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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

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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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SAR activities June 2017
Mediterranean migration

MSF ends mission of search and rescue boat Prudence

Statement 5 Oct 2017
 
Pakistan Behind The Headlines
Pakistan

MSF asked to close medical activities in Kurram Agency, north-west Pakistan

Statement 14 Sep 2017
 
SAR activities June 2017
Mediterranean migration

Hindrance of humanitarian assistance will create a deadly gap in the Mediterranean Sea

Statement 12 Aug 2017
 

Q&A: Why MSF didn’t sign the Code of Conduct for Search and Rescue

Statement 2 Aug 2017
 
Central African Republic

Baby brutally killed at a hospital

Statement 12 Jul 2017
 
SMC and vaccination in the north of Mali
Mali

MSF suspends activities in Kidal region

Statement 30 Jun 2017
 
Snakebite Amputation
Snakebite

MSF welcomes WHO decision to include snakebite on Neglected Tropical Diseases list

Statement 23 Jun 2017
 
Libya

MSF accuses Libyan coastguard of endangering people’s lives during Mediterranean rescue

Statement 24 May 2017
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

MSF condemns incursion by armed men into supported hospitals in East Ghouta

Statement 1 May 2017
 
Yemeni chronicles
Yemen

MSF statement at Geneva donor conference

Statement 25 Apr 2017
 
Syria

Khan Sheikhoun victims have symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical substances

Statement 5 Apr 2017
 
Besieged Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

MSF withdrawing from Ibb Al-Thawra hospital

Statement 23 Mar 2017
 
East Aleppo
Syria

Warring groups must allow aid to population in need

Statement 14 Mar 2017
 
Georgia: DR-TB patients find hope in new treatments
Georgia

endTB partnership launches clinical trial to target toughest strains of tuberculosis

Statement 6 Mar 2017
 
Kenya

MSF welcomes Kenyan High Court ruling declaring closure of Dadaab refugee camps "illegal"

Statement 9 Feb 2017
 
Afghanistan

Médecins Sans Frontières condemns brutal killing of ICRC staff

Statement 9 Feb 2017
 
Aquarius SAR: Winter conditions and high seas
Mediterranean migration

MSF Response to European Council's "Malta Declaration" on Migration

Statement 4 Feb 2017
 
Migrants Detention Centers Libya 2016
Mediterranean migration

MSF warns EU about inhumane approach to migration management

Statement 3 Feb 2017
 
Family in refugee camp near Polykastro
United States of America

Suspension of US refugee resettlement endangers people fleeing war zones

Statement 29 Jan 2017
 
"Because Tomorrow Needs Her" communications project - Unsafe abortion in Haiti
Women's health

The Mexico City Policy endangers women's lives

Statement 26 Jan 2017
 
Aerial bombing of a displaced camp in Rann
Nigeria

Death toll rising in Rann attack

Statement 19 Jan 2017
 
Victims of bombing on a displaced camp in Rann, Nigeria
Nigeria

MSF strongly condemns the aerial bombing of a camp for displaced people in Rann

Statement 17 Jan 2017
 
MSF's Irbid NCDs project provides medical care to Syrian and Jordanian patients for second year
Jordan

Clinic to treat ‘silent killers’ sees patient numbers rise

Statement 28 Dec 2016
 
East Aleppo
Syria

MSF calls on all sides to spare the lives of civilians trapped in the Aleppo battle

Statement 13 Dec 2016
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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