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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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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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415 Results
 
Tents of people sheltering in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

Displaced people struggle without sanitation services in Khan Younis, Gaza

As the war in Gaza, Palestine, continues, MSF is supporting the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association in providing water and sanitation services to people displaced multiple times. Project Update - 27 Aug 2024
 
Testimony illustration-Behind the Wire
Bangladesh

Trapped and forgotten: where can Rohingya people seek safety?

As Rohingya people become increasingly trapped by raging conflict in Myanmar's Rakhine state, those who cannot pay their way across the border into Bangladesh are being left without protection or assistance. Project Update - 21 Aug 2024
 
Migration at US border - Arizona
United States of America

Supporting local groups helping people on the move at the US-Mexico border

People seeking to cross the US-Mexico border through the Arizona desert face serious health risks with little access to medical care. Project Update - 9 Aug 2024
 
GAZA: Al Nasser Hospital. Pedriatric and Maternity
Gaza-Israel war

Living conditions threaten the lives of pregnant women and newborns in Gaza

MSF is tackling critical medical challenges in southern Gaza, where living conditions and a lack of access to care are endangering the lives of pregnant women and newborns. Project Update - 18 Jul 2024
 
Refugee crisis deepens in Chad as conflict in Sudan rages
Conflict in Sudan

Voices of El Geneina; surviving the conflict one year on

El Geneina Teaching hospital in Sudan continues to stand as a vital healthcare facility, despite being looted, providing lifesaving medical services to people in need. Exposure MSF - 4 Jul 2024
 
From Rafah to Khan Younis, lives in ruins
Gaza-Israel war

MSF-supported health facilities across Gaza face critical shortage of medical supplies

Unable to bring any medical supplies into the Gaza Strip, Palestine, since the end of April, MSF teams in Gaza are facing critical shortages of essential medicines and equipment. Project Update - 21 Jun 2024
 
Mental health activities in Vinnytsia for people experiencing war-related PTSD
Ukraine

Finding ways to live with trauma in Ukraine

In September 2023, MSF opened a trauma centre in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, to provide treatment for people experiencing war-related post-traumatic stress. Project Update - 11 Jun 2024
 
Boat used by volunteers to send medications provided by MSF to another bank of the Inhulets river, Fedorivka, Kherson region, 2023
Ukraine

One year after the Kakhovka dam disaster, MSF continues to provide support

One year after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed, causing mass flooding, MSF teams continue to provide crucial medical support to affected regions in southeastern Ukraine. Project Update - 6 Jun 2024
 
Displaced Palestinians who returned to Khan Younis from Rafah
Gaza-Israel war

MSF denounces Israeli attack on camp sheltering displaced people in Rafah

MSF strongly denounces attack on camp sheltering displaced people, which comes days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt military operations in Rafah. Project Update - 28 May 2024
 
Bullet hole caused by shooting in the operating room of the Zalingei teaching hospital, Central Darfur state, Sudan.
Sudan

People abandoned amidst horrific violence and humanitarian void in Central Darfur

As conflict escalates in Zalingei, Central Darfur, Sudan, people displaced by extreme violence have been left without basic services amidst a humanitarian void. Project Update - 17 May 2024
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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