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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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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.

 
South Sudan - MSF hospital in Agok
South Sudan

MSF strongly condemns armed attack on our healthcare workers in Nasir county

Press Release 16 Jan 2025
 
Influx of injured refugees and returnees in Renk
South Sudan

South Sudan receives thousands of displaced and injured people fleeing intensified war in Sudan

Press Release 20 Dec 2024
 
Assosa CTC beds
South Sudan

Urgent response needed to stop cholera outbreak in Upper Nile state

Press Release 6 Dec 2024
 
Malaria surge in Aweil State Hospital
Malaria

Alarming spike in admissions of children with malaria at Aweil state hospital

Press Release 12 Nov 2024
 
Troisième phase d’évaluation clinique de l’application Antibiogo à Amman, Jordanie
Antibiotic resistance

The Broken Lens: Antimicrobial Resistance in Humanitarian Settings

Report 11 Nov 2024
 
Life On The Levee - Extreme Flooding In Old Fangak
South Sudan

Life on the levee: Extreme flooding in Old Fangak

Documentary 29 Oct 2024
 
MSF cars
South Sudan

MSF suspends medical activities in Yei, Central Equatoria state, following attack on staff

Press Release 24 Sep 2024
 
An MSF medicine dispenser is dispensing medicine
South Sudan

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

Press Release 23 Aug 2024
 
Collecting Firewood
South Sudan

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

Project Update 25 Jul 2024
 
Where the transition has no end
South Sudan

War in Sudan exacerbates humanitarian needs in neighbouring South Sudan

Press Release 18 Jun 2024
 
TB-Malnutrition in Leer, Unity State
South Sudan

Malnutrition adds to challenges for people living with HIV and TB in South Sudan

Project Update 3 Jun 2024
 
Yellow fever outbreak in W.E.S South Sudan
South Sudan

Urgent vaccination campaign needed to halt deadly measles outbreak in Western Equatoria state

Press Release 26 Mar 2024
 
A boat used to transfer hundreds people docks at Bulukat port
South Sudan

Urgent response at transit sites in South Sudan essential to prevent deadly outbreaks

Press Release 22 Feb 2024
 
MSF speed boat delivers hepatitis E vaccines
South Sudan

MSF launches mass vaccination campaign amid deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan

Press Release 30 Jan 2024
 
Flooding in Unity State
South Sudan

Unshattered hope in the face of adversity in South Sudan

Project Update 15 Nov 2023
 
People in line at a water point in Transit Centre in Renk
South Sudan

Aid woefully inadequate for returnees stuck in deplorable conditions in Renk

Press Release 3 Oct 2023
 
MSF Clinical Officer examines a child at the MSF Mobile Clinic
South Sudan

Sudan returnees arrive back in South Sudan in alarming health

Press Release 31 Aug 2023
 
An aunt calms her 9-year-old niece
South Sudan

Children at deadly risk of measles and malnutrition after fleeing conflict in Sudan

Press Release 17 Aug 2023
 
A young boy rows a canoe
South Sudan

Communities in South Sudan prepare for flooding ahead of rainy season

Project Update 1 Aug 2023
 
Emergency Response for Returnees and Refugees from Sudan
South Sudan

People fleeing conflict in Sudan struggle for survival

Press Release 22 Jun 2023
 
General view of Majak Aher IDP camp, Twic County
South Sudan

Soaring needs persist in Twic County one year on

Project Update 17 May 2023
 
Flooding in Old Fangak
South Sudan

Catastrophic floods cause mass displacement and humanitarian crisis

Project Update 19 Dec 2022
 
Flooding in Upper Nile
South Sudan

Conflict in Greater Upper Nile impedes assistance to people already devastated by flooding

Press Release 21 Oct 2022
 
Arop Magut’s foot
Snakebite

Why rapid treatment is essential after a snakebite

Medium. 16 Sep 2022
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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