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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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7689 Results
 
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Sleeping sickness

Supply of sleeping sickness drugs confirmed

Sleeping sickness is a neurological disease caused by a parasite transmitted by tsetse flies. It is endemic in 36 African countries, and it is estimated that it currently affects 500 000 people and threatens 60 million more. If left untreated, the disease leads to irreversible coma and death. Press Release - 3 May 2001
 
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HIV/AIDS

Costly campaign against AIDS looks past treatment to prevention

Project Update - 2 May 2001
 
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Nigeria

Nigeria's choice of generics will allow 10,000 to be treated

Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcome the announcement made by President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria that 10,000 people will soon have access to free AIDS drug cocktails as part of comprehensive new AIDS programme. Press Release - 30 Apr 2001
 
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Neglected diseases

International Conference on Stimulating Research and Development for Neglected Diseases

Médecins Sans Frontières and the London School of Economics and Political Science are organising a one and a half day international conference on stimulating research and development for medicines for neglected diseases. The conference will take place in London 14-15 June. Project Update - 26 Apr 2001
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF announces temporary suspension of activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF sends their most sincere and heartfelt condolences to the friends and families of the victims. MSF sees this most violent act as a direct attack against the humanitarian community working in the DRC. Press Release - 26 Apr 2001
 
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Republic of Congo

Sleeping sickness in Congo-Brazzaville possibly at epidemic proportions

"The situation of sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) in Congo-Brazzaville is undefined but the possibilities are daunting", says MSF country manager Cathy Huser, speaking from from Congo-Brazzaville. Project Update - 23 Apr 2001
 
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Pakistan

Situation in Jalozai refugee camp in Pakistan is slightly improving

The situation in Jalozai refugee camp, based outside Peshawar, Pakistan, is slightly improving. According to MSF the population of the camp is between 35,000 and 45,000, mostly new arrivals from the north of Afghanistan Project Update - 23 Apr 2001
 
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Nigeria

Fear of measles epidemic in Nigeria expanding

Project Update - 23 Apr 2001
 
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Sierra Leone

Controlling phantom limb pain in Sierra Leone

Phantom pain is one of the cruelest reminders for an amputee of the part
of the body lost in Sierra Leone's war of mutilation. Project Update - 21 Apr 2001
 
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Guinea

In southern Guinea, refugees flee without any protection nor assistance to Sierra Leone

Thousands of Sierra Leoneans who had taken refuge in Southern Guinea, and have found themselves trapped in the "Parrot’s Beak" region, close to Gueckedou, are now trying to flee the region in an effort to escape the fighting. Press Release - 12 Apr 2001
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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