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How we work

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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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Sign in front MSF Base in Pinga, Democratic Republic of Congo where MSF has been working since February 2013. In Pinga, a small town in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, MSF provides medical care to people affected by conflict while trying to reach those cut off from assistance by insecurity. At present, (August 2013) all medical activities in Pinga and its immediate surroundings have been suspended after increasing insecurity and threats to humanitarian workers.
Attacks on medical care

Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières

Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières Journal article - 25 Jun 2014
 
paracheck being done in the Nyumanzi Transit camp. *** Local Caption *** Around 52,000 South Sudanese refugees have settled in Adjumani district, in northern Uganda. And refugees are still arriving. Upon their arrival, they stay in a transit centre before being transferred to a permanent settlement. MSF is providing health care in the transit centre and three permanent camps. In Dzaipi, MSF is running an OPD, an IPD and a therapeutic nutritional centre.
Malaria

Population pharmacokinetics of quinine in pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Uganda

The aim of this study was to investigate the pharmacokinetic properties of oral quinine in pregnant women with uncomplicated malaria in Uganda using a population approach. Journal article - 25 Jun 2014
 
Reynaldo Jr. Soria, MSF anaesthetist from the Philippines, is about to give spinal anaesthesia to a patient. More than one month after the typhoon Haiyan hit in the Philippines, the humanitarian needs seen by MSF teams vary from place to place, and there are still some areas that are under-served by aid. In some areas we are seeing people’s medical needs declining, but in other areas there is still a need for our support. Taking into account the progressive deployment of aid to rural areas and the number of organisations providing primary healthcare, MSF is adapting its activities in the Philippines. MSF will gradually decrease its activities in areas of Ormoc and Burauen on Leyte island, and in northern Iloilo province on Panay island, starting from the end of December. MSF will however continue working in Tacloban, on Leyte island, and in Guiuan, on Samar island, providing surgery, inpatient care, psychological care and other support until the health system is functioning again at adequate levels.
Global

MSF and the aid system: Choosing not to choose

This paper explores MSF's relationship with the aid system. Journal article - 25 Jun 2014
 
In a crowded reception room, patients wait for care at Nap Kenbe – Creole for ‘staying well’ – surgical centre in Tabarre, eastern Port-au-Prince. Teams provide emergency trauma, orthopaedic and abdominal surgery for victims of gun crime and domestic violence as well as people injured in road accidents.
Surgery & trauma care

Saving life and limb: limb salvage using external fixation, a multi-centre review of orthopaedic surgical activities in Médecins Sans Frontières

A report on orthopaedic management of open fractures in less developed countries. Journal article - 25 Jun 2014
 
African Union Soldiers from MISCA guarding Muslim IDP camp in Carnot Catholic Church
Central African Republic

Humanitarian impasse in a Muslim enclave

More than 90% of the western CAR's Muslim inhabitants have fled violence in the past few months Project Update - 24 Jun 2014
 
Chaman (Baluchistan) – MSF provides comprehensive emergency obstetric care, neonatal nursery, paediatric and gynaecological inpatient care, emergency referrals, and nutrition services at a hospital of the Ministry of Health. Women rush to collect a token number for the antenatal clinic. All are wearing the traditional burka or long shawls (chaddar) to cover themselves. They are being attended by a health educator.
Pakistan

For women in Pakistan to deliver a baby is a battle between life and death

For women in Pakistan to deliver a baby is a battle between life and death Voices from the Field - 23 Jun 2014
 
Madaoua district hospital. Madaoua is one of the five districts where seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) was implemented in 2013. The combination of malnutrition and malaria is fatal. Both diseases pose a threat to younger children between June and October. It is a critical period because of the so-called hunger gap in between harvests when child malnutrition increases and because during the rainy season malaria cases are more frequent. In 2013, MSF and the Ministry of Health jointly implemented seasonal malaria chemoprevention for the first time in Niger - a strategy that consists of administering a full anti-malarial treatment course during the seasonal malaria peak to children between 3 and 59 months of age. During these four months, children take three amodiaquine tablets and one sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine tablet for three days each month.
Niger

‘By humanising comprehensive care, we improve nutritional programmes’

Psychosocial care for children and mothers in nutritional programmes Voices from the Field - 23 Jun 2014
MSF is treating the most severe cases and providing emergency referrals to other structures at the Bangui airport. MSF has on average been carrying out 500 consultations, performed 100 dressings, and assisted 7 deliveries at the airport each day. MSF is the only medical provider at the camp, where 100,000 displaced people have sought shelter.

International Activity Report 2013

Annual Report - 22 Jun 2014
 
The logistics team erects an incinerator in the isolation ward.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola in West Africa: Epidemic requires massive deployment of resources

Ebola in West Africa: Epidemic requires massive deployment of resources Press Release - 21 Jun 2014
 
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Iraq

“There are severe shortages of drugs, and medical staff are fleeing the conflict areas en masse”

“There are severe shortages of drugs, and medical staff are fleeing the conflict areas en masse” Voices from the Field - 20 Jun 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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