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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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A metal factory in Kamrangirchar where a worker is wearing a mask while dealing with metal items. MSF teams in Kamrangirchar worked closely with the factory workers during occupational health (OH) sessions for factory workers.
Bangladesh

MSF hands over decade-long programme in Kamrangirchar

Due to a global review and financial reprioritisation, after more than a decade working in partnership with the community in Kamrangirchar, by the end of March 2025, MSF handed over our Kamrangirchar projects. Project Update - 3 Apr 2025
 
Sameera Abkir, 25, is examined by MSF doctors at the Romalia mobile clinic in West Darfur. She developed an arm infection due to a poorly administered injection following a home delivery. January 2025.
 12 days after giving birth at home, she visited the Romalia mobile clinic to have both her baby and herself checked. She arrived with her husband on a cart pulled by a donkey. Upon arrival, she was running a high fever and had a wound on her arm. She explained that following the home delivery, she had experienced severe abdominal pain, and her brother had purchased a medication for her, which was injected into her arm. She had pain in her arm and she couldn’t hold her baby properly. After conducting several tests, the doctors at the clinic discovered an infection in her arm. They promptly disinfected and dressed the wound and prescribed antibiotics for treatment.
Conflict in Sudan

Pregnant women face miscarriage and delivery complications in Darfur, Sudan

Pregnant women in Darfur face harrowing journeys and many obstacles to access healthcare, often resulting in miscarriage and delivery complications. Project Update - 28 Mar 2025
 
Destruction in Donetsk region due to shelling.
Ukraine

Ongoing medical needs amid relentless attacks in Dobropillia, eastern Ukraine

Dobropillia, a former city of refuge for nearby towns in eastern Ukraine, has come under constant threat, and MSF is working to support the overburdened health care system. Project Update - 14 Mar 2025
 
Suado Hassan Mohamed, 22, holds her 11-month-old son, Abdirahman Abdilatif, in the pediatric ward of MSF supported Bay Regional Hospital. A resident of Baidoa, Suado brought her son for treatment, as he is currently receiving care for malnutrition.
Malnutrition

Drought and funding gaps deepen Somalia’s malnutrition crisis

Somalia is facing a dire malnutrition crisis. We call on donors and humanitarian organisations to take immediate action. Project Update - 13 Mar 2025
 
Sudan, White Nile, Kosti, Cholera outbreak, A mother caring for her child at the paediatric section, in Kosti Cholera Treatment Center. March 5, 2025.
Conflict in Sudan

Thousands of cholera patients treated in Sudan’s White Nile State

Over 2,700 patients have been treated and 92 people are dead following a cholera outbreak in Sudan's White Nile State. Project Update - 10 Mar 2025
 
MSF first began supporting Old Fangak hospital in Jonglei state, South Sudan, in 2014, to provide hospital-level care to remote communities.
South Sudan

Three vaccinations that are critical to women’s health

Hepatitis E, tetanus and hepatitis B all pose significant but under-reported threats to the health and lives of women and girls, especially in low-income countries with limited access to healthcare. Project Update - 7 Mar 2025
 
Vue de la zone de Delmas 18, après des combats entre des groupes armés et les forces de police.
Haiti

In Haiti, escalating violence increases displacement and basic needs

MSF teams in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are facing increasing numbers of people injured in escalating violence, and having to provide water as humanitarian funding cuts impact aid. Project Update - 6 Mar 2025
 
Les équipes MSF ont organisé des cliniques mobiles dans plusieurs localités reculées du Nord-Kivu afin d’évaluer les besoins des populations et d’apporter un soutien aux déplacés des camps de Goma revenus dans leur village d’origine. ENG MSF teams have organized mobile clinics in several remote localities in North Kivu to assess the needs of the population and provide support to displaced people from the Goma camps who have returned to their villages of origin.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF adjusts emergency response around Goma amid mass departures from displacement camps 

Following intense fighting, people who had been displaced to Goma are now on the move again. Project Update - 27 Feb 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.
Democratic Republic of Congo

People are trapped in a climate of insecurity amidst clashes in parts of South Kivu

The situation in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo, has deteriorated in recent days. Project Update - 23 Feb 2025
 
In 2024, approximately 725,000 migrants were present on Libyan soil, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). While some come seeking work, others attempt to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean. In Libya, migrants and refugees live in precarious conditions and are subjected to various forms of violence and abuse, both inside and outside the country's detention centers. Kidnapped, subjected to extortion and trafficking, assaulted or sexually abused, their access to healthcare is severely hindered despite their desperate need for it.
Libya

Migrants face extreme violence and exclusion from healthcare in Libya

MSF teams assist migrants who have been subjected to a range of violence and abuse in Libya. Project Update - 12 Feb 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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