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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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Sudanese who have found refuge at the Andréssa school in Chad’s Sila province, and host communities from the surrounding villages, gather under the trees in the early hours of the morning, then rush to line up at the arrival of MSF teams to benefit from free medical care. In a region that already suffers from a glaring lack of medical infrastructure and basic services, MSF's mobile clinics are attending to a growing number of patients every day.
Conflict in Sudan

Refugees fleeing violence trapped and forgotten in Chad due to rainy season

As people fleeing conflict in Sudan arrive in eastern Chad, we fear that people in this border area will be trapped and forgotten, with no access to critical lifesaving services. Press Release - 9 Jun 2023
 
a view of the Anderessa refugee site in Sila province, eastern Chad. Many Sudanese refugees have taken shelter under trees, and without access to basic services.
Conflict in Sudan

Scores of wounded flee to Chad as conflict in Sudan surges

MSF teams have treated more than 70 wounded people in Adré, Chad, and are extending activities to assist refugees in the country fleeing the conflict in Sudan. Press Release - 2 Jun 2023
 
A wide view of refugees rolling water jerricans on the ground from a water point in Dagahaley camp.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Looming health catastrophe in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps

As a cholera outbreak spreads in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, we call on the international community and aid agencies to respond urgently to the unfolding crisis and prevent the further spread of disease. Press Release - 30 May 2023
 
MSF team found three people handcuffed during an emergency medical intervention on the Greek island of Lesvos. Since June 2022, MSF has been conducting emergency interventions on Lesvos to provide medical and psychological first aid to people who arrived on the island by boat.
Greece

Pushbacks, detention and violence towards migrants on Lesbos

We call on the Greek authorities to investigate reports of hundreds of missing migrants on the island of Lesbos, Greece, and to end the arbitrary detention of unregistered new arrivals. Press Release - 25 May 2023
 
Between 16 and 20 May an MSF warehouse in Khartoum was looted and occupied by armed men, with medical supplies, fuel and vehicles stolen or stripped of tires and more. Medicines were spoiled.  After the looting fridges were unplugged and medicines removed. The entire cold chain was ruined so the medicines are spoiled and can’t be used to treat anyone
Conflict in Sudan

MSF facilities looted, medical activities impeded by violence in Sudan

Since fighting broke out in Sudan between the military and the Rapid Support Forces, MSF facilities have been repeatedly looted, and our medical activities hindered by violence. Press Release - 23 May 2023
 
More patients are arriving at Bashair Hospital as it is the only accessible hospital in southern Khartoum. With the presence of MSF team, Bashair can support most of the critical cases and other departments at the hospital have started to operate as well.
Conflict in Sudan

Hundreds of trauma patients arrive at Khartoum hospital

In just over one week, hundreds of people with life-threatening injuries have arrived at a hospital in Khartoum, where MSF teams have performed lifesaving surgical interventions. Press Release - 18 May 2023
 
Dalila, 29, and her six-month-old daughter, Blandina, are living at the “Senda de Vida” migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico. Dalila left Haiti in 2017 and spent over four years in Chile until she and her husband decided to seek safety and dignity in the United States. Dalila was pregnant as they traveled through several countries, and she gave birth to Blandina when they crossed the border into southern Mexico.
Central American migration

End of Title 42 will not end crisis for migrants

Despite the end of Title 42, which allowed the expulsion of migrants seeking protection in the US, obstacles continue for people seeking asylum at the southern border, putting their health at risk. Press Release - 12 May 2023
 
Aerial view of the Bulengo IDP site on the outskirts of Goma city, North Kivu. MSF is providing free medical assistance and clean water to more than 7,000 households that have taken refuge there since 2023 following armed clashes in and around the Mweso health zone. The organization is also building 200 latrines, 120 of which are already functional
Democratic Republic of Congo

Alarming numbers of sexual violence victims in camps around Goma

Our teams are treating an alarming number of sexual violence victims in camps around Goma, DRC. Living conditions in camps must be improved and protection measures must be put in place. Press Release - 9 May 2023
 
Scenes from within South Hospital, El Fasher, North Darfur, where multiple people have been wounded in the fighting
Sudan

MSF responds to medical needs, prepares to scale up activities in Sudan

MSF teams in Sudan are treating people caught up in the fighting where we can, while we prepare to scale up activities. Press Release - 26 Apr 2023
 
An MSF staff (health promoter), Shehu Alkali, accompanying Patience Lawan with her child (Ruth Daniel) after being discharged from the under-six ward of the Nilefa Kiji nutrition centre. Five-month old Ruth Daniel, who spent 15 days on admission, was treated for severe acute malnutrition and watery diarrhoea.
Nigeria

MSF warns of catastrophe as unprecedented number of malnourished children need lifesaving support

MSF teams are receiving unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in therapeutic treatment centres and warns of impending catastrophe if prevention and treatment activities are not scaled up immediately. Press Release - 26 Apr 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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