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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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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
 
Women and children wait for treatment at a mobile clinic near Bossangoa, in the northwest region of the Central African Republic. MSF has launched an emergency response in the area to support a local hospital and health centres after they were looted during a coup d'etat. Many of the women and children are suffering from malaria, which is the main illness amongst children in the country.
Central African Republic

Central African Republic: Abandoned to its fate?

Three months after Seleka rebels seized power in Central African Republic, the country is in the grip of a humanitarian emergency while the international community looks on with indifference, warned MSF today. Report - 9 Jul 2013
 
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Malawi

Scholarship scheme trains health workers for rural areas

MSF started a scholarship in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in 2010 to train health workers in the rural areas of Malawi. Project Update - 9 Jul 2013
 
Children`s workshop on sexual violence in a school in Cauca department, Colombia. For over 50 years, civilians have been caught up in the daily violence of Colombia's armed conflict. People from the most affected regions are exposed to forced displacement, massacres, murders, mines, kidnappings, threats and sexual violence. The state fails to respond effectively to their medical and psychological needs, and these vulnerable populations are left to face alone the repercussions of violence in their daily life. MSF is one of the few international medical-humanitarian organizations that provides primary and mental healthcare in some of the regions most affected by conflict. During 2012, its teams ran mobile clinics and permanent and semi-permanent health posts in Cauca, Nariño, Caquetá and Putumayo. The findings of MSF’s report “The less visible wounds: Mental health, violence and conflict in southern Colombia”, based on the testimonies of more than 4,400 patients treated in MSF’s mental health programmes in the south of the country between January and December 2012, show that the majority (67%) had experienced one or more violence-related events and had daily exposure to various risk factors associated directly or indirectly with the dynamics of the conflict.
Colombia

An invisible problem

The psychological consequences of violence on ordinary people in the south of the country Project Update - 8 Jul 2013
 
Camp for displaced people in the South Sudan's state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal.
South Sudan

20,000 people neglected after fleeing disputed border region

More than 20,000 people are almost cut off from aid in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state after fleeing violence in the disputed border region with Sudan, warned MSF today. Press Release - 8 Jul 2013
 
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Gallery: Am Timan, Chad

A gallery of MSF's activities in Am Timan, Chad. Photo Story - 5 Jul 2013
 
High blood pressure is common amongst patients due to a diet rich in fat and sugar. It is not uncommon for people to have meat for breakfast. at the Timbuktu reference hospital tend to patients on Friday Feb. 1, 2013.

International Financial Report 2012

Annual Report - 5 Jul 2013
 
The main task of Flora Escourrou (center of the picture), a French nurse, was to supervise operations on the numerous vaccination sites.
Chad

We had two weeks to vaccinate 100,000 children

Nurse Flora Escourrou has recently returned from eastern Chad where she took part in a measles vaccination campaign. Voices from the Field - 3 Jul 2013
 
MSF Clinical Supervisor Martha Pogo consults a survivor of family and sexual violence. The consultation takes place at 9 mile health district clinic in Port Moresby. In May 2013, MSF launched a project that aims to provide essential care to survivors of family and sexual violence in Port Moresby.
Papua New Guinea

Reaching more survivors of family and sexual violence

Survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea now have greater access to quality medical and psychosocial care with the opening of a new MSF project in the capital, Port Moresby. Project Update - 3 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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