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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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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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1005 Results
 
Northern Syria: Acute water crisis poses serious health risks
Syria

Northern Syria: Acute water crisis poses serious health risks

People are facing a desperate situation in northern Syria, as limited access to clean water has reached breaking point, creating health problems for millions of people displaced within the region. Project Update - 29 Sep 2021
 
MSF's clinic in Arsal
Lebanon

Healthcare system in Lebanon disintegrates as political vacuum persists

As the situation in Lebanon deteriorates and the economic crisis worsens, the healthcare system has been pushed to its limit, leaving the most vulnerable without access to essential treatment. Project Update - 1 Sep 2021
 
Taiz City, mother and child healthcare at Al Jamhouri hospital
Yemen

Seeking healthcare in Taiz, a city split by a frontline

More than six years of war has split the city of Taiz in two, with a frontline dividing the city from people who need access to healthcare - something often inaccessible and unaffordable in Yemen. Project Update - 24 Aug 2021
 
Palestine: Tackling COVID-19 in Hebron, the epicenter of the outbreak
Palestine

“We are all afraid”: Settler attacks against Palestinians in Hebron on the rise

As Palestinians in Hebron have witnessed an increase in attacks by settlers since the beginning of the year, MSF continues to provide psychological treatment to people suffering from the impacts of living under occupation. Project Update - 16 Aug 2021
 
AL-Wahda Hospital
Iraq

Dire needs for healthcare remain years after Battle of Mosul

Years after the battle against the Islamic State group ended in Mosul, Iraq, the city’s health system has not yet recovered - in response MSF has been providing comprehensive post-operative care to patients from the city and surrounding areas.  Project Update - 29 Jul 2021
 
Northwest Syria: Displaced people prepare for another harsh winter
Syria

Millions of Syrians will lose access to vital aid if northwest border closes

The potential closure of the northwest Syrian border, Bab Al-Hawa, could be extremely harmful to the millions of people reliant on aid there. Project Update - 8 Jul 2021
 
Surviving Gaza: the hopes and perils of living under blockade
Palestine

Surviving Gaza: the hopes and perils of living under blockade

The latest offensive in Palestine has made the mental health crisis in Gaza more acute and made it even harder for people to cope.
 Project Update - 29 Jun 2021
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Libya

Ongoing violence against detained migrants forces MSF to suspend Tripoli detention centre activities

Violence against people detained in overcrowded detention centres in Tripoli, Libya, has forced MSF to suspend activities providing medical care. Press Release - 22 Jun 2021
 
Nasr Al Jaddouh
Syria

Millions of lives at stake if cross-border aid channels close in Syria

Millions of people's lives in northwest Syria could be in jeopardy if UN Security Council members are unable to renew a resolution that enables humanitarian aid to pass into the region. Press Release - 18 Jun 2021
 
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Mediterranean migration

Witnessing harrowing crossings onboard the Geo Barents

MSF teams carried out several rescues of people where they safely brought onboard men, women and children on the search and rescue vessel, Geo Barrents, in the Mediterranean Sea. Voices from the Field - 18 Jun 2021
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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