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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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2011 Results
 
A curious family in Barsalogho IDP camp
Burkina Faso

Security and living conditions have deteriorated at ‘blistering speed’ for over 750,000 people

Attacks on villages and severe violence across parts of Burkina Faso have forced over 750,000 people to become displaced. Today most people live in conditions without access to healthcare or water. Project Update - 24 Feb 2020
 
Humanitarian distribution
Syria

People in Idlib race to flee airstrikes as safe area shrinks

Weeks of bombing by the Syrian government and their Russian allies, combined with a ground offensive that is pushing west in the last rebel-held province, Idlib, in northwest Syria, has forced 900,000 people to flee in miserable winter conditions.
 Project Update - 19 Feb 2020
 
On the road to Metuge
Mozambique

Invisible conflict has very real consequences for people in northern Mozambique

MSF is working in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, where a little-known conflict and very few organisations working on the ground results in poor access to healthcare for people. Voices from the Field - 13 Feb 2020
 
Syria: Situation in Idlib deteriorates dramatically
Syria

Advancing frontlines, mass exodus and reduced access to hospitals in Idlib

While thousands flee the latest military offensive in Idlib, Syria and the frontline advances, many hospitals have been partially or completely destroyed. Project Update - 31 Jan 2020
 
Gaza: the human cost of a “pinpoint” conflict
Palestine

Deaths and broken lives, the aftermath of airstrikes in Gaza

Salwa is ten-year-old girl who is the sole survivor in her family of a recent Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Palestine. Severely injured, MSF-supported hospitals are one of the few options open to people like her to start her long recovery.
Project Update - 17 Jan 2020
 
January 2020 displacement in northwest Syria
Syria

Afraid of the bombs: why people discuss the weather in northwestern Syria

A new military offensive in Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee, joining more than 1.5 million displaced already living in dire conditions during a cold and wet winter. Project Update - 9 Jan 2020
 
Syria: Situation in Idlib deteriorates dramatically
Syria

“There are no safe places for people in Idlib”

An escalation of attacks on previously 'safe' areas, including displaced people's camps, in Idlib province, on the Syria-Turkey border has killed and wounded dozens and forced thousands to flee again. Interview - 27 Dec 2019
 
Mora - Far North Region of Cameroon
Cameroon

Conflict in Far North region strips people of hope

Protracted conflict in the Lake Chad region continues to affect people in the Far North region of Cameroon. They face violence and extreme poverty. Project Update - 3 Dec 2019
 
MSF hospital damaged in an attack in Mokha
Yemen

MSF hospital partially destroyed in Mocha attack

An aerial attack on nearby buildings, including a military warehouse, have partially burnt and destroyed an MSF hospital in Mocha, southwestern Yemen, leaving the hospital inoperative and people without medical care. Project Update - 7 Nov 2019
 
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
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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