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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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MSF teams conducted training for staff at Kyeshero Hospital in Goma on how to work in an Ebola environment.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola disease in DRC: MSF scales up response to a rapidly evolving outbreak

In Democratic Republic of Congo, MSF teams are scaling up our response to the Ebola disease outbreak. Project Update - 29 May 2026
 
An MSF team visits Aday Ababa Health Center. MSF has supported capacity building, rehabilitation of the facility, and WASH infrastructure and support.
Ethiopia

MSF establishes a new project in Southwest Ethiopia Region

We have begun a new project in Southwest Ethiopia Region, Ethiopia, to strengthen disease outbreak response. Project Update - 12 Feb 2026
 
MSF health promoter explains to a family how to apply PPF discs
Honduras

MSF concludes Arbovirus prevention project in Tegucigalpa

The Arbovirus prevention project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was an innovative initiative that combined science and community participation to reduce the transmission of dengue fever. Project Update - 2 Dec 2025
 
Market day in Mantcharné. A mobile vaccination team moves between the stalls to raise awareness among the community and administer the diphtheria vaccine.
Chad

Chad: MSF tackles logistical challenges to vaccinate 500,000 people against diphtheria

A mass vaccination campaign saw 500,000 people immunised against diphtheria in Chad. . Project Update - 10 Jun 2025
 
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
 
In the context of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, MSF has set up a 36 beds Ebola treatment unit at the Mubende hospital, for suspect and confirmed cases.
Uganda

Ebola in Uganda: Four things you need to know

Since the declaration of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda on 20 September, there have been at least 43 confirmed cases. Here are four things you need to know about the latest outbreak. Project Update - 5 Oct 2022
 
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
 
Sheetal Jainavar, Community health educator doing health promotion and conducting small group session giving information about covid-19 preventive measures at Designated COVID-19 health centre at Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Shatabdi hospital located in Govandi M East ward Mumbai. MSF has closely been working in co-ordination with the government to prevent the spread of Covid-19 since June 2020. MSF is distributing cloth masks & soaps to patients visiting fever clinