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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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Amman, Jordan. 27 August, 2024. Karam, 17, from Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza, during a physiotherapy session at MSFÕs Reconstructive Surgery Hospital in Amman, Jordan. Karam nearly died after his familyÕs house was leveled by an Israeli airstrike. He suffered severe burns to his face and other areas of his body, and also suffered a serious injury to his arm. He is receiving comprehensive reconstructive surgery and physiotherapy at the MSF hospital in Amman.
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International Activity Report 2024

Karam, from central Gaza, Palestine, works with MSF physiotherapist Zaid Alqasi at MSF’s reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan. Karam was evacuated to Jordan after he suffered severe burns to his body and an injury to his arm following an Israeli airstrike that hit his family’s home. Jordan, August 2024. 
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Foreword

In each of the over 75 countries where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) delivered medical assistance in 2024, we saw people acting in solidarity for the principles of dignity and humanity.

An operating theatre in Democratic Republic of Congo, a communal nutrition education session in Nigeria, and a demonstration demanding a pharmaceutical corporation in South Africa lowers its drug prices only work when people come together.

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2024 in review

In 2024, millions of people continued to be affected by disease outbreaks, exclusion from healthcare, and crises such as wars, conflicts, and natural hazards in more than 75 countries. Around 67,000 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff provided assistance where and how they could.

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Feature articles
Portrait of health promoter Abdallah A. in front of the MSF clinic in Adré Transit Camp. Abdallah is 21 years old, he fled from El Geneina, where he finished high school and was about to study public health. He is working for MSF since April 2024 and wants to support his community as best he can.
Abdallah A., a health promoter, receives information in front of the MSF clinic in Adré transit camp. Chad, August 2024.
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Building evidence in crises

In MSF's humanitarian work, data collection is essential. Collecting information leads to better action – and ultimately, better outcomes for our patients and the communities we serve.

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Our activities around the world in 2024

Our teams conducted medical activities in over 75 countries and regions in 2024. Click on the map to find out more.

Facts and figures

Facts and figures

Our activities in figures
MSF nurse Ahmed is taking care of a patient who was injured in the school where he is currently displaced, at the clinic in Gaza City.

16,493,900

outpatient consultations
The main focus of MSF's work in the Auaris region's communities is to reduce malaria infections. The disease is endemic across the Amazon region, where the Yanomami Indigenous Territory is located. With this aim, our teams carry out activities to diagnose and treat malaria, as well as to raise awareness about the disease and prevent it. Furthermore, MSF supports the Yanomami and Ye'kwana branch of the Indigenous Health System by providing primary healthcare, mental health and health promotion services. Our multidisciplinary team hasaround 20 staff across different areas, such as: doctors, psychologists, nurses, microscopists, health promoters, anthropologists and intercultural mediators. Our teams are supporting the Yanomami and Ye'kwana branch of the Indigenous Health System in response to the region´s public health crisis. While our main focus is fighting malaria, we also provide primary healthcare and mental health assistance.

3,877,100

malaria cases treated
Eman, MSF nurse at Marée maternity hospital checks on a newborn in the neonatal unit of the hospital. Northwest Syria, July 2024.

2,473,700

emergency room admissions

International Financial Report

Every year we publish our audited combined financial statements. These combined accounts are a means of transparency and accountability, providing a global overview of MSF’s work.

The International Financial Report represents an aggregation of the financial statements of the 24 sections, 18 branch offices, numerous satellite organisations, and MSF International.