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How we work

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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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Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
Abs hospital airstrike aftermath, Hajjah, Yemen
Yemen

Saudi-led airstrike on Abs hospital cannot be justified as "unintentional error"

Statement 9 Dec 2016
 
Ramtha hospital after Jordan/Syria border closure
Jordan

Syrians denied access to lifesaving medical care for third consecutive month

Statement 21 Sep 2016
 
Syria

MSF response to attacks on 18 UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid trucks

Statement 20 Sep 2016
 
Bourbon Argos Search and Rescue Operations May 2016
Mediterranean migration

MSF condemns attack on rescue vessel

Statement 25 Aug 2016
 
Airstrike hits Abs hospital in Hajjah
Yemen

Eleven people dead and at least 19 injured after airstrike hits Abs hospital in Hajjah

Statement 15 Aug 2016
 
22 people lost their lives at sea and 209 rescued
Mediterranean migration

22 people die at sea, 209 more are rescued

Statement 19 Jul 2016
 
A tribute to our colleague Arsene, killed in CAR
Central African Republic

A tribute to our colleague, Arsène Bassanganam, killed during an ambush against an MSF convoy

Statement 23 May 2016
 
Kenya - Dadaab refugee camp
Kenya

Show the world that safe refuge is possible

Statement 13 May 2016
 
#safepassage action in Lesbos
Mediterranean migration

In 2016 who still counts as human?

Statement 12 May 2016
 
World Humanitarian Summit

MSF to pull out of World Humanitarian Summit

Statement 5 May 2016
 
South Sudan - Pibor violence and looting
South Sudan

MSF issues open letter on nationwide lack of essential medicines

Statement 7 Apr 2016
 
Dec 2013 - 2015: Relentless violence in Unity State, South Sudan
South Sudan

Leer population take shelter from violence in the MSF compound

Statement 16 Mar 2016
 
Besieged Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

Medical supplies reach hospitals in besieged Taiz

Statement 19 Jan 2016
 
Kunduz Hospital After the Attack
Afghanistan

Updated death toll – 42 people killed in the US airstrikes on Kunduz hospital

Statement 12 Dec 2015
 

Statement by Christopher Stokes, MSF General Director

Statement 25 Nov 2015
 
Syria

MSF appalled that another supported hospital in Damascus area hit by missiles

Statement 21 Nov 2015
 
East Ukraine Conflict, Donetsk, FEB 2015
Ukraine

MSF strongly refutes false allegations levelled in the media by the Humanitarian Committee of the Donetsk People’s Republic

Statement 26 Oct 2015
 
Solidarity Kunduz
Kunduz hospital attack

IHFFC awaits US, Afghanistan consent to proceed with independent investigation

Statement 14 Oct 2015
 
Afghanistan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces blatant breach of International Humanitarian Law

Statement 6 Oct 2015
 
Ukraine

MSF refused permission to work in Lugansk, leaving vulnerable people deprived of essential healthcare and medicines

Statement 25 Sep 2015
 
Yemen

At least 65 civilians killed in coalition airstrikes and heavy fighting in Taiz

Statement 21 Aug 2015
 
Syria

Airstrikes on nine hospitals in Idlib province, 11 civilians killed and 31 wounded

Statement 14 Aug 2015
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF response to WHO Ebola Interim Assessment Panel report

Statement 7 Jul 2015
 
South Sudan

Distressing humanitarian situation in Upper Nile as civilians come under fire in Malakal shooting attack

Statement 2 Jul 2015
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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