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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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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
 
Condemned to drown at sea or be locked up in Libya
Libya

Trapped refugees must be released and granted safety from Tripoli fighting

Fighting that has broken out in Tripoli, Libya, over the last week, has trapped and further endangered the lives of refugees and migrants who are being held in detention centres. We call for their immediate release to a place of safety. Project Update - 11 Apr 2019
 
Treating Mosul’s wounded
Iraq

A year of post-operative care in Mosul

In the aftermath of the battle of Mosul, Iraq, war-wounded people, including children, needed reliable post-operative care. In response, MSF established a post-operative care facility in the city a year ago. These are the patient stories and the challenges we face. Project Update - 10 Apr 2019
 
Gaza: MSF providing care for the victims of the Great March of Return
Palestine

March of Return protestors abandoned after year of suffering

A year after the start of the series of March of Return protests in which Israeli forces shot at people in Gaza, resulting in horrific injuries, the needs to provide injured people with care mount as the local healthcare system is unable to cope. Project Update - 28 Mar 2019
 
Collapsed building
Iraq

The aftermath of the conflict in Hawija: “My only hope is to get back to normal”

With people returning to Hawija, northern Iraq, after years of conflict, MSF is filling the gaps in the local healthcare system, providing treatment including for chronic and non-communicable diseases. Project Update - 26 Mar 2019
 
Patient in Ad Dahi emergency room
Yemen

MSF opens new emergency room in Ad Dahi hospital

MSF has opened a new emergency room in Ad Dahi hospital, Hodeidah governorate, Yemen, where 100-year old Omar was recently our first patient. Project Update - 14 Feb 2019
 
Surgeries in Al-Awda Hospital
Palestine

The challenge of filling gaps in the legs of Gaza’s wounded

Since the March of Return protests in Palestine, over 2018, MSF has treated half of the 6,000 people injured by Israeli gunfire. The injuries are devastating. We're providing surgical and post-operative care - but there's a huge gap in the treatment needs of these many patients. Project Update - 24 Jan 2019
 
Condemned to drown at sea or be locked up in Libya
Libya

Refugees returned to overcrowded Libyan detention centres

Over recent weeks, vulnerable refugees have been intercepted or rescued in the Mediterranean Sea and brought back to Libya - in violation of international law - and are now locked up in dire conditions in overcrowded detention facilities. Project Update - 23 Jan 2019
 
Tackling antibiotic resistance in Mosul
Iraq

The invisible burden of antibiotic resistance in Mosul

Almost 40 per cent of patients admitted to MSF’s post-operative care facility in East Mosul arrive with multidrug-resistant infections, and antibiotic resistance is a problem throughout the country. Project Update - 17 Jan 2019
 
Shatila Camp Illustrations
Lebanon

“To see one smile on a broken face is enough to know that this work is worthwhile”

MSF has been working with refugees in Shatila refugee camp, Lebanon, since 2013. Illustrator Ella Barron visited our clinic in late 2018 and took refugees' testimonies and illustrated their stories, while MSF psychologist Miriam Slikhanian shares her experience of working on mental health issues in the camp. Project Update - 15 Jan 2019
 
Landmines in Taiz and Hodeidah governorates
Yemen

Trapped by landmines

Landmines and explosive devices urgently need clearing from civilian areas in southwest Yemen – not only places where people live, but also agricultural land. Project Update - 10 Jan 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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