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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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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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Nasser hospital
Gaza-Israel war

A day in the life at the last remaining hospital in southern Gaza

Voices from the Field 22 Jul 2024
 
From Rafah to Khan Younis, lives in ruins
Gaza-Israel war

No end in sight: The repeated trauma of displacement for people in Gaza

Voices from the Field 10 Jul 2024
 
Mental health in Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

Without a ceasefire, healing mental trauma in Gaza is impossible

Voices from the Field 20 Jun 2024
 
JENIN Recurring incursions 11
Gaza-Israel war

In the West Bank, Israeli forces render healthcare inaccessible when it’s needed most

Voices from the Field 13 Jun 2024
 
Satellite view IDP in Deir al-Balah / Area A, 24 May 2024
Gaza-Israel war

In Gaza, “we did not have time to bury them”

Voices from the Field 10 Jun 2024
 
El Fasher - July 2023
Sudan

Nowhere is safe as deadly fighting escalates in El Fasher, North Darfur

Voices from the Field 15 May 2024
 
Violence in Port-au-Prince
Haiti

In Port-au-Prince, the “violence is like gangrene, spreading and threatening us all.”

Voices from the Field 10 Apr 2024
 
Meales Isolation Unite
Yemen

The upsurge in measles cases shows no sign of abating

Voices from the Field 26 Mar 2024
 
Umdawanban hospital OCG
Conflict in Sudan

Addressing myriad medical needs amidst conflict in Sudan

Voices from the Field 15 Feb 2024
 
Gaza - Al Aqsa Hospital
Gaza-Israel war

The last medics providing healthcare amidst death and destruction in Gaza

Voices from the Field 2 Feb 2024
 
Patients at Al Shifa hospital
Gaza-Israel war

Staff at Al-Shifa struggle to care for patients as needs remain huge

Voices from the Field 31 Jan 2024
 
MSF staff carry supplies
Myanmar

Health workers struggle to respond amid severe restrictions in Rakhine state

Voices from the Field 16 Jan 2024
 
Settlers Violence in Nablus area
Palestine

Attacks on Palestinians soar in the West Bank

Voices from the Field 29 Dec 2023
 
Medical evacuation from Kherson
Ukraine

A Journey of Resilience: 36 hours caring for patients on a train

Voices from the Field 1 Nov 2023
 
Cha Hak Village, Injil District, Herat Province
Afghanistan

“What do we go back to?” Life after the earthquake in Herat

Voices from the Field 20 Oct 2023
 
Conflict in Gaza
Palestine

Hospitals are overwhelmed in ‘catastrophic situation’ in Gaza

Voices from the Field 10 Oct 2023
 
MSF supporting the measles vaccination campaign by the Ministry of Health in the Um Sangour camp, White Nile state, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Overwhelming needs in White Nile as conflict pushes people to limit

Voices from the Field 28 Sep 2023
 
Hepatitis E cases in Al-Tanideba, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Turkish Hospital in Khartoum: Last lifeline for sick children and pregnant women

Voices from the Field 4 Sep 2023
 
Mobile clinic in the South Omo zone
Cholera

Urgent action needed to tackle cholera across Horn of Africa

Voices from the Field 13 Jul 2023
 
Hepatitis E cases in Al-Tanideba, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Huge needs arise following the eruption of conflict in West Darfur

Voices from the Field 5 Jun 2023
 
Fighting HIV and TB dual epidemic
Eswatini

MSF hands over HIV and TB programme in Eswatini after 16 years

Voices from the Field 26 May 2023
 
Noma survivors: closer to getting the attention they deserve
Noma

Noma survivors shine a light on neglected disease

Voices from the Field 23 May 2023
 
El Fasher: 2 weeks since the beginning of the clashes
Sudan

Severe medical needs persist amidst conflict in Sudan

Voices from the Field 4 May 2023
 
MSF bunker in Khartum
Sudan

Stuck in a Khartoum bunker while there’s shooting outside

Voices from the Field 21 Apr 2023
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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