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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 Websites

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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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1993 Results
 
In KwaZulu Natal, an MSF team offered medical assistance and donated a tent, blankets and other essentials to a community after a fires destroyed their homes in Briardene, Durban.
South Africa

Supporting vulnerable communities in the aftermath of violence

After a week of unrest in South Africa, people are still feeling the effects of violence with many vulnerable communities reporting difficulties in accessing food and healthcare. Project Update - 23 Jul 2021
 
Tens of thousands of people from all over the nearby region prepare to receive their first distribution in many months in Thonyor, South Sudan. Many residents from Leer fled to Thonyor feeling saver there.
South Sudan

South Sudan: 10 years of independence, violence, disease and dire needs

After 10 years of independence, South Sudan – the youngest country in the world – has experienced civil war, bloodshed and disease, and remains in dire need of humanitarian support.

Project Update - 16 Jul 2021
 
As winter approaches in northwest Syria, the already harsh living conditions of more than two million displaced people are becoming even more difficult to deal with. People living in camps across the region face the prospect of leaking tents, mud-filled streets and freezing temperatures. Whenever it rains, the roads in the camp become rivers of mud, making it difficult for people to leave their tents, either on foot or by motorbike, to buy groceries, get to work or see a doctor. Teams from Médecins Sans Frontières have started distributing ‘winter kits’ of warm clothes, tarpaulins, mattresses and blankets to around 14,500 families living in more than 70 camps for displaced people across northwest Syria, to help improve their living conditions over the coming winter. These distributions are accompanied by health promotion awareness sessions on winter diseases and ways to prevent being sick in settings such as this.
Syria

Millions of Syrians will lose access to vital aid if northwest border closes

The potential closure of the northwest Syrian border, Bab Al-Hawa, could be extremely harmful to the millions of people reliant on aid there. Project Update - 8 Jul 2021
 
Mariana Chevrollier Oriá, MSF doctor, cares for a patient in a mobile clinic in the Grande Bom Jardim territory in Fortaleza.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic threatens to deteriorate in Brazil as 500,000 deaths recorded

As the cold weather settles in for another winter in Brazil, the COVID-19 pandemic in the country threatens to deteriorate once again, even as the country passes half a million recorded deaths. MSF teams are responding.

 Project Update - 30 Jun 2021
 
People clear debris after Israeli airstrike destroyed the residential tower in Gaza city. 11 days of Israel’s intense aerial and ground bombardments has caused a huge impact on people’s lives in Gaza - people lost their family members, their homes and livelihoods and have suffered long-lasting physical and psychological injuries.
Palestine

Surviving Gaza: the hopes and perils of living under blockade

The latest offensive in Palestine has made the mental health crisis in Gaza more acute and made it even harder for people to cope.
 Project Update - 29 Jun 2021
 
A little girl getting her hair done by her aunt in Dagahaley camp
Kenya

Return is not a solution, say refugees in Dadaab after camp closure announcement

Following the decision to close the camps in Dadaab, Kenya, refugees say being forced back to Somalia could lead to a far worse humanitarian crisis. Project Update - 18 Jun 2021
 
Displaced people stand outside a mosque in Bambari town, Central African Republic, where several thousand people sought refuge after Elevage camp was destroyed in early June. 14 June 2021.
Central African Republic

People in Bambari living in deplorable conditions following camp destruction

Following renewed fighting between government forces and non-state armed groups in Bambari, thousands of sought refuge as the Elevage camp for displaced people was destroyed. Project Update - 17 Jun 2021
 
Naïa and her mother Martha are consulted by Simon Kudju. Most of the children come with respiratory tract infections, malaria and acute watery diarrhea.
South Sudan

MSF addresses health needs of people in remote Maruwa, South Sudan

MSF has opened a new project in the east of South Sudan, where people live scattered over long distances and where there are few health facilities Project Update - 11 Jun 2021
 
MSF provides drinking water in the town of Sake in order to avoid a waterborne disease's outbreak after the arrival of thousands of displaced people.
Democratic Republic of Congo

People struggling to find food, water, shelter after east DRC volcano eruption

Nearly two weeks after Mount Nyiragongo erupted in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, people are struggling to find food, water and shelter in the areas they're displaced. Project Update - 3 Jun 2021
 
A water point in Gorom Gorom town, in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso

Conflict in Burkina Faso: when the whole day is devoted to fetching water

A severe lack of water in the Sahel desert region of northern Burkina Faso is disrupting the lives of people living under a growing armed conflict Project Update - 2 Jun 2021
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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