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How we work

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How we're run

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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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Souweba Mamane takes part in the “mamans lumière” sessions in Doney. The “mamans lumière” (mothers of light) are at the centre of a strategy to prevent acute malnutrition in the community itself, known as Homes of Nutritional Learning, Rehabilitation and Prevention (FARPN, in its French initials). In the programme, families take responsibility for improving the nutritional condition of children who are at risk of suffering acute malnutrition. To achieve this objective, positive changes in the community's behaviour are encouraged by the “mamans lumière” with regard to nutrition, hygiene and health practices. In 2013, MSF put the FARPN strategy into operation in the districts of Madaoua and Bouza, Niger.
Niger

The mothers of light

A highly successful nutrition programme in Niger Project Update - 30 Jul 2014
 
An MSF doctor prepares the schedule treatment for HIV patients. Since 2006, MSF runs an anti-retroviral treatment (ART) centre in the Khar area of Mumbai. The centre provides psychosocial and medical care to a limited cohort of HIV patients, with a special focus on patients that are co-infected with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. MSF also runs outreach activities in the community to complement the care offered to patients at the ART centre, and to provide capacity building to partner NGOs and health professionals. Operational research also constitutes an important part of the project activities.
HIV/AIDS

Second-line failure and first experience with third-line antiretroviral therapy in Mumbai, India

There are limited data on the failure of second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) and the use of third-line ART in people living with HIV in resource-limited settings. Since 2011, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) HIV/tuberculosis programme in Mumbai, India, has been providing third-line ART to patients in care. Journal article - 30 Jul 2014
 
Dressing of a Buruli ulcer plague.
HIV/AIDS

Clinical features and management of a severe paradoxical reaction associated with combined treatment of Buruli ulcer and HIV co-infection

In this case we present a severe paradoxical reaction occurring after commencing antibiotic treatment for BU combined with antiretroviral therapy for HIV, and describe its clinical features and management. This includes to our knowledge the first reported use of prednisolone in Africa to manage a severe paradoxical reaction related to BU treatment. Journal article - 30 Jul 2014
 
24th of July of 2014. Israeli military offensive "Protective Edge". Families displaced by the bombings took refuge in the Shifa hospital compound, in Gaza City, where MSF is working (OT, burn unit, ICU, ER and ressucitation room). 24/07/2014. Offensive militaire israélienne "Bordure protectrice". Familles déplacées par les bombardements et réfugiées dans l'enceinte de l'hôpital Shifa, Gaza ville, où MSF travaille (bloc opératoire, service des brûlés, soins intensifs, urgences et salle de réanimation).
Palestine

MSF strongly condemns attack on Al Shifa hospital

Yesterday’s attack on Al Shifa hospital, where nearly 2,000 people are sheltering, demonstrates how civilians have nowhere safe to go Press Release - 29 Jul 2014
 
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Syria

Car bombs in northern Syria target Eid shoppers

Two car bombs exploded in towns in northern Syria on 26 July Press Release - 28 Jul 2014
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

A team of MSF vaccinated 38,000 children against measles in Minova before continuing the campaign in Kalonge

The immunization campaign took place for about three weeks, from 27 June to 16 July in four health areas (Lumbishi, Numbi, Shanje and Tushunguti) in the hilly surroundings of the town of Minova, the so called Hauts Plateaux. Project Update - 25 Jul 2014
 
For Arnon Chipondoro, hearing that his daughter Elizabeth was HIV positive was not a shock, but a relief : a possibility for him to share his secret with someone else. Both of them have been on ARV treatment for three years, a treatment that allow to control the disease and live a long and healthy life – if and only people on ARV can access their treatment without fail so as to be able to take it every single day. Arnon and Elizabeth are now members of a Community ART Group, or CAG, which, they say, has transformed their lives. In a CAG, members take turn to take the three hours long hike to get to the nearest clinic and pick up the drugs for the whole group. It’s a simple but very efficient way to manage disease: in other places where MSF has introduced the CAGs, retention in care is at over 90% of patients after four years of their initiation on treatment, against only two third in traditional models of care.
Zimbabwe

Divided we fall

New system of HIV treatment transforms lives in Zimbabwe Project Update - 25 Jul 2014
 
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Myanmar

MSF welcomes offer to resume operations in Rakhine, Myanmar but remains cautious

MSF welcomes offer to resume operations in Rakhine, Myanmar but remains cautious Press Release - 25 Jul 2014
 
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HIV/AIDS

More positive stories needed

HIV in countries with low antiretroviral therapy coverage Project Update - 25 Jul 2014
 
Samrajam Yellamali, a HIV / XDRTB patient receives her TB medication at the MSF clinic during her visit for routine check up.
Tuberculosis

Impact of Introducing the Line Probe Assay on Time to Treatment Initiation of MDR-TB in Delhi, India

To evaluate before and after the introduction of the line Probe Assay (LPA) the overall time to MDR-TB diagnosis and treatment initiation; the step-by-step time lapse at each stage of patient management; and the lost to follow-up rates.

 Journal article - 24 Jul 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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