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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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Central African Republic

Doctors on the frontline

The critical work MSF medical teams are doing on the ground in Bossangoa Project Update - 16 May 2014
 
In the ER section of an MSF hospital in Syria.
Syria

Five MSF staff held in Syria Released

Abduction Forces Closure of Three of MSF’s Medical Facilities providing care to 150,000 Syrians Press Release - 15 May 2014
 
Lorraine Zemba struggled with DR-TB for two harrowing years where she flirted with death and was too weak to take care of her two year old son. Today she is healed thanks to MSF who sent a nurse every day to her home to allow her to get access to treatment.
Tuberculosis

Home care gives hope of survival for DR-TB patients in Zimbabwe

Home care gives hope of survival for DR-TB patients in Zimbabwe Voices from the Field - 15 May 2014
 
Following the armed conflict in Masisi territory, North Kivu province, people have moved heavily into the bush and over 2000 people have taken refuge in the house MSF and Nyabiondo Referent Health Center that MSF supports since 2009. Sanitary facilities were rehabilitated, water points created and tarpaulins were distributed to displaced persons. Hygiene committees were established. Many abuses were committed against the civilian population, villages were burned and homes looted
Democratic Republic of Congo

“The situation is untenable.” - Two months of fighting in Masisi territory, Democratic Republic of Congo

Interview with Emmanuel Lampaert, MSF medical officer in DRC Voices from the Field - 14 May 2014
 
Cathy Wisil, 34, consulting at the family support centre in Port Moresby following inter-partner violence
Papua New Guinea

Treating survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea

She managed to escape from my sister’s and got on a bus. But she never found me. Instead I got a call from the police: she had been taken by a stranger and raped. I could not stop crying. What had ruined my life when I was 21 had now happened to my child too.” Voices from the Field - 13 May 2014
 
Transmigrants' project in Mexico.
Mexico

Testimonies of violations, abuses and problems accessing health services

Mexico: Testimonies of violations, abuses and problems accessing health services Voices from the Field - 12 May 2014
 
Transmigrants' project in Mexico.
Mexico

“Violence is ever present throughout their journey, that may last up to two months”

Emiliano Lucero talks about the challenges MSF faces and the populations assisted in Mexico Voices from the Field - 12 May 2014
 
Entrance of the MSF Health Structure, Mbera camp, Mauritania. Tens of thousands of Malians, mainly ethnic Tuaregs, fled into Mauritania last year after a mixture of separatists and jihadi groups seized control of their home towns. Since january 2012, most of them are living in difficult conditions in this camp where around 70 000 refugees are believed to live: water, food, sanitation and shelters are still missing. Having set up 3 health posts and 1 health center in the camp, MSF provides every month between 8000 and 9000 consultations in the camp, treats around 300 severe malnourished children and has performed around 700 deliveries since the beginning of 2013.
Mauritania

Interview with Frederic Manantsoa Lai, MSF Head of Mission in Mauritania’s Mbera refugee camp

Interview with Frederic Manantsoa Lai, MSF Head of Mission in Mauritania’s Mbera refugee camp Voices from the Field - 12 May 2014
 
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Ukraine

Médecins Sans Frontières not working in Slavyansk

In contrast to media reports, MSF is currently not providing any medical care in Slavyansk. Statement - 8 May 2014
 
MSF as started building a prefabricated hospital in Guiuan which will take patients out of the tents – unsuitable in the rainy season – until a permanent hospital can be built. The hospital, designed to last up to five years, will provide maternity care and surgery as well as inpatient and outpatient services. It is due for completion in June, when MSF will leave Guiuan, handing the hospital over to the Ministry of Health to run.
Philippines

Six months after the typhoon

In the six months since Typhoon Haiyan, MSF provided care for emergency and everyday health problems Project Update - 8 May 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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