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How we work

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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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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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2094 Results
 
The newly renovated Intensive Care unit in Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital was opened the 19 November after a complete reconstruction done by MSF. Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospit is the only trauma facility in Sulaymaniyah Governorate treating all people with acute medical and surgical illness. Over the last two years, there has been a significant rise in the hospital’s catchment population (currently over 2.5 million people) due to the influx of internally displaced persons from neighbouring conflict zones. MSF has been working in Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital since January 2016, with the aim to reduce patient mortality rate by improving quality of care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the Emergency Department (ER). This is done through improved quality of patient care and structural renovation of the ER & ICU medical facilities.
Iraq

Newly renovated intensive care unit opens at Sulaymaniyah emergency hospital

Project Update - 21 Nov 2016
 
The field surgery hospital has 8 emergency beds, 4 for severely wounded and 4 for moderately wounded, as well as an operating room and a bed for high dependency patients who need intensive care. It also has 9 post-op beds.
Iraq

As fighting intensifies, MSF bolsters response around Mosul

Project Update - 21 Nov 2016
 
Dr Abu Wasim, a plastic surgeon, stands next to a damaged ward on the upper floors of a hospital in east Aleppo after it was hit by an airstrike in mid-October 2016. He is one of the 7 surgeons left in East Aleppo.
Syria

Multiple direct and indirect hits on hospitals in east Aleppo in the last 48 hours

The only specialised paediatric hospital in besieged east Aleppo has come under attack for the second time since airstrikes resumed on 15 November, destroying three floors and leaving it out of service. Three other hospitals have also taken direct hits, resulting in casualties among staff and patients and leaving two key surgical hospitals and the largest general hospital out of service. Project Update - 19 Nov 2016
 
In an unfinished concrete skeleton of a building eight families live in tents of plastic sheeting. They have lived there for one year and eight months, since fighting began in Taiz. They cook over a fire of cardboard and plastic, or eating leftovers they get from nearby restaurants. The women walk over to a factory a bit away to get water from there. Only one of the adults is working, washing cars. The MSF outreach team is checking children for malnutrition and other diseases and refers them to the MSF Mother and Child hospital if necessary. Apart from regular visits from the MSF team, the only assistance they have gotten was a distribution of soap six months ago.
Yemen

76 wounded and at least 21 dead in Taiz on the first day of the newly announced ceasefire

Project Update - 18 Nov 2016
 
MSF set up a circuit to vaccinate children under 5 years old, they also receive an anti-parasite and vitamin A and parents receive relief items such as soap and mosquito nets. In one day nearly 4,000 children were vaccinated.
Nigeria

Crisis Info on Borno emergency - November 2016

Crisis Update - 18 Nov 2016
 
Ndegue Michel (left) has been trained by MSF to treat malaria cases in the community so people don?t have to travel to the hospital. Here, a two-year-old girl is tested in the Rosin neighborhood on the outskirts of Carnot.
Central African Republic

Don't turn off the life support

Project Update - 17 Nov 2016
 
People walk down a street in Bustan Al Kasr neighbourhood after it was hit by airstrikes in mid-October 2016.
Syria

Hospital bombings in east Aleppo force staff to move children and premature babies to basement for shelter

Project Update - 17 Nov 2016
 
Rose Roba, 37 from Yei in South Sudan. She waits at the MSF outpatient clinic in Bidi Bidi refugee camp in Norther Uganda, to receive medicine for her sonwho has a fever and has been vomiting. "I came to Uganda because of the violence in South Sudan. "They kidnapped my next door neighbor's husband and chopped him in to pieces. Then they cut up his wife and threw the body in to a channel of water near our village. They also slit their child's throat and cut his head in 2 and placed his body next to his mother's in the water. "This filled me with fear. I was worried I would be next. I knew I had to take off." She walked for 4 days and was given a lift by rebel troops for a fifth day before arriving at the Ugandan border. Here she is struggling with the living conditions and her children have fallen ill.
Uganda

Testimonies from Bidi Bidi refugee camp

"I would not easily walk back into South Sudan and towards death. I ran away from there in fear and I am so relieved I managed to save my and my children’s lives," says Rose, a refugee from Greater Equatoria region, South Sudan. Voices from the Field - 17 Nov 2016
 
MSF staff vaccinate children at the MSF-supported health centre in Boguila.
Central African Republic

Testimonies from MSF patients and staff

"I don’t usually travel on the roads due to the security situation. There are often armed men on the roads demanding things from the people who try to pass by. Even if you are on a bike or a motorcycle, they harass you for money. Even if you are trying to transport a sick person," says Zita. Voices from the Field - 16 Nov 2016
 
Nurses Lucien and Enoch change the bandages of a 28-year-old who was attacked with a machete in an attempted robbery not far from Kabo, Central African Republic, where violence is rife. MSF has been working in Kabo since 2006, and runs a health centre in the town, which includes a maternity, an operating theatre, a laboratory, a pediatric centre and a hospitalisation ward.
Central African Republic

A protracted crisis that must not be forgotten

Project Update - 16 Nov 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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