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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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Rafah, Gaza Strip, Jan 16 2009 More than 1000 civilians, mainly coming from houses near de Philadelphia line (border with Egypt) that is being extensively boombed by the Israeli air force, took refuge in the UNRWA operated preparatory school number one. On the 20th day of the Israeli operation in Gaza, one and a half million people are still deprived of electricity and basic supplies, as well as being unable to flee from the densely populated combat zone.
Palestine

An MSF team entered Gaza on Thursday to scale up MSF emergency response as an Israeli ground offensive is launched

An MSF team entered Gaza on Thursday to scale up MSF emergency response as an Israeli ground offensive is launched Voices from the Field - 18 Jul 2014
 
Gatluok is then taken for his consultation with MSF nurse Peter Bitoang Machar. Gatluok’s mum tells Peter of their situation at home, how her house was burned and their food stocks were looted, and how they had to flee into the bush. MSF’s ambulatory therapeutic feeding centre (ATFC) in Leer hospital, Unity state, South Sudan.
Access to medicines

MSF calls for wider access to vaccinations in emergencies

WHO-recommended vaccines need to be available at lower prices Press Release - 18 Jul 2014
 
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Malaysia

MSF expresses its condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of those on board the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17

MSF expresses its condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of those on board the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 Statement - 18 Jul 2014
 
MSF is supporting the IDPs through the distribution of hygiene kits, non-food items and mattresses; repairing bathrooms; providing water; and installing lights to help improve living conditions. MSF is also assessing the needs for general medical consultations and psychological support for the IDPs.
Yemen

MSF supports IDPs in Sana’a and Amran

MSF is providing vital support to IDPs in Yemen Press Release - 17 Jul 2014
 
In January, Bauchi State, northeastern Nigeria, Bauchi state were affected by a cholera outbreak. More than 15,500 cases were reported in 5 months and about 14 000 of those were treated by MSF teams two treatment of cholera center. 40 to 45% of cases were severe, requiring hospitalization for intravenous rehydration. 30 oral rehydration points were set up by MSF in the district to treat non-severe cases.<br> It is also important to contain the outbreak through preventive measures such as targeted hygiene measures to avoid contamination (especially of drinking water). In Bauchi, water supply is mainly from either public or private wells. A total of 3 536 wells were chlorinated, 33 150 house hold contacts were traced and about 6 000 modified hygiene kits were distributed to the most affected population.
Nigeria

MSF treats overs 13,500 cholera patients

MSF combats the cholera outbreak in Nigeria Project Update - 17 Jul 2014
 
Two MSF nurses try to comfort a child while getting a blood sample to test for HIV.
HIV/AIDS

Visceral Leishmaniasis as an AIDS Defining Condition: Towards Consistency across WHO Guidelines

A publication on visceral-leishmaniasis-HIV co-infection. Journal article - 17 Jul 2014
 
Muslim community leaving Bossangoa
Central African Republic

Retrospective mortality study reveals massive levels of death due to violence against Muslims during peak of conflict

Report demonstrates massive amount of violence directed at Muslims Press Release - 16 Jul 2014
 
SAMBA has been operational at Namitambo Health Centre since the end of Summer 2013 (note: 55-56 is PIMA). 140 tests per month since then and patients get results same day. The machine just indicates if the patient has a viral load above or below 1,000 copies (per ml). Importantly, there is no need for cold storage of reagents. It is electrically powered with a back upbattery to secure power during power-cuts..
HIV/AIDS

SAMBA HIV semi-quantitative test, a new point-of-care viral load monitoring assay 1 for resource-limited settings.

A publication on new viral load monitoring assay. Journal article - 16 Jul 2014
 
People flee their homes because of the violence and take refuge in either churches or at the airport. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced within the city due to the violence.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Central African Refugees in Chad and Cameroon: “Suitcase or Coffin”

An MSF report details atrocities faced by those fleeing the Central African Republic. Report - 16 Jul 2014
 
MSF is working in kabo hospital with all the illness and all the diferent patients that come to kabo hospital *** Local Caption *** Depuis 1999, MSF fournit des soins medicaux aux populations centrafricaines touchees par une tres grande pauvrete, la violence et l?insecurite, en particulier dans le nord de la republique Centrafricaine. MSF travaille dans des hopitaux, des centres de sante en peripherie afin de fournir un acces aux soins aux populations, y compris celles qui vivent dans les zones les plus isolees, grace a des cliniques mobiles.
Central African Republic

Suitcase or Coffin

Video: Central African Republic - Suitcase or Coffin Project Update - 16 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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