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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.

GeoMSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Joyce, 13 years old, drinking oral reyhdration solution at the MSF CTC in Gudele 2 in Juba.
South Sudan

Cholera admissions decrease in the South

Cholera admissions are falling in the Torit region, where MSF set up a cholera project in June Project Update - 14 Aug 2014
 
Patients at the MSF health clinic in the Domiz refugee camp in northeast Iraq, November 6, 2013. The clinic provides primary health services to the camp's approximately 60,000 refugees from Syria. Domiz Refugee Camp was established by local authorities back on in April 2012 to host the Syrian Kurds. The camp located 20 kms southeast of Dohuk city, in Iraqi Kurdistan and some 60 km from Syria/Iraq border. So far the total number of Syrian refugees in Kurdistan region is 60,151.
Syria

The Reach of War: A Day in the Life of the Syrian Conflict

Doctors Without Borders Multimedia Initiative Bears Witness to Human Toll of Syria's War Press Release - 13 Aug 2014
 
Newly build floating bridge in Feesh Kabour - Sinjar idps setting off from the border towards a new life.
Iraq

MSF responding to dramatic influx of displaced people from Sinjar

Iraq - Syria: MSF responding to dramatic influx of displaced people from Sinjar Project Update - 13 Aug 2014
 
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Palestine

Entire streets which are no more than piles of rubble

Michele Beck, Medical Team Leader with MSF, took advantage of the truce to go to the north of Gaza, severely damaged during the war. Voices from the Field - 12 Aug 2014
 
Measles vaccination site. Kalonge (DRC)
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF forced to suspend a measles vaccination campaign following a violent incident in the Kalonge area

South Kivu, DRC: MSF forced to suspend a measles vaccination campaign following a violent incident in the Kalonge area Press Release - 12 Aug 2014
 
Zenaba, displaced with part of her family in an IDP camp in Kabo (CAR) while awaits to join her husband and one of her sons, refugees in Chad
Central African Republic

"I do not know what to do with my life or those of my children"

Central African Republic: "I do not know what to do with my life or those of my children" Voices from the Field - 12 Aug 2014
 
Abdel Haffis, Economics teacher from Bangui now displaced with his family in an IDP camp in Kabo (CAR)
Central African Republic

"I feel neither Chadian nor Central African and I do not know where to go"

Abdel Haffis' testimony, professor of economics in Bangui, CAR Voices from the Field - 12 Aug 2014
 
In response to the current emergency, MSF is supporting Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city with a full surgical team and emergency medical equipment. MSF has made donations from its emergency stocks to the central pharmacy for the north and south of the Gaza Strip. MSF’s post-operative clinic in Gaza is running at only 10 to 30 percent of its capacity due to the intensity of the bombing, which is preventing patients from reaching the clinic. MSF’s regular activities in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, have been interrupted by the conflict. MSF has been working in Gaza for more than 10 years, providing medical, surgical and psychological care; its teams also responded to the emergencies in 2009 and 2012.
Palestine

No respite even with ceasefire

Fighting intensifies in the run up to a ceasefire Project Update - 12 Aug 2014
 
Paediatric ward in the transitional hospital in Guiuan. Most of the paediatric patients suffer from vector-borne diseases like dengue and Chikungunya, waterborne diarrheal diseases and respiratory tract infections.
Philippines

Innovative materials and a new beginning: MSF’s interim hospital on the Philippines typhoon shore

Innovative materials and a new beginning: MSF’s interim hospital on the Philippines typhoon shore Project Update - 11 Aug 2014
 
Reediucation fonctionnelle a l'hopital de Souleymanieh, octobre 2008. Les kinésithérapeutes sont présents car leur rôle est essentiel des les premiers jours de traitement apres l'intervention chirurgicale afin de prévenir les patients contre les rétractions ou encore les thromboses *** Local Caption *** MSF travaille a SOULEYMANIEH (SULEYMANIEH) dans la région du Kurdistan au Nord de l'Irak depuis juillet 2007. Le centre de grands brûlés et de traumatologie de Médecins Sans Frontières propose principalement des soins médicaux et chirurgicaux. "Nous avons comme projet en 2008 de renforcer nos activités dans cet hôpital et de nous concentrer sur la formation du personnel, développer un nouveau laboratoire et standardiser les procédures chirurgicales et médicales" termine Julien Collette, chef de mission.
Iraq

Highly Drug-Resistant Pathogens Implicated in Burn-Associated Bacteremia in an Iraqi Burn Care Unit

Highly Drug-Resistant Pathogens Implicated in Burn-Associated Bacteremia in an Iraqi Burn Care Unit. Journal article - 11 Aug 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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