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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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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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MSF Access

MSF Access pushes 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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Geo MSF

The GeoMSF platform is a dynamic one-stop-shop website for all of MSF's GIS related services and products. Access maps and applications through the catalogue, request geographical support, or produce a map on GeoMSF.

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Africa

Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Paulina Cassombu has been in Cuvango Municipal Hospital, in southwestern Angola, with her daughter, Rosa, for three weeks. Rosa was admitted with severe malnutrition and was covered in painful blisters and could not walk for a long period of time. Now, as she got better, and with the help of psychostimulation sessions, has been able to regain her mobility. “She came in with a lot of blisters. She is much better now and it makes me happy,” said Paulina. Both in Cuvango and Chipindo Municipal Hospitals, through psychostimulation sessions, psychologists have worked to re-establish mobility, cognition, confidence, and mother to child bond after a child has been in a critical condition in the hospital for an extended period.

Angola

We handed over our medical activities to the Ministry of Health and left Angola in August 2023.
MSF gynecologist following up on a patient in the maternity ward for women having given birth through a C-section, Klouékanmè Hospital. Dr Dieudonné has been on assignement at the Klouékanmè Hospital since October 2023. He supports the medical team, provides training in obstetrical care and helps organize the department.

Benin

Learn about MSF's activities in Benin.
Women collecting drinking water at an MSF water pump

Burkina Faso

MSF is providing people affected by insecurity with essential services.
Un infirmier fait un prélèvement sanguin sur une patiente dans les urgences de l’Hôpital du district de la province de Cibitoke au Burundi, Mars 2023.

Burundi

MSF is responding to malaria in five districts of Burundi.
Rose Poudjoum, midwife supervisor, monitors a patient and her baby at Mora district hospital, Far North region, Cameroon.

Cameroon

MSF is working in the Far North and Centre regions of Cameroon.
MSF emergency team responding to first ever dengue fever outbreak in Cape Verde. A team was sent to support the hospital in Sao Felipe, the main town of the island of Fogo. Others maintain the health centers of Praia, the capital located on the island of Santiago. <br/> Une équipe d'urgence MSF participe à la prise en charge d¿une épidémie de Dengue.Une équipe a été envoyé pour soutenir l'hôpital de Sao Felipe, la ville principale de l'île de Fogo. D'autres soutiennent les centres de santé de Praia, la capitale du pays située sur l'île de Santiago.

Cape Verde

MSF worked in Cape Verde following a dengue fever outbreak in 2009.
MSF team in Yongofongo, located 19 kilometers from Bangassou, Mbomou prefecture, March 2023.

Central African Republic

Learn about our medical humanitarian work in the Central African Republic, where years of intense violence have resulted in thousands being killed or wounded and millions being displaced, severely restricting access to medical care, food, water and shelter.
Mothers wait for their children to receive a medical consultation in the pediatric triage for children under 5 tent at the MSF clinic in the spontaneaous site for refugees in Adré, Ouaddaï region, Chad. Feb 2, 2024. ©Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi for Médecins Sans Frontières

Chad

Since 2015, thousands of people in the Lake Chad region have been forced to flee their homes as a result of violent clashes between armed groups and Chadian military forces.
Nurse activity managers walking towards one of the 7 Oral rehydration points set by MSF teams in Anjouan in the locality of Tsembehou.

Comoros

MSF responded to a cholera outbreak in Comoros in 2024.
In the operating theatre of the Salama clinic in Bunia, a team of surgeons and anaesthetists from the Ministry of Health and MSF work together to treat trauma patients. In their first year of operation, the teams performed 2,050 operations at the Bunia surgery centre, Ituri, 2 June 2024.

Democratic Republic of Congo

In DRC, MSF runs some of its largest medical relief operations, working in 17 of 26 provinces, responding to diseases outbreaks, conflict and displacement, and tackling health problems such as HIV/AIDs.
A doctor wipes the sweat from his brow during a consultation. He has 3 call outs during the night and is exhausted starting his 6 hour day shift.

Djibouti

MSF began work in Djibouti in 1978 and closed our projects in 2012. We currently maintain an operational support base for our Yemen projects in Djibouti city.
A simple tent is used a consultation room. The patients have to wait outside. The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea made estimated 300.000 people to IDPs, a lot of them where in small camps in the mountains between Senafe and Adi Kai. A lack of clean water and big needs regarding Non Food Items were the biggest problems. So an MSF Team with a doctor or a nurse and a logistician went together with two translators, two donkey drivers and 4 donkeys in the mountains to visit 6 different IDP-camps and returned after 10 days.

