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Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Our Work

MSF Work: We work together in teams, small and large to respond to medical needs of people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters and those excluded from healthcare.
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Where We Work

MSF Works in more than 70 countries around the world, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) saves lives by providing medical aid where it is needed most - in armed conflicts, epidemics, natural disasters, and other crisis situations.

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Our Programmes

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    The place names and boundaries in this map do not reflect any position by MSF on their legal status.

    Projects in Southern Africa

    Over the past decades MSF has and continues to run projects in Southern African countries, including eSwatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. These projects have focused primarily on HIV/TB, healthcare for mobile and migrant populations, and sexual and gender-based violence.

     
    MSF staff in South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal speaking with a Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB)patient
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    South Africa

    In South Africa, MSF supported the COVID-19 response, while continuing to provide care for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) patients, victims of sexual violence, and vulnerable migrants.
     
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    Mozambique

    In Mozambique we are responding to emergencies including disease outbreaks, and providing care to people with advanced HIV, while also working in the conflict-ridden Cabo-Delgado province.
     
    Hypertension patient speaks with MSF supervisor in Zimbabwe, October 2020
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    Zimbabwe

    Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Zimbabwe continues to address healthcare gaps, focusing on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, support for migrants and deportees, and responding to disease outbreaks.
     
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    Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)

    In Eswatini, the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the lives of patients with HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in 2020.
     
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    Malawi

    In Malawi, MSF continues to run programmes to improve care for people living with HIV, the leading cause of death in the country, and for women with cervical cancer.
     
    Women at MSF supported health center of Ha Seng, Lesotho.
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    Lesotho

    After nearly a decade in Lesotho, MSF handed its projects to the government in 2015.

    How We Are Run

    We are a global network owned and run by our staff, past and present. Collectively, we make sure that MSF stays true to its mission and principles. At any given time, this network has tens of thousands of members. Members of the MSF network bring their professional experience and knowledge to respond quickly and with great impact when they are needed, working in MSF projects in more than 70 countries.

    Our supporters are a vital part of the network - their generosity and support helps fund everything we do. This allows us to stay independent, neutral and impartial - and to access those in greatest need quickly.

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    MSF Association

    We are a field-based network engaging MSF professionals from over 100 countries in a shared commitment to medical humanitarian action.
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    Our Offices Around the World

    MSF has main national offices in 21 countries and branch offices in 17 countries. These offices support our projects by raising funds, recruiting professionals to work around the world, raising awareness and supporting advocacy activities.
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    Advocacy and Bearing Witness

    MSF teams work to bring humanitarian medical assistance to people affected by conflict, disasters, epidemics and exclusion from healthcare and we also bear witness – telling others what we see to raise awareness and create debate about these crises.

    Emergencies

    Your donation allows us to respond quickly to emergency situations around the world.

    When an emergency strikes, every second counts. The ability to deploy resources quickly means we’re able to implement more effective strategies and provide medical attention to people before the emergency escalates.

     
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    Crisis Response

    Since 1971, MSF has cared for millions of people caught up in a crisis. We go where the need is greatest, be it a natural disaster, a war, an exodus of refugees or to help people excluded from healthcare.

    With your help, we run hospitals and clinics, perform surgeries, battle epidemics, carry out vaccination campaigns, operate feeding centres and offer mental healthcare.

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    Conflict

    In warzones, MSF does not take sides. We provide impartial medical care based on needs alone.
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    Epidemics

    Our teams are always ready to respond to epidemics. We conduct vaccinations, to work curb outbreak spread & offer the required medical care.
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    Disasters

    With nearly 50 years’ experience, our professional teams are always ready to roll out emergency disaster response.
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    Exclusion from healthcare

    MSF works to provide healthcare to people excluded from care either, by neglect or intent, often outside the media spotlight.

    Medical Issues

    We work to help the people in greatest need, wherever they are. Our medical teams carry out more than eight million patient consultations a year and our medical activities run from basic vaccination campaigns to complex surgery.

    Our emergency medical work extends to neglected, forgotten diseases and long-term care for chronic conditions. We also advocate for affordable, high-quality medicines for the world's poorest people.

     
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    Mental Health

     
    A band around a child’s arm, indicating a red, orange or green malnutrition status.. MSF, Doctors Without Borders, Malnutrition
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    Malnutrition

     
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    Chagas

     
    a woman sits with her hands in her lap. sex workers are often victims of sexual and gender-based violence
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    Sexual and gender-based violence

     
    Dr. Muneeba Shaikh looks at the X-ray results of a tuberculosis patient participating in the endTB-Q clinical trial, at the endTB clinic in Pakistan.
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    Tuberculosis

     
    A child 14 months old is sleeping with her mother at the Muanda Measles Treatment Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo where she is being treated for measels.
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    Measles

     
    A sign saying leishmaniasis treatment centre. MSF, Doctors Without Borders, Kala Azar
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    Kala Azar (leishmaniasis)

     
    An MSF doctor looks through a microscope to check for Sleeping Sickness
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    Sleeping Sickness

     
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    Obstetric fistulas

     
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    HIV/Aids

     
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    Cholera

     
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    Yellow Fever

    Reports

     
    In Hauts Plateaux, an isolated area of South Kivu, MSF is providing medical and mental health support to internally displaced families
    Financial Report

    MSF Southern Africa Annual Financial Statements 2020

    Report 31 May 2021
     
    A village cut off by damage caused by Cylone Idai in Chimanimani Zimbabwe, March 2019
    Financial Report

    MSF Southern Africa Annual Financial Statements 2019

    Report 3 Sep 2020
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    Annual Report

    MSF Financial Statementwith Audit Report 2018.pdf

    22 Jul 2020
    Annual Report
    MSF South Africa Annual Financial Statement 2017 Image
    Annual Report

    MSF South Africa Annual Financial Statement 2017

    22 Jul 2020
    Annual Report
     
    Staff members of MSF Nigeria Emergency Response Unit
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    MSF International Financial Report 2017

    Report 9 Oct 2018