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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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Aweil Project, South Sudan
Gaza-Israel war

Dozens of Palestinians massacred at US-Israel backed food distribution sites

Press Release 1 Jun 2025
 
Food shortage in Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

In Gaza, disastrous food distribution “confirmed that the US-Israel plan to instrumentalise aid is ineffective”

Statement 30 May 2025
 
Solonos 140
Greece

MSF closes day care centre in Athens after nine years of providing care

Project Update 30 May 2025
 
Clowns Sans Frontières in Aboutengue
Conflict in Sudan

Sexual violence in Sudan: “They beat us and they raped us right there on the road in public”

Press Release 28 May 2025
 
The rubbles in Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

Displacement orders are “psychological and physical warfare” in Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Press Release 27 May 2025
 
Midwives assisting a postpartum patient during breastfeeding at Kenema hospital. They are participating in the MSF Academy for Healthcare's Midwifery clinical care training programme
Sierra Leone

Complementing the knowledge and skills of the medical staff in Sierra Leone

Project Update 27 May 2025
 
Local health screenings by villagers in Abaiang
Kiribati

Dedicated health professionals improve care for people on Kiribati

Project Update 23 May 2025
 
MSF launches large hepatitis C "test and treat" campaing in Bangladesh Rohingya camps
Hepatitis C

Additional 30,000 Rohingya to receive hepatitis C treatment in Cox’s Bazar

Press Release 22 May 2025
 
Nasser Hospital struck by Israeli forces
Gaza-Israel war

Aid instrumentalised, health system under fire: Gaza is being deliberately asphyxiated by Israeli forces

Press Release 21 May 2025
 
Malawi: supporting sex workers to access healthcare
Access to medicines

Deadly Gaps: Don't turn away from saving lives

Report 15 May 2025
 
MSF/DOTW mobile clinic set up at Wethersfield mass containment site in Essex, UK
United Kingdom

UK government must immediately close Wethersfield mass containment site for asylum seekers

Press Release 15 May 2025
 
Gaza North Feb 2025
Gaza-Israel war

MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe caused by siege on Gaza

Statement 14 May 2025
 
Treating survivors of extreme violence in Mexico City Author
Mexico

Increase in admissions at MSF centre specialised in treating people for extreme violence in Mexico City

Project Update 13 May 2025
 
NFI distribution in Mandalay
Myanmar

Response to devastating earthquake in Myanmar driven by solidarity and dedication

Voices from the Field 9 May 2025
 
Emergency Medical Aid (EMA) for new arrivals in Samos, Greece
Conflict in Sudan

Sudan: MSF returns to Khartoum’s Bashair Teaching hospital amidst soaring cholera needs

Project Update 9 May 2025
 
New wave of displacement after attack on Zamzam camp
Conflict in Sudan

People fleeing Zamzam camp arrive to overwhelmed humanitarian response in Tawila

Project Update 6 May 2025
 
MSF supporting Congolese refugees in the Musenyi site
Burundi

Burundi: Congolese refugees in Musenyi site face humanitarian and health emergency

Project Update 6 May 2025
 
MSF Fangak hospital in South Sudan burning after being bombarded
South Sudan

South Sudan: MSF strongly condemns the deliberate bombing of our hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei state

Press Release 4 May 2025
 
moble clinic set up inside a monastery
Myanmar

One month since devastating earthquake in Myanmar

Voices from the Field 2 May 2025
 
Displaced Palestinian family
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza, inside the war

MSF. 28 Apr 2025
 
Food distribution in South Darfur
Conflict in Sudan

Action must be taken now to avert worsening malnutrition crisis in South Darfur

Press Release 28 Apr 2025
 
Assosa CTC beds
United States of America

What MSF teams see after first 100 days of US aid budget cuts

Press Release 25 Apr 2025
 
MSF Clinic in Gaza City (fleeing North Gaza package)
Gaza-Israel war

No relief and no chance of recovery for Gaza’s burn patients

Project Update 25 Apr 2025
 
The relentless bombing in Ukraine April 2025
War in Ukraine

The relentless and indiscriminate bombing in Ukraine must cease

Press Release 24 Apr 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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