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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 Websites

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Our offices around the world
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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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The Americas

Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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El Rancho hostel in Piedras Negras.

Mexico

Every year, an estimated 400,000 people flee violence and poverty in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and enter Mexico with the hope of reaching the United States. In Mexico, they are systematically exposed to further episodes of violence.
The situation for migrants at the border between Nicaragua and Honduras has worsened in recent months. Since the beginning of March, a new wave of people who are migrating has been crossing the eastern borders of Honduras. From January to March, more than 30,000 people have entered the country irregularly between the municipalities of Trojes and Danli, both border points with Nicaragua. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile clinics continue to travel to different points in the area to provide medical and humanitarian assistance to people on the move. In the midst of these consultations, MSF teams listen to the stories of people who arrive affected by physical exhaustion and have experienced situations of violence that impact their mental and emotional health. This was the case for Natasha and René, who had to leave Venezuela with their puppy Juan Pablo to cross the Darien jungle between Colombia and Panama to Danli. Their testimony was captured in a coloring book to try to bring people closer to this type of situation in a different way; as well, to give health promotion teams something they can provide children waiting at border points with to awaken their interest in drawing, as well as use as a child-friendly support tool to help them see others are also facing this difficult journey. Like Natasha and René, between 80 and 160 people are treated every day at the MSF clinic for different health conditions. In 2022, the teams provided more than 17,000 medical consultations at two border points in the country: Danli and Trojes. Of these people, a large percentage are minors, pregnant women and people with chronic diseases.

Nicaragua

Discover how we delivered medical humanitarian assistance in Nicaragua.
From January to November 2023, almost half a million migrants have crossed the Darién Gap, between Colombia and Panama.

Panama

Read about MSF's activities in Panama
The MSF intervention strategy, in collaboration with Paraguay’s Ministry of Health, consists in bringing Chagas diagnosis and treatment closer to the most isolated communities and building health staff capacities so that they are able to see to the needs of the affected people

Paraguay

MSF first worked in Paraguay in 2010 and closed its projects in 2013.
A Venezuelan migrant looks out from the malecón of the Tumbes River in central Tumbes.

Peru

MSF teams in Peru have responded to earthquakes and pandemics, such as COVID-19, and have treated marginalised people for HIV.
MSF works with national authorities at San Francisco de Guayo clinic to provide medical care to communities living on the banks of the Orinoco River in Delta Amacuro state, northeastern Venezuela. The road is only by river and it takes hours to get from one place to another. MSF trabaja junto a las autoridades locales para brindar atención médica primaria a comunidades aisladas del estado Delta Amacuro, al noreste de Venezuela. El camino es sólo fluvial y toma horas trasladarse de un lugar a otro.

Venezuela

Learn about our projects in Venezuela, where we rehabilitate hospitals and provide general healthcare, including for sexual and reproductive health.