since 2009.
India

Severe malnutrition is a medical condition that needs urgent attention

MSF is providing treatment for acutely malnourished children Statement - 4 Sep 2014
 
The South Sudanese key strategic town of Malakal came under attack on February 18. The clashes between government and opposition forces forced thousands of people to flee to other locations or to the UN compound in the town. Roughly 21,000 people were crammed into this camp.
South Sudan

"People who grew in war now become old in it"

MSF Canada’s Executive Director Stephen Cornish recently returned from South Sudan, where he witnessed first-hand the humanitarian crisis currently affecting the world’s youngest country. Voices from the Field - 4 Sep 2014
 
Awar Nyung, 2 years old, sick with cholera, is being helped to drink by his mother Achal Achol. Awar still has the intravenous drip ready to be reattached in case he falls more sick again. But often being able to drink rehydration solution is a sign that a sick patient is recovering.
South Sudan

MSF reduces cholera activities after treating 3,300 cases

Successful campaign leads to reduction in cholera vaccinations. Project Update - 4 Sep 2014
 
Saràh Dina, MSF Mental Health Officer in Pakistan MSF offers mental health counselling sessions in two different locations in Baluchistan province, Pakistan: in the provincial capital, Quetta, and in Kuchlak, which is an adjoining area. In Kuchlak, MSF runs a clinic for maternal and child healthcare and a programme for leishmaniasis. In Quetta, MSF runs a paediatric hospital mostly treating neonates and also offers nutrition services. Between January and July 2014, MSF did 3,176 mental health consultations.
Pakistan

“The time people are allowed to grieve in Pakistan is often too short”

Interview with Saràh Dina, mental health officer in Pakistan Voices from the Field - 3 Sep 2014
 
Nasir South Sudan
South Sudan

"Just a few hours old but already fleeing violence"

A new-born baby is caught up in violent conflict Voices from the Field - 3 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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