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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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Children playing under a tree in Iridimi camp near Iriba in eastern Chad.
Conflict in Sudan

Documentary: El Fasher under siege

Four people from El Fasher, Sudan, share their testimony about the destruction of their city. Documentary - 16 Dec 2025
 
Maria João, a displaced person from Memba District, receives a medical consultation at an MSF mobile clinic in Alua Velha, Eráti District, Nampula Province. Her health has deteriorated due to injuries from fleeing and possible infections, while her children, aged 10 and 13, face dietary and health challenges. Despite seeking medical help, the local clinic lacked medicines. Maria fled attacks carried out by a Non-State Armed Group active in Norther Mozambique. She arrived in Alua Velha with her husband and two children, having escaped gunfire and destruction in her home village of Necoro, in Memba district. They walked 25 km before taking a motorbike to reach safety. Initially, they lived under a mango tree for five days before moving into her husband’s family home, which is now overcrowded with 15 people and insufficient resources. In Necoro, she sold mahewe (a fermented beverage made from corn flour, water and sugar) but her house and freezer where she stored the beverage were burned, and her husband’s motorbike was destroyed. She reports being too frightened to return to Necoro, where violence, including beheadings and arson, has displaced her four times since 2024. Although she sometimes helps with farming in Alua Velha, she has no clear plans for the future and lacks the means to rebuild her life. The conflict has impacted her health, food security and finances, leaving her with no belongings or prospects.
Mozambique

MSF begins emergency response after 100,000 people flee violence in northern Mozambique

MSF teams are providing displaced people, and host communities, with medical care and essential services. Project Update - 16 Dec 2025
 
Patients at the Masisi General Reference Hospital recover following surgical operations. Almost all of them have suffered some kind of violent injury.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF briefs UN Security Council on staggering violence in DRC

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim addressed the UN Security Council, providing them with a briefing on what MSF witnesses in the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo. Speech - 12 Dec 2025
 
At the Mweso General Hospital, a mother holds her two-year-old daughter, injured by a bomb blast.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Piecing together bodies and minds amid violence in eastern DRC

Civilians are paying the heaviest price of the ongoing armed violence across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as they suffer from trauma wounds, mental health issues and are victims of sexual violence. Project Update - 9 Dec 2025
 
Mother and daughter in an IDP camp Arual Manyok, 32, and her daughter Adit Ayuel, 3, who received Malaria Drug Administration( MDA), talk to MSF staff in front of their tukul. "If we compare before and after MSF started bringing malaria drugs, there is a big difference. All the children who got the medicine have not had malaria again. Only the children who did not get the drugs are getting sick.” says Arual South Sudan is at the middle of the malaria season. The majority of patients at Mayen Abun Hospital are positive for malaria, some of them suffering from severe cases. As this is a recurring situation, MSF has been running a mass drug administration (MDA) rounds since 2023, providing prophylactic treatment to children under the age of 15. This has already had a massive impact on the community: positive rates among children are much lower than in previous years (even though the country as a whole is experiencing an increased malaria peak compared to previous years due to the influx of refugees and flooding), and the rate of severe cases is also much lower. An MSF outreach team visited one IDP camp to check some of the children who had already received 3 rounds of prophylaxis and to discuss the impact with the families.
South Sudan

Gaps in healthcare threaten lives as violence escalates in South Sudan

Amid escalating violence, disease outbreaks, healthcare shortages, and decreasing aid funding, South Sudan’s health system is stretched to breaking point. Press Release - 9 Dec 2025
 
MSF set up a healthcare post in Tawila Umda to stabilise newly arrived people and refer the most serious cases, such as the wounded or those requiring surgery, by ambulance to Tawila Hospital. Tawila Umda
Conflict in Sudan

People who escaped El Fasher are struggling to survive one month after RSF takeover

MSF teams are treating people who have escaped the horrific violence in El Fasher, Sudan, as they arrive to unsuitable living conditions in Tawila. Project Update - 26 Nov 2025
 
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
 
Three years after the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement ended hostilities in Ethiopia's Tigray region, over 760,000 people remain displaced, many in overcrowded camps with limited access to food, clean water, sanitation, and shelter, as communities grapple with the lasting impacts of violence and collapsed services. The psychological impact of the conflict exacerbated by the current living situation remains one of the most pressing but often overlooked consequences. As trauma caused by violence, loss, and displacement continues to affect thousands of people in the region, access to mental health care remains extremely limited leaving a lot of survivors to cope with the long-term effects of trauma alone. MSF currently provides mental health counseling at two locations in the region. Since 2023, Mental health care services have been offered at the Five Angels and Semaetat IDP Camp, and starting in 2024, counseling is also offered at the MSF facility within Maiani Hospital. These services include one-on-one counseling, psycho-education sessions with health promotion teams, group therapy, and referrals to hospitals for psychiatric care, ensuring regular support for the community.
Ethiopia

Mental health care cannot wait in Tigray

Three years since the cessation of hostilities in Tigray, Ethiopia, people are living with the psychological impacts of trauma without widely available support. Project Update - 10 Oct 2025
 
An MSF team walk through the town of Mocímboa da Praia, in northern Mozambique, to assess people’s medical and humanitarian needs.
Mozambique

MSF suspends activities in Mocímboa da Praia as violence surges

MSF suspends activities in the town and district of Mocímboa da Praia in Cabo Delgado province as violence surges. Civilians, medical workers must be protected. Press Release - 26 Sep 2025
 
Adil, 12-year-old, next to his mother Nawal and little brother Musa. As many of the children recovering the paediatric ward of Tawila Hospital on that day, Adil is suffering from a bullet injury, as he was shot on his way out of Zamzam camp. Out of the 779 patients MSF have treated since April 11th for gunshot wound, 138 were children.
Conflict in Sudan

Deadly attacks across Darfur leave nearly 100 wounded in MSF-supported facilities

A day of RSF and SAF attacks across Darfur, Sudan, has seen 99 wounded patients arrive at MSF-supported facilities. Press Release - 11 Sep 2025
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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