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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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Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
Nasser Hospital: gazan's livig conditions' impacto on babies and children's health
Gaza-Israel war

Lives of children and newborns put at risk by living conditions in Gaza

Project Update 22 Nov 2024
 
Maternity in South Darfur
Conflict in Sudan

Pregnant women and children dying in shocking numbers in South Darfur

Press Release 25 Sep 2024
 
Challenges in Accessing Mother and Child HealthCare, Baidoa- Somalia
Somalia

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

Project Update 8 Aug 2024
 
Kebbi Malnutrition Crisis 13
Nigeria

Cooking classes help reduce child malnutrition in northern Nigeria

Project Update 24 Jul 2024
 
GAZA: Al Nasser Hospital. Pedriatric and Maternity
Gaza-Israel war

Living conditions threaten the lives of pregnant women and newborns in Gaza

Project Update 18 Jul 2024
 
Meales Isolation Unite
Yemen

The upsurge in measles cases shows no sign of abating

Voices from the Field 26 Mar 2024
 
Vaishnavi's mother, Vishakha prepares TB medication
Tuberculosis

MSF launches unprecedented project to tackle under-diagnosed tuberculosis among children

Project Update 18 Mar 2024
 
8- New natal ward-4
Afghanistan

Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in Afghanistan’s northern provinces

Project Update 18 Dec 2023
 
Maternal and neonatal health in Couffo
Benin

Limiting maternal and child loss in communities in Benin

Project Update 21 Nov 2023
 
Measles emergency response
Democratic Republic of Congo

Measles: The never-ending fight against one of the world’s most contagious diseases

Project Update 21 Feb 2023
 
Surayo with her son Zainidin
Tajikistan

Helping kids to beat TB in Tajikistan

Project Update 23 Mar 2022
 
POST C SECTION-3
Afghanistan

A hospital of women, for women: Preserving maternity care in Khost

Project Update 16 Dec 2021
 
Maternal and newborn healthcare in Al Qanawis
Yemen

Newborn babies struggle to survive in war-torn Yemen

Voices from the Field 22 Oct 2021
 
16:9 Chacha describing Mallodin village
South Sudan

South Sudan: The long walk for new life

Voices from the Field 2 Aug 2021
 
Thalassemia in Zahleh
Lebanon

Saving the lives of children with thalassaemia in Lebanon

Project Update 3 Dec 2020
 
MSF activities continue in Gwoza, Borno State
Nigeria

“Children can draw assault rifles better than a football” in Borno state

Interview 8 Sep 2020
 
MSF COVID-19 response in Mosul
Iraq

Mosul: MSF works on dual front of COVID-19 and lifesaving medical care

Project Update 5 Aug 2020
 
Kenema Hospital first construction phase.
Sierra Leone

New hospital to counter high maternal and child mortality rates

Project Update 14 Jun 2019
 
Mother and Child Health in Balochistan
Pakistan

Witnessing poor mother and child healthcare in Balochistan

Project Update 6 Jun 2019
 
Dengue fever epidemic - San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Honduras

MSF expands efforts to control dengue epidemic in northern Honduras

Project Update 29 May 2019
 
Paediatric TB Care - Dushanbe
Tuberculosis

Breaking the cycle: Paediatric DR-TB detection, care and treatment in Tajikistan

Report 17 May 2019
 
Goyalmara Hospital
Rohingya refugee crisis

Saving lives that have just begun in Cox’s Bazar

Project Update 13 May 2019
 
Vaccination in Mingala
Central African Republic

"We have not seen any doctors in Mingala for more than two years"

Project Update 7 May 2019
 
MSF Mother and Child Hospital - Taiz
Yemen

Complicated delivery: The Yemeni mothers and children dying without medical care

Report 24 Apr 2019
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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