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How we work

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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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Kosti teaching hospital cholera centre
Sudan

Over 800 people hospitalised and dozens are dead from waterborne infection in Sudan’s White Nile state

MSF teams are responding to a surge of people in need of treatment from a waterborne disease. Press Release - 21 Feb 2025
 
Ludmilla, 40-years-old and her son Vladislav, 11-years-old, are being checked by Kirill, Kelly and Grisha from MSF in a metro station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 11, 2022. Ludmilla used to be a refueling operator before the war, in the sourroundings of Kharkiv city. For two weeks, she stayed home under the bombings, but one day, a loud eplosion was too close and she came to live in the subway. "I was very scared and worried for my child when I saw him presing our cat on his chest, saying : mommy, I don't want to die." Until the last second, they hesitated with her family between going abroad or staying : "But Kharkiv is our city, we need to stay, and we need to stay together," she says. So they moved with her mom, husband and son. "All the cold, the bad sleep, it is nothing compared to the war," she says. "At least we feel safe here." She came to see MSF because of knee problems that have started around a year before. She had done all the tests in December, and had an operation planned for the end of February, but then the war started. "Running while coming her eI urt myself even more," she says, hoping to get some painkillers.
Ukraine

The medical humanitarian needs in Ukraine remain as urgent as ever

People continue to bear the burden of the war’s devastation. Press Release - 21 Feb 2025
 
Commune of Ranobe, Amboasary District. People in the south-east of Madagascar are facing the most acute nutritional and food crisis the region has seen in recent years. MSF began setting up mobile clinics in Amboasary district in late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF staff member critically injured in Masisi town after shots hit MSF base

An MSF staff member has been critically injured after shots hit the MSF base in Masisi town, in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. Press Release - 20 Feb 2025
 
Numerous internally displaced people in the Bulengo camp, located next to Goma, are leaving the camp, while others are staying, sometime too afraid to hit the road.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Assistance needed for people leaving and staying in Goma following weeks of violence

People affected by the violence in Goma need assistance, no matter where they are. Press Release - 13 Feb 2025
 
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HIV/AIDS

Uncertainty around PEPFAR programme puts millions of people at risk

The US government's decision to temporarily freeze funding to PEPFAR has had immediate effects on people living with HIV. Press Release - 13 Feb 2025
 
New and old, rusty layer of concertina entanglements.
Poland

Increased militarisation has life-threatening consequences for people trapped at the Poland-Belarus border

Poland's legislative shifts are infringing on people's right to seek asylum. Press Release - 10 Feb 2025
 
After the 9-day incursion that took place in Jenin from 28 August to 6 September, MSF teams resumed their psychological first-aid activities in the refugee camp. Salwa and Rahma visit the camp weekly to meet the residents and make assessments on their mental health and evolution. “The level of destruction keeps becoming bigger, and the psychological impact is huge” explains Rahma, “residents believe that what is happening in Gaza will happen as well in the camp. Many people, and especially women and children, suffer from symptoms of psychological trauma, and develop eating and sleeping problems like recurrent nightmares and anxiety due to the fear of incursions which often happen at night” People cannot feel safe given the brutality of the incursions and the impossibility to foresee when the next one will come. In this context, psychological treatment is challenging as the trauma is ongoing.
Gaza-Israel war

“Inflicting harm and denying care” in the West Bank: MSF report on escalation of attacks and obstructions of healthcare

A new report by MSF details how Israeli forces and settlers are obstructing healthcare in Palestine's West Bank. Press Release - 6 Feb 2025
 
Displaced people reaching Tawila locality. They mainly come from El Fasher and surrounding camps like Zamzam and Abu Shok and report extreme violence, repeated shelling, skyrocketing commodity prices and food shortages as the main reasons to move. Many remain behind because of increased protection concerns on the road and a lack of financial means to pay for transportation and fees. Tawila is under the control of a faction of the armed group SLA/M led by Abdul Wahid el-Nur, who comes from the Fur community. The faction itself as a neutral player in the conflict which often facilitates a convoy for civilians to move between El Fasher and Tawila.
Conflict in Sudan

Mass influxes of wounded patients arrive at hospitals across Sudan as “war on people” continues

MSF teams have responded to multiple mass casualty incidents across Sudan in the last few days. Press Release - 5 Feb 2025
 
As the epidemic emerged in Kagera, MSF mission officially offered our services and expertise to the MoH on three main pillars of the response: 1. Health Response Capacity: Deployment of medical teams and logistical resources to support case management, contact tracing, and health facility strengthening. 2. Training and Capacity Building: Collaborating with healthcare professionals on infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, as well as the management of patients in critical care. 3. Medical Supply : Providing Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) and other useful medical and non-medical devices. Following this, an experienced team in Oubtreak management was invited by the MoH to take part in the assessment of local response capacities that took place in January in Kagera, together with the WHO and other partners.
Tanzania

MSF team supports response to outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania

The outbreak was declared on 20 January 2025. Press Release - 3 Feb 2025
 
The beginning of the targeted food distribution. At this site children enrolled in MSF’s outpatient malnutrition programme will receive two months of food for them and their families.
Conflict in Sudan

MSF renews call for immediate action to prevent death and starvation in Sudan

Action must be taken now to prevent even more avoidable death from malnutrition in Sudan. Press Release - 3 Feb 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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