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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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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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7704 Results
 
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Haiti

Ongoing needs in hurricane-damaged Haiti

Fourteen days after Tropical Storm Gustav made landfall, followed by Tropical Storm Hanna and then Hurricane Ike last week, many areas are still inaccessible in devastated Haiti, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is doing its best to access these areas to provide adequate care to affected populations and to monitor the health situation. Project Update - 11 Sep 2008
 
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Yemen

29 bodies found on Yemen beach - MSF assists survivors of deadly sea crossing

A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team found eight dead bodies on the beach of Wadi Al-Barak, in Yemen, 30 km east of Ahwar - these people, refugees and migrants who had escaped from conflict and extreme poverty in the Horn of Africa, were trying to cross the Gulf of Aden. Press Release - 10 Sep 2008
 
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Nepal

After devastating floods in Nepal, MSF continues assistance

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing critical healthcare to around 27,000 displaced people following devastating floods in Nepal. Project Update - 10 Sep 2008
 
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Haiti

After third storm, food and water urgently needed for displaced

Max Cosci, MSF Head of Mission in Haiti, is in Gonaïves and he describes the situation in the country after it was hit by Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna, and Hurricane Ike. Voices from the Field - 9 Sep 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Remembrance: Dr. Samuel Bamoueni

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) extends its heartfelt sympathy to Samuel's family and friends, and to the families and friends of all of the 17 people who lost their lives in this accident. Statement - 8 Sep 2008
 
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Haiti

MSF assisting in Haiti after successive hurricanes

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams arrived in Gonaïves to clean out the Rabouteau Health Center after the floods and are still pushing to gain access to other flooded towns, though the coming hurricane might limit their ability to reach these areas. Project Update - 8 Sep 2008
 
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India

MSF providing medical care and emergency distributions in Bihar, India

Two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have started providing medical care to the victims of the floods in the northeastern Indian state of Bihar, and also started the first emergency relief distributions in various locations and displaced camps, as well as the necessary assessments, in the districts of Araria (the most affected area), Supaul, Purnia, and Madhepura. Project Update - 5 Sep 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Humanitarian flight crashes in DRC - one MSF staff member on board

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is saddened by this tragic news and is awaiting further information. Project Update - 3 Sep 2008
 
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Brazil

Brazil rejects patent on an essential AIDS medicine

The Brazilian Patent Office has rejected a patent application by Gilead on the drug tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), in a move that could increase access to a key HIV/AIDS medicine across the developing world. Press Release - 3 Sep 2008
 
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Somalia

Unacceptable security risks oblige closure of MSF clinic in Mogadishu

Despite this closure, MSF continues to deliver vital health care services in and around Mogadishu and throughout central and southern Somalia. Project Update - 2 Sep 2008
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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