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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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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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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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MSF outreach team traveling by boat to a remote village
South Sudan

Escalating insecurity forces MSF to close Ulang hospital in South Sudan

Project Update 17 Jun 2025
 
Bombing of MSF hospital in Old Fangak
Attacks on medical care

What is the cost for killing humanitarians?

Opinion 16 Jun 2025
 
DRC: The conflict provokes a new exodus to South Kivu
Activity Report

Year in Review 2024

Opinion 12 Jun 2025
 
Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

Nasser hospital, southern Gaza’s last lifeline, must be preserved

Press Release 5 Jun 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
 
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
 
Agok hospital
Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence against civilians must end in DRC as second MSF staff killed in Masisi

Press Release 24 Apr 2025
 
South Sudan - MSF hospital in Agok
South Sudan

MSF hospital forcibly closed in Ulang, Upper Nile state, following armed looting

Press Release 14 Apr 2025
 
Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

MSF condemns Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza, calls for protection of health facilities

Press Release 24 Mar 2025
 
MSF vehicles shot
Haiti

MSF vehicles shot during hospital evacuation amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince

Press Release 17 Mar 2025
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: Statement following the passing of our colleague

Statement 22 Feb 2025
 
Malnutrition emergency: mobile clinic in Ranobe
Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF staff member critically injured in Masisi town after shots hit MSF base

Press Release 20 Feb 2025
 
Violence, displacement, and malnutrition care in Masisi’s territory
Democratic Republic of Congo

Masisi General Referral hospital hit again by gunfire leaving two MSF staff slightly injured

Press Release 20 Jan 2025
 
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
 
Emergency Surgical Team at Bashair Hospital Khartoum, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

MSF denounces violent attacks leading to suspension of activities at key Khartoum hospital

Press Release 10 Jan 2025
 
MSF convoy attacked in Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

Strikes, raids and incursions: Over a year of relentless attacks on healthcare in Palestine

Project Update 7 Jan 2025
 
Am Timan Hospital
Conflict in Sudan

MSF condemns RSF's violent attack on Bashair Teaching hospital in South Khartoum

Press Release 20 Dec 2024
 
MSF support of burnt patients in September explosion
Haiti

MSF outraged by police attack on ambulance and execution of patients in Haiti

Press Release 13 Nov 2024
 
Am Timan Hospital
Mali

MSF condemns violence against our team in Mali

Press Release 30 Oct 2024
 
BP-5 Distribution in Djibo
Burkina Faso

MSF temporarily suspends activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso due to escalating insecurity

Press Release 21 Oct 2024
 
Hepatitis E cases in Al-Tanideba, Sudan
Gaza-Israel war

Last remaining hospitals in north Gaza under siege and people trapped

Press Release 19 Oct 2024
 
MSF cars
South Sudan

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

Press Release 24 Sep 2024
 
JENIN Recurring incursions 02
Palestine

Access to medical care at risk in West Bank as Israeli incursions intensify

Press Release 5 Sep 2024
 
MSF Field Hospital, Deir Al Balah, Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

With Al-Aqsa hospital under threat, MSF opens field hospital in central Gaza

Press Release 28 Aug 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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