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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 Websites

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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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In 2022, MSF open a biosafety level 3 laboratory in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, for the testing of mycobacterium tuberculosis. In November 2023, MSF handed over the laboratory to the Ukraine Ministry of Health. The mycobacterium tuberculosis culture is tested against different antibiotics in the laboratory. Wearing protection is mandatory for workers during this procedure.
Antibiotic resistance

Concrete action needed in fight against antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance is a leading cause of death worldwide nearly a decade after UN member states agreed to make it a priority. Press Release - 25 Sep 2024
 
Anhar Hassan Mohammed Omar, 29 years old, lives in the Jir South neighborhood of Nyala. She faced many challenges, including not having enough money to reach the hospital. She worked 16-hour shifts continuously to cover the costs of treatment and nutrition from the beginning of her pregnancy until her ninth month. She arrived at Nyala Teaching Hospital, underwent a C-section, and received all the necessary medical services. She mentioned that many pregnant women in this critical period lack proper healthcare and expressed her deep gratitude to all the staff.
Conflict in Sudan

Pregnant women and children dying in shocking numbers in South Darfur

A newly released MSF report details the shocking number of maternal and newborn deaths our teams are seeing in South Darfur, Sudan. Press Release - 25 Sep 2024
 
Five MSF cars transport supplies and MSF teams on their way to a mobile clinic in Morobo County, Central Equatoria.
South Sudan

MSF suspends medical activities in Yei, Central Equatoria state, following attack on staff

Following a critical security incident on 20 September 2024, MSF suspended all outreach activities in the area of Yei, Central Equatoria state, South Sudan. Press Release - 24 Sep 2024
 
People in a compound destroyed by flood in Maiduguri, Borno state, Northeast Nigeria.
Nigeria

Fears of outbreaks grow in Maiduguri following severe flooding

Following flooding on 10 September, MSF teams have assessed people's needs and begun providing essential services in several displacement sites. Press Release - 20 Sep 2024
 
Arkhangelsk City
Russia

MSF-Netherlands closes programmes in Russia after instruction to deregister

After 32 years of working in the country, MSF closed our programmes in Russia following instruction to deregister in August 2024. Press Release - 16 Sep 2024
 
A child undergoes a MUAC screening in the ATFC at the MSF clinic in Zamzam Camp, North Darfur, a crucial step in diagnosing malnutrition.
Sudan

Food must be delivered to people starved by blockade in Zamzam camp

Essential supplies and food are not reaching the over 300,000 residents of Zamzam camp despite alarming levels of malnutrition. Press Release - 13 Sep 2024
 
🛟 130 people were spotted on overcrowded double-deck wooden boat and rescued by @MSF team this afternoon. Some of the survivors have medical needs that require attention on land. Rescue was performed after a 2.5-hour search, in the #Tunisian SAR region. #GeoBarents is navigating to #Livorno, with a total of 179 survivors on board. This is yet another distant port designated by the Italian authorities: Livorno is almost 1100 km away from the first rescue location. This is a bit more than the distance between #Madrid and #Paris.
Mediterranean migration

Detention of Geo Barents suspended by Italian court

On 11 September, the Italian Civil Court of Salerno ordered the suspension of the 60-day administrative detention of our search and rescue ship, the Geo Barents. Press Release - 12 Sep 2024
 
MSF’s Dr Noble is seeing Zulfa’u Musa’s daughter at the ITFC in General Hospital Zurmi, Zamfara state, Northwest Nigeria.
Nigeria

One in four children malnourished in parts of northwest Nigeria

We are urging for immediate action after screening results reveal a catastrophic malnutrition crisis across northwest Nigeria. Press Release - 10 Sep 2024
 
MSF Ambulance at Tabarre hospital.
Haiti

Rapid and safe access to medical care must be guaranteed in Port-au-Prince

On Tuesday, 3 September 2024, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance carrying a patient in critical condition was stopped by police in Port-au-Prince, preventing our team from providing the necessary care. Press Release - 6 Sep 2024
 
An MSF team is doing an assessment round in Jenin camp with the camp committee members and volunteer paramedics to evaluate the damages and needs following the brutal Israeli military incursion on May 21-23, 2024.
Palestine

Access to medical care at risk in West Bank as Israeli incursions intensify

Military incursions and attacks on medical facilities and personnel by Israeli forces in Palestine’s West Bank are severely hindering people’s ability to access medical care. Press Release - 5 Sep 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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