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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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7623 Results
 
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Chad

MSF increases assistance to refugee flow into Chad

Outside the main reception camps, more refugees are scattered throughout the surrounding areas and many are seeking refuge in the bush land. Project Update - 23 Jan 2003
 
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Uzbekistan

Full TB coverage in Khorezm region of Uzbekistan

MSF has finalised the expansion of the treatment programme for tuberculosis (TB) in Khorezm oblast, Uzbekistan. Project Update - 23 Jan 2003
 
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Mozambique

The milk of human kindness: Artifical milk feeding in Mozambique

In Mozambique, exclusive feeding of babies by artificial milk is rare and is associated with illness and bad mothering. If a relative sees a mother with formula, it might raise some dangerous questions. But feeding by artifical milk may be essential in stemming the increase of mother-to-child transmission in the country. Project Update - 23 Jan 2003
 
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Russia

The 'bomzhi' - homeless in Moscow

Moscow's homeless, numbering close to 100,000, are trying to survive in conditions where temperatures regularly fall below minus 30 celcius. They are considered vagrants and criminals; are deprived shelter and basic care; and often die in the streets without anyone noticing. MSF's homeless campaign is bringing essential attention these people during the freezing Russian winter. Project Update - 21 Jan 2003
 
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China

Urgent appeal for the protection of North Korean refugees in China

The humanitarian aid workers who attempt to rescue North Korean refugees face the brutal determination of the Chinese authorities, who deem the assistance of North Korean refugees as a criminal offense... Predictably, in this context, support for North Korean refugees in distress is diminishing and assisting them has become a challenge that increasingly few aid organizations, crushed by this sanction policy, are able to undertake. Press Release - 20 Jan 2003
 
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Brazil

New MSF project starts in Rio de Janeiro slum

MSF is opening a clinic in the Marcilio Dias slum, north of Rio de Janeira, Brazil, to improve access to primary health care and psychosocial support for the local community. Project Update - 17 Jan 2003
 
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Access to medicines

MSF calls to WHO's attention outstanding issues on access to medicines

MSF continues its strong collaborations with the WHO in a number of areas germane to this crisis in Research and Development (R&D). Project Update - 17 Jan 2003
 
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South Africa

With all his life: South Africa's hero

Zackie Achmat is an AIDS activist in South Africa who is the leader of the South African NGO 'Treatment Action Campaign' (TAC) as well as one of the key persons working alongside MSF in the development of treatment for people with AIDS in South Africa. He has refused to take any treatment for his HIV/AIDS condition until everyone in South Africa can. In this profile carried in the International Herald Tribune, we see more on the man Nelson Mandela has called his 'hero'. Project Update - 16 Jan 2003
 
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Angola

Mussende's prison now serves as health post

In the second of two parts, MSF teams have entered Mussende by dugout canoes and bicyles. They now find the local prison is serving as the only medical facility. But it is cold, dark and lacking either medicines or supplies. Despite all this, there are small signs the country is changing for the better. Project Update - 15 Jan 2003
 
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Belgium

MSF opposes cooperation between the humanitarian sector and the military - aid workers have to be impartial

The United States is already working together with UN agencies and NGOs so as to plan how to deal with the humanitarian consequences of a conflict in Iraq. Behind this apparently noble aim lurks a great danger, warns Tine Dusauchoit, Director General of Médecins Sans Frontières- Belgium. Project Update - 14 Jan 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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