In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.
SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.
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.
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.
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.
With health and well-being jeopardized, the lives of the most vulnerable can be at risk. The majority are internally displaced people (IDPs), meaning they haven't crossed a border and have stayed within their country.
MSF teams work alongside people on the move at their points of arrival or during the treacherous journeys they undertake, inside and outside their countries.
Less than human: How Europe’s policies harm refugees, migrants and asylum seekers
20 Jun 2019
Featured
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move
Enough is enough: new pact, same misery for refugees
5 Oct 2020
Mozambique
Urgent assistance needed for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by violence in Mozambique
Press Release3 Nov 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
Escaping first Libya, and then coronavirus in Germany
Voices from the Field15 Jun 2020
Mali
Fleeing violence in Niger, refugees in Mali remain vulnerable
Project Update9 Mar 2020
Reports & Analysis
France
Unaccompanied minors, symbols of a policy of mistreatment
Report10 Sep 2019
Central African Republic
Unprotected: Report on violence and lack of protection for civilians in CAR
Report19 Feb 2019
Nauru
Report: Indefinite Despair
Report2 Dec 2018
Sweden
Uncertain life situation leads to mental health distress among asylum seekers
Report9 Apr 2018
Rohingya refugee crisis
‘No one was left’ - Death and Violence Against the Rohingya
Report9 Mar 2018
Italy
Migrants and refugees on the margins of society
Report8 Feb 2018
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move
MSF-Analysis articles on Migration & Refugees
MSF-Analysis.15 Jun 2017
Mediterranean migration
European policies dramatically worsened the so-called 2015 “refugee crisis”
Report19 Jan 2016
Sexual violence
MSF denounces the sexual violence against migrants travelling to Europe
Report25 Mar 2010
Book
Refugee Health: An Approach to Emergency Situations
13 Jun 1997
Book
Philippines
Displaced communities in Marawi living with COVID-19 and ongoing uncertainty
Project Update17 Jul 2020
Burkina Faso
Displaced in Burkina Faso face extra challenges amid increasing violence and rain
Project Update16 Jul 2020
Greece
Greek government must end lockdown for locked up people on Greek islands
Project Update16 Jul 2020
Iraq
Displaced people are extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 in Iraq
Press Release14 Jul 2020
Greece
Vulnerable refugees evicted and left to sleep on streets
Press Release13 Jul 2020
Lebanon
COVID-19 and economic downfall reveal migrant workers’ mental health crisis in Lebanon
Report3 Jul 2020
Mozambique
“It was like the end of the world” during attack in northern Mozambique
Voices from the Field30 Jun 2020
Syria
Life in an open-air prison: living under the bombs in Idlib
Voices from the Field29 Jun 2020
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move
“No one chooses to be a refugee”
Voices from the Field19 Jun 2020
Related topics
Crisis Settings
War and conflict
Around one-quarter of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict.
In Focus
Central American Migration
An estimated 500,000 people a year flee violence and poverty in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, heading north through Mexico to find safety. The levels of violence in the region are comparable to that of war zones MSF has worked in for decades.
In Focus
Mediterranean migration
Every year, thousands of people fleeing war, persecution and poverty at home attempt the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean. Countless lives are lost on the way.
In Focus
Rohingya refugee crisis
Since 25 August 2017, a massive exodus of over 706,000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar. We are urging the Myanmar government for unfettered access to Rakhine state to ensure the impartial delivery of aid to those in need.
