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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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MSF distributed food to 500 families in Maiduguri on December 14, 2016. Each family receives enough food for two weeks; 25 kilograms of millet, five kilograms of beans and five litres of palm oil. The ration also includes eight bars of soap.
Nigeria

Food distribution in Maiduguri

Over the past three months, our teams have distributed 810 tonnes of food in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, which is enough to feed 26,000 families for two weeks. Project Update - 5 Jan 2017
 
New maternity clinic ensures women deliver safely in Tal Afar district, Iraq
Iraq

New maternity clinic ensures women deliver safely in Tal Maraq in the northwestern district of Tal Afar

MSF has opened a maternity clinic in Tal Maraq, where the conflict has taken a heavy toll on the population. Project Update - 4 Jan 2017
 
A hospital worker salvages the remains of undamaged medication and equipment left in the emergency room after the 15 August Saudi-led coalition airstrike which destroyed the hospital killing 19. In a country where access to healthcare is already extremely limited, the Abs hospital was the only facility catering to over 2,000 IDPs in the area and thousands more along the coast, from the northwestern border of Yemen to the outskirts of Hodeidah. With the destruction of Abs hospital, the closest hospital is now over 3 hours drive away.
Yemen

Crisis update - December 2016

There is an urgent need for the warring parties to reduce the disproportionate impact this war is having on civilians, and for humanitarian actors to scale up assistance for the population. Crisis Update - 31 Dec 2016
 
"Eighteen months ago, my body could no longer bear the weight of the world, and I suffered a heart attack. I arrived at the hospital a lifeless body – the hospital's report said ‘presumed dead’. My heart had stopped completely; it was defibrillated five times and I was given an injection to jump-start it. After undergoing multiple psychosocial support sessions at the Irbid clinic, I gained psychological stability, and overcame my fears of suffering another health complication.” - Muwaffaq Mreish, 51-year old Syrian patient.
Jordan

Even those who’ve managed to dodge bullets can’t escape fatal diseases.

Voices from the Field - 28 Dec 2016
 
Since February 2015, the region of Diffa, in Niger, has become the target of attacks by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), also known as Boko Haram. The continuous violence has caused an exodus of more than 300,000 people. For months, the displaced population has settled around main cities and villages of Diffa, Nguigmi and Bosso districts, as well as in makeshift camps along the RN1 road that connects Diffa with Niamey, the capital of Niger. They are living in very precarious conditions. The majority are fishermen or farmers but, for security reasons, the Niger authorities have banned their access to the banks of the Komadougou river, where they carried out all their activity. In this context, MSF is working to support several health centres in the region, as well as the main maternal and child centre in the city of Diffa and the Nguigmi district hospital. MSF is also providing medical care in several displacement camps and sites.
Niger

Insufficient humanitarian response to crisis in Diffa

Report - 21 Dec 2016
 
An MSF social worker provides social and protection guidance to a transmigrant woman who travels with her children. The threats and direct violence perpetrated by organized gangs or maras in Honduras and El Salvador are considered by UNHCR as an element that allow them to ask for international protection, and to be favored with asylum status.
Mexico

The dangers of crossing Mexico

Each year, more than 400,000 people cross Mexico, fleeing violence, poverty and threats from criminal gangs. Voices from the Field - 19 Dec 2016
 
A room on the second floor of the hospital. Since 2013, MSF has been providing drugs, supplies and medical equipment to health facilities in east Aleppo.
Syria

MSF sends medical supplies to the wounded evacuated from east Aleppo

MSF teams are supporting the humanitarian evacuation of east Aleppo. Yesterday our medical and logistic teams conducted first needs assessments in the area. Project Update - 16 Dec 2016
 
An MSF staff helps a young boy cross the swamps at dusk with his family to Kok Island after receiving for the first time in many month food distribution in the troubled Unity State in South Sudan. Kok Island is the home to over two thousand IDP's who have fled the fighting in their home areas. In April 2015 after a rise in fighting in Unity State, thousands of civilians were forced to flee into the bush, swamps or into the UN Protection of Civilian site in Bentiu.
Global

A year in pictures 2016

Throughout the year, our photographers have been alongside MSF's doctors, nurses, midwives, logisticians and other staff, on the frontline of our projects around the world. Photo Story - 15 Dec 2016
 
A boy walks past a tea kettle heating on coals in a market street in Al Shaar district, east Aleppo.
Syria

MSF calls on all sides to spare the lives of civilians trapped in the Aleppo battle

MSF is outraged at the violence exerted against civilians and the passivity displayed by all those that can do something to stop it. Statement - 13 Dec 2016
 
A hospital worker salvages the remains of undamaged medication and equipment left in the emergency room after the 15 August Saudi-led coalition airstrike which destroyed the hospital killing 19. In a country where access to healthcare is already extremely limited, the Abs hospital was the only facility catering to over 2,000 IDPs in the area and thousands more along the coast, from the northwestern border of Yemen to the outskirts of Hodeidah. With the destruction of Abs hospital, the closest hospital is now over 3 hours drive away.
Yemen

Saudi-led airstrike on Abs hospital cannot be justified as "unintentional error"

Statement - 9 Dec 2016
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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