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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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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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With approximately 5.3 million people infected with HIV, South Africa has the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS of any country. In November 2003, the South African government approved a new national HIV/AIDS plan that added life-extending antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to the existing protocol and set a goal of treating 600,000 people with ARVs by 2008. MSF operates a rural HIV/AIDS program in Lusikisiki, in the Eastern Cape province, one of the country's poorest areas. The program has tested more than 600 people for the virus each month and has demonstrated an HIV-positive prevalence of 30 to 40 percent. MSF manages opportunistic infections in 11 rural clinics and in the district hospital and began offering ARV treatment in the clinics in November 2003.
Access to medicines

MSF puts drug patents under the spotlight

"Developing countries should not hesitate to check and challenge the validity of patents," says Ellen 't Hoen of MSF. "This is already beginning to happen in some countries, such as Kenya and Thailand." Press Release - 22 May 2003
 
Patient following the ARV treatment in Khayelitsha, a township near Cape Town, South Africa.
Access to medicines

Drug Patents Under the Spotlight: Sharing practical knowledge about pharmaceutical patents

Patents have been one of the most hotly debated topics on access to essential medicines since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the conclusion of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in 1994. Report - 22 May 2003
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF working again in Bunia

MSF is worried about the situation in Ituri Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo and demands access to vulnerable civilians. Press Release - 21 May 2003
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF opens 11 health posts near DRC cease-fire line

Previous MSF surveys in the zones have indicated that one in three children dies before the age of five. In some villages the people have to survive in the most basic conditions. We saw extremely fragile people, locally called the 'living skeletons'". Project Update - 16 May 2003
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF vaccinating 80,000 children in Banalia

Because the vaccination area was spread over 100 square kms, the campaign was four times the number of people than a 'normal', large vaccination campaign in the DRC. Difficult conditions further complicated the effort. Project Update - 16 May 2003
 
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Ethiopia

An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 children suffer fromacute malnutrition in Damot Gale district

250 MSF staff are responding to this emergency situation where MSF has opened two Therapeutic Feeding Centres in Boditi and Buge for children in need of treatment. MSF is intending to extend its capacities in the near future with additional programmes including high-energy rations and feeding centres. Press Release - 14 May 2003
 
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War and conflict

MSF sends medical teams to help civilians wounded in Chechnya bomb blasts

The latest explosions in Znamenskoe and Gudermes region, resulting in a high number of casualties and wounded, show once again that the situaton in Chechnya is far from normal contrary to declarations made by the authorities. Press Release - 14 May 2003
 
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Russia

Some 200 people call on government to do more to find and free kidnapped aid worker

In a statement May 12, MSF said that kidnapped volunteer Arjan Erkel is alive but his location remains unknown. Arjan was taken on August 12, 2002. See Russian investigators assure MSF that Arjan Erkel is alive Project Update - 13 May 2003
 
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Access to medicines

MSF message for WHO member country delegations to 56th World Health Assembly

MSF, Oxfam and HAI are writing to present our concerns related to access to medicines. This issue will be discussed at the 56th World Health Assembly (WHA) on 19-28 May under the agenda items "IPRs, Innovation and Public Health" and "WHO's Medicines Strategy". Open Letter - 13 May 2003
 
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Ethiopia

MSF alarmed at dramatic situation at Ethiopia resettlement site

Inadequate planning of resettlement leads to unnecessary suffering. Press Release - 12 May 2003
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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