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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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Palestinians wait with worn-out containers to fill them from a truck. The scarcity of water and the danger of collection create immense tension.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF condemns Israeli attack on water distribution site in Gaza City 

On 15 September, Israeli forces fired upon our clearly marked water truck in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Gaza City. Statement - 18 Sep 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF mourns Hussein Alnajjar, thirteenth colleague killed in Gaza

Hussein Alnajjar, an MSF nurse, was killed following an airstrike near his tent in Gaza. MSF mourns his loss, the thirteenth of colleagues in Gaza to be killed. Statement - 17 Sep 2025
 
Mobilisation for Gaza in front of the Parliament in Bern
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza: Leaders of major aid groups call on world leaders to intervene following UN genocide conclusion

The leaders of over 20 major aid agencies working in Gaza are calling on world leaders to urgently intervene after a UN commission concluded that genocide is being committed. Open Letter - 17 Sep 2025
 
After Israeli forces opened fire at people in one of the GHF distribution sites, At MSF health centre Al Mawasi we are receiving patients with injuries including the dead while trying to get food for their families in Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

Doctors cannot stop genocide, world leaders can

Christopher Lockyear, MSF's Secretary General, details how governments around the world are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Opinion - 15 Sep 2025
 
Gaza City evacuation orders
Palestine

Gaza City offensive is a death sentence for one million Palestinians

People in Gaza City are facing a humanitarian catastrophe as Israel’s escalating military assault, pushes them to the brink and threatens the survival of the health system. Project Update - 11 Sep 2025
 
MSF Advocacy Manager on a field visit to Kisan village, where the Ubayat family’s 250 m² home was demolished by Israeli forces.
Palestine

MSF teams see risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank

MSF teams are witnessing policies and practices blatantly designed to remove Palestinians from their land and prevent any possibility of return. Press Release - 4 Sep 2025
 
Ambulances are parked outside MSF’s Mother and Child hospital in Houban, September 2021. Teams refer newborn babies and patients of trauma to other facilities for further medical care.
Yemen

Yemen: MSF hands over hospital in Taiz after a decade of care

MSF first opened the Taiz mother and child hospital in 2015, and today it is being run by the Ministry of Health. Project Update - 28 Aug 2025
 
An MSF water truck provides a critical source of clean drinking water. Despite producing around 500,000 litres daily, it is enough for only 80,000 people to receive the bare minimum.
Gaza-Israel war

People gathering water caught up in gunfire in Gaza

On 23 August, a group of people, including children, were gathered at a water collection point as gunfire broke out, injuring people. Statement - 26 Aug 2025
 
A little boy struggles under the weight of a water jerrycan to bring it back to his displaced family's tent. This daily burden, carried by children, is a direct result of the man-made water crisis. With 70% of Gaza's piped water lost to bomb-damaged networks, water trucking is the only source of water for thousands in Gaza, however, water trucking is frequently hindered by militarized zones and constant bombardment.
Gaza-Israel war

Israeli authorities are starving Palestinians of water in Gaza

Organisations like MSF would be able to increase the amount of safe water in Gaza, however, Israel is blocking imports of critical water treatment items. Press Release - 21 Aug 2025
 
After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024, prisoners and detainees were released from prisons and security branches whose reputation in ill treatment and torture methods precedes them. Many survivors spent years in detention under very harsh conditions, deprived of proper food and sometimes medical care, and exposed to cycles of physical and psychological abuse. In light of the huge medical and mental health needs former prisoners and detainees are experiencing, MSF piloted a program for survivors of ill treatment in its project in Idlib, where we’ve received some patients. One of them shared her story with us. This animation supports the longer article piece and serves as a short visual story of her testimony.
Syria

New MSF programme treats survivors of detention in Syria

After the gates of detention centres opened in Syria in late 2024, MSF began a new programme for survivors. Project Update - 18 Aug 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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