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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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Access Campaign

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.

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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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MSF outreach activities in Boma, GPAA
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Daniel Kuju, health promotion supervisor, and Beatrice Johnson, community health educator, visit semi-nomadic communities in Labarab, Greater Pibor administrative area to conduct health awareness sessions. South Sudan, February 2024.
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MSF in Nariño
Social violence and exclusion

Violence in southwestern Colombia leaves people struggling to access assistance

Statement 3 Mar 2020
 
Pibor-Thousands flee into the bush as conflict intensifies
South Sudan

Thousands flee into the bush as conflict intensifies in east South Sudan

Statement 2 Mar 2020
 
Deir Hassan Camp
Syria

MSF to scale up response in Idlib, Syria as tensions reach a new peak

Statement 28 Feb 2020
 
Nigeria

MSF condemns the killing of four aid workers in northeast Nigeria

Statement 13 Dec 2019
 
DRC-Mambasa: Emergency medical and psychological care for victims of sexual violence
Democratic Republic of Congo

As security situation deteriorates, MSF withdraws staff from Biakato

Statement 6 Dec 2019
 
IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno state
Nigeria

Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question lifesaving assistance

Statement 25 Oct 2019
 
Bardarash refugee camp
Iraq

MSF providing medical care in Iraq to people fleeing northeast Syria

Statement 21 Oct 2019
 
OLEG Story: "I’d been through many things in my life, but I’d never experienced anything like it.”
Tuberculosis

TB drug delamanid must be more affordable and made available in more countries

Statement 10 Oct 2019
 
MSF Clinic: inpatient department and surgical capacity, Gogrial, Warrap State. South Sudan
About MSF

Dr Christos Christou new International President of MSF

Statement 9 Sep 2019
 
Everyday Emergency: North Kivu
Democratic Republic of Congo

Six years on, still no news of our colleagues held hostage by armed group ADF

Statement 11 Jul 2019
 
Intense fighting in Taiz Houban
Yemen

People unable to access lifesaving care amid heavy fighting in Taiz city

Statement 24 Mar 2019
 
Butembo and its surroundings, the new epicentre of the outbreak
Democratic Republic of Congo

Medical activities suspended after Ebola treatment centre attack

Statement 28 Feb 2019
 
Butembo and its surroundings, the new epicentre of the outbreak
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Second Ebola treatment centre in North Kivu attacked

Statement 28 Feb 2019
 
Landmines in Taiz and Hodeidah governorates
Yemen

Humanitarian crisis in Yemen fuelled by main donor governments’ involvement in the war

Statement 26 Feb 2019
 
NAURU - MSF forced to end its Mental Health activities
Nauru

Nauru | Concerns over reopening Christmas Island detention centre

MSF Australia. 21 Feb 2019
 
Butembo and its surroundings, the new epicentre of the outbreak
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Potential new Ebola drugs being trialled in MSF treatment centres

Statement 12 Feb 2019
 
Castors Maternity - Bangui
World AIDS Day

UNAIDS report overlooks significant aspects of the global HIV response

Statement 29 Nov 2018
 
Condemned to drown at sea or be locked up in Libya
Libya

Over 80 refugees and migrants forcibly disembarked in Misrata after 10-day standoff

Statement 23 Nov 2018
 
Aquarius leaves Valencia to SAR
Mediterranean migration

Sinister attacks by Italian authorities on lifesaving search and rescue in the Mediterranean

Statement 20 Nov 2018
 
NAURU - MSF forced to end its Mental Health activities
Nauru

Information on patient files transfer by MSF to Nauruan health authority

Statement 17 Oct 2018
 
MSF in Al Dhale and Taiz, Yemen. July 2015
Yemen

MSF suspends activities after attack in Ad Dhale

Statement 2 Oct 2018
 
Palestine

MSF statement regarding the death of a staff member in Gaza

Statement 29 Aug 2018
 
Aquarius August 2018
Mediterranean migration

MSF welcomes place of safety in Malta after rescues on Mediterranean

Statement 15 Aug 2018
 
Surgical field hospital, Mocha, Yemen
Yemen

MSF opens a surgical field hospital in Mocha to treat war-wounded patients

Statement 1 Aug 2018
MSF Logistique - Bordeaux
How we work

How we deliver medical humanitarian assistance

Everywhere we work, the circumstances are unique. Nonetheless, our programmes generally follow a common set of practices designed to make sure our resources and expertise are used to maximum effect.

 

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