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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.

 
MSF resumed its activities in Gaza City
Gaza-Israel war

MSF has resumed activities in Gaza City

Project Update 23 Oct 2025
 
South Kivu: First came the gold rush, then the cholera. MSF responds in Lomera.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Cholera epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo is increasingly worrying

Press Release 22 Oct 2025
 
Agok hospital
Gaza-Israel war

MSF calls for the immediate release of our detained colleague

Statement 20 Oct 2025
 
Gazan patients in MSF Amman hospital
Gaza-Israel war

A letter appealing to world leaders' humanity from MSF's International President

Open Letter 20 Oct 2025
 
South Sudan's Hidden Crisis: No services, Deep Stigma Around Mental Health
South Sudan

Comprehensive treatment for serious mental health conditions is possible in South Sudan

Project Update 20 Oct 2025
 
3 March 2023 - Elevated number of bullet wounded patients in Turgeau Emergency Center
Haiti

MSF announces permanent closure of our Turgeau emergency centre in Port-au-Prince

Press Release 15 Oct 2025
 
Life under Daily Violence and repeated Demolitions in Masafer Yatta
Palestine

Majority of homes in Masafer Yatta community have been reduced to rubble

Voices from the Field 10 Oct 2025
 
Israeli authorities are starving Palestinians of water
Gaza-Israel war

Ceasefire in Gaza: Humanitarian aid must flow immediately

Statement 10 Oct 2025
 
Women attend in a group therapy session organized by MSF at Sematat IDP Camp in Shire, located in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia

Mental health care cannot wait in Tigray

Project Update 10 Oct 2025
 
RDC Organisations must continue response on sexual violence emergency in Maniema
Democratic Republic of Congo

Organisations must continue response on sexual violence emergency in Maniema

Press Release 8 Oct 2025
 
Dire humanitarian situation in the migrant population in Mexico
Mexico

MSF concludes work in Reynosa and Matamoros after eight years of care for migrants

Project Update 7 Oct 2025
 
Migrants in transit in Ecuador, Colombia and Panama
Panama

MSF concludes activities for migrants in Panama

Project Update 7 Oct 2025
 
Zainab's Story
Sierra Leone

MSF concludes years of medical support in Tonkolili and Bombali districts

Project Update 6 Oct 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF is devastated by the death of colleague Abed El Hameed in Gaza

Statement 5 Oct 2025
 
Displacements in Port-au-Prince
Haiti

People and the health system are trapped in escalating violence in Haiti

Project Update 3 Oct 2025
 
MSF Staff Killed and Hospital Partially Destroyed in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan

Kunduz 10 years on

Project Update 3 Oct 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF denounces killing of fourteenth staff member in Israeli attack in Gaza

Statement 2 Oct 2025
 
Instagram Takeover from Dnipro and Kherson
Ukraine

Displaced people struggle in eastern Ukraine’s overcrowded shelters

Project Update 2 Oct 2025
 
Triple protection for children against malaria in Cibitoke
Burundi

Children receive triple protection against malaria in Cibitoke

Project Update 2 Oct 2025
 
Rohingya: Kutupalong Refugee Camp
Rohingya refugee crisis

The illusion of choice: Rohingya voices echo from the camps

Report 29 Sep 2025
 
Rohingya: Hep C Testing
Rohingya refugee crisis

Rohingya refugees express feeling unsafe, lacking control over their future

Press Release 29 Sep 2025
 
Five MSF staff load tents on to a truck in Gaza City
Gaza-Israel war

MSF forced to suspend Gaza City activities amid intensified Israeli offensive

Press Release 26 Sep 2025
 
MSF provides healthcare in Mocímboa da Praia as thousands of displaced people return
Mozambique

MSF suspends activities in Mocímboa da Praia as violence surges

Press Release 26 Sep 2025
 
Besieged, attacked, starved
Conflict in Sudan

After watching her mother killed, she was raped: Darfur’s sexual violence must end

Project Update 25 Sep 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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