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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 Websites

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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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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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Mother & Child at MSF Outpatient consultation in Berberati Regional University Hospital
Central African Republic

Health chaos in Central African Republic

Since December 2013, CAR has been torn apart by a conflict with increasingly religious overtones. Project Update - 7 Jul 2014
 
Following a phone call, an MSF team goes to the home of Finda Marie Kamano, age 33. She reported extreme weakness, vomiting, and dysentery. These symptoms, along with fever and nosebleeds, are typical of those caused by the Ebola virus. Wearing a protective suit, a doctor checks Finda, who complains of severe stomach pain.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

MSF activities in Ebola outbreak

A summary of the situation in west Africa, in the midst of an Ebola outbreak Project Update - 7 Jul 2014
 
The landscape in Maban, South sudan is very rough, hot, barren and unforgiving. Few people normally live here but now the area contains tens of thousands refugees.
War and conflict

Where is everyone?

A report examining the limitations and deficiencies of the international aid response to crisis. Report - 6 Jul 2014
 
Women waiting to have a chest X-ray as part of the MSF Active Case Finding TB programme, Tboung Khmum, Cambodia
Cambodia

Cambodia wasn’t initially on Helen Tindall’s radar ...

MSF's nurse manager describes the challenges in tackling TB Voices from the Field - 4 Jul 2014
 
MSF staff with patients at MSF health post in Mpoko IDP camp at Bangui International Airport
Central African Republic

Interview with MSF's head of mission, Stefano Argenziano

Central African Republic: Interview with MSF's head of mission, Stefano Argenziano Voices from the Field - 4 Jul 2014
 
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South Sudan

Medical Care Under Fire in South Sudan

Video: Medical Care Under Fire in South Sudan Project Update - 4 Jul 2014
 
El Sereif camp, near the South Darfur State capital Nyala, saw an influx of newly displaced people in March and April, fleeing conflict and the total destruction of their villages in areas to the southwest of Nyala. The MSF medical team that had been working in the camp since August 2013 was already responding to the health consequences of poor living conditions. While some of the new arrivals have now left the camp, the 4,500 that have stayed are in particularly terrible conditions, sheltering on a patch of desert with almost none of the basics essentials to sustain life. Before the new influx, camp residents were surviving on less than five litres of water per person per day when the recognized minimum for emergencies is 15 litres – and the new arrivals have access to even less water, not enough to adequately sustain human life.
Sudan

Extremely poor living conditions in Darfur camp

Refugees have barely even essential items to survive Press Release - 2 Jul 2014
 
The Suchiate river, on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. The Central American migrants cross this pass ('El Paso del Coyote') on small boats. It's the beginning of their journey through Mexico.
Mexico

58 per cent of migrants treated by MSF suffered violence

58 per cent of Central American migrants treated by MSF suffered violence Press Release - 2 Jul 2014
 
Phumeza Tisile, 23 years, takes her last tablets for XDR-TB at Lizo Nobanda TB Care Centre, Khayelitsha, South Africa on August 16, 2013. During her two year treatment for XDR-TB, Phumeza took over 20,000 pills and had over 200 injections.
Tuberculosis

Linezolid Fact Sheet

A fact sheet on Linezolid. Report - 1 Jul 2014
 
A burned and destroyed minor surgical ward at the MSF hospital in Leer, South Sudan, is viewed February 23, 2014. The hospital was thoroughly looted, burned, ransacked, and effectively destroyed, along with most of Leer, sometime between the final days of January and early February, 2014, leaving hundreds of thousands of people cut off from critical, lifesaving medical care. The hospital, opened by MSF 25 years ago, was the only secondary health care facility in Unity State.
South Sudan

South Sudan conflict: violence against healthcare

Violence in hospitals and the destruction of medical facilities deny medical services to many of South Sudan's most vulnerable people. MSF releases a report, "South Sudan Conflict: Violence Against Healthcare", looking at attacks on healthcare in the first six months since civil war broke out in December 2013. Report - 1 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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