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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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General view of the forested border areas of Lithuania and Belarus. Fear of being detected and pushed back by authorities is leading people on the move in Lithuania to try and cross isolated areas with no access to basic needs and medical aid.
Lithuania

Repeated pushbacks cause mental and physical suffering for people crossing Lithuanian border

People, including families with young children, are being subjected to repeated pushbacks between the borders of Lithuania and Belarus resulting in mental and physical suffering. Project Update - 16 Sep 2022
 
“We left our home together with children. We had friends here who sheltered us. 14 people lived in their house,” says Yevhenia Koval, an IDP from the Kherson region. Now Yevhenia and her husband live in an IDP center in Kryvyi Rih that shelters more than a hundred people fleeing the war. “These are people who lived in the villages of the Kherson region. They were attached to their land and their animals. They had a house. They had some family ties. Due to the fact that these people had to move, they lost it all,” says an MSF psychologist Natalia Polovynko. She visits people in this center together with a health promoter. Natalia conducts psychological consultations – individual and in groups. “He was wounded and stayed in the basement for a month and a half. We had nothing – no medicines, nothing... Everything was already destroyed at the time. On April 3 we learned that my son died,” says Yevhenia from Kherson region, Ukraine. She and her husband managed to get to the city of Kryvyi Rih. Now they live in an IDP centre. MSF team provides assistance there: our psychologists conduct individual and group sessions. We also distribute free medicines.
War in Ukraine

The enormous mental health needs for displaced people in Ukraine

The war in Ukraine has lasted more than six months, and has left behind a trail of destruction. Our teams are working to respond to the enormous mental health needs in the country that has left millions of people displaced and traumatised. Voices from the Field - 13 Sep 2022
 
Consultation at mobile clinic in Ter Apel by Linda Buijze, medical team lead and nurse and Samer Sleaby, cultural mediator.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Project for stranded asylum-seekers in Ter Apel, Netherlands, closes

MSF’s response in Ter Apel, the Netherlands’ main reception centre for asylum seekers, has ended with improved sanitation conditions and a decrease in severe medical needs. We call on the Dutch government to ensure that people seeking asylum in the Netherlands have access to medical care and humane reception conditions. Press Release - 12 Sep 2022
 
MSF's team are conducting an assessment in a flood-hit area of Rabii Canal and the Uch Power plant in Dera Murad Jamali, Balochistan.
Pakistan

Five questions about the destructive floods in Pakistan

MSF's Dr Khalid Elsheikh Ahmedana speaks about the devastating floods in Pakistan, explaining how our teams are responding to the disaster. Interview - 12 Sep 2022
 
A view of flood-affected people taking shelter in tents at the flood protective bund in the village of Johi, District Dadu in Sindh province.
Pakistan

Five things to know about the devastating floods in Pakistan

Floods in Pakistan have caused one-third of the country to be inundated, leaving over 1,000 people dead and at least 33 million people affected. Project Update - 1 Sep 2022
 
MSF staff are not able to access the FRC, after a principled suspension of activities following unacceptable restrictions placed upon our work in May 2022. The photo was taken during this subsequent period, by an individual held within the centre. MSF teams have been conducting virtual outreach and mapping, as well as providing remote mental health support to the people detained in Kybartai.
Lithuania

A “hierarchy of suffering” exacerbates asylum seekers’ mental health in Lithuania

Discriminatory practices by Lithuanian authorities have created a ‘hierarchy of suffering’ for asylum seekers in the country’s registration centres. Press Release - 30 Aug 2022
 
MSF shirt with logo Since 2002, MSF has worked to provide comprehensive care to those living with HIV/AIDS in the Nchelenge district of Luapula Province in northeastern Zambia. One in four people is estimated to be infected with HIV in Nchelenge, and many have minimal access to medical care. In addition to education and prevention, decentralized voluntary counseling and testing, care and treatment of opportunistic infections, MSF began treatment with life-extending antiretroviral medications (ARVs) in February 2004.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF provides medical care to asylum-seekers in the Netherlands

The increasingly inhumane situation in the Ter Apel asylum reception centre in the Netherlands has compelled MSF to act, providing humanitarian assistance for the first time in the country. Press Release - 26 Aug 2022
 
MSF-supported construction of a new triage room at Dedougou health centre
Burkina Faso

Thousands displaced after escalating violence in Boucle du Mouhoun region

MSF has been supporting a health centre in Dédougou after some 6,700 people fled violence, providing basic healthcare, referrals to the regional hospital, and mental health counselling. Project Update - 26 Aug 2022
 
The temporary MSF clinic in Bermal, Paktika province
Afghanistan

MSF’s emergency project in Paktika province comes to a close

On the night of 21 June, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook Khost and Paktika provinces in the east of Afghanistan. MSF sent an emergency intervention to provide care in Bermal, Pakitka province, treating 1,380 patients in the temporary clinic over five weeks. Project Update - 25 Aug 2022
 
Shelters seen from a hilltop in Jamtoli refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The conditions of the densely populated refugee camps are deteriorating as they have been enduring rough weather conditions for five years now.
Rohingya refugee crisis

One million Rohingya remain in precarious conditions five years after horrific violence in Myanmar

Five years on since thousands of Rohingya were killed in Myanmar, forcing 770,000 to flee, people remain traumatised, living in precarious conditions in Bangladesh. Voices from the Field - 25 Aug 2022
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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