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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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A taro leaf with water inside Kutupalong refugee camp
Photo Story

Life in the Rohingya camps

25 Aug 2025
Photo Story
 
Israeli authorities are starving Palestinians of water
Gaza-Israel war

Israeli authorities are starving Palestinians of water in Gaza

Press Release 21 Aug 2025
 
MSF emergency response in Chiure
Mozambique

Violence in Cabo Delgado sparks new wave of mass displacement as needs surge

Press Release 21 Aug 2025
 
Zalingei teaching hospital entrance, Zalingei, Central Darfur state, Sudan.
Conflict in Sudan

Sudan: MSF suspends activities at Zalingei hospital following armed attack

Press Release 19 Aug 2025
 
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Syria

New MSF programme treats survivors of detention in Syria

Project Update 18 Aug 2025
 
'This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing'
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza: Israel threatens to ban major aid organisations as starvation deepens

Open Letter 14 Aug 2025
 
Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza is overcrowded with patients
Gaza-Israel war

“Medicine is being strangled”: An MSF doctor on collapse of Gaza's healthcare system

Voices from the Field 14 Aug 2025
 
IDP camp, Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

War fuels cholera outbreak across Sudan with MSF seeing over 2,300 patients and 40 dead in one week

Press Release 14 Aug 2025
 
Mexico and Central America: The devastating human impact of migration policy changes
Central American migration

Unwelcome: Devastating impacts of new migration policies in the Americas

Report 12 Aug 2025
 
Mexico and Central America: The devastating human impact of migration policy changes
Central American migration

Dehumanising migration policies leave people abandoned in the Americas

Press Release 12 Aug 2025
 
Mother and Child Care in Baidoa, Somalia
Somalia

Funding gaps undermine healthcare for women and children in Somalia

Project Update 11 Aug 2025
 
'This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing'
Gaza-Israel war

This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing.

Report 7 Aug 2025
 
'This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing'
Gaza-Israel war

GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing”

Press Release 7 Aug 2025
 
MSF responds to the growing needs of South Sudanese refugees in ituri
Democratic Republic of Congo

Fleeing conflict, facing crisis: South Sudanese refugees gather in Ituri, DRC

Project Update 6 Aug 2025
 
Aid cuts threaten refugee lives in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region
Ethiopia

Aid cuts threaten refugee lives in Ethiopia’s Gambella region

Press Release 6 Aug 2025
 
Waiting room Dogdore
Chad

Redefining healthcare: when communities lead the way in Chad

Documentary 5 Aug 2025
 
MSF cars
South Sudan

MSF suspends activities in two South Sudan counties after second abduction

Press Release 5 Aug 2025
 
Long-term impact of malnutrition
Nigeria

MSF treats the long-term consequences of malnutrition among children in Nigeria

Project Update 4 Aug 2025
 
Rising strikes threaten lives and essential medical care in Kyiv
War in Ukraine

Increasing bombardment in Kyiv threatens lives and medical care

Press Release 31 Jul 2025
 
Emad, From Gaza to Marseille
Gaza-Israel war

Leaving Gaza: a medical evacuation

Documentary 30 Jul 2025
 
Sexual and reproductive health control in Bolívar
Women's health

US plan to destroy US$9.7 million of contraceptives is unconscionable

Press Release 29 Jul 2025
 
Mugunga 3 health center in Goma
Democratic Republic of Congo

For women in eastern DRC, nowhere is safe from sexual violence

Project Update 29 Jul 2025
 
Kajo Keji Project, South Sudan
South Sudan

MSF condemns abduction of Health Ministry staff in southern South Sudan

Press Release 27 Jul 2025
 
Inpatient feeding centre, Katsina
Nigeria

Mobilisation is urgently needed to avoid further deaths from northern Nigeria malnutrition crisis

Press Release 25 Jul 2025
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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