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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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3451 Results
 
Between August 2023 and February 2024, the Arbovirus Prevention Project team in Tegucigalpa released more than eight million mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia bacteria in El Manchén.
Honduras

Promising results from study on mosquitoes has researchers buzzing in Honduras

A research study that has seen 8 million mosquitoes released into Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to combat dengue fever is showing promising results. Project Update - 1 Nov 2024
 
Laura Guardiola, MSF nurse: “With the long incursions we’ve been seeing, training the community makes a real difference—for them and for the patients. The more people we train, the better and safer it is for everyone.”
Gaza-Israel war

Treating open wounds in Tulkarem, West Bank

In Tulkarem, a town in the West Bank, Palestine, MSF teams address the physical and psychological impacts of military incursions by Israeli forces through first aid training. Project Update - 31 Oct 2024
 
From January to October 2023, MSF provided 51,500 medical and nursing consultations in Darién, Panamá. MSF clinic in the Lajas Blancas Migrant Reception Station,
Panama

MSF resumes activities in Darién Gap

An MSF team returned to Panama at the beginning of October to work with the Ministry of Health to provide care to migrant and local communities. Project Update - 22 Oct 2024
 
An MSF staff member organizes activities for the children of the Azareh shelter. Beirut, Lebanon, October 11, 2024.
Lebanon

Beyond survival: Helping children and adults cope with the traumas of war in Lebanon

Our teams are running a mental health hotline and visiting displaced people in Lebanon, helping them learn practices for coping with the ongoing war. Project Update - 22 Oct 2024
 
MSF mobile clinic in Downtown Beirut, Aazarieh building shelter. October 2, 2024.
Lebanon

Israeli bombardment in Lebanon is causing mass displacement and urgent humanitarian needs

Israel's bombardment of Lebanon has forced more than one million people to flee their homes in the space of less than two weeks. MSF teams are responding, providing medical and mental health care. Project Update - 4 Oct 2024
 
An elderly woman displaced from Lebanon’s south receives care from MSF’s mobile medical unit in a collective shelter near Saida, 60 km from the southern border. MSF’s mobile unit provides primary healthcare, medication and follow-up for non-communicable diseases, as well as psychological first aid and health promotion sessions in three locations in south Lebanon.
Lebanon

MSF responds to Israeli bombing in Lebanon

MSF teams - themselves impacted - are assisting people affected by Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, providing medical care to displaced people. Project Update - 24 Sep 2024
 
Amman, Jordan. 27 August, 2024. Karam, 17, from Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza, during a physiotherapy session at MSFÕs Reconstructive Surgery Hospital in Amman, Jordan. Karam nearly died after his familyÕs house was leveled by an Israeli airstrike. He suffered severe burns to his face and other areas of his body, and also suffered a serious injury to his arm. He is receiving comprehensive reconstructive surgery and physiotherapy at the MSF hospital in Amman.
Jordan

The long road to recovery for war-wounded children from Gaza

After being medically evacuated from Gaza, a few children with life-altering injuries have arrived at MSF's reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan, where they are receiving comprehensive and long-term care. Project Update - 20 Sep 2024
 
Parts of Koukou are still partially under water between waves of flooding.
Chad

One month after floods in Koukou

Following devastating floods in Koukou, Chad, MSF teams have been providing basic healthcare and water and sanitation services to people displaced by the floodwaters. Project Update - 16 Sep 2024
 
In collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), MSF is setting up and managing a 100-bed Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) in Atbarah city, which has recorded the highest number of cholera cases in the state. Since the start of the intervention, 360 patients have been treated as of 8 September. Once the centre is fully established, MSF’s emergency team will expand their efforts to include health promotion activities and may also support other health facilities in the area to enhance the cholera response.
Sudan

Cholera is Sudan's latest peril

A cholera outbreak was declared in Sudan in August. Our teams have been and continue to respond, but unobstructed humanitarian access is needed to prevent avoidable deaths. Project Update - 11 Sep 2024
 
An ambulance evacuates a patient in critical condition from Druzhkivka, Donetsk region to the hospital in Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukraine

In transit for survival: MSF ambulances and Ukraine’s war-wounded

As the war in Ukraine continues, our ambulance teams are working tirelessly to transport patients away from the frontlines to hospitals in safer areas. Project Update - 2 Sep 2024
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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