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How we work

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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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Young man holding his luggage on his back and walking up the hill to get to the transition area where he'll be registered as refugees in Iraq. He will then be transported to one of the different refugee camps scattered in Iraq.
Syria

Urgent need for cross-border aid

Greatly increased humanitarian aid must be delivered across Syria’s borders, urges MSF in an open letter. Press Release - 18 Dec 2013
 
Debris and detritus in the streets of Tacloban City.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: Challenges to deliver aid persist

MSF emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin describes the challenges in delivering aid Voices from the Field - 18 Dec 2013
 
Dr. Christoph Höhn is checking Rukhshona's cervical lymph nodes during her check-up. Rukhshona (11) has MDR TB. She also has HIV, complicating her TB treatment.
Tajikistan

Children with tuberculosis must not be neglected

MSF launches new report about dangers of tuberculosis for children Project Update - 17 Dec 2013
 
Dar al Shifah hospital *** Local Caption *** Aleppo (eastern part of the city held by the armed opposition), December 2012, after several months of intense fighting.
Syria

MSF calls on all parties to end targeting of schools and hospitals

MSF calls on both sides in the Syrian civil war to cease targeting schools and hospitals Press Release - 17 Dec 2013
 
People listening to health talk at the hospital in Bossangoa, CAR. The new wave of violence that is engulfing the Central African Republic has left tens of thousands of displaced people and many wounded. More than 30.000 are sheltered in precarious conditions in different locations in Bossangoa and in Bouca and the majority of towns in the area of Bossangoa are completely deserted. MSF providing emergency medical care at Bossangoa hospital, as well as emergency humanitarian support in three makeshift camps.
Central African Republic

Bossangoa remains tense as MSF teams provide emergency medical care

Voices from the Field - 17 Dec 2013
 
13-year-old Dilbar in the new playground at the paediatric TB hospital in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The playground was funded by MSF. For young TB patients or family members this is a very welcome distraction in the often long and difficult treatment process.
Tuberculosis

Improving paediatric TB care in Tajikistan

MSF launches new report about dangers of tuberculosis for children. Report - 17 Dec 2013
 
Taking care of the injured in the triage zone, red zone. First aid is delivered on benches or on the floor, before patients are hospitalised or transported to the surgical block. Violent armed clashes took place in Bangui. In a few hours, MSF teams have joined the Community Hospital to cope with the influx of wounded. Our medical teams are working now in emergency departments, surgical and hospitalization. Most people have supported injury by firearms or knives (machetes and knives). A second operating theater was opened, and several tents to receive the wounded and increase hospital capacity.
Central African Republic

MSF still responding to emergencies 10 days after violence breaks out

Project Update - 17 Dec 2013
 
The camp is an anarchic constellation of improvised tarp, stakes, mats and umbrellas threadbare. The luckiest families squatting had dilapidated cabins, others sleep in the open, exposed to mosquitoes and rain. Abandoned, the displaced people try to organise. A small market is taking place, but only the wealthy can find something to eat, and the savings are depleted. Single mothers and pregnant women are most vulnerable. 40,000 IDPs fleeing fighting and looting that shook the city since December 5, massed on the outskirts of Bangui airport. Where they survive without any assistance, latrines, shelter or food. The camp is a chaotic result of improvised tarpaulins, poles and umbrellas. Many displaced sleep in the open, exposed to mosquitoes and weather. Together with the ICRC, MSF is now the only active NGO in the camp. Local airport security are requisitioned. MSF set up a mobile clinic that will gradually become a fixed clinic, with observation services, minor surgery and maternity.
Central African Republic

MSF providing emergency care at Bangui airport

MSF is providing a round-the-clock medical service, but the situation remains dire
 Project Update - 13 Dec 2013
 
Syrian children play on makeshift swings at Harmanli Camp in Bulgaria where more than 1300 mostly Syrian asylum seekers are awaiting registration in crowded and unsanitary conditions.
Bulgaria

MSF provides essential aid to Syrian refugees facing harsh winter

With a harsh winter looming, MSF teams are providing essential medical assistance to Syrian refugees in Bulgaria Voices from the Field - 13 Dec 2013
 
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Central African Republic

UN must urgently and radically change its humanitarian response

Press Release - 12 Dec 2013
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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