In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.
SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.
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.
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.
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.
Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and more; health facilities have been attacked, looted and destroyed.
Patients have been killed in their beds; health workers have been attacked as they rescued the wounded. A hospital is where the most vulnerable, the sick and injured, gather in times of war. Attacks against medical facilities and health workers, whether deliberate or indiscriminate, are part of generalised violence and atrocities committed against civilians in armed conflict. They deprive populations of health services, often when they need them the most.
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International Activity Report 2016
Destroying the last havens of humanity in war
3 May 2017
Afghanistan
MSF withdraws from Dasht-e-Barchi following attack on patients and staff
Press Release15 Jun 2020
Afghanistan
“As midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country.”
Voices from the Field10 Jun 2020
Afghanistan
Fifteen mothers confirmed killed in Kabul maternity wing attack
Project Update3 Jun 2020
Sudan
MSF urges respect for medical action after violent incursion in Central Darfur
Statement15 May 2020
Afghanistan
“They came to kill the mothers” in Kabul maternity hospital attack
Voices from the Field14 May 2020
Yemen
Constant attacks on hospitals and staff jeopardise healthcare in Taiz
Press Release20 Mar 2020
Syria
Advancing frontlines, mass exodus and reduced access to hospitals in Idlib
Project Update31 Jan 2020
Yemen
MSF hospital partially destroyed in Mocha attack
Project Update7 Nov 2019
Yemen
No true accountability three years after bombing of MSF-supported hospital
Press Release30 Oct 2019
Research & Analysis
Attacks on medical care
MSF President to UN Security Council: "Stop these attacks"
Statement3 May 2016
Attacks on medical care
Kunduz, Afghanistan, 36°43’4.91’’N, 68°51’43.96’’
Opinion10 Nov 2015
Book
Saving Lives and Staying Alive
5 Sep 2016
Book
Journal article
Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières
25 Jun 2014
Journal article
Yemen
MSF releases detailed documentation of attacks on two medical facilities ahead of UNSC closed session on protection of medical mission
Report27 Sep 2016
Syria
MSF urges Syrian government and its allies to stop indiscriminate bombing in Aleppo
Press Release30 Sep 2016
Attacks on medical care
Hospital bombings: Building evidence with images
Project Update15 Feb 2017
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In Focus
Kunduz hospital attack
On 3 October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed our trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 42 people. Our request for an independent investigation has so far gone unanswered.
Crisis Settings
War and conflict
Around one-quarter of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict.
Middle East & North Africa
Syria
War has raged in Syria for the best part of a decade, killing hundreds of thousands of people, displacing millions more, and creating extreme levels of destruction and suffering.
In 2019
515,100
outpatient consultations
169,100
routine vaccinations
37,200
people admitted to hospital
Middle East & North Africa
Yemen
Discover how we deliver medical humanitarian assistance in Yemen, where indiscriminate bombings and chronic shortages of supplies and staff have led to the closure of more than half the country's health facilities.
In 2019
308,900
outpatient consultations
75,800
people admitted to hospital
35,100
people treated for cholera
Africa
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.
In 2019
967,000
outpatient consultations
612,700
malaria cases treated
69,400
patients admitted to hospital
Africa
South Sudan
In South Sudan, MSF delivers one of its largest assistance programmes worldwide. Our teams provide primary and secondary healthcare and run outreach activities for displaced people and remote communities. This includes response to emergencies and outbreaks and preventive activities such as vaccination campaigns.
In 2019
1,120,900
outpatient consultations
292,100
malaria cases treated
61,000
vaccinations against measles in response to an outbreak
