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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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Sierra Leone

Effects of the native herbs that parents gave to their children

Marlene Hay is a nurse specialising in paediatrics from Kilsyth in Scotland. In January she returned from Sierra Leone in West Africa, where she worked for six months in a rural hospital with no running water and a generator that ran for only two hours a day. She reports back on her challenging work and the battle with the cockroaches in the compound toilet! Project Update - 1 Jan 2004
 
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Iran

Specialised equipment and teams sent to treat post-quake 'crush' victims

MSF, together with the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), is providing medical care for "crush syndrome" earthquake victims. A team of five people is already on the ground and a flight carrying six additional dialysis machines left Ostende Tuesday evening. Project Update - 30 Dec 2003
 
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South Sudan

Tuberculosis treatment in complex emergencies

Treating tuberculosis in complex emergencies is an under-recognised priority. Although MSF's programme is small, it offers treatment to people who have previously been denied access to health care. Clearly, new ideas and strategies, based on core principles of tuberculosis treatment, need to be adapted to ensure that people living in unique and difficult settings, such as Sudan, have access to this life-saving care. Project Update - 29 Dec 2003
 
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Somalia

Somali MSF worker killed

MSF Somali national worker, Bashir Yusuf Ali, was tragically killed. Project Update - 29 Dec 2003
 
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Nepal

Crisis in Nepal: Destruction before construction

For the last few months, Jono Lineen has been trying to set up one of MSF's health programmes in western Nepal, where the government and Maoist rebels are fighting a brutal civil war. Below he describes his struggle to negotiate with young revolutionaries bent on restructuring society. Project Update - 29 Dec 2003
 
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Malaria

Amid the death, new hope

From education to vaccines, a drive to halt malaria takes off. This report concludes a Boston Globe series, begun on Jan. 26, on world health challenges and the solutions that are within reach. Project Update - 28 Dec 2003
 
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Iran

MSF rushes emergency relief teams and materials to Iran

Yesterday, Friday December 26, an MSF team carried out a rapid evaluation in the affected region in Bam together with the Iranian Red Crescent. The team is on the spot with first aid material. Ten tons of additional supplies are leaving by plane today. Press Release - 27 Dec 2003
 
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South Sudan

Kala-Azar epidemic threatens thousands in South Sudan

MSF says growing evidence requires a concerted response to the upsurge in this fatal disease. Press Release - 22 Dec 2003
 
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Mozambique

MSF launches the first large-scale test of an oral vaccine against cholera in the city of Beira

At present, two vaccines against cholera exist on the market, but only the one used by MSF in this Mozambique campaign has been granted a pre-qualification by the WHO. Press Release - 18 Dec 2003
 
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Chad

Refugee crisis in eastern Chad worsens

MSF calls on agencies, including UNHCR, to step up assistance urgently. Press Release - 17 Dec 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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