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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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Dressing of a Buruli ulcer plague.
Buruli ulcer

The urgent need for clinical, diagnostic and operational research for management of Buruli ulcer in Africa

This paper outlines key areas for clinical, diagnostic, and operational research on Buruli Ulcer in Africa and proposes a research agenda. Journal article - 2 Dec 2013
 
In Tikrit American soldiers are raiding peoples houses in search of wapens and suspected people.
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The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries. Written from the perspective of victims and those who bring them assistance, the Guide outlines the dangers, spells out the law, and points the way toward dealing with violators and violations of the law. guide-humanitarian-law.org
 
Dr Maria Machako is in charge of MSF’s HIV-AIDS hospital in Kinshasa - CHK, Centre Hospitalier Kabinda. In CHK, the MSF team fights for every life, but will be able to save only three out of four patients because patients arrive very late, in a very advanced stage of the disease.
Project Update

In some countries, the fight against HIV/AIDS has only just begun

Project Update - 29 Nov 2013
 
This IDP camp in Al Safira district (Aleppo province) is empty. After the October attack, IDPs had fled north . MSF had distributed some tents to IDPs. A medical student was running an OPD set up with MSF support
Syria

People try to live ordinary lives as conflict grinds on

Adam Sharp, a project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Syria, gives a moving and personal account of MSF's work
 Project Update - 29 Nov 2013
 
MSF sets up a mobile clinic on a farm near Musina, on the South Africa / Zimbabwe border. Farms in the area employ seasonal agricultural workers, many of whom are undocumented migrants from other countries who lack access to the public helath care system in South Africa. <br/> Using portable tents allows MSF to conduct private consultations in a mobile clinic which changes location in the Musina area, accessing populations working in separate farming communities. MSF's mobile clinics are important adaptation because the farms are located approximately 40-60km from the town of Musina, where the closest public health clinics and hopsital are found. Agricultural workers tend to lack the income, time, and transportation to Musina to seek the healthcare that they need.
South Africa

Mobile care for mobile populations

MSF leaves Musina, South Africa, with a legacy of innovation Project Update - 29 Nov 2013
 
The entrance of an MSF hospital in northern Syria.
Syria

Thriving despite a hard beginning - the story of a premature baby

Project Update - 29 Nov 2013
 
Somali refugee children who are living with their families in makeshift shelters on the outskirts of Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. MSF is the only provider of medical care in Dagahaley, one of the five camps in the Dadaab refugee camp complex. Each month, teams carry out over 20,000 outpatient consultations and admit approximately 600 patients to the hospital. PHOTO/TOM MARUKO
Kenya

Dadaab: Agreement on refugee repatriation should not affect aid delivery, says MSF

Four in five refugees in the camps at Dadaab do not want to return to Somalia given the current climate of insecurity, finds an MSF assessment Statement - 28 Nov 2013
 
Setting up the inflatable hospital at Bethany Hospital.
Philippines

MSF reaching remote areas still in need of aid

MSF teams are still finding villages and towns that have not yet received any aid following typhoon Haiyan. Project Update - 26 Nov 2013
 
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

Fresh fighting leads to further mass displacement in Bouca

A further wave of mass displacement in the town of Bouca following fresh clashes between reported anti-balaka elements and ex-Séléka forces highlights the need for urgent humanitarian action in CAR. Press Release - 26 Nov 2013
 
FAMILY VIOLENCE A patient displays her bandaged leg in the Médecins Sans Frontières Family Support Centre where she is being treated in Tari, the provincial capital of Hela Province in Papua New Guinea. She was one of 64 people attending her daughters funeral when she was attacked with a bush knife and iron bar causing a huge wound to her head. 9th October, 2013. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Papua New Guinea

A comprehensive response to family and sexual violence is critical

MSF co-host conference to discuss issues on family and sexual violence in Papue New Guinea. Press Release - 25 Nov 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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