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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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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
 
Youssef Al-Khishawi, an MSF water and sanitation agent, oversees a water distribution for displaced people in the southern Gaza town of Rafah’s Saudi neighborhood.
Gaza-Israel war

Lack of clean water brings disease and suffering in Gaza

Palestinians in southern Gaza are struggling to find clean water. The flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza must be restored to ensure people have access to essential items such as food, water and healthcare. Project Update - 8 Feb 2024
 
Earthquake Northwestern Syria, 7 February 2023
Türkiye and Syria earthquake response

One year after earthquake, mental scars are still raw in Syria

People in northwest Syria continue to struggle with the mental health impacts of more than a decade of war, compounded by the devastating earthquakes that struck the region on 6 February 2023. Project Update - 6 Feb 2024
 
The Emirati hospital, Rafah, Gaza: Displaced, pregnant, and living in a tent.
Gaza-Israel war

Displaced pregnant women at high risk amid dire conditions in Rafah

As pregnant women face severe health risks in Gaza, we stress the urgency to restore the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza upon which the survival of mothers and children critically depends. Project Update - 29 Jan 2024
 
Faces and Voices from Wad Madani 06
Conflict in Sudan

Severe humanitarian needs after half a million people flee violence in Wad Madani

Over half a million of people who have fled violence in Wad Madani, seeking refuge in hundreds of locations across Al Jazirah state, are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, which remains woefully inadequate. Project Update - 15 Jan 2024
 
Medical mobile team in Nabatiyeh, south of Lebanon
Lebanon

Providing healthcare to people displaced by military escalation along Lebanon's southern border

Escalating military activity along Lebanon’s southern border has forced thousands of people to flee border towns. Our mobile team helps provide displaced people with healthcare. Project Update - 10 Jan 2024
 
Palestinians in Hebron, West Bank, live in constant fear as violence surges
Palestine

Palestinians in Hebron live in constant fear as violence surges

Increased violence and harassment by Israeli settlers and soldiers against Palestinians in Hebron have created an environment filled with intimidation, forced evictions and restrictions of movements. Project Update - 3 Jan 2024
 
MSF physiotherapist working with war-wounded patient
Ukraine

The long road to recovery for Ukraine's war wounded

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine there has been a surge of patients with complex injuries and disabilities, requiring multidisciplinary medical care and rehabilitation. Project Update - 29 Dec 2023
 
Nasser hospital
Gaza-Israel war

No safe place in Gaza as people are crushed by continuous bombing

After more than two months of war, Gazans are now cornered in the south of the Strip, where Israeli strikes on what was supposed to be a safe zone prove that nowhere is safe. Project Update - 19 Dec 2023
 
Christos Christou in Jenin, West Bank
Palestine

Staggering increase in Israeli attacks against civilians and healthcare in Jenin

In the past months, there has been a shocking increase in Israeli attacks against civilians and healthcare in Jenin, the West Bank. It must stop now. Project Update - 15 Dec 2023
 
Gaza - Al Aqsa Hospital
Gaza-Israel war

Hospitals in south Gaza overflow with hundreds of injured as Israeli forces step up bombardment

In the days since the truce in Gaza ended, MSF teams have treated influxes of wounded people, as Israeli evacuation orders force people ever further south, and bombardment resumes. Project Update - 4 Dec 2023
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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