Eritrea

MSF opened its first mission in Eritrea in April 2000, in response to the growing risk of hunger and renewed conflict between Eritrea and its southern neighbor and former ally, Ethiopia.
MSF mobile clinic visits patient homes delivering drug refills and food support

Eswatini

MSF is working with communities to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare.
MSF provides clean water to Aby Aday IDP camp in Sheraro, Tigray. MSF re-started activities in Tigray in November 2022. Water and sanitation activities are a key priority to prevent the spreading of water borne diseases. In Sheraro, MSF team are trucking up to 1.4 million litres of water to serve six IDP camps every day.

Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, we fill gaps in healthcare and respond to emergencies such as cholera and measles outbreaks.
Cisse, a health promoter, carries buckets with kits given to every patient who comes to receive treatment for diphtheria from the logistics tent set up on the ground of the Centre de Traitement Epidemiologique to the waiting area where patients are at the center in Siguiri, Guinea. The kit was made to allow them to spend five days there and to easily clean and dispose of it, as necessary. MSF has helped treat over 2100 patients as of Jan. 4, 2024, and has been responding to a diphtheria outbreak in the region since mid-August, the likes of which has not been seen in the country for the last 30 years.

Guinea

In Guinea, MSF teams provide support to people living with HIV and the health needs of children at a community level.
Since the beginning of November 2023, the Northeast of Kenya has experienced significant rainfall. The communities surrounding MSF Dagahaley Project has suffered significantly from this rainfall. More than 2700 people have relocated to 5 schools within Dagahaley, with many others taking shelter within their extended families in Dagahaley. In response, MSF launched an intervention to assist the thousands of people affected by the flooding in the County of Garissa with a specific focus on the needs of the communities in and around Dagahaley’s refugee camp. Immediate needs are with those in the schools who are without shelter from the elements, food, clean water and cooking capabilities. The risk of water-borne diseases increases as the shortage of drinking water, latrines and food continues. Additionally, the heavy rains have made roads inside the camp impassable, even for people walking on foot.

Kenya

We offer care to refugees, survivors of sexual violence and people who use drugs in Kenya, and respond to public health challenges, including HIV.
Women wait to talk to an expert at MSF's family planning clinic, Roma, Lesotho. The clinics provide free advice on family planning, something which is difficult to get in Lesotho.

Lesotho

MSF briefly returned to Lesotho in 2021 to respond to COVID-19.
Children living with epilepsy in Liberia can find it difficult to stay in school because of their seizures and the stigma attached to them.

Liberia

Although health services are being progressively restored in Liberia, important gaps persist, notably in specialised paediatric care and mental health.
Given the poor road infrastructure, extreme weather conditions severely limit people’s access to health centers and make it difficult for our teams to reach communities. A situation that often demotivates people to visit health centers before their condition worsens.

Madagascar

Read about MSF medical and humanitarian activities in Madagascar.
A sex worker from Zalewa waits to be seen by Christine Muntali, MSF's Sexual and Reproductive Health nurse supervisor, in the team's ambulance. MSF provides family planning methods and medication to prevent sexually transmitted diseases to women beneficiaries of the project.

Malawi

Learn about our medical projects in Malawi, where an estimated 980,000 people are living with HIV. We are supporting efforts to combat the virus, while also responding to emergencies such as the devastating floods that hit the country in March 2019.
On September 10, more than 1,700 internally displaced people from Talataye arrived at the Soso Koira site in Gao. They settled in extremely unstable conditions.

Mali

As violence spirals in Mali, millions are in need of humanitarian assistance.
From centre left: Cheickh Ahmed Isselmou, Pharmacy Supervisor; Philemon Olivier, Project Pharmacist; and Kelly Thierno Moctar, a doctor and Assistant Medical Coordinator, readying vaccines at 6:30am at a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) facility in Bassikounou in the Hodh ech Chargui region of Mauritania on 7 August 2018. Located in Southeastern Mauritania, Bassikounou is the staging point for MSF operations in the Mbera refugee camp and the surrounding area.

Mauritania

We provide medical care to people who have fled from Mali.