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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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290 Results
 
Testimony from Vathy Camp. Samos - July 2020
Greece

European policies of deterrence and containment degrade human life

Iorgos Karagiannis, the MSF head of mission in Greece, writes that while no-one wants to see 'another Moria' among camps, the EU is perpetuating the circumstances that led up to the fire. Op-Ed - 1 Oct 2020
 
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Mediterranean migration

Detainment of fifth search and rescue ship in five months condemns people to die at sea

Misuse of maritime law is providing a smoke-screen for a political decision to prevent rescue ships from saving lives in the Mediterranean as the Sea-Watch 4 is detained by Italian port authorities. Press Release - 20 Sep 2020
 
MSF emergency clinic after Moria fire
Mediterranean migration

“Enough is enough”: Time to stop the cycle of suffering for refugees on Greek islands

In the wake of fires that destroyed Moria camp, on Lesbos, Greece, MSF urges the European Union to immediately evacuate refugees, and change harmful migration policies. Project Update - 17 Sep 2020
 
Moria Fire Camp
Greece

All people in Moria camp must be evacuated to safety in wake of destructive fire

In the wake of a fire which destroyed Moria refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, MSF is urging Greece and the EU to immediately evacuate the 12,000 men, women and children to safety. Project Update - 9 Sep 2020
 
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Mediterranean migration

Sea-Watch 4 is allocated a port of safety 11 days after first rescue

Eleven days into its new mission, the Sea-Watch 4, the search and rescue ship run by Sea-Watch and MSF, finally gets a port of safety for the more than 350 people plucked from the Mediterranean Sea. Interview - 2 Sep 2020
 
The Sea-Watch 4 in the port of Burriana
Mediterranean migration

MSF and Sea-Watch announce collaboration to save lives at sea

MSF and NGO Sea-Watch are joining forces to save lives at sea in search and rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean Sea onboard new boat, Sea-Watch 4. Press Release - 6 Aug 2020
 
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Libya

Libya: “They were shot and killed as they fled arbitrary detention”

Three people were killed and two others injured as they were shot at trying to flee arbitrary detention in Khoms, Libya, where they had been returned after trying to leave the country. Project Update - 31 Jul 2020
 
Reunion in Halberstadt
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Escaping first Libya, and then coronavirus in Germany

Stefanie, an MSF midwife and Abdoulaye from Gambia met twice within a few months: first on a search and rescue boat, and then in quarantine for coronavirus in northeastern Germany. Voices from the Field - 15 Jun 2020
 
Ocean Viking – Restocking of supplies in the port of Marseille, France
Mediterranean migration

EU states use COVID-19 to shirk search and rescue obligations as MSF ends Ocean Viking partnership

As people drown, EU states are hiding behind the COVID-19 pandemic to avoid their search and rescue obligations, as MSF decides to end our partnership with SOS MEDITERRANEE. Press Release - 17 Apr 2020
 
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Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Evacuation of squalid Greek camps more urgent than ever over COVID-19 fears

MSF is calling for the immediate evacuation of migrants and refugees stuck living in unhygienic, cramped conditions on the Greek islands, in the wake of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 coronavirus on Lesbos. Press Release - 12 Mar 2020
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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