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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.

 
Treating MDR-TB in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Sept 2013
Tuberculosis

Improving paediatric TB care in Tajikistan

Report 17 Dec 2013
 
Hospital Entrance
Syria

Thriving despite a hard beginning - the story of a premature baby

Project Update 29 Nov 2013
 
Afar, North Eastern Ethiopia MSB684
Ethiopia

MSF treats people isolated and malnourished in rural Afar, Ethiopia

Project Update 24 Sep 2013
 
Bouza and Madaoua have received initial doses of the medicine.
Niger

More than 180,000 children benefit from new anti-malaria treatment

Project Update 19 Aug 2013
 
PCV Vaccination Campaign in Yida Camp
South Sudan

Global vaccination community turns its back on getting new vaccines to refugee children

Press Release 8 Aug 2013
 
Central African Republic

Civil war is killing children in the Central African Republic but it's not doing it with bullets

In the Media 15 Jul 2013
 
Chad - Measles vaccination campaign in Ouaddai and Wadi Fira regions
Chad

We had two weeks to vaccinate 100,000 children

Voices from the Field 3 Jul 2013
 
Transit camp in Aleppo province
Syria

Measles epidemic signals growing humanitarian needs

Press Release 18 Jun 2013
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

"Life is dangerous, there is suffering"

Project Update 7 Jun 2013
 
Lead poisoning and gold processing in Zamfara state, Nigeria, Ap
Nigeria

MSF starts treating lead poisoned children in Bagega

Press Release 23 Apr 2013
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

65,000 children vaccinated against measles despite access difficulties

Project Update 3 Feb 2013
 
Mauritania

Alarming malnutrition and mortality among malian refugees

Voices from the Field 9 Jan 2013
 
MSF maternity hospital in eastern Khost province, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

MSF reopens Khost maternity hospital

Project Update 2 Jan 2013
 
Mortality study, region around Boguila
Central African Republic

"As many children die here as in a war zone"

Voices from the Field 10 Dec 2012
 
Refugee crisis South Sudan, Upper Nile State, Batil and Doro.
Vaccination

GAVI needs to offer lower vaccine prices to humanitarian actors

Press Release 5 Dec 2012
 
Somalia - ATFC in Warshadaha
Somalia

MSF nutritional assessment in camps reveals alarming malnutrition rates among children

Project Update 19 Nov 2012
 
Tuberculosis

Out of the Dark: Meeting the needs of children with TB

Report 13 Nov 2012
 
Somalia

Kismayo patients forced to flee fighting

Press Release 28 Sep 2012
 
Niger

'We will set up as many tents as needed to treat children in need'

Voices from the Field 13 Aug 2012
 
Pakistan

MSF operates in the heart of the tribal areas

Project Update 20 Jul 2012
 
Afghanistan

Tackling child malnutrition in Helmand

Project Update 19 Jul 2012
 
Central African Republic

Child death rate alarmingly high

Project Update 3 Jul 2012
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF staff Returns to Shamwana, Katanga, to resume medical care

Press Release 6 Mar 2012
 
Famine

Food aid system continues to fail malnourished children

Press Release 13 Oct 2011
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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