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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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Kaluamba, isolation unit for suspected cases. An MSF team of nine Ebola specialists from the capitals Kinshasa, DRC, and Brussels, Belgium, is currently working in Western Kasai. Logisticians are building an isolation ward in the village of Kampungu, and putting in place all protection measures. The medical team is also providing care to all people suspected of having the disease.
Guinea

Ebola epidemic declared, MSF launches emergency response

MSF launches emergency response to fight ebola outbreak in Guinea. Project Update - 22 Mar 2014
 
Carolina Lopez, Spanish MSF Health Promoter explains to the Health Promotion team how to interact with women at the West Imey Market. It is their first Health Promotion activity at the market. They will explain to women the importance for pregnant women to go to the MSF clinic for maternal care, what is available to them and stress the signs of difficult pregnancies and deliveries to watch out for.
Women's health

Do non-monetary incentives for pregnant women increase antenatal attendance among Ethiopian pastoralists?

Studies on the relationship between antenatal attendance and non-monetary incentives. Journal article - 21 Mar 2014
 
Sputum being readied for testing in the GeneXpert TB diagnostic machine, Tboung Khmum District Referral Hospital, Cambodia
Tuberculosis

Does research make a difference to public health? Time for scientific journals to cross the Rubicon

Studies on how research affects public health. Journal article - 21 Mar 2014
 
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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, a killer disease

On World TB Day, MSF warns that TB is again a killer disease Project Update - 21 Mar 2014
 
CAG (Community ART Group) meeting. Maputo, Mozambique.
HIV/AIDS

A Qualitative Assessment of a Community Antiretroviral Therapy Group Model in Tete, Mozambique

A study to evaluate the relevance, dynamic and impact of the community ART groups in Tete. Journal article - 20 Mar 2014
 
Aphe, care taker of Abino (pseudonym), 20 years old, MDR-TB patient gives her anti-TB medicines. Abino says, “I live in a big family of 10 members. Yet no one cares for me or talks to me, except my sister in law, Aphe. When I could not get up, she brought me food and water. She gives me the medicines on time every day.” Since 2010, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been comprehensively supporting the Civil Hospital in Mon – a remote area of India’s north easternmost state, Nagaland. Together with the local authorities, MSF started treating patients with drug-susceptible TB and drug-resistant-TB (DR-TB) in April 2012. Since then, around 255 sensitive TB patients have been put on treatment and eight DR-TB patients. People in this remote and mountainous region have severely limited access to health care, with very few health workers and almost no medical specialists. They must often travel for hours to reach the nearest hospital. For this reason, MSF has introduced the decentralized model of care in Mon. Medicines are given to these patients and their caretakers on a monthly basis, so that they can avoid the need to travel to clinic more often – an expense they can rarely afford.
Tuberculosis

Directly-Observed and Self-Administered Tuberculosis Treatment in a Chronic, Low-Intensity Conflict Setting in India

This study details experiences of an MSF tuberculosis programme in Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border area. Journal article - 20 Mar 2014
 
This patient needs to come to the clinic every day for an injection. Swaziland, MSF clinic in Makanyane. October 2013.
Tuberculosis

The old devil in new clothes

An op-ed written by Jennifer Hughes, MSF TB doctor in South Africa Voices from the Field - 19 Mar 2014
 
In East Jerusalem, many cases taken on by the MSF mental health teams are related to minors: arrested in school, in home detention or traumatised by the army's night incursions.
Palestine

One year in Hebron and East Jerusalem

AN MSF field coordinator describes the difficulties of working in Palestine Voices from the Field - 19 Mar 2014
 
One of the most flooded areas in Tomping camp. MSF is providing medical care in two camps in Juba, South Sudan, where 40,000 people are seeking refuge from widespread fighting that erupted in mid-December. Over 27,000 people are living in deplorable conditions in Tomping camp. The first rains of the season have left a significant part of the camp flooded and further degraded the poor sanitation conditions.
South Sudan

First rains exacerbate deplorable living conditions in Tomping camp, Juba

Heavy rainfall has exacerbated the deplorable living conditions in Tomping camp Project Update - 19 Mar 2014
 
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Tuberculosis

Test Me Treat Me' TB manifesto

Promotional clip of the 'Test Me Treat Me' TB manifesto. Project Update - 17 Mar 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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