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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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2011 Results
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

"These people are so vulnerable to the elements"

Listen to Annie Desilets, Project Coordinator for MSF in Kitchanga. Voices from the Field - 4 Nov 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Needs race ahead of aid in the DRC

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing its work in Goma and in other towns and villages in North Kivu, DRC and remains very concerned about the tens of thousands of people still on the move, fleeing the recent fighting. Project Update - 4 Nov 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

A desperate, dangerous situation in the DRC - a volunteer's description

Helen O'Neill is an Operational Advisor with emergency medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and recently returned after having worked with the MSF teams in the Kivu region of northeastern Congo. She describes the situation on the ground. Project Update - 3 Nov 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF remains in the DRC - cholera patients flee as conditions worsen

MSF is continuing to work in Goma and in other towns and villages in North Kivu, DRC, and remains extremely concerned about the tens of thousands of people currently on the move, fleeing the fighting. Project Update - 31 Oct 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

International assistance dwindles as fighting renews in the DRC

MSF teams continue to provide independent emergency medical aid to people in towns and camps in the Kivu region of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the humanitarian situation is continuing to deteriorate rapidly. Project Update - 30 Oct 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF intervenes in Haut-Uele province, DRC, to assist displaced people in Bangadi as violence escalates

Populations caught up in the violence of an conflict-ridden situation in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have no other choice than to run away and seek refuge in nearby forests. As the needs increase, MSF wants to assist them but the increasing insecurity is threatening the mission. Project Update - 15 Oct 2008
 
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Georgia

Georgia - two months on, uncertainty remains for many

In Gori and Tbilisi, the MSF teams continue to provide medical and psychological care to displaced persons, distribute essential non-food items and provide health facilities in need with medicines. Project Update - 13 Oct 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

International community failing to provide adequate assistance and protection to the population in North Kivu, DRC

In the most volatile parts of DRC's North Kivu province, violence has reached its highest levels in years, while assistance is hardly reaching those most in need, according to the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Statement - 6 Oct 2008
 
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Somalia

MSF Country Coordinator describes Somalia's current situation

Javier Fernandez has just returned from Somalia after a year and a half as a MSF General Coordinator and describes the country's current situation. Voices from the Field - 2 Oct 2008
 
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Somalia

MSF sees surge in wounded and displaced as violence increases in Mogadishu

In Somalia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is treating the injured and is providing basic relief supplies to the newly displaced, following the recent escalation in fighting in one of Mogadishu's most populated residential areas that has resulted in a surge in the number of wounded and has, once again, displaced thousands of people. Press Release - 2 Oct 2008
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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