Skip to main content
Back to main menu

About Us

How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

Learn more
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.

Learn more
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.

Learn more
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.

Learn more

What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

View all topics Activities by country
Featured Ebola Gaza Israel war Humanitarian aid cuts

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.

View all countries
Featured Haiti Palestine Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

MSF Websites

A Global Network
Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
Other Sites
View Resource Centre
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

GO TO SITE
Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

GO TO SITE
Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

GO TO SITE
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.

GeoMSF
3451 Results
 
Patients from the Hetmanivka village in the Kharkiv region waiting for their primary health care and mental health consultation provided by the MSF mobile clinic team. Most patients MSF meet are women over the age of 60 presenting with chronic illness’, such as hypertension, that have gone uncontrolled for months. Three months after the Ukrainian army retook control of the rural villages and towns of the Kharkiv region, the medical and mental health care needs are still high. As the communities have been left with damaged healthcare facilities and psychological wounds caused by months of fear, isolation and violence, the MSF mobile clinic teams are providing primary and mental health care.
Ukraine

Absence of medical care for the elderly caught between the frontlines

Our mobile clinics in Ukraine's Kharkiv region have been providing general healthcare and mental health support to elderly women who have been without care since February. Project Update - 2 Dec 2022
 
Medium shot of a patient’s hands waiting outside MSF’s mobile clinic in the Closed Control Access Centre in Zervou, Samos. Since April2022, MSF has started to provide primary healthcare services (including sexual and reproductive health care) inside the closed access and control center of Zervou. An MSF health promoters team makes sure that people in the camp are aware of the kind of support MSF can provide.
Greece

Closed centres for refugees on Greek islands exacerbate psychological trauma

Psychological trauma, isolation and severely limited access to healthcare await highly traumatised people seeking safety on the Greek islands. Project Update - 30 Nov 2022
 
MSF's social worker, Sandra, is carrying out an interview with an HIV patient at Notre-Dame de Caramel Reference Health Center in Goma, North Kivu. Many people living with HIV in Goma face socio-economic difficulties that prevent them from properly following their treatment despite the free medical care provided by MSF. Stigmatisation, social exclusion and poverty are all realities that can push some patients to stop taking their treatment. These challenges can also be acute for survivors of sexual violence, street children and sex workers, who are often particularly vulnerable and marginalised in DRC.
HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS in DRC: Behind the progress, huge challenges remain

Twenty years after opening our first treatment centre for people living with HIV in Kinshasa, progress has been achieved, but major gaps remain, causing thousands of preventable deaths each year.  Project Update - 25 Nov 2022
 
A healthcare worker examining Mohamad Al-Merhi, a Cholera patient in the MSF-supported Cholera Treatment Unit (CTU) in Idlib governorate, northwest Syria.
Syria

Combatting cholera amidst displacement and the remnants of war

As Syrians continue to deal with displacement and the devastation of war, the rapid spread of cholera is a new and dangerous threat for the most vulnerable people. Project Update - 22 Nov 2022
 
In the recently completed 8 beds Ebola Treatment Unit in Madud, MSF is working alongside the Ministry of Health to provide initial screening for suspected Ebola patients close to their homes in an area close to the epicenter of the outbreak.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Face to face with Ebola in Uganda

Since the start of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, 136 cases and 53 deaths were confirmed as of 7 November, 2022. Project Update - 11 Nov 2022
 
The intensification of the rains in recent weeks has made living conditions more precarious for displaced and affected people, increasing their exposure to diseases such as respiratory infections and malaria. Providing them with access to decent shelter is a priority.
Democratic Republic of Congo

North Kivu: Thousands of people fleeing violence urgently need aid

An urgent response from humanitarian actors is required to meet the huge needs of thousands of people in Kanyaruchinya, displaced by ongoing fighting between the March 23 movement (M23) and the Congolese army. Project Update - 8 Nov 2022
 
A child runs through the streets of Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria, where ISIS-affiliated families are gathered, in difficult living conditions.
Syria

A lost generation live in fear inside Syria's Al-Hol camp

A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lays bare the cruelty of the long-term detainment of more than 50,000 people in Al-Hol, northeast Syria. Project Update - 7 Nov 2022
 
MSF physiotherapist Ahmad Alrosan massages the leg of patient during a session following leg surgery. Kyiv, Ukraine, September 2022.
War in Ukraine

Providing physiotherapy for the war-wounded in Ukraine

With large numbers of war-wounded people needing post-operative care in Ukraine, MSF teams are providing people with physiotherapy so they are able to heal and learn to live with their disabilities. Project Update - 4 Nov 2022
 
On Monday 27 October, the MSF team conducted another rescue and saved 66 people from a wooden boat in distress, including eight minors and one baby. After this rescue, there were 190 people on board of the Geo Barents.
Mediterranean migration

Over 500 survivors on board the Geo Barents urgently need a port of safety

Over 500 people, including 60 minors, on board the Geo Barents search and rescue vessel in the Central Mediterranean urgently need a safe place to disembark. Project Update - 2 Nov 2022
 
Natalia Yatskevich 45 years old, MoH TB doctor, is walking down the hall of the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and Tuberculosis, Minsk, Belarus.
Belarus

A revolution in TB treatment leads to safer and more effective practice

Three hundred people have already been enrolled in MSF's new clinical trial for safer and more effective tuberculosis treatment in Belarus, following the success of our previous TB-PRACTECAL trial. Project Update - 31 Oct 2022
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.

Learn more