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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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Mental Health: MSF Psychologist Ana Maria Tijerino.
Democratic Republic of Congo

“I have trouble believing that such a level of horror is possible”

An MSF psychologist on treating survivors of sexual slavery Voices from the Field - 16 Jul 2014
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF team treats survivors of abduction, sexual slavery and torture in mining region of eastern Congo

MSF treats survivors of sexual slavery in DRC Project Update - 16 Jul 2014
 
2012: Epidemics continue to occur in Orientale Province. MSF cares for over one thousand patients with cholera, 58,000 with malaria and 13,000 with measles. Each year in the paediatric departments and the Intensive Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres, thousands of children receive specific treatment.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Description of a large measles epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo, 2010–2013

Here, we describe the large measles epidemic that occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2010 and 2013 using data from the national surveillance system as well as vaccine coverage surveys to provide a snapshot of the epidemiology of measles in DRC. Journal article - 14 Jul 2014
 
MSF Project Coordinator Sarah Maynard in Leer, South Sudan.
South Sudan

“The market is empty and people are going hungry”

Interview with MSF Project Coordinator in South Sudan, Sarah Maynard Voices from the Field - 14 Jul 2014
 
Gatluok in MSF’s ambulatory therapeutic feeding centre (ATFC) in Leer hospital, Unity state, South Sudan. After walking five hours from her home village, Angelina spends little time waiting to be seen as MSF’s ATFC supervisor, John Yonk Both, recognises that Gatluok’s condition is critical.
South Sudan

Child malnutrition rates skyrocket in South Sudan

Child malnutrition rates skyrocket in South Sudan Press Release - 14 Jul 2014
 
Health worker raising awareness on Buruli Ulcer symptoms.
Cameroon

"We're in the process of writing a page of medical history"

After 12 years of involvement in the treatment of Buruli ulcer in Akonolinga, Cameroon, MSF has completed the handover of some of its activities to the Ministry of Health. Voices from the Field - 14 Jul 2014
 
Gaza Février 2014 Conséquence du blocus israélien instauré en 2007, les gazaouis font face à une pénurie d'électricité. Générateurs électriques et bouteilles de gaz de mauvaise qualité sont sources d'accidents graves et fréquents. Les équipes MSF mènent un programme de chirurgie réparatrice dans les hôpitaux Al-Shifa et Nasser pour prendre en charge les grands brûlés, essentiellement des femmes et des enfants. Les patients bénéficient également d’un suivi postopératoire (physiothérapie, pansements) dans la clinique MSF, située dans la ville de Gaza.<br/> Gaza, February 2014 As a result of the Israeli blockade established in 2007, Gazan people are facing electricity shortages. Poor quality electric generators and gas bottles cause serious and frequent accidents. MSF teams carry out a program of reconstructive surgery in Al Shifa and Nasser hospitals to support burn victims, mainly women and children. Patients also benefit from postoperative care (physiotherapy, dressings) in the MSF clinic, located in the city of Gaza.
Palestine

A population under siege

Bombing intensity makes population and MSF teams on the field moves extremely dangerous Voices from the Field - 14 Jul 2014
 
Kailahun. Sierra Leone. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola Treatment Centre. Receiving 'confirmed' Ebola positive tested patients. Two ambulances, one from the Sierra Leonese Red Cross and another one from the Ministry for Health bring eight confirmed patients to the MSF Ebola Treatment Centre.
Sierra Leone

Race against time to control the Ebola outbreak

MSF teams race to control the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Project Update - 11 Jul 2014
 
*** Local Caption *** The outreach team visits the schools of Korogocho. On the east part of Mathare slums, this area is facing a major waste dump of East Nairobi. The inhabitants are leaving in dramatically bad social and sanitary conditions. On this April 15th, Mohamed Juma and John Abang’a, community mobilizers with MSF, have an appointment with more than half of the teachers of this 800 student’s school. During two hours, after having introduced MSF, its mission and history, they will develop a participative animation session on the issue of sexual violence. They will bring the teachers to express what they know about this issue in their community. They will lead them to take conscious of their key role, as community leaders and on the front line with the children, to identify signs of potential victims’ behavior. They help putting words on the issue, express personal experience… At the end of the session they distributed small cards and posters with the emergency numbers to be contacted 24 hours a day to report an aggression, making sure they understand that every hour counts.
Kenya

Recovering from sexual violence

MSF is treating victims of sexual violence in Kenya Project Update - 9 Jul 2014
 
Two days after testing positive for Ebola, Finda Marie Kamano dies. Fatou, her older sister is overwhelmed. She was the one who had called MSF to come and get Finda. Some members of the community accuse her of causing her sister’s death. They say that if she had stayed home, Finda would still be alive. There is a serious misconception the work MSF is doing; people see their family members go into the isolation ward and then come out no longer alive. Numerous false rumors circulate within the communities. People even talk about organ trafficking.
Guinea

“For some, Ebola is akin to magic”

MSF doctors explain the nature of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa Voices from the Field - 9 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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