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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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Medical Activities

MSF Measles Vaccination in DRC

Learn about how, why, and where MSF teams respond to different diseases around the world, and the challenges we face in providing treatment.

Crisis Settings

Aden besieged

Learn about the different contexts and situations in which MSF teams respond to provide care, including war and natural disaster settings, and how and why we adapt our activities to each.

COVID-19 Project in Mons, Belgium

Learn about our response and our work in depth on specific themes and events.

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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Africa

Eswatini, Cameroon, Burundi

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Asia & Pacific

Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Pakistan, Thailand

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Middle East & North Africa

Middle East & North Africa

Egypt, Palestine, Yemen

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Europe & Central Asia

Europe & Central Asia

Belgium, Belarus, Uzbekistan

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The Americas

Colombia, Panama, Guatemala

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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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Intersectional Benchmarking Unit

The Intersectional Benchmarking Unit collects and analyses data about local labour markets in all locations where MSF employs people.

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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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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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Mediterranean migration

Italian authorities detain MSF rescue ship for 60 days

Press Release 27 Aug 2024

Gaza-Israel war

Displaced people struggle without sanitation services in Khan Younis, Gaza

Project Update 27 Aug 2024

Conflict in Sudan

Soaring medical needs and a failing humanitarian response mark 500 days of war in Sudan

Press Release 27 Aug 2024

War in Ukraine

MSF provides medical care to people evacuating from Pokrovsk

Press Release 26 Aug 2024

South Sudan

Action needed on HIV and tuberculosis amid South Sudan’s crises

Press Release 23 Aug 2024

Bangladesh

Trapped and forgotten: where can Rohingya people seek safety?

Project Update 21 Aug 2024

Ethiopia

Handing over activities at Abiy Adi hospital after recovery from conflict

Project Update 19 Aug 2024

Chad

Rapid response needed in Koukou as thousands flee worst floods in living memory

Project Update 16 Aug 2024

Haiti

People fleeing violence in Port-au-Prince urgently need water and sanitation

Project Update 15 Aug 2024

Sudan

Last hospital in El Fasher risks closure during intensive bombardment on the city

Press Release 14 Aug 2024

Climate emergency

A hostile climate: How MSF humanitarian workers and communities are adapting to climate change

Report 9 Aug 2024

United States of America

Supporting local groups helping people on the move at the US-Mexico border

Project Update 9 Aug 2024

Bangladesh

Severe spike in arrivals of war wounded Rohingya from Myanmar

Press Release 9 Aug 2024

Somalia

Barriers to care have deadly consequences for women and children in Baidoa

Project Update 8 Aug 2024

Comoros

Our emergency response to cholera in Comoros

Project Update 7 Aug 2024

Nigeria

Community-based solutions used for malnutrition response in Bauchi

Press Release 6 Aug 2024

Palestine

Restrictions and violence block Palestinians in Hebron from medical care

Press Release 6 Aug 2024

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF survey shows scale and continuing cycle of violence against displaced women in eastern DRC

Press Release 5 Aug 2024

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Violent hostilities between armed men empty villages in northern Mali

Project Update 2 Aug 2024

Sudan

Attacks on hospitals and aid blockade in El Fasher jeopardises lives

Press Release 1 Aug 2024

Democratic Republic of Congo

Five questions about the mpox outbreak in DRC

Interview 30 Jul 2024

Gaza-Israel war

Nasser hospital must be protected as south Gaza hospitals receive waves of deadly influxes

Press Release 29 Jul 2024

Poland

MSF calls for providing assistance to those in need at Polish-Belarusian border

Press Release 25 Jul 2024

South Sudan

Women and children at the forefront of climate change in South Sudan

Project Update 25 Jul 2024

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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