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

 
Rwanda

Rwanda, 20 years later: “I am left with a great sadness”

Voices from the Field 28 Apr 2014
 
Kigali, genocide Rwandan Tutsis, april 1994
Rwanda

Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide: “We don’t talk about things that are hard to recount”

Voices from the Field 25 Apr 2014
 
Baraka, South Kivu, DRC, March 2014. Josine Blanksma at work and in and around hospital.
Malaria

"My heart leaps for joy": the ups and downs of treating malaria in DRC

Voices from the Field 25 Apr 2014
 
Siyabulela Qwaka, XDR TB Survivor
South Africa

"This disease is for heroes. If you can fight this, you can stand anything in this world"

Voices from the Field 24 Apr 2014
 
Ansongo, Mali
Mali

“MSF was in Ansongo throughout the crisis, the population appreciates our work”

Voices from the Field 17 Apr 2014
 
Lebanon -Providing medical care to Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley
Access to Healthcare

Stories from non-communicable chronic diseases patients in Lebanon

Voices from the Field 17 Apr 2014
 
Occupied Minds - Occupied Palestinian Territory
Palestine

Occupied Minds - Crossing a checkpoint

Voices from the Field 10 Apr 2014
 
Ebola, Guéckédou, Guinea April 2014
Guinea

Interview with MSF logistician in Gueckedou

Voices from the Field 10 Apr 2014
 
IDP Camp Tomping, Juba, South Sudan
South Sudan

Displaced people speak of their lives

Voices from the Field 9 Apr 2014
 
Ebola Treatment Center in Conakry, Guinea
Guinea

An MSF epidemiologist explains the dangerous nature of Ebola

Voices from the Field 7 Apr 2014
 
getting fully dressed with protective clothing
Guinea

"There is a lot to do in a very short time" to contain Ebola

Voices from the Field 4 Apr 2014
 
Violence in CAR. Bangui
Central African Republic

"The international response to the conflict is extremely disheartening"

Voices from the Field 4 Apr 2014
 
a thousand people in transit on their way to Cameroon victims of attacks
Central African Republic

"Carnot has not been calm since then"

Voices from the Field 31 Mar 2014
 

Slideshow: Giving birth in Central African Republic - Sonia's story

Voices from the Field 27 Mar 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola epidemic in Guinea

Voices from the Field 26 Mar 2014
 
Guinea

“There is no treatment and no vaccine for Ebola. The priority is to isolate suspected cases”

Voices from the Field 24 Mar 2014
 
Bangui airport
Central African Republic

A year of unimaginable violence, suffering and fear

Voices from the Field 24 Mar 2014
 
HIV and DR-TB treatment in Swazialnd, October 2013 (MSB3196 )
Tuberculosis

The old devil in new clothes

Voices from the Field 19 Mar 2014
 
Occupied Minds - Occupied Palestinian Territory
Palestine

One year in Hebron and East Jerusalem

Voices from the Field 19 Mar 2014
 
Basic Health units and mobile clinics for displaced people in Peshawar district
Women's health

International Women's Day 2014: Forced to Flee

Voices from the Field 7 Mar 2014
 
Thousands of Muslims flee Central African Republic
Central African Republic

Trapped in PK 12 camp with nowhere to run

Voices from the Field 3 Mar 2014
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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