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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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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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Palestinian family set up a place over the rubbles of their destroyed house to live in Beit Lahia city, north of Gaza strip.
Gaza-Israel war

Displacement orders are “psychological and physical warfare” in Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Unpredictable displacement orders are having a psychological toll on Gazans. Press Release - 27 May 2025
 
On 19 May, Israeli forces struck Nasser hospital compound, 100 metres away from the intensive care unit and the inpatient department that are run by MSF. This is the third time in two months that Nasser hospital compound has been struck, once again depriving people of treatment and care. To reduce exposure, our teams were forced to temporarily close both the outpatient department and sedation room for patients awaiting or recovering from surgery, as well as suspend physiotherapy and mental health activities, which are essential for burn patients – most of whom are children. This strike severely damaged the Ministry of Health pharmacy store, putting additional pressure on supplies at a time when medical stocks are running critically low due to the siege. On the same day, Israeli forces have issued widescale evacuation orders, further limiting people’s access to medical care and MSF’s ability to provide it. An evacuation order covering almost the entire eastern part of Khan Younis, at the edge of Nasser hospital, forced people to immediately move towards Al Mawasi area, which resulted in a small number of patients in Nasser hospital on 20 May.
Gaza-Israel war

Aid instrumentalised, health system under fire: Gaza is being deliberately asphyxiated by Israeli forces

Twenty medical facilities have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service, in Gaza, Palestine, in the last week. Press Release - 21 May 2025
 
Destroyed streets and buildings in Beit Lahia, Gaza North.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe caused by siege on Gaza

We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives in Gaza. Statement - 14 May 2025
 
MSF nurse Belal is tending to Sham’s dressings at the clinic in Gaza City. After their house in Beit Hanoun was targeted, she sustained burn injuries.
Gaza-Israel war

No relief and no chance of recovery for Gaza’s burn patients

In Gaza, Palestine, burn patients are subjected to prolonged suffering. Project Update - 25 Apr 2025
 
Short caption: Martha*, 25, in an Ethiopian shelter in Beirut. She came to Lebanon to earn a living a year and a half ago. Long caption: For the first three months Martha* spent in Lebanon, she was going through sexual harassment, but her employer did not believe her. “My employer would yell at me if I ask her for anything or ask her a question. She mistreated me, often delaying paying me my salary,” says Martha*. “She did not believe I was going through sexual harassment. She even did not believe me when I told I her I was sick.” *Name changed to protect identity
Lebanon

Trapped and abused: migrant workers’ experiences in Lebanon

MSF’s clinic in Bourj Hammoud, a northern suburb of Beirut, primarily serves migrants who are generally excluded from social services. Project Update - 23 Apr 2025
 
Displaced Palestinian family riding a tuktuk; coming back to settle in Beit Lahia city, north of Gaza strip.
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them

Palestinian lives are being systematically destroyed in Gaza, while Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarians. Press Release - 16 Apr 2025
 
The entrance to the emergency room of MSF Aden Trauma Centre within Al-Salam Hospital in Aden, Yemen, where patients are assessed and stabilised before further care.
Yemen

MSF ends 12-year-long trauma surgery programme in Aden, Yemen

We have concluded a 12-year project providing surgical care for traumatic injuries in Aden, Yemen. Project Update - 8 Apr 2025
 
The nurses in charge of the pharmacy at the Daraya Health Centre are reviewing the medication availability schedules. الممرضات المسؤولات عن الصيدلية في مركز داريا الصحي يقمن بالتدقيق على جداول الأدوية المتوفرة
Syria

Syria: MSF opens emergency room in Daraya

MSF began working in Daraya in March in partnership with the Directorate of Health. Project Update - 7 Apr 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF mourns the killing of eleventh colleague in Gaza

Our colleague, Hussam Al Loulou, was killed by an airstrike on the morning of 1 April. Statement - 4 Apr 2025
 
MSF water and sanitation engineers assessing a borehole in Beit Lahia city, north of Gaza strip, Palestine.
Gaza-Israel war

One month into deadly Israeli-imposed blockade, critical medicines in Gaza start to run out

Shortage of medication is forcing MSF teams to dress wounds with no pain relief and ration essential medicines. Israeli authorities must end collective punishment of people in Gaza. Press Release - 2 Apr 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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