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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.

GeoMSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Global

Frontlines podcast: Giving children with HIV the support they need

Frontlines podcast: Giving children with HIV the support they need Project Update - 1 Dec 2010
 
People receive medication in a government run hospital assisted by MSF, in Chamanculo, a poor neighbourhood of Maputo, Mozambique.
HIV/AIDS

MSF in Mozambique 2001-2010: Ten years of HIV projects

This report details MSF's work and achievements in Mozambique in the field of HIV/AIDS over the last ten years, as well as pointing to the challenges that lie ahead. Report - 25 Nov 2010
 
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Pakistan

Relief for some flooded areas of Pakistan but work continues in the south

Three months after the floods that inundated Pakistan, MSF has stopped the emergency response activites in some parts of the country, such as in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in northern Sindh provinces, where flood-affected people have started returning to their homes. Project Update - 24 Nov 2010
 
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Haiti

Port-auPrince, Haiti – November 2010

Port-auPrince, Haiti – November 2010
Patients receive treatment for cholera in Sarthe, in the west of Port-au-Prince. The number of cases MSF has seen in the capital jumped from 350 during the first week of November to 2,250 during the second week. Voices from the Field - 22 Nov 2010
 
Waiting room at the 1 de Junho, a Health Center, assisted by MSF in Mavalane, Maputo, Mozambique.
Mozambique

MSF points at achievements and challenges in fighting HIV in Mozambique

Although important achievements in the last decade have allowed over 200,000 people living with HIV in Mozambique to receive life-saving treatment, many challenges remain in the fight against HIV/AIDS warns the international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report. Press Release - 21 Nov 2010
 
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Haiti

Cholera in Haiti: MSF calling on all actors to step up response

Despite the huge presence of international organizations in Haiti, the cholera response has to date been inadequate in meeting the needs of the population. Press Release - 18 Nov 2010
 
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Haiti

Photoblog: Haiti - Moises Saman/Magnum

Archaie, Haiti – October 2010 Voices from the Field - 17 Nov 2010
 
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Malnutrition

Malnutrition Campaign Launch - Food Is Not Enough

Video: Malnutrition Campaign Launch - Food Is Not Enough Project Update - 17 Nov 2010
 
Malta's location in the Mediterranean Sea has made it a common port of disembarkation for migrants and asylum seekers setting off from the coast of Libya on their way to Europe. However, as a result of increased patrols in the Mediterranean, the number of migrants reaching Malta has dropped significantly. In 2008, 2700 people landed on the island. Form january to October 2010, only 28 made it to its shores. The small number of new arrivals hides the increasing suffering of those who embark on a dangerous journey only to be stopped short of their final destination. It also masks the plight of migrants who are already in Malta, stranded on an island where daily life is a struggle and prospects for the future are grim. MSF started working in Malta in August 2008, when hundreds of newly arrived migrants were being locked up in detention centres where conditions were a serious threat to their health. MSF denounced these conditions and continued working on the island. In 2010, MSF focused on providing psychological care to migrants and asylum seekers trying to overcome trauma, depression and other mental health problems resulting from their previous experiences, current difficulties in Malta and failed attempts to leave the island. MSF is closing the project in Malta in December 2010.
Malta

Not Criminals: MSF exposes conditions for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in Maltese detention centres

Report: MSF exposes conditions for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in Maltese detention centres.
Report - 17 Nov 2010
 
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Haiti

In Haiti, an easily treatable, preventable disease continues to claim lives

Even as MSF continues to increase its capacity to treat, there remains acute deficiencies in the well-established preventative actions that are essential to controlling the spread of the epidemic. The critical preventative activities such as the distribution of clean drinking water, positioning of oral rehydration points in affected communities, waste removal, and safe burial of victims of the epidemic, all remain far below the needs. Project Update - 16 Nov 2010
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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