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Who We Are

Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

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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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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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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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Gaza protest
Mental Health: Rohingya Trauma and Resilience
Migrants and Refugees in Mexico shelters
2018 Union Conference - Johnson & Johnson (J&J) protest
Behind the Frontlines of Hodeidah
Médecins Sans Frontières

International Activity Report 2018

Gaza: Overwhelmed by gunshot wounds
The Rohingya: No country to call home
The broken American dream: Violence on the Central American migration route
Drug-resistant tuberculosis: From hopelessness to healing

Table of contents

South Kivu reportage: Numbi & Lulingu
Countries
Aquarius Disembarking at Valencia Port Spain
Foreword
Ebola outbreak - Bunia
Year in Review
In the aftermath of May 14th
Gaza: Overwhelmed by gunshot wounds
Migrants and Refugees in Mexico shelters
The broken American dream: Violence on the Central American migration route
Mental Health: Rohingya Trauma and Resilience
The Rohingya: No country to call home
2018 IAR TB Feature – Patient Profile
Drug-resistant tuberculosis: From hopelessness to healing
Behind the Frontlines of Hodeidah
2018 in figures

Regions

Old Fangak Stories
Africa
Tondo project in Philippines
Asia & Pacific
SAR activities June 2017
Europe & Central Asia
Voices from Oaxaca
The Americas
Newly renovated ICU Opens at Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital
Middle East & North Africa

The year in review

In 2018 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams provided medical and humanitarian assistance to people facing extreme hardship in over 70 countries.

Emergency response continued to be a core part of our work in 2018: from treating war-wounded ever closer to frontlines in Yemen; responding to epidemic outbreaks such as Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and cholera in Niger; providing assistance to people fleeing violence in the Central African Republic and Central America; treating visible and invisible wounds around the world and making every effort to improve patient care wherever we work.

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Waiting for monsoon season in Cox´s Bazar
Photo Story

A year in pictures 2018

20 Dec 2018
Photo Story
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MSF activities around the world

Our teams conducted medical activities in 74 countries in 2018. Click on the map to find out more.

Our Programmes

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      Place names and boundaries do not reflect any position by MSF on their legal status.
      Feature articles
      Gaza protest
      A wounded demonstrator is evacuated from the throng as tens of thousands gather at the border between Gaza and Israel on 14 May 2018, in the seventh week of protests. More than 1,300 Palestinians were shot and 60 killed at the fence that day, which marked the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Israel and the day the US embassy in Jerusalem was inaugurated.
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      Gaza: Overwhelmed by gunshot wounds

      How do you treat thousands of similar injuries, all needing multi-stage treatment, potentially lasting for years? Marie-Elisabeth Ingres describes what she saw in Gaza in 2018.

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      Waiting for monsoon season in Cox´s Bazar

      The year in pictures

      MSF's Pictures of the Year collection looks back on a year of providing medical care in extreme conditions and contexts across the globe.

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      The year in figures

      Browse through key medical, financial and HR facts and figures from 2018.

      The year in figures

      Facts and figures
      Guerrero (Mexico): Under siege

      11,218,700

      Outpatient consultations
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      2,396,200

      Cases of malaria treated
      Sexual and reproductive healthcare in Mrima Hospital

      309,500

      Births assisted, including caesarean sections
      Big Numbers of the year - International Activity Report 2018 (ENG)
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      2018 at a glance

      Your support made this possible!

      Thanks to our 6.3 million donors we were able to treat millions of patients, vaccinate people against preventable diseases, help expectant mothers give birth, and more.