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How we work

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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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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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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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MSF Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

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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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Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

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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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Southern Africa Medical Unit

SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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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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Manson Unit

The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF.

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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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Dasht-e-Barchi public district hospital in Kabul
Afghanistan

Nurturing premature babies with their mothers’ embrace

Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), or skin-to-skin care, is highly valued as a therapy that can benefit both mother and child. Dr Nikola Morton, paediatrician, and Laura Acheson, a neonatal nurse, were both passionate about consolidating skin-to-skin practice in Dasht-e-Barchi. They shared their experience of how skin-to-skin has become standard in MSF’s thriving Dasht-e-Barchi neonatal unit. Project Update - 26 Apr 2016
 
SMC and vaccination in the north of Mali
Mali

Vaccination rate increases by 50 per cent in Ansongo

Project Update - 25 Apr 2016
 
DRC-Mambasa: Emergency medical and psychological care for victims of sexual violence
Democratic Republic of Congo

In Mambasa, MSF teams provide care to four new rape survivors each day

“Our work involves changing mentalities to get rid of the taboo around sexual violence, and to be able to offer proper care to every victim,” says Mame Anna Sane, MSF medical team leader. “Of course there is a criminal and legal aspect to sexual violence, but for us it’s first of all a medical emergency.” Project Update - 25 Apr 2016
 
La malaria sigue su escalada en Congo
Global

World Malaria Day: five challenges in the fight against the disease

Although the number of cases of and deaths related to malaria has been declining steadily for 15 years, the disease continues to cause more than 400,000 deaths annually, primarily in Africa (90% of deaths) and among children (70% of deaths). Project Update - 25 Apr 2016
 
Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Japan

People have to continue living in shelters for a while

Interview with Dr. Sonoko Sidehara, project coordinator for Kumamoto Quake emergency response Voices from the Field - 25 Apr 2016
 
MSF first rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016
Mediterranean migration

MSF resumes Search and Rescue activities in the central Mediterranean

Due to the lack of safe and legal alternatives for people to flee and seek protection, the deadly stretch of water between Libya and Italy, which in 2015 claimed the lives of 2,892 men, women and children, is now almost the only way for thousands to reach European shores, and it is already as busy as ever. Press Release - 24 Apr 2016
 
NFI distribution in Azaz district
Syria

Situation critical for tens of thousands displaced over 10 days

Situation update from MSF Syria Head of Mission on the new displacement crisis in Azaz, northern Syria, where more than 35,000 people have fled displaced people camps taken over by the Islamic State group. Voices from the Field - 22 Apr 2016
 
IDPs in Sortoni camp
Sudan

Conditions in Sortoni camp, North Darfur leave 61,000 residents who fled Jebel Mara in danger

Project Update - 22 Apr 2016
 
Ecuador Earthquake
Ecuador

MSF teams offer psychosocial support, distribute medicines in affected areas

The most acute needs are psychosocial support and donations of water, plastic sheeting and jerry cans for displaced people in shelters in the areas of Muisne, Chamanga and Cabo de San Francisco, in the municipalities of Muisne and Pedernales. MSF will also provide donations of medicines and medical supplies to various health structures in affected zones. Project Update - 22 Apr 2016
 
Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Japan

MSF starts medical activities in the area of Minami-aso after Kumamoto Quake

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team travelled to Kumamoto prefecture on 17 April, and identified a severe lack of basic healthcare in Minami-aso village because houses and medical facilities there were severely damaged and people are living in shelters since 14 April. The MSF team working in the area hit by the Kumamoto earthquake is made up of three doctors, three nurses, a pharmacist, a psychologist, a logistician and an administrator. Project Update - 21 Apr 2016
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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