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How we work

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How we're run

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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 Websites

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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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171 people are now safe aboard #GeoBarents after being rescued from 2 nearby boats this morning. Tensions rose during the second rescue when the LCG halted MSF rhibs. After intense negotiations and calls to Norway, Italy and Libya, they withdrew, but not without threats
Mediterranean migration

MSF rescue ship detained in Italy following threats by Libyan Coast Guard

MSF denounces the imposition of sanctions on our search and rescue ship, the Geo Barents, following a detention order from Italy. Press Release - 22 Mar 2024
 
In 2022, MSF open a biosafety level 3 laboratory in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, for the testing of mycobacterium tuberculosis. In November 2023, MSF handed over the laboratory to the Ukraine Ministry of Health. The mycobacterium tuberculosis culture is tested against different antibiotics in the laboratory. Wearing protection is mandatory for workers during this procedure.
Ukraine

Against stigma and drug-resistance: five years of treating tuberculosis in Ukraine

MSF conducted a five-year pilot project at Zhytomyr Regional TB Dispensary, Ukraine, aiming to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis, reduce treatment duration, provide social support, and combat stigma associated with the disease. Project Update - 22 Mar 2024
 
An elderly woman displaced from Lebanon’s south receives care from MSF’s mobile medical unit in a collective shelter near Saida, 60 km from the southern borders. MSF’s mobile unit provides primary healthcare, medication and follow-up for non-communicable diseases, as well as psychological first aid and health promotion sessions in three locations in south Lebanon.
Lebanon

Five months into border conflict, displaced people’s needs are on the rise

The escalation of the armed conflict along Lebanon's southern border has led to the displacement of over 91,000 people, affecting their financial stability and psychological wellbeing. Project Update - 21 Mar 2024
 
The team enters the house. For Jerome a difficult moment as he goes first. You never know what to find in there...“ (Recommendation 2127).
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Five things to remember a decade after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Ten years after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, medical doctor and epidemiologist, Dr Michel Van Herp, answers five key questions about the outbreak. Project Update - 20 Mar 2024
 
171 people are now safe aboard #GeoBarents after being rescued from 2 nearby boats this morning. Tensions rose during the second rescue when the LCG halted MSF rhibs. After intense negotiations and calls to Norway, Italy and Libya, they withdrew, but not without threats
Mediterranean migration

EU-sponsored shameful abuse in the Central Mediterranean must end

MSF team on on board the Geo Barents witnessed two violent incidents involving the EU-funded Libyan Coast Guard that deliberately endangered the lives of hundreds of people seeking safety.  Press Release - 20 Mar 2024
 
Mothers tend to their babies suffering from malnutrition inside the MSF-supported inpatient therapeutic feeding center at Abs general hospital, Hajjah governorate. We are seeing a lot of caretakers in the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre who are themselves malnourished in Abs hospital. This is due to food insecurity in Yemen. If a woman is malnourished, it is hard for her to support her baby. The risk of malnourished mothers giving birth to babies who are themselves susceptible to malnutrition is clear from MSF’s nutritional programme in Abs, where 24 per cent of all admissions in 2023 were children under six months old.
Yemen

Numbers of malnourished women on the rise in Yemen

MSF teams are witnessing concerning levels of malnutrition among mothers in Yemen. A targeted approach focusing on children under five, pregnant women and new mothers is needed. Project Update - 19 Mar 2024
 
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Gaza-Israel war

Warring parties must ensure safety of staff and patients in Al-Shifa hospital

As Israeli forces conduct a military operation in Al-Shifa hospital, in northern Gaza, Palestine, we urge all warring parties to ensure the safety of patients and staff. Press Release - 18 Mar 2024
 
Vaishnavi, a 7-year-old DRTB (Drug Resistant​ Tuberculosis) patient's mother Vishaka prepares her TB medication.​ Since some medication are too big for a child to swallow, they are often opened/crushed and mixed with water for easier consumption.​ ​
Tuberculosis

MSF launches unprecedented project to tackle under-diagnosed tuberculosis among children

MSF launches an unprecedented worldwide project aiming to increase the number of children diagnosed with TB as well as improve their treatment experience and prevent new cases. Project Update - 18 Mar 2024
 
People are getting water from the MSF distribution point in Metche camp. The distribution point is refilled twice a day. In November, the Metche camp is receiving some 6 litres a water per person daily, which is far below the recommended World Health Organisations 20 liters per person per day. Metche camp is some 40 kilometers from Adré, the main entry and settlement town for refugees and returnees coming from Sudan. Almost 40,000 people have been resettled to Metche from Adré.
Chad

Urgent action needed as hepatitis E spreads through Sudanese refugee camps in Chad

As hepatitis E spreads through refugee camps in Chad, we call for urgent water and sanitation measures to be put in place. Press Release - 15 Mar 2024
 
Cooking utensils are scarce, and when a household does find something to eat, it makes arrangements with the few people nearby who have pots and pans. To cook, you then have to find wood and feed the fire.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Massive humanitarian response needed to avoid health catastrophe in DRC

As fighting displaces thousands of people in North and South Kivu, in DRC, we are deeply concerned about spread of diseases, such as cholera, due to overcrowded, unsanitary living conditions. Interview - 12 Mar 2024
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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