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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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Sierra Leone

MSF provides health care for 30,000 Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone

The MSF clinics are located in the nearby villages so as to provide equal access to health care for both refugees and the Sierra Leoneans. This is meant to ease possible frictions between the refugees and the host community. Project Update - 26 Nov 2002
 
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Access to medicines

World Trade Organization wrestles with access to cheap drugs solution

The USA has proposed that there simply be a long-term waiver against bringing disputes to the WTO for breach of TRIPs in these circumstances. However, waivers are inherently unreliable and on this basis drug firms are unlikely to produce drugs in large supplies. Project Update - 23 Nov 2002
 
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Access to medicines

MSF alert to the lack of essential medicines and medical supplies in Argentina

As a result of the economic collapse in Argentina, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is monitoring the medical and social situation in the country. The organization has confirmed widespread shortages in health facilities throughout the country. Press Release - 21 Nov 2002
 
A group of around 300 pygmys live at the outskirt of Kitshanga-village. Because of the war they are unable to live in their natural habitat the woods and live in marginalised conditions and exluded from society. Democratic Republic Congo, Kitshanga (North-Kivu), 26/10/2001
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ten years of conflict, violence and human suffering

Report - 19 Nov 2002
 
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Access to medicines

Access Campaign accomplishments 1999-2002

There has been a collection of high quality posters designed specifically for the Access Campaign in the MSF offices worldwide over the past three years. This collection shows some of the range for the posters. Project Update - 18 Nov 2002
 
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Access to medicines

Sydney Summit a step back for access to medicines, but it is not the end of the story

If the proposal by trade ministers at the WTO meeting in Sydney is accepted by the wider WTO membership, an insurmountable barrier to getting cheaper medicines will be replaced by numerous lower ones.

A joint press release by Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières. Press Release - 15 Nov 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

Equitable access: Scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries

Report - 15 Nov 2002
 
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Access to medicines

Expect progress to be tough at WTO summit on drugs

Both the EU and the U.S., the world's two major drug producers, have offered drug-patent proposals that are far more restrictive than those favored by developing countries and many nongovernmental organizations. Developing countries want access to a wider range of drugs, while a large coalition of NGOs is pushing to allow any poorer country to contract for delivery of patented medicines from whomever it chooses.

This article first appeared in the THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Project Update - 14 Nov 2002
 
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United States of America

Drugs for the poor

The Bush administration is resisting the lobbyists' extremism, but it still listens to the industry more than it should. The US president's trade representative, Robert Zoellick, needs to soften the US positions at today's WTO meeting. From a policy point of view, there is no good argument for allowing patents to restrict access to medicine in poor countries and those just climbing out of poverty. Project Update - 14 Nov 2002
 
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Access to medicines

US trade position threatens access to medicines in Latin America and the Caribbean

Trade objectives proposed by the United States are threatening access to affordable lifesaving medicines for people with HIV/AIDS and other diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Press Release - 31 Oct 2002
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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