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How we work

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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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The Mbera refugee camp for Malian refugees on 2 March 2013. As of January 2012, the Malian crisis has resulted in population movements. Nearly 150,000 refugees now live in refugee camps in Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger, where MSF teams are providing maternal, primary and secondary health care. Since the beginning of 2013, MSF has recorded nearly 12,000 consultations and 5,000 vaccinations in these three countries. Mauritania is the country with the largest number of refugees. Mbera camp nearly 70,000 refugees who have fled for fear of reprisals or lack of access to food since the beginning of the conflict. In February 2013, the border post of Fassala (Mauritania) recorded an average of 300 arrivals per day. They are mostly women and children from Timbuktu, Lere, Goundam Larnab and Nianfuke. These Malian refugees continue to live in precarious conditions with no future prospects.
Mauritania

More effort underway for Malian refugees

An update from Dr Louis Kakudji Mutokhe, an MSF doctor in Mauritania, on the organisation's work with Malian refugees at Mbéra camp. Interview - 25 Jul 2013
 
A motorbike HAT screening team including technicians and equipment arrives in the town of Mafoto, DRC to start testing villagers early in the day before they head to work in the fields. A MSF mobile sleeping sickness team is currently testing and treating villagers for human African trypanosomiasis in and around the village of Bili, in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo. Without treatment, a person whose nervous system is under attack by the disease will suffer sleeping disorders, become disorientated and eventually die.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Treating sleeping sickness in the forests

Barrie Rooney, a laboratory scientist from County Leitrim, Ireland swapped her lecturing job in Kent, England to join MSF mobile sleeping sickness team in a remote corner of DRC. Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 2013
 
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Syria

From birth to death - Testimony of an MSF surgeon

US Surgeon Steve Rubin describes his work in one of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospitals in northern Syria, where MSF treats common health problems as well as injuries inflicted by the war. Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 2013
 
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Syria

Testimony of a Syrian doctor

A Syrian doctor working with MSF explains the medical needs now that Syria is at war. Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 2013
 
An inflatable operating theatre is erected inside this MSF makeshift hospital in Syria (a converted chicken farm) as it is an efficient way to maintain a sterile environment. Surgeon Steve Rubin operating.
Syria

Diabetes, shrapnel wounds and newborn twins

In Syria the number of people in need of urgent medical care keeps increasing. MSF runs six hospitals, four health centres and several mobile clinic programmes inside Syria. Project Update - 23 Jul 2013
 
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Attacks on medical care

MSF aid workers freed from Somalia arrive in Spain today

Families ask for privacy at this sensitive time Press Release - 19 Jul 2013
 
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Somalia

Two MSF aid workers freed in Somalia

Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, abducted from the Dadaab refugee camp, in Kenya, on 13 October 2011, have been released. Statement - 18 Jul 2013
 
Choal Bang was shot in the head during clashes. Bang was shot in the head while trying to defend cattle. He spent one night alone before he was found. He was flown from Lankien to Nasir for surgery and has been in recovery for two months.
South Sudan

Violence intensifies in Jonglei, wounded left without access to medical care

MSF teams treating wounded and sick on both sides of fighting Press Release - 17 Jul 2013
 
Angelina* is one of the 11% of people in Mozambique who are living with HIV; she also suffers from Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a type of cancer related to her condition, that causes painful and disfiguring lesions on the skin. Angelina sometimes develops wounds on her skin caused by infections secondary to HIV. “It’s happened that I scratch them until I can see the new skin below,” she says. “The skin goes up into the air like dust.” MSF offers treatment for Kaposi’s Sarcoma and other HIV-related complications at the Centro de Referência do Alto-Maé (CRAM), Maputo, Mozambique. Here, Angelina receives a consultation with doctors at the CRAM. 17 December 2012. *Name has been changed
Mozambique

Treating Kaposi’s sarcoma in Maputo

In Maputo, the country’s capital, MSF is working alongside the Ministry of Health to treat patients suffering from Kaposi's sarcoma, a type of cancer that causes painful and disfiguring lesions on the skin. Project Update - 15 Jul 2013
 
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Central African Republic

Civil war is killing children in the Central African Republic but it's not doing it with bullets

Getting health care has never been simple in the Central African Republic, where there’s a 16 percent chance a baby won’t make it past his or her fifth birthday and life expectancy tops out at age 50. In the Media - 15 Jul 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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