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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 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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Members of the MSF logistics team distribute blankets and jerry cans in Nyin Deng Ayuel displacement camp in Twic County. After fleeing violence in Agok, thousands of people have been left without basic essentials to survive.
South Sudan

Displaced people in Twic County need more assistance amid “terrible conditions”

Displaced people in Twic County, in Warrap State, South Sudan need more support from the humanitarian community as the rainy season approaches. Press Release - 26 Apr 2022
 
The catastrophic flash flooding that ensued on 11 April in the eThekwini region in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province has left 40,000 people homeless and many are sheltering in community-based schools, churches and halls without food, cookware, mattresses, blankets, clothes and basic hygiene products. MSF has provided kits comprising these non-food items to more than 500 individuals, and to free shelter residents from dependence on food packs MSF has equipped three community shelters with kitchenware including stoves, fridges and freezers.
South Africa

Thousands homeless and at risk of disease after devastating floods

Around 40,000 people have been left homeless after floods in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ripped apart homes, leaving many people vulnerable to water-borne diseases. Project Update - 22 Apr 2022
 
Burnt home in Leer County, South Sudan
South Sudan

Dozens of people killed and injured as violence surges in Leer County

In the latest violence in Leer County, South Sudan, dozens of people have been killed, including an MSF staff member, while thousands more have been displaced. Press Release - 19 Apr 2022
 
On 2 April MSF sent a small team to Mocímboa de Praia, a coastal town in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. During a one-day visit the team carried out consultations with 39 patients, mostly male adults and some teenagers and children as well. They didn’t find any critical medical issues and only had to refer one patient who was suffering from cardiac problems to the Mueda rural hospital.
Mozambique

Adapting healthcare in Mocímboa da Praia as people flee or return home

MSF teams have returned to Mocímboa da Praia, a town in conflict-ravaged Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique, to provide medical care for the first time in two years. Interview - 8 Apr 2022
 
MSF responds to massive displacement in Twic County
South Sudan

Humanitarian aid urgently needed for thousands of displaced people from Agok

As tens of thousands of people have fled Agok due to fighting and insecurity, MSF calls on humanitarian organisations to support in the massive needs of displaced people in the area. Project Update - 9 Mar 2022
 
A second cyclone called Emnati hit the town of Mananjary on the eastern coasts of Madagascar on 22 February. MSF teams set up emergency tents near the main hospital, partially destroyed by the first cyclone, in order to start medical consultations as soon as they can.
Madagascar

Cyclones cut people off from healthcare in eastern Madagascar

Cyclones Batsirai and Emnati hit the east coast of Madagascar in quick succession in February, destroying numerous healthcare centres and leaving people without access to healthcare. Project Update - 2 Mar 2022
 
A Ministry of Health staff member checks a child’s rapid malaria test at an MSF-supported health centre in Farazala, northern Central African Republic.
Central African Republic

MSF forced to reduce medical activities in Kabo

MSF is forced to reduce medical activities in Kabo due to insecurity. Press Release - 17 Feb 2022
 
Aerial view of the north part of Nosy Varik
Madagascar

Cyclone Batsirai leaves people vulnerable to food shortages and malaria

After Cyclone Batsirai destroyed towns in Madagascar, people have been left without access to healthcare with possible food shortages. Project Update - 14 Feb 2022
 
A man and woman carry a set of relief items distributed by an MSF team for newly arrived displaced people at the resettlement site of Eduardo Mondlane, in the town of Mueda, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
Mozambique

Attacks and violence in Cabo Delgado displace thousands as cyclone season begins

As continued conflict forces thousands of people from their homes, cyclones and heavy rains further threaten an already extremely vulnerable people in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Project Update - 4 Feb 2022
 
Salamata, has been living for more than two years with her husband, children and nearly 2,000 other people in the camp at the edge of the town of Barsalogho, north central region, Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso

Four things to know about the crisis in Burkina Faso

With months of violent tension in Burkina Faso culminating in military takeover on Monday 24 January, people are paying the price - here are four key things to know about the current crisis. Project Update - 28 Jan 2022
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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