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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 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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MOH medical stuff fulfilling daily activities at JMH . Maputo. February 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Ravaged by new strain, southern Africa must get COVID-19 vaccines

As Eswatini, Mozambique, Malawi are being overwhelmed by the second wave of COVID-19, these countries are yet to receive any doses of vaccines, leaving their frontline health workers exposed. Press Release - 3 Feb 2021
 
MSF staff transport a patient during a mobile clinic in Hawzen, northeast Tigray.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Ethiopia: “If seriously ill people can’t get to hospital, you can imagine the consequences”

Albert Viñas, the recently-returned emergency coordinator in Tigray, Ethiopia, describes the situation of people who've had to leave their homes, and the difficulty faced in trying to access medical care. Voices from the Field - 1 Feb 2021
 
An Afghan family try to cross the border between Italy and France.
Italy

Abandoned at the borders: stories of people on the move during winter

The numbers of migrants and refugees at Italy’s borders has increased in recent months. Their only assistance is from volunteer groups supported by MSF. Voices from the Field - 28 Jan 2021
 
The influx of these extremely vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs) has exacerbated existing inequalities in Katasomwa, in the Kalehe Territory of South Kivu, in the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Tensions between communities are materializing in the form of difficulty in accessing food resources and education, particularly for the displaced and local nomadic Pygmy communities.
Democratic Republic of Congo

South Kivu: An endless flight

Unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced thousands to flee their homes. Many are in remote and under-resourced areas of South Kivu. Project Update - 28 Jan 2021
 
After being relatively spared by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Malawi is now being swept by a new, fast-spreading wave of the disease that is quickly overwhelming the health care system. In the first few weeks of January, the number of positive cases has doubled every four to five days and access to vaccines is still likely months away. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is launching an emergency intervention to support the local health authorities to treat the growing number of severe patients hospitalized the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Malawi is overwhelmed by second wave of COVID-19

Faced by an increase in the number of people with the more contagious South Africa strain of coronavirus COVID-19, MSF teams are assisting an overwhelmed health system in Malawi. Interview - 27 Jan 2021
 
Following post-election violence, about 8,000 persons have their homes and took shelter in makeshift camps in Bouar, Central African Republic, on January 2021.
Central African Republic

Displaced people in Bouar living amid fear and growing needs

People in Bouar, in western Central African Republic (CAR), have been living in fear since an uptick in violence, forcing many to become displaced to areas that lack sanitation and access to healthcare. Project Update - 26 Jan 2021
 
MSF’s Mental Health Supervisor is checking on patients who are visiting our Kutupalong facility to have mental health support.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Relocations, reduced services leave Rohingya communities at breaking point in Bangladesh

Unable to work, Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, rely on aid for survival; but services have been scaled back due to COVID-19, and with many being relocated, leaving people anxious and stressed. Project Update - 21 Jan 2021
 
Patient is carried to the ambulance shortly after the start of a heavy rain in Tefé. She will go to the airport and from there to the state capital, Manaus, where there are more resources for her treatment of COVID-19. The transfer of this patient took place in late December 2020, before the health system in Manaus collapsed for the second time and referrals to the state capital were interrupted.
Brazil

COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling

Coronavirus COVID-19 has caused the health system in Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state, to collapse, forcing city hospitals to stop receiving serious patients from other towns. Project Update - 21 Jan 2021
 
MSF installed one 30- and two 15-cubic meter water tankers to provide water purification in Ndu, northern DRC, where thousands of people from the Central African Republic sought refuge due to a non-state armed group attack on Bangassou on January 3rd. According to some estimates, over 12,000 refugees arrived in Ndu in just a few days.
Central African Republic

MSF teams ramp up support as violence escalates

As the security and humanitarian situation in Central African Republic rapidly deteriorates, people have reduced access to essential medical services. Project Update - 14 Jan 2021
 
Hamdayet crossing point, Sudan, early morning. November 2020. This crowd walked miles from neighbooring Ethiopia to reach Sudan to escape the conflict in their region. Once registered people will be able to get a ticket to move to further south camp, in Um Rakuba.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Providing assistance to people in Ethiopia and Sudan in wake of Tigray violence

Following the start of violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in November 2020, MSF teams are providing assistance to both internally displaced in Ethiopia, and those who've fled to neighbouring Sudan. Project Update - 12 Jan 2021
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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