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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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Bullet hole caused by shooting in the operating room of the Zalingei teaching hospital, Central Darfur state, Sudan.
Sudan

Attacks on hospitals and aid blockade in El Fasher jeopardises lives

Press Release 1 Aug 2024
 
GAZA: Al Nasser Hospital. Pedriatric and Maternity
Gaza-Israel war

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

Press Release 29 Jul 2024
 
Attacks on Health facilities
Conflict in Sudan

A war on people: the human cost of conflict and violence in Sudan

Report 22 Jul 2024
 
El Geneina Teaching Hospital in West Darfur
Conflict in Sudan

MSF report reveals catastrophic toll of ‘a war on people’ in Sudan

Press Release 22 Jul 2024
 
Mobile clinic in Southern Madagascar
Conflict in Sudan

MSF suspends delivery of care in Khartoum’s Turkish hospital

Press Release 10 Jul 2024
 
Rotation 24 - Disembarkation
Gaza-Israel war

Statement on accusations against MSF staff member Fadi Al-Wadiya

Statement 27 Jun 2024
 
Am Timan Hospital
Gaza-Israel war

MSF response to Israeli allegations linked to colleague’s killing

Statement 26 Jun 2024
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF colleague killed in Gaza City

Statement 25 Jun 2024
 
South Sudanese in Gambella region
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Ongoing investigation into the killings of María, Tedros and Yohannes

Statement 24 Jun 2024
 
Intense fighting in El Fasher - Darfur
Conflict in Sudan

People trapped, aid blocked, as UN resolution fails to stop fighting in El Fasher

Press Release 22 Jun 2024
 
JENIN Recurring incursions 11
Gaza-Israel war

In the West Bank, Israeli forces render healthcare inaccessible when it’s needed most

Voices from the Field 13 Jun 2024
 
From Rafah to Khan Younis, lives in ruins
Photo Story

From Rafah to Khan Younis, lives in ruins in Gaza

11 Jun 2024
Photo Story
 
destroyed building Rafah
Gaza-Israel war

Israel must end its campaign of death and destruction in Gaza

Press Release 28 May 2024
 
Displaced Palestinians who returned to Khan Younis from Rafah
Gaza-Israel war

Another hospital in Gaza forced to close amid intensified Israeli offensive in Rafah

Press Release 14 May 2024
 
Violence in Port-au-Prince
Haiti

In Port-au-Prince, the “violence is like gangrene, spreading and threatening us all.”

Voices from the Field 10 Apr 2024
 
ATTACK ON MSF FACILITY - Pokrovsk
War in Ukraine

MSF condemns missile attack which destroys office, injures staff in Donetsk

Press Release 5 Apr 2024
 
Christopher Lockyear visit to Rafah
Gaza-Israel war

Why we won't accept the narrative of ‘regrettable incidents’ in Gaza

Speech 5 Apr 2024
 
Nasser hospital
Gaza-Israel war

How the Israeli army besieged and attacked Nasser hospital

Project Update 3 Apr 2024
 
Am Timan Hospital
Gaza-Israel war

Warring parties must ensure safety of staff and patients in Al-Shifa hospital

Press Release 18 Mar 2024
 
Drodro general hospital, Ituri province
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF calls for protection of patients, medical facilities and civilians following Drodro hospital attack

Press Release 8 Mar 2024
 
Attack in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis
Gaza-Israel war

Attacks on humanitarian workers in Gaza make vital assistance nearly impossible

Project Update 27 Feb 2024
 
Inside Gaza - illustrations
Gaza-Israel war

MSF briefing on Gaza to UN Security Council

Speech 22 Feb 2024
 
Malnutrition emergency: mobile clinic in Ranobe
Gaza-Israel war

MSF calls for the protection and safe evacuation of patients from Nasser hospital in Gaza

Statement 20 Feb 2024
 
An informal camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah city, in the south of the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border.
Gaza-Israel war

Ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed

Statement 12 Feb 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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