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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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1794 Results
 
14 MSF trucks loaded with tents and winter kits entered Syria through Hamam crossing point, in partnership with Al-Ameen, a Syrian NGO.
Syria

UN Security Council fails Syrian people with cross-border resolution collapse

The failure to renew the cross-border resolution for northwest Syria has worrying consequences for the people at large. MSF urges the member countries of the UN Security Council to find a solution with the utmost urgency that guarantees impartial, non-politicised and sustainable humanitarian access. Press Release - 8 Aug 2023
 
Shelled out hospital building in Kherson
War in Ukraine

Hospital in Kherson shelled twice in 72 hours

A hospital in Kherson region, Ukraine, has been shelled for the second time in just 72 hours. MSF calls yet again for the protection of hospitals and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. Press Release - 4 Aug 2023
 
- An informal settlement along the Roia River in Ventimiglia, Italy, where persons in transit find temporary shelter before trying to cross into France. An MSF team, which consists of a doctor, a nurse, a midwife, a health promoter, and two intercultural mediators, works in Ventimiglia since January 2023 providing medical assistance to migrant people in the areas close to the French border and in the unformal settlements along the Roia river through a mobile clinic.
Italy

People on the move face violence and pushbacks at Italian-French border

People seeking safety have faced pushbacks at the Italian-French border. We call for the end of arbitrary detention of people on the move and the use of violence at borders. Press Release - 4 Aug 2023
 
Am Timan, Chad 2015 Close up Logo, Stethoscope
Somalia

Extreme violence in Las Anod forces MSF to close activities 

Following intense fighting in the area, MSF has reached the difficult decision to withdraw our services from Las Anod General Hospital, Sool region, located within the internationally-recognised borders of Somalia. Press Release - 24 Jul 2023
 
Bashair Hospital treats patients from most of Khartoum and not only the neighbouring area as it is the only operational hospital that is accessible in the south of the city.
Conflict in Sudan

Staff beatings, death threats jeopardise MSF’s presence in Khartoum hospital

On July 20, an MSF team of 18 was assaulted by a group of armed men who physically beat and whipped our colleagues and stole one of our vehicles. Press Release - 21 Jul 2023
 
On 3 July 2023, MSF team onboard of Geo Barents conducted 4 different rescues in the Maltese SAR zone. In total, 196 survivors were rescued, including 47 unaccompanied minors, 16 women, and 1 baby. In the first rescue, our team was guided by aerial support from Pilotes Volontaires during the active search for this boat, which lasted more than 1.5 hours. 
While the last 3 rescues were all coordinated through the Italian MRCC. The Italian authorities have assigned us Marina di Carrara as a place of #safety to disembark the survivors.
Mediterranean migration

European Commission must scrutinise Italian law restricting rescues at sea

Five leading NGOs have submitted a complaint to the European Commission about Italian Law 15/2023 and practices hindering saving lives at sea. Press Release - 13 Jul 2023
 
MSF Ambulance at Tabarre hospital.
Haiti

Armed men violently enter Tabarre hospital and forcibly remove patient

All our activities at the Tabarre hospital in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince are currently suspended, after armed men stormed the facility and forcibly removed a patient with gunshot wounds. Press Release - 7 Jul 2023
 
An arm circumference tape on one of the table of the mobile clinic. Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) tapes are predominately used to measure the upper arm circumference of children aged 0 to 5, helping identify malnutrition.
Ethiopia

Immediate resumption of food distributions urgently needed in Ethiopia

We are witnessing alarmingly high levels of malnutrition in Ethiopia; it is vital that food distributions resume immediately. Press Release - 7 Jul 2023
 
MSF's mobile health intervention en route to Jordan-Syrian border- What's known the "Berm". MSF provided medical assistant to Syrians at the Berm in May, 2016 before the borders got closed.
Syria

The humanitarian isolation of northwest Syria must be prevented

We call on the United Nations Security Council to renew the cross-border resolution for the delivery of humanitarian aid into northwest Syria. Press Release - 5 Jul 2023
 
MSF’s al-Wahda post-operative hospital in East Mosul
Iraq

MSF halts key medical activities in Mosul due to administrative obstacles

We call on the relevant authorities to facilitate clearance procedures so that we can continue providing much-needed medical and humanitarian aid in Iraq. Press Release - 5 Jul 2023
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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