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How we work

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How we're run

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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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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

Clinical Access to Bedaquiline Programme for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis

This article documents the process whereby MSF obtained access to bedaquiline for TB patients in South Africa. Journal article - 6 Feb 2014
 
And yet another wave of displacement in the town of Bouca, (Ouham region) northeastern Central African Republic (CAR), after clashes between reported anti-balaka elements and ex-Séléka forces took place last week. For the second time in over two months, people had to flee to the bush running away from the fighting. Bouca was the center of attacks in September in which the civilian population, both Christians and Muslims, were targeted by the armed groups. Around 80 people were killed. The video shows, through interviews with direct an indirect victims of violence, the consequences of the fighting, forcing thousands of people to hide in the bush or to look for protection in churches, schools or airstrips.
Central African Republic

Rain does not wash the blood away (Part II)

José Mas Campos, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Bangui, describes what he saw in CAR. Voices from the Field - 6 Feb 2014
 
And yet another wave of displacement in the town of Bouca, (Ouham region) northeastern Central African Republic (CAR), after clashes between reported anti-balaka elements and ex-Séléka forces took place last week. For the second time in over two months, people had to flee to the bush running away from the fighting. Bouca was the center of attacks in September in which the civilian population, both Christians and Muslims, were targeted by the armed groups. Around 80 people were killed. The video shows, through interviews with direct an indirect victims of violence, the consequences of the fighting, forcing thousands of people to hide in the bush or to look for protection in churches, schools or airstrips.
Central African Republic

Rain does not wash the blood away (Part I)

José Mas Campos, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Bangui, describes what he saw in CAR. Voices from the Field - 6 Feb 2014
 
MSF nurse Rebecca Cuthbert takes care of a 63 year-old Romanian homeless. The nurse is at the dorm in via Aldini, Quarto Oggiaro area.
Italy

Reaching out to the forgotten: providing access to medical care for the homeless in Italy

A programme for outpatient and intermediate inpatient care for the homeless was pioneered by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Milan, Italy, during the winter of 2012-2013. This paper documents the characteristics and clinical management of inpatients and outpatients seen during this programme. Journal article - 5 Feb 2014
 
Recovery room of the Community Hospital.
Central African Republic

"This was my most difficult mission”

Jessie Gaffric, MSF project coordinator at Bangui Community Hospital describes the situation there. Voices from the Field - 5 Feb 2014
 
View of a Médecins sans frontières (MSF) clinic set up at the Tomping camp for displaced people in the grounds of the United Nations Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Juba, South Sudan. MSF is currently carrying out around 230 consultations per day in the camp since three weeks. Between 13,000 and 17,000 people are residing at the camp. The main diseases include respiratory diseases, acute diarrhea and malaria.
South Sudan

"Living in impossible conditions"

MSF’s emergency coordinator, Forbes Sharp, gives an update on the dire conditions for people in Tomping camp. Voices from the Field - 5 Feb 2014
 
Mothers are feeding their children ready-to-use fortified peanut paste.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Providing mental healthcare in North Kivu

MSF teams integrated psychosocial care into activities in Bibwe to respond to mental health needs in the area. Project Update - 4 Feb 2014
 
Muslim community leaving Bossangoa
Central African Republic

Fleeing Bossangoa

After numerous incidents of violence, people are now leaving the town of Bossangoa in fear. Project Update - 3 Feb 2014
 
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Sexual violence

Collecting data on sexual violence: what do we need to know? The case of MSF in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Claire Magone has published a paper, in Humanitarian Exchange Magazine (issue 60, February 2014 ) focusing on gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian crises. In an article called "Collecting data on sexual violence: what do we need to know? The case of MSF in the Democratic Republic of Congo", she cautions against an over-emphasis on collecting prevalence data over addressing victims' needs. Humanitarian Exchange Magazine - 2 Feb 2014
 
Vaccination needles kept cool during the Medecins Sans Frontieres expanded program of immunisation mobile clinic in Abien Dau transit returnee camp where children under the age of 5 are being vaccinated against measels, polio, tetnus, whooping cough and diphtheria. Abien Dau, Warrup State, Southern Sudan. 8 January, 2011. Photo: Kate Geraghty.
Access to medicines

The polio eradication campaign: time to shift the goal

The polio campaign is at risk of becoming irremediably unpopular if the eradication goal is pursued at all costs. Journal article - 31 Jan 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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