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How we work

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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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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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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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455 Results
 
Mass-casualty influx northern Syria
Syria

Blast in Syria’s Idlib region causes multiple casualties

A dozen people have been rushed to an MSF-supported hospital in Idlib province, northwestern Syria, after a blast in the town of Darkoush on 31 October. Project Update - 1 Nov 2019
 
Iraq - Newly arrived refugees from NE Syria
Iraq

Mental health issues emerge amongst people fleeing northeast Syria

MSF teams are starting to see - and treat - mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts, among people who have fled the conflict in northeast Syria into camps in northern Iraq. Project Update - 28 Oct 2019
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Multiple casualties from shelling on village in northwestern Syria

Shelling on a village in Idlib province, northwestern Syria, has resulted in a number of deaths and multiple people taken to hospital, amid fear and displacement of people. Project Update - 25 Oct 2019
 
Treatment of mental disorders in non-specialized health settings
Mental health

Treating mental health outside of specialised settings

In an effort to address challenges of providing adequate mental health support to people, MSF has implemented the Mental Health Gap programme in two clinics in northern Lebanon. Project Update - 17 Oct 2019
 
Palestine: The invisible mental health crisis plaguing the West Bank
Palestine

The invisible mental health crisis plaguing the West Bank

Much-needed mental health consultations are among the services Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offers civilians in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank of Palestine since 1996. Project Update - 10 Oct 2019
 
IRAQ - maternal health activities in Mosul - August 2019
Iraq

Mosul's expectant mothers just can't wait

Thousands of people are still struggling to access affordable quality healthcare in Mosul, northern Iraq, and pregnant women are among the most vulnerable. In west Mosul, two MSF maternity units welcome more than 150 babies each week. Project Update - 11 Sep 2019
 
Treating Gaza’s infections
Antibiotic resistance

Treating resistant infections in Gaza under the blockade

Antibiotic resistance was already an issue for people across the Middle East; resistant infections are now making treatment difficult for those with gunshot wounds sustained during the March of Return protests in Gaza. Project Update - 2 Sep 2019
 
Role of interpreters in the West Bank mental health project
Palestine

Mental healthcare in translation

MSF is providing psychotherapy services in Nablus and Qalqiliya. While three of our psychologists in the project are local Palestinians, two are foreigners who do not speak Arabic. This means interpreters play a vital role in our work there. Project Update - 25 Aug 2019
 
Syria: Situation in Idlib deteriorates dramatically
Syria

Escalating conflict in Idlib leaves increasing numbers dead, wounded or displaced

The level of conflict in Idlib and Hama governorates has increased exponentially over the last three months, resulting in hundreds of deaths, thousands of people injured, and forced nearly half a million from their homes and into camps in appalling conditions. Project Update - 31 Jul 2019
 
Providing mental health in Wadi Khaled
Mental health

Tackling stigma one patient at a time in Lebanon

Although mental health issues are common in the community, they are still faced with stigma in the town of Wadi Khaled, northern Lebanon. The clear lack of mental health professionals in Akkar governorate makes way for an increase in superstitious beliefs. Project Update - 22 Jul 2019
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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