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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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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
 
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Yemen

A daily challenge for MSF to adapt its activities

War in the north of Yemen has been ongoing for the past eight weeks. Andrés Romero, MSF head of mission in Sana'a, describes the evolution of MSF activities in the current context. Project Update - 9 Oct 2009
 
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Iraq

The fight of the wounded is far from over in Iraq

This is a considerable undertaking for a private organization like Médecins Sans Frontières, but it probably addresses only a marginal share of the needs in a country like Iraq, gripped by a violence that produces victims whose number and type of wounds far outstrip the capacity of a private medical organization. Project Update - 28 Sep 2009
 
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Yemen

MSF assists victims of new wave of warfare in Yemen

Following clashes over recent weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have evaluated the needs in the villages of Baqim and Yesnem, in the north of Saada, and are now organising medical aid for the roughly 30,000 people who have sought refuge there. Project Update - 19 Aug 2009
 
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Constant fighting increases number of wounded in Razeh, northern Yemen

For now, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been able to continue working at the city hospital and has treated 41 war-wounded since that date. Project Update - 8 Jun 2009
 
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MSF team finds 35 dead people on the coastline of Abyan governorate

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile teams have found 35 dead refugees during the night of April 22, 2009, in the coastal location of Radah, in the Abyan governorate. Project Update - 24 Apr 2009
 
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Palestine

Every single inhabitant of Gaza, without exception, has suffered in this war

Throughout the Israeli offensive on Gaza, Sana Rajab and Mohamed "Abu Abed" Mughaiseeb worked at the heart of the emergency health services run by MSF. They share their experience. Project Update - 13 Feb 2009
 
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Physical and psychological scars in Gaza

While many wounded people still require medical care, particularly surgical procedures or post-operative care, the population in the Gaza strip is also in need of social and psychological assistance. Project Update - 2 Feb 2009
 
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Palestine

MSF expands surgical activity in Gaza City

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams began carrying out specialized surgical procedures today in inflatable medical structures erected by MSF late last week in Gaza City. Project Update - 26 Jan 2009
 
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Palestine

MSF medical activities in Gaza increasing in wake of ceasefire

With an already large presence of international medical staff at Al Shifa, MSF is exploring additional ways to assist the affected population.   Project Update - 20 Jan 2009
 
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MSF medical team enters Gaza to reinforce aid operations

Because many wounded and sick people are trapped in their homes, MSF's Palestinian medical staff have been risking their own lives by visiting patients at home to carry out consultations and to provide as much treatment as possible. As of January 14, 317 people were treated by this adaptive approach, among them 92 people under 15 years-of-age and 56 women. Project Update - 18 Jan 2009
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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