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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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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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Lucas Matagodi at Lianda IDP camp in Mueda. Lucas Matangodi Shilongo is over 70 years old, but he doesn't know exactly how old. He is in Lyanda IDP camp in Mueda district, far from his home in Nangade district further north. "If we were at home we would know how to get food, but not here. Many of Lucas' neighbours in the camp are also from Nangade. The war there forced thousands of people to flee. Lucas says that in one of the attacks, insurgents killed his wife, one of his children and another of his grandchildren. He cries when he remembers them, especially his wife. He misses her. He is devastated. "I dream that I'm running away and falling. I dream that I am being chased," he says. Lucas lives with his sister and other relatives in one of the windowed cottages built in this part of the camp. His daughter cooks with her granddaughter inside the hut. In the next room, where the conversation takes place, there is a tin roof and an empty sack of rice from India. Lucas recalls the attack on his village. "They came in and burnt the houses, they kidnapped many people, I was sleeping in the forest, because they had already tried to attack twice and we were waiting for them, the people had left their houses pre-emptively and were mostly sleeping in the forest on the day of the attack. They attacked during sunset. They burnt houses. It was not then that his wife, son and grandson were killed. It was in another attack. Many of the camp residents report fleeing several villages and suffering several attacks along the way. "Before that attack, my wife went to another village to visit my son, and on the same day the insurgents attacked, captured the village and killed my wife, son and grandson. The other grandchildren fled and they were the ones who informed us". Lucas went to the mobile clinic set up by Médecins Sans Frontières in Lyanda camp today for the first time to seek relief. He needs psychological help. "On a daily basis, I think mainly of my wife. I am alone. Sometimes I cry. When I wake up, I'm no longer sleepy and I start to think. I feel bad for my grandchildren, I don't want to talk to them about what happened. I don't have any more worries, because I have the support of my grandchildren. What I think about is that I will never be able to see my wife again. "For the moment I don't think about going back. I want to stay because I am safe here, what worries me is only the food, because it is not enough".

Mozambique

Learn about our medical projects in Mozambique, where we provide specialised care to help curb the country's HIV epidemic while also assisting people in conflict-ridden Cabo Delgado.
Patients and relatives of patients entering one of the MSF wards in the District Hospital of Magaria, that is supported by MSF in paediatrics and malnutrition.

Niger

Niger is affected by violence and displacement around its border regions.
People looking for treatment for their malnourished children arrive at MSF ATFC located in Riko village, Katsina State, Nigeria, June 2022.

Nigeria

Regular disease outbreaks, malnutrition, and violence continue to endanger people's lives in Nigeria.
A young boy waits for his family member outside of the MSF sponsored Kinoni Centre de Sante in Ruhengeri province, Rwanda. 2005 In October 2002, MSF started the preparations for a reproductive health program in Ruhengeri: the maternity ward of the provincial hospital in Ruhengeri and 6 health centers in Gitare health district. . Working closely with local community actors, this program has various areas of intervention: obstetrical emergencies, medical and psychological care for survivors of sexual violence, implementation of family planning in the health centers and, among access to the minimum package of health care to the whole population of this 6 health centers, maintenance of all general reproductive health services (staff training, sexually transmitted infection prevention, delivery and post-natal care and improving health during pregnancy). In early 2005, the program also integrated HIV/AIDS (but ending end of the year) and sexual violence constituents, with psychological support to women victims of sexual abuse. To assure the financial access for care to the population, the project negotiates low flat fees, as well as insuring free care for the poorest section of society.

Rwanda

MSF closed its projects in Rwanda in 2007.
General views from Dakar, Senegal

Senegal

We closed our projects in Senegal in 2020.
MSF health promoter, Beatrice Turay, standing in front of community members in Rogbereka village, Tonkolili district, holding a vaccination card for children under the age of five and discussing about the importance of vaccination, the various vaccines available for children and how mothers and caregivers can access them.

Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, we work to reduce high maternal and child mortality rates.
Dr. Ahmed Abass, MSF Baidoa Medical Team Lead examines a child in the paediatric general ward of the MSF supported Bay Regional Hospital in Baidoa, Somalia.

Somalia

Four years after a series of violent attacks on our staff forced us to withdraw from Somalia, we started providing much needed medical care again in May 2017.
The composition of the cholera hygiene kits MSF donated to families in the community of Kanana in Hammankskraal, South Africa, is derived from a study MSF conducted with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which showed that these items can bend the curve of a cholera outbreak when given to patients who are discharged.

South Africa

South Africa has the largest HIV patient cohort in the world and is helping to lead the way in gaining access to new treatments for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
An MSF staff member is explaining to refugees and returnees the steps to take at Joda border point, between South Sudan and Sudan, before being transferred to the Transit Centre in Renk.

South Sudan

In South Sudan, MSF delivers one of its largest assistance programmes worldwide.
A MSF doctor walks through the courtyard of El Geneina Teaching Hospital, the only referral hospital in all of West Darfur, Sudan. February 19, 2024. Copyright Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi

Sudan

We're responding to the conflict in Sudan in 11 of the country's 18 states.
Tanzania, Nduta: Health-post, General Consultation

Tanzania

We provide assistance to Burundian refugees living in Nduta camp in the north-west of Kigoma region in Tanzania.
MSF staff with refugees in Kabwera new settlement, Nakivale camp.

Uganda

Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled to northern Uganda following violence in South Sudan. Uganda is currently the largest refugee hosting country in Africa.
In the Massala health zone, which accounts for more than 50% of cholera cases in the Ndola district, we are working simultaneously on several fronts: support for the establishment of a patient isolation and treatment unit, specific triage at the health center level and collaboration with epidemiological surveillance services and community stakeholders. This allows our teams to detect “clusters” of cases. Based on this case geolocation work, activities related to water, hygiene and sanitation are carried out via the chlorination and rehabilitation of water points, as well as the distribution of water kits and hygiene at the household level in the most affected areas.

Zambia

We closed our last project in Zambia in 2018.
Artisinal miner gets a BP check up by MSF nurse

Zimbabwe

Learn about our medical projects in Zimbabwe, where the economic situation continues to create numerous challenges for the health sector, including shortages of medical supplies and essential medicines.