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How we work

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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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Poeun Pech (29) was tested seropositive three years ago. She lives in Sunsa Village, Pourk District, about 20km away from the hospital. She often comes to the hospital for her medicine but is now staying in the HIV ward because her health has worsened. She is malnourished and receives special therapeutic food. When she was 18 she left to work in a massage parlor in Sihanoukville. She married there and has now 2 boys (1 and 3 years old). Her husband left her when he heard he was seropositive. She returned to her parents home. Her mother is looking after her. The transport to the hopital is a very big problem, the trip costs 5USD per person. MSF in Cambodia has focused on an innovative approach, treating HIV/AIDS as a chronic disease alongside diabetes and hypertension, which also have high prevalence rates. In Takeo MSF increasingly focused during 2007 on developing treatment for patients affected by tuberculosis (including multi drug-resistant TB). These activities included training national health staff on TB management and renovating TB wards in Takeo.
HIV/AIDS

Plasma Concentrations, Efficacy and Safety of Efavirenz in HIV-Infected Adults Treated for Tuberculosis in Cambodia

A study to assess the efficacy and safety of efavirenz 600 mg daily in HIV-tuberculosis co-infected patients. Journal article - 7 Mar 2014
 
Today, Sonia continues to care for her child. But tensions in the neighborhood of PK5 remain. Shootings and exactions happen daily. Sonia is 21 years old. She came to the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in M’Poko camp to deliver in the proximity of the Bangui international airport. Last December, while Sonia was more than 7 months pregnant, a wave of extreme violence struck Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic, obliging her to flee her neighborhood and seek refuge at the M’Poko camp. Today, the M’Poko Camp hosts around 40,000 people. The assistance is insufficient. People living there lack water, food and shelters while the rainy season approaches. Since December, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) intervenes in the camp. Today, through a field hospital and three health posts in the camp, every day the MSF teams provide over 1000 consultations and help at least 10 women to give birth daily.
Women's health

Forced to Flee: Humanitarian Disasters Leave Women at Higher Risk

Tane Luna Ramirez from Médecins Sans Frontières reflects on the challenges of providing care for pregnant women as well as the heightened risk of sexual violence in disaster settings. Journal article - 7 Mar 2014
 
Deplaces a l'eglise a Carnot.<br/>Forced displaced in the church in Carnot. *** Local Caption *** Since February 1st, date of the anti-Balakas takeover of the city, a thousand people (mostly Peuls/Fulani in transit on their way to Cameroon) are trapped in the city ,victims of attacks and violences.
Central African Republic

Escalating violence endangering civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid

Escalating violence is endangering civilians Press Release - 7 Mar 2014
 
Jackson Ashiono (33) sits in the Kibera South Health Centre in Nairobi's Kibera slum, Kenya. Jackson has been diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Jackson was born in Kibera, and continues to live there. He had to give up his job as a casual labourer when he found out he had tuberculosis. 'Unfortunately they did not know it was MDR. The TB treatment was not working and I was getting worse. That is when I was brought at the MSF clinic in a very critical condition, I could not walk, I was unable to talk and I was immediately put on MDR treatment' he says. 'This clinic saved my life. The treatment is free and if this clinic was not here, I am not sure I would be alive today and I appreciate the follow up and encouragement for treatment adherence. I am also grateful as this clinic opened its doors for my daughter to be tested for TB.'
Tuberculosis

Outcomes in Adolescents Undergoing Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 2008-2013

A report into prevalence of TB in adolescents in South Africa. Journal article - 6 Mar 2014
 
To put more people on treatment (and as such combat the HIV epidemic) MSF started bringing free HIV testing to the communities. Community Health Agents (CHAPS) like Nelisiwe walk long distances to cover the households in their assigned areas. They often work in teams because of security concerns (rape, dogs, violent reactions when patients are diagnosed as HIV+).
HIV/AIDS

Two new studies point to impact of HIV treatment on transmission in high-HIV-burden African contexts

Two new studies point to impact of HIV treatment on transmission in high-HIV-burden African countries Press Release - 6 Mar 2014
 
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MSF Speaking Out

The violence of the new Rwandan regime 1994 - 1995

The ‘Violence of the new Rwandan regime’ case study is describing the difficulties and dilemmas that Médecins Sans Frontières faced in 1994 and 1995 when confronted with the abuses and crimes of the new regime that had taken over in Rwanda in July 1994: Was it acceptable for MSF, having denounced the 'génocidaires’ control over the Rwandan refugees in Zaire and Tanzania, to encourage the return of these refugees to Rwanda, given the insecurity that potentially awaited them? Did MSF have a responsibility to alert them to what was occurring in Rwanda? Could MSF – after having issued a call for an international armed intervention to put an end to the genocide – now criticise the regime that had effectively done so, thereby risking accusations of favouring the génocidaires and supporting the revisionists? Should MSF keep silent in order to continue caring for detainees who might otherwise die in the appalling prison conditions ? Speaking out - 4 Mar 2014
 
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Malawi

Gearing up for handover

MSF prepares to handover its HIV programme in Chiradzulu to the ministry of health. Project Update - 4 Mar 2014
 
Nyirambabazi, 30, lives in Kahe camp and is pregnant for the first time. Neighbours transported her from Kazuba to the hospital St Benoit of Kitchanga, it took them 6 hours of walking.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF releases report on shocking humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Persistent conflict and instability have led to recurrent humanitarian crises, says MSF in a report. Press Release - 3 Mar 2014
 
Muslim community leaving Bangui
Central African Republic

Trapped in PK 12 camp with nowhere to run

Desperate and dangerous conditions around PK 12 camp in Bangui Voices from the Field - 3 Mar 2014
 
BIHAR, INDIA, February - 2014 Photographs of MSF projects - Kala Azar and Malnutrition in Bihar. Photo by : Sami Siva
India

A step closer to effective treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Bihar

MSF operates a Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit for treating severe acute malnutrition in children. Press Release - 3 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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