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

 
Bourbon Argos 2nd rescue, June 1, 2015
Mediterranean migration

MSF saddened by loss of life during Argos ship rescue

Statement 15 Jun 2015
 
Nepal

In Memoriam: MSF colleagues lost in Nepal crash

Statement 12 Jun 2015
 
Nepal

MSF helicopter crashes in Nepal

Statement 2 Jun 2015
 
Kenya

MSF staff relocated following incidents in Dadaab

Statement 27 May 2015
 
Mediterranean migration

MSF statement re: European Agenda on Migration

Statement 13 May 2015
 
Yemen

MSF statement in response to latest coalition offensive

Statement 8 May 2015
 
Nepal

MSF is sending medical and non-medical teams to assist victims of the Nepal Earthquake

Statement 25 Apr 2015
 
Migrant Route Augusta Italy 2014
Mediterranean migration

European leaders are digging in their heels - saving lives in danger right now is still not their priority

Statement 24 Apr 2015
 
Central African Republic

Local healthcare worker killed in attack

Statement 2 Feb 2015
 
Access to medicines

MSF responds to Pfizer announcement of pneumococcal vaccine price reduction

Statement 27 Jan 2015
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF Says Thank You for 2014

Statement 19 Dec 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

Statement by MSF aid worker Dr. Craig Spencer

Statement 11 Nov 2014
 
MSF Ebola Training Brussels 2014
Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola workers at risk: the tragic reality of the Ebola response in West Africa

Statement 25 Sep 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

A French MSF staff member infected in Liberia

Statement 17 Sep 2014
 
Malnutrition in Bihar
India

Severe malnutrition is a medical condition that needs urgent attention

Statement 4 Sep 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF response to the WHO new Ebola roadmap

Statement 28 Aug 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF deeply saddened by deaths of a Guinean, a Liberian and a Sierra Leonean colleague

Statement 26 Aug 2014
 
Malaysia

MSF expresses its condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of those on board the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17

Statement 18 Jul 2014
 
Ukraine

Médecins Sans Frontières Strongly Denies Involvement in Transporting Combatants in Donetsk

Statement 27 May 2014
 
Ukraine

Médecins Sans Frontières not working in Slavyansk

Statement 8 May 2014
 
Juba displaced camp clinic 2014 JAN
South Sudan

MSF staff and patients forced to flee Leer Hospital amidst ongoing insecurity

Statement 31 Jan 2014
 
Syria

MSF working hard to secure safe return of five staff taken in northern Syria

Statement 10 Jan 2014
 
IPD - Airport Bangui CAR
Central African Republic

The aid world has failed the people of the Central African Republic

Statement 12 Dec 2013
 
Dadaab Refugee camp, Kenya.
Kenya

Dadaab: Agreement on refugee repatriation should not affect aid delivery, says MSF

Statement 28 Nov 2013
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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