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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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Palestine

Temporary halt to Gaza bombing a paltry response as extreme violence victimizes civilians

The military offensive has sown terror within a trapped urban population. Residents no longer dare leave their homes to seek medical care. This insecurity also affects aid organizations.  Palestinian humanitarian aid and health workers have been killed and hospitals and ambulances have been bombed. Press Release - 7 Jan 2009
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Critical - Voices from the war in eastern Democratic Republic Congo

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), one of the few humanitarian organisations still working in the most violent areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is ringing the alarm with the international campaign Condition: Critical, which highlights the situation of people in DRC's North and South Kivu provinces and gives them a chance to be heard. Press Release - 20 Nov 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Armed aid convoys are an inadequate bandage for DR Congo's deep wounds

Military-escorted aid convoys to Goma and Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of Congo, are an inadequate response to the humanitarian crisis facing the DRC's troubled North Kivu region and risk blurring the line between humanitarian assistance and political-military action. Press Release - 6 Nov 2008
 
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Somalia

MSF sees surge in wounded and displaced as violence increases in Mogadishu

In Somalia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is treating the injured and is providing basic relief supplies to the newly displaced, following the recent escalation in fighting in one of Mogadishu's most populated residential areas that has resulted in a surge in the number of wounded and has, once again, displaced thousands of people. Press Release - 2 Oct 2008
 
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Kenya

MSF teams in Mount Elgon blocked from continuing assistance to civilians affected by conflict

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on the authorities to lift the restrictions that have been imposed and allow resumption of vital humanitarian relief. Press Release - 21 Jul 2008
 
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Ethiopia

Repeated obstructions lead MSF to pull out from Fiiq, Somali Region of Ethiopia

MSF Switzerland appeals to the Government of Ethiopia for a change in the general conditions of work applicable to humanitarian organizations in the Somali Region of Ethiopia Press Release - 10 Jul 2008
 
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Somalia

Trapped Somali populations need immediate life-saving assistance

"Twenty-four months after the political and military involvement of international community members in the name of restoring stability and fighting terrorism, the situation is catastrophic for the Somali population," said Dr. Christophe Fournier, MSF International Council President. Press Release - 26 Jun 2008
 
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South Africa

Relocation process exacerbates trauma of displaced people in South Africa

The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today expressed alarm at the process of relocation imposed on the people displaced by recent violence in Johannesburg. Press Release - 2 Jun 2008
 
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Kenya

MSF witnesses forced return and resettlement in a camp in western Kenya

MSF will continue to assist the people affected by the post-election violence in and around Endebess and calls on the authorities to ensure that any return and resettlement is done in a voluntary, well-planned and respectful manner. Press Release - 16 May 2008
 
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Somalia

MSF closes medical project in Kismayo

MSF has worked continuously in Somalia for more than 17 years and is currently providing medical care in ten regions in the country. Press Release - 3 Apr 2008
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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