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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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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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Caretakers wait outside the pre- and post-operative care unit to visit their loved ones at Renk County Hospital. MSF and ICRC are providing treatment to war-wounded patients in this facility.
South Sudan

South Sudan receives thousands of displaced and injured people fleeing intensified war in Sudan

We are scaling up our response in Renk, South Sudan, to provide urgent medical care to the influx of people arriving from Sudan. Press Release - 20 Dec 2024
 
Jabalia camp
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction

A new MSF report finds that amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza, Palestine. Press Release - 19 Dec 2024
 
MSF has been forced to end operations on our rescue vessel, Geo Barents, due to restrictive Italian laws and policies. Since June 2021, the ship saved 12,675 lives in the Central Mediterranean. Despite this setback, we are committed to returning to sea as soon as possible. MSF will now evaluate new ways to continue life-saving operations in this challenging environment.
Mediterranean migration

MSF ends operation of Geo Barents with commitment to return to Central Mediterranean Sea

We have ended operations on our Geo Barents rescue vessel, but are committed to returning to the Central Mediterranean Sea. Press Release - 13 Dec 2024
 
Following the explosion of a fuel tanker on 14 September in Miragoâne, MSF teams are gathering in front of the Carrefour hospital to plan for the hours ahead, which are essential for helping the injured people. A total of six MSF ambulances have been mobilised.
Haiti

MSF partially resumes medical activities in Port-au-Prince

As of 11 December 2024, we have partially resumed our activities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following a 22-day suspension. Press Release - 11 Dec 2024
 
In response to the recent developments in Syria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing critical relief to thousands of displaced people now seeking safety in Tabqa and Raqqa, northeast Syria. The newly arrived displaced people are yet another time on the run, as many of them have endured displacement multiple times since the start of the Syrian crisis. According to our assessment, the situation is miserable, and the needs are immense and growing rapidly. We distributed water, tents, blankets, mattresses, and infant formula packs to those in immediate need. In addition to providing these items, we’ve also carried out water and sanitation activities, including water trucking to the collective centers to ensure access to clean water. MSF teams have also been cleaning latrines in the makeshift shelters to improve sanitation and prevent the spread of disease. These essential supplies are vital to ensuring the health, comfort, and dignity of those who have been forced to flee their homes.
Syria

MSF responds to people’s developing needs in northeast Syria

MSF is providing clean drinking water, shelter, and urgent medical care to people who have been displaced by ongoing hostilities in northeast Syria. Press Release - 11 Dec 2024
 
A line of beds at the paediatric ward in the Cholera Treatment Center (CTC). MSF has been running a CTC in Assosa since Nov 12th, a few km away from Malakal hospital, to respond to the increasing needs of cholera patients in Malakal. The CTC currently has 90 beds, with capacity to scale up to 100.
South Sudan

Urgent response needed to stop cholera outbreak in Upper Nile state

A cholera outbreak is spreading in Upper Nile state, South Sudan. A coordinated response is needed to stop the spread. Press Release - 6 Dec 2024
 
MSF gynaecologists check the medical records of mothers at Khost Maternity Hospital.
Afghanistan

Excluding women from medical institutes threatens the future of healthcare in Afghanistan

The announcement to bar women from studying in medical institutes will impact the availability of healthcare in Afghanistan. Press Release - 6 Dec 2024
 
MSF staf taking the vital signs of Nura, Zainab’s child at the Kofar Suari Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre, Katsina, Katsina state. Nura is being treated for malnutrition. Few days ago, he could only take the therapeutic milk. Now he can take the plumpy nut.
Nigeria

Levels of global acute malnutrition have doubled since last year in parts of northwest Nigeria

A survey conducted by MSF has found that there are 'extremely critical levels of malnutrition' in areas of northwest Nigeria. Press Release - 5 Dec 2024
 
A view of overcrowded tents in the Attar area of Khan Younis, South Gaza, where displaced families live in cramped conditions with limited access to basic items, such as water, food and clothing.
Gaza-Israel war

Obstacles to essential supplies deepen Gaza's catastrophic humanitarian and medical situation

The amount of humanitarian aid entering into Gaza has reached its lowest levels in months, compromising patient care. Press Release - 29 Nov 2024
 
Close-up of an MSF speakerphone during an emergency medical aid response in Samos island, Greece. MSF has been responding to requests for emergency medical assistance to people arriving by boat on the island of Samos since August 2021. MSF’s emergency response has shown the high medical and humanitarian needs amongst new arrivals. During our interventions, most people we assist are exhausted and severely distressed. A lot of them are dehydrated after spending a long time, sometimes several days, in the bush without access to food and water.
Greece

MSF responds to tragic shipwreck off Samos coast in Greece

On 28 November 2024, an MSF emergency team responded to a shipwreck off the coast of Samos island, Greece. Press Release - 28 Nov 2024
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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