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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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DNDi

New Body Set to Fight Killer Diseases West Ignores

Diseases that kill millions of poor people every year are ignored by Western firms because drugs to combat them make no money, a new research body said as it was launched on Thursday. Project Update - 3 Jul 2003
 
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DNDi

DNDi diseases focus

DNDi plans to spend around US$250 million over 12 years to develop 6-7 drugs and several drugs in the pipeline to combat sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease - three killer diseases that threaten a combined 350 million people every year.

Read about these diseases below. Project Update - 3 Jul 2003
 
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Liberia

MSF teams fight cholera and malnutrition in Monrovia IDP camps despite ongoing fighting

Clinics are being opened and camps reached in efforts to stem the spread of cholera, malnutrition, malaria and other illnesses suffered by the displaced citizens in the Liberian capital. Project Update - 3 Jul 2003
 
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Drugs for neglected diseases

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative comes amid accusations that the west has ignored the plight of poor patients by either minimising funding or failing to do research on new drugs for diseases that affect them. Project Update - 1 Jul 2003
 
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United States of America

Damp spirits among G8 fresh pledges

An MSF representative described how the rewritten agenda was defended at the summit by the USA and Germany largely to reflect the interests of their pharmaceutical industries. Project Update - 1 Jul 2003
 
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Ethiopia

Nutritional situation in Ethiopia deteriorating

MSF has started a nutritional intervention in Ziway area south of the capital Addis Abeba. The Therapeutic Feeding Centre there cannot handle the influx of severely malnourished children and the situation is alarming. Project Update - 1 Jul 2003
 
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Sierra Leone

New MSF health facility for Liberian refugees

MSF started to build the facility in January due to concerns that refugees were not receiving adequate care through the existing local health structures. Project Update - 27 Jun 2003
 
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Peru

Peru's jail population at far higher risk to HIV/AIDS infection

In Lurigancho Penitentiary's medical facilities, MSF treats 65 cases of HIV/AIDS. However, the prison's seroprevalence index of 2.6 indicates that there are at least 180 possible carriers of the HIV/AIDS in the facility. In this particular prison, inmates are seven times more likely to acquire an infection of HIV / AIDS than on the street. Project Update - 26 Jun 2003
 
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Liberia

Chaos and fear returns to Monrovia as ceasefire is tested to its limits

"As we drove back towards the centre of Monrovia we saw thousands more people removing the precious tarpaulin from their shelters and leaving their homes in the only direction possible: away from the sound of fighting. Little children carrying sacks on their heads heavier than their own skinny bodies, old women stumbling with mattresses along the roads, mothers carrying screaming children and bundles of food" - MSF press officer Lucy Clayton is currently stationed in Monrovia, Liberia. Project Update - 25 Jun 2003
 
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Malawi

Life continues - in spite of HIV

"Africa is dying! Protect yourselves against HIV!". This is how the President of Malawi campaigns for the use of condoms. But already almost a million of the near ten million inhabitants of this country are HIV-positive. The educational programs are not helping any longer. They need medical help to survive. In July 2001, Médecins Sans Frontières began to treat HIV/Aids patients with antiretroviral medicines in the Chiradzulu hospital. Dr Norbert Lüneborg reports from this pilot project. Project Update - 24 Jun 2003
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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