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How we work

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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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639 Results
 
Agok hospital
Burkina Faso

Malnutrition crisis grips children trapped in western Burkina Faso

In Burkina Faso’s Boucle du Mouhoun region, our teams have found one in five children are affected by malnutrition in a town that has seen its supplies cut off by armed groups.
Press Release - 28 Nov 2023
 
Diphtheria, Kano project
Vaccination

Dramatic upscaling of vaccination needed in West Africa to curb deadly diphtheria outbreaks

MSF is urging international organisations, including WHO, and the governments of some countries in West Africa to urgently scale up the response to deadly diphtheria outbreaks occurring in the region. Press Release - 21 Nov 2023
 
Kalma Camp, Darfur
Conflict in Sudan

Surgical supply ban in Khartoum must be immediately reversed

An unconscionable ban that is preventing life-saving surgical supplies from being transported to hospitals in areas of Khartoum, Sudan, is putting the lives of hundreds of people at risk. Press Release - 14 Nov 2023
 
First patient admitted as the influx of refugees from Sudan increased after intensified fighting in El Geneina
Chad

More people forced to flee Sudan to Chad as fighting intensifies across Darfur

Following increased fighting in El Geneina in Sudan, MSF teams working across the border in eastern Chad have seen an immediate and major increase in the number of people arriving in the region. Press Release - 7 Nov 2023
 
Sexual violence. Bangui, CAR
Central African Republic

Sexual violence in Central African Republic is a “public health emergency”

In Central African Republic, MSF teams have treated an exponential number of survivors of sexual violence over the last five years, in what is now a public health emergency. Press Release - 24 Oct 2023
 
Emergency Surgical Team at Bashair Hospital Khartoum, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

MSF suspends surgery in Khartoum hospital as supplies remain blocked

Essential supplies needed to perform surgeries have been blocked, leading MSF to suspend our surgical activities at Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. Press Release - 19 Oct 2023
 
El Fasher: 2 weeks since the beginning of the clashes
Conflict in Sudan

Six months of war and neglect in Sudan is a “catastrophic failure of humanity”

Six months into the conflict in Sudan, MSF calls for immediate increase in humanitarian efforts, the safeguarding of medical staff, humanitarian workers and civilians, the removal of administrative blockages on medical and humanitarian staff and supplies, and for people to be allowed unhindered access to humanitarian aid. Press Release - 12 Oct 2023
 
People in line at a water point in Transit Centre in Renk
South Sudan

Aid woefully inadequate for returnees stuck in deplorable conditions in Renk

Nearly 300,000 South Sudanese fleeing the conflict in Sudan have returned to their homeland and are now stuck in deplorable conditions, at risk of measles, malaria and malnutrition. Press Release - 3 Oct 2023
 
Diphtheria, Kano project
Nigeria

Urgent response needed to curb Nigeria’s worsening diphtheria outbreak

As a diphtheria outbreak surges through Nigeria and neighbouring countries, an urgent increase in access to medicines and vaccination is vital to avoid further deaths. Press Release - 19 Sep 2023
 
Hepatitis E cases in Al-Tanideba, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Forty-nine people killed in Khartoum’s deadliest weekend since conflict began

Our teams treated over 100 people wounded in two separate locations of Khartoum, Sudan, following deadly attacks where at least 49 people were killed. Press Release - 12 Sep 2023
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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