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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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1794 Results
 
An MSF Landcruiser driving on the road from Herat city to the remote districts of the province for an assessment of the needs in the community following multiple earthquakes.
Afghanistan

New restrictions limit access to care for women in Herat

On 5 November, new local restrictions were implemented in Herat province, Afghanistan, requiring women to wear a burqa to enter public health facilities. Press Release - 10 Nov 2025
 
Open water taps fed by an NGO-supported large red tank, with women filling water gallons in the Ghweiran neighborhood of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
Syria

People in northeast Syria continue to struggle to access basic needs

According to an assessment conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), families in northeast Syria are struggling to access healthcare, water, and food. Press Release - 6 Nov 2025
 
Mothers wait in line with their children to undergo MUAC screening for malnutrition. Those identified as moderately malnourished are immediately registered in the MAM program to receive therapeutic nutritional supplements such as Plumpy’Sup. MAM Clinic, Dabaniera Camp, Tawila, North Darfur.
Conflict in Sudan

Urgent appeal for El Fasher’s people

MSF denounces the horrendous mass atrocities and killings that have taken place this week in and around El Fasher, Sudan. Press Release - 31 Oct 2025
 
On 4th of September 2025, a new outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Zaire strain, has been declared in the remote Bulape Health Zone, KasaÏ province. An Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) has been established within the hospital compound, the facility began admitting its first patients. MSF, MoH, and WHO teams are jointly providing care.  In addition, MSF teams have visited surrounding health facilities to strengthen IPC protocols and train healthcare workers in how to respond safely and effectively to suspected Ebola cases.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF hands over Ebola response activities in DRC

After several weeks of collaborating with other health partners in response to an Ebola outbreak in DRC, we have now handed over our activities to the local health authorities. Press Release - 31 Oct 2025
 
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.
Libya

MSF ordered to leave Libya within one month

We received a letter from the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordering us to leave Libya by 8 November 2025. Press Release - 29 Oct 2025
 
Thousands of tents in Mawasi, Khan Younis, where displaced families live in overcrowded conditions, lacking the most basic necessities for survival.
Gaza-Israel war

People's health is direly impacted by poor living conditions in Gaza despite ceasefire

Diseases directly linked to poor living conditions account for 70 per cent of all of MSF’s outpatient consultations in our healthcare centres in southern Gaza in 2025. Press Release - 24 Oct 2025
 
Treatment for cholera is largely focused on rehydrating patients. In Lomera, South Kivu, high alcohol consumption and heavy manual work in the mines mean cholera patients are often even more dehydrated than usual, often arriving for treatment in a critical state.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Cholera epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo is increasingly worrying

Twenty of the Democratic Republic of Congo's 26 provinces are now affected by a spreading cholera outbreak. Press Release - 22 Oct 2025
 
Violent clashes in the central neighborhood of Bel Air in Port-au-Prince on the 28 of February provoked the arrival of 92 bullet wounded patients at the MSF Emergency Center of Turgeau in the space of a week.
Haiti

MSF announces permanent closure of our Turgeau emergency centre in Port-au-Prince

We have had to close our Turgeau emergency centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, because of increasing violence in the centre of the city. Press Release - 15 Oct 2025
 
At Salamabila Hospital, Alice, an MSF social worker, sees Fabienne*, 46, for the third time. This woman was raped by armed men. Alice tries to ease her trauma and makes sure Fabienne continues to take her treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. *Name changed for anonimity
Democratic Republic of Congo

Organisations must continue response on sexual violence emergency in Maniema

As we come to the planned end of our response to sexual violence in Maniema, DRC, we are urging the authorities, donors, and humanitarian partners to ensure continuity of care. Press Release - 8 Oct 2025
 
MSF-Nurse Habiba Jannat Deba (26) and patient Abu Hashim (58) during Hepatitis C testing in Kutupalong refugee camp. photo from a series (1/3)
Rohingya refugee crisis

Rohingya refugees express feeling unsafe, lacking control over their future

Ahead of this week's UN Conference, Rohingya people have made their concerns and calls for a sustainable future clear. Press Release - 29 Sep 2025
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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