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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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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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Central African Republic

A state of chronic medical emergency

After a decade of political violence, displacement and insecurity caused by clashes between rebel groups and government forces, as well as armed bandits, many thousands of people in Central African Republic are vulnerable to disease and have little access to health services. MSF international president, Dr Unni Karunakara, travelled to Bangui, the capital of CAR, to meet with President Francois Bozizé, Minister of Health Jean-Michel Mandaba and various international organisations to discuss how greater investment can be mobilised to improve the country’s failing healthcare system. Voices from the Field - 2 Aug 2012
 
Akim Faha holds her 2 year old daughter Tuna Osman in the Intensive Therapeutic Feeding Center at MSF's hospital in Batil refugee camp. In addition to being severely acutely malnourished Tuna is also suffering from a cough, diarrhea, and dehydration. Batil is one of three Upper Nile camps sheltering at least 113,000 refugees who have crossed the border from Blue Nile state to escape fighting. Refugees arrive at the camp with harrowing stories of being bombed out of their homes, or having their villages burned. The camps into which they have poured are on a vast floodplain, leaving many tents flooded and refugees vulnerable to disease. Mortality rates in Batil camp are at emergency levels, malnutrition rates are more than five times above emergency thresholds, and diarrhea and malarial cases are rising.
South Sudan

Catastrophic health situation in refugee camps

New epidemiological data from two refugee camps in South Sudan show mortality and malnutrition rates well above emergency thresholds. More than 170,000 refugees have crossed the border to escape conflict in Sudan’s Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. Since June, an average of five children are dying each day in Yida camp and one in three children is malnourished in Batil camp. Press Release - 2 Aug 2012
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Dozens wounded during violent fighting in North Kivu

Violent fighting broke out on 24 and 25 July in Rutshuru Territory. Sporadic fighting has been underway between the Congolese army and armed rebel groups in Rutshuru Territory since May. MSF teams working in the Rutshuru hospital have treated 66 wounded people so far. A majority of the wounded were civilians. Fighting has also displaced several thousand people. Project Update - 31 Jul 2012
 
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Sierra Leone

Slum environment worsens spread of cholera

Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown is currently struggling to contain a cholera outbreak, which has affected over 1500 people and claimed at least 17 lives in the city. Project Update - 31 Jul 2012
 
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Uganda

MSF team fights Ebola outbreak

An emergency team from MSF is in Kagadi, in western Uganda’s Kibaale district, to help fight an outbreak of the Ebola virus. Other MSF teams in Uganda are closely monitoring the situation. The Ebola outbreak, confirmed by the Ugandan government on 28 July, has killed at least 14 people, while at least 20 more are suspected to be infected. Press Release - 31 Jul 2012
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Emergency malaria intervention treats 10,000 patients a month

NSF has handed over its emergency malaria project in Kinkondja, a remote area in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after a four month intervention that saw 10,000 patients being treated every month. Project Update - 26 Jul 2012
 
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South Sudan

'What we are facing is an extremely serious situation'

About 100,000 refugees fleeing the fighting in the Sudanese state of Blue Nile have taken refuge in Maban county in South Sudan. In the camp of Batil, home to 34,000 people, the number of children with malnutrition is increasing but humanitarian response remains inadequate. John Tzanos, MSF emergency coordinator in the region, provides an update. Voices from the Field - 26 Jul 2012
 
Carmen Jose-Panti is 32 years old. She is HIV positive and lives with her husband and two children from a previous marriage in Tete in Mozambique. Carmen discovered she was HIV positive in 2007 and started antiretroviral treatment in 2009. She runs a small business from home selling charcoal, soap, salt and other domestic items. She is also attending night school. Carmen is part of a six-woman community HIV group that is supported by MSF. The members of the group support each other and once a month, they take it in turns to travel to the health centre to collect refills of medicines for themselves and the rest of the group.
HIV/AIDS

Closer to Home: Delivering antiretroviral therapy in the community

This report highlights experience delivering ART in four countries in southern Africa. Report - 25 Jul 2012
 
Veena Panchal lives in Andheri East, a crowded suburb of Mumbai, along with her two children. She found out in 2002 that she was HIV positive, after the death of her husband from HIV/AIDS. Her two children are HIV negative.
HIV/AIDS

Untangling the web of antiretroviral price reductions - 15th Edition

Middle-income countries are increasingly taking measures to overcome the patents that price drugs out of reach, according to a new report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Untangling the web of antiretroviral price reductions. Report - 25 Jul 2012
 
Veena Panchal lives in Andheri East, a crowded suburb of Mumbai, along with her two children. She found out in 2002 that she was HIV positive, after the death of her husband from HIV/AIDS. Her two children are HIV negative.
HIV/AIDS

Middle-income countries are overcoming patents to bring down HIV drug prices

Middle-income countries are increasingly taking measures to overcome the patents that price drugs out of reach, according to a new report released by MSF 'Untangling the web of antiretroviral price reductions'. Press Release - 25 Jul 2012
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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