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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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MSF Websites

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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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MSF academy in Liwale
Tanzania

Interpreters are the voices that turn medical silence into maternal hope in Tanzania

In Tanzania, Jackline John is an MSF interpreter, translating not only words between doctor and patient, but trust. Voices from the Field - 4 Jun 2026
 
MSF flag blowing in the wind at Aweil project base.
Conflict in Sudan

Strike on Al‑Jabalain hospital results in 10 fatalities, including seven medical staff

A drone attack, reportedly carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), targeted Al‑Jabalain hospital in White Nile state, Sudan, on 2 April, resulting in at least 10 fatalities. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2026
 
Women and children walk past the outer fence of MSF supported Bay Regional Hospital in Baidoa, Somalia. Reaching healthcare facilities remains a major challenge for women in remote areas and displacement camps, contributing to preventable maternal and newborn deaths.
Somalia

Walking for her life: the triple healthcare delay for women in Somalia

Shaheen BiBi, MSF's midwife activity manager at Bay Regional hospital in Somalia, describes the “triple delay” women often encounter in seeking, reaching, and receiving care. Voices from the Field - 6 Mar 2026
 
Concrete remains of the old mining factory, abandoned since the 2011 conflict, now stand surrounded by makeshift huts and families seeking safety.
Conflict in Sudan

How many more atrocities must people in Sudan endure?

Jean-Nicolas Armstrong-Dangelser, our senior operations adviser for Sudan, explains how the devastating conflict in Sudan represents a systemic failure. Voices from the Field - 18 Nov 2025
 
Binta Abdulraziqu sits beside her twin sons Hassan and Hussaini who were both admitted for severe acute malnutrition at the Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Center in Maiyama Local Government Area, Kebbi State.
Nigeria

Malnutrition crisis in Nigeria: “This is an emergency”

Katrin Kisswani describes the devastating malnutrition crisis is unfolding in Kebbi state, northern Nigeria. Voices from the Field - 11 Sep 2025
 
MSF community health officer, George Kamara, examining a patient inside the MSF supported mpox treatment centre in Calaba town, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Tamba came to the centre to be examined and tested after noticing lesions on his face and neck.
Sierra Leone

Treating mpox in Sierra Leone’s outbreak hotspot

Agnes Dama is advising MSF on our response to the ongoing mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone. She tells us about the disease and her work. Voices from the Field - 8 Jul 2025
 
MSF staff working to set up a tent to extend the bed capacity of the Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) in Assosa to respond to the growing needs of the population amid the outbreak. MSF has been running a CTC in Assosa since Nov 12th, a few kilometres away from Malakal hospital, to respond to the increasing needs of cholera patients in Malakal.
South Sudan

The first 72 hours of a cholera outbreak

Diyani Dewasurendra recounts the first 72 hours of a cholera outbreak in South Sudan. Voices from the Field - 23 Apr 2025
 
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Conflict in Sudan

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

This collection of testimonies shares the experiences of people who have fled to Sudan's Nuba mountains in search of safety from the ongoing conflict. Voices from the Field - 8 Apr 2025
 
Before the fighting broke out in the Goma, MSF teams were working in Kyeshero hospital, located in the western part of the city, supporting the Ministry of Health. They were providing care for malnourished children; most of whom came from the displaced people camps near the city. When fighting broke out in the city in the last week of January, MSF quickly put in place a plan for a mass influx of wounded, in particular to support the International Commitee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) work in Ndosho hospital.
Democratic Republic of Congo

A chaotic situation and many war-wounded in Goma

Virginie Napolitano, MSF emergency coordinator in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, describes the situation in the city. Voices from the Field - 31 Jan 2025
 
Shelters of refugees in the Adré transit camp, Chad.
Conflict in Sudan

Echoes from Darfur

Sudanese refugees have sought safety in eastern Chad, where we met Aziz, Youssef, Salwa and Amina. Voices from the Field - 28 Oct 2024
Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.
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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