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How we work

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How we're run

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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
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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 staff setting up a CTC tent
South Sudan

The first 72 hours of a cholera outbreak

Voices from the Field 23 Apr 2025
 
Trapped and abused: migrant workers’ experiences in Lebanon
Lebanon

Trapped and abused: migrant workers’ experiences in Lebanon

Project Update 23 Apr 2025
 
New displacement from Zamzam
النزاع في السودان

وضع يائس للنازحين الفارين من مخيم زمزم في السودان

بيان صحفي 21 Apr 2025
 
New displacement from Zamzam
Conflict in Sudan

Desperate situation for people fleeing Zamzam camp in Sudan

Press Release 18 Apr 2025
 
Violence in Kyeshero Hospital in Goma
جمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطيّة

أطباء بلا حدود تدين إطلاق النار الذي أسفر عن مقتل شخص في مستشفى كيشيرو في غوما

بيان صحفي 17 Apr 2025
 
Displaced Palestinian family
حرب غزة وإسرائيل

غزة أصبحت "مقبرة جماعية" للفلسطينيين ومن يساعدونهم

بيان صحفي 16 Apr 2025
 
Displaced Palestinian family
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them

Press Release 16 Apr 2025
 
South Sudan - MSF hospital in Agok
جنوب السودان

أطباء بلا حدود تعرب عن سخطها من تعرّض مستشفاها في أولانغ بولاية أعالي النيل للنهب والإغلاق القسري

بيان صحفي 15 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
 
Hamidya camp - Fatima Mohamed
النزاع في السودان

بعد عامين من الحرب في السودان: الأزمات تتشابك وتُغرق الملايين في احتياجات غير مسبوقة

بيان صحفي 14 Apr 2025
 
Hamidya camp - Fatima Mohamed
Conflict in Sudan

Compounding crises after two years of war in Sudan leave millions more in need than ever

Press Release 14 Apr 2025
 
Violence in Kyeshero Hospital in Goma
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF condemns deadly shooting at Kyeshero hospital, Goma

Press Release 11 Apr 2025
 
Mobile clinics in Mandalay
ميانمار

أطباء بلا حدود تكثّف استجابتها في ميانمار عقب تعرّضها لزلزال مدمّر

تحديث حول مشروع 11 Apr 2025
 
MSF Aden Trauma Centre Emergency Room (ER) entrance
اليمن

اليمن | منظمة أطباء بلا حدود تنهي تدخلًا جراحيًا استمر 12 عامًا في عدن

تحديث حول مشروع 10 Apr 2025
 
Nuba Mountains Testimonies Illustrations
النزاع في السودان

قصص العنف والنزوح القسري من جنوب كردفان

أصوات من الميدان 10 Apr 2025
 
Mobile clinics in Mandalay
Myanmar

MSF steps up response in Myanmar following devastating earthquake

Project Update 10 Apr 2025
 
Nuba Mountains Testimonies Illustrations
Conflict in Sudan

Stories of violence and forced displacement from South Kordofan, Sudan.

Voices from the Field 8 Apr 2025
 
3 march 2023 - Elevated number of bullet wounded patients in Turgeau
Haiti

Haiti: MSF withdraws from two medical facilities in Port-au-Prince as widespread violence intensifies

Press Release 8 Apr 2025
 
MSF Aden Trauma Centre Emergency Room (ER) entrance
Yemen

MSF ends 12-year-long trauma surgery programme in Aden, Yemen

Project Update 8 Apr 2025
 
MSF mobile clinic in the Closed Control Access Centre in Zervou, Samos.
Greece

Children diagnosed with malnutrition on Greece's Samos island

Press Release 7 Apr 2025
 
Daraya Health Centre
سوريا

أطباء بلا حدود تفتتح غرفة طوارئ في داريا

تحديث حول مشروع 7 Apr 2025
 
Daraya Health Centre
Syria

Syria: MSF opens emergency room in Daraya

Project Update 7 Apr 2025
 
خلفية سوداء
حرب غزة وإسرائيل

منظمة أطباء بلا حدود تنعى مقتل زميلنا الحادي عشر في غزة

تصريح 4 Apr 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF mourns the killing of eleventh colleague in Gaza

Statement 4 Apr 2025
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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