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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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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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Une infirmière effectue des soins sur un enfant.
Burkina Faso

Four questions on the unprecedented humanitarian emergency in Burkina Faso

Isabelle Defourny, MSF Director of Operations, was recently in Burkina Faso and raises the alarm on the humanitarian situation in the most conflict-affected areas of the country. Interview - 20 Mar 2020
 
Codogno Hospital, Lodi Province Carlotta, nurse for MSF for 10 years, is the coordinator of the project in Codogno. Her priority is to protect the hospital staff.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

“Our priority is to protect hospital staff” where COVID-19 began in Italy

MSF staff having been working with frontline healthcare staff in Codogno hospital, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in northern Italy, helping to improve infection control measures. Project Update - 20 Mar 2020
 
Nearly one hundred patients requiring urgent medical attention, surgery or wound care at the Regional Hospital Maroua in the Far North Region of Cameroon. MSF supports the Ministry of Health by running the operating theater for emergency surgery and providing post-operative care.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Vulnerable communities are bracing for impact of COVID-19

MSF Director of Analysis, Jonathan Whittal, describes how the coronavirus disease pandemic will affect some fragile settings and those without adequate access to healthcare more than others. Op-Ed - 20 Mar 2020
 
Inside the ER of MSF-supported al-Thawra General Hospital; the biggest public hospital in Taiz City. Al-Thawra hospital has been at the receiving end of indiscriminate attacks by the different armed groups in the city. Between 2018 and 2020, MSF has recorded at least (40) incidents of violence against the premises of Al-Thawra General Hospital, its medical personnel and patients, including shootings inside or near hospital premises.
Yemen

Constant attacks on hospitals and staff jeopardise healthcare in Taiz

Medical staff and facilities supported by MSF in Taiz, Yemen, have come under repeated attack and armed incursions. MSF is urging warring parties to stop the attacks. Press Release - 20 Mar 2020
 
Restaurants and bars are closed. Such as all unessential shops.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

As COVID-19 continues to spread, MSF prepares for action in France

As coronavirus disease COVID-19 continues to spread, MSF teams will now respond in France, focusing on detecting and managing cases of COVID-19 among vulnerable people.
 Press Release - 18 Mar 2020
 
On March 9th, 2020, an MSF team distributed heating material in a camp for internally displaced people in Northwest Syria. Aerial view of the camp where the distribution took place.
Syria

People in northwest Syria continue to struggle despite truce

Despite a truce in the conflict in northwest Syria, nearly a million people who have been displaced since December are struggling in cold, unhygienic conditions. Project Update - 17 Mar 2020
 
Surgeon John Buckles and medical doctor Martijn Knap perform a laparotomy on 10 years old Nyaduoth. Nyaduoth suffered several stab wounds and was transferred from Lankien to the MSF hospital in Bentiu Protection of Civilians (PoC) site to undergo surgery.
South Sudan

Huge numbers of wounded and displaced as violence continues in Jonglei and Greater Pibor area

Intercommunal violence continues in Jonglei state and Greater Pibor administrative area in eastern South Sudan, forcing thousands to flee and MSF to treat dozens of wounded. Press Release - 17 Mar 2020
 
Protective masks worn by patients and staff at the Doris Goodwin Hospital.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Help and solidarity needed in Europe to protect medical staff from COVID-19

With a severe shortage of protective equipment needed to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, MSF is urging European states to show solidarity and share materials. Press Release - 16 Mar 2020
 
A nurse at work at Zugdidi regional TB hospital, in Georgia’s Samegrelo region, where MSF first started working in 2006. “The question people ask me most often is, ‘aren’t you afraid of working here?’ I tell them, ‘of course not.’ And I give them more information about TB.”
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Challenges in supporting COVID-19 response

In a context where COVID-19 has spread to more than 100 countries, including those with developed and fragile health systems, what challenges does MSF face in responding? Interview - 16 Mar 2020
 
A general view of the olive grove next to the official camp of Moria. At the moment, 13,000 people stranded in a camp designed to host just 3,000. People in the olive grove have to share their tents with other people with whom, they don’t have any previous relationship. The level of hygiene is very low and people have to share a toilet with another 90 people and a shower with 200. When it rains the tents are getting wet and the area turns into a muddy swamp. MSF team in the pediatric clinic in Moria see an average of 100 children and pregnant women per day. Currently with the recent increase of arrivals our team is struggling to respond to the need that arising. Most of the children our teams see are suffering from diseases which are directly connected with the living conditions such, respiratory tract infections, skin diseases, fever and diarrhea. We also receive children with chronic and complex medical cases who need specialized attention that is not available. Yet, they have to spend months living in unhygienic and unsafe conditions before they are moved to mainland in order to get the much-needed treatment.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Evacuation of squalid Greek camps more urgent than ever over COVID-19 fears

MSF is calling for the immediate evacuation of migrants and refugees stuck living in unhygienic, cramped conditions on the Greek islands, in the wake of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 coronavirus on Lesbos. Press Release - 12 Mar 2020
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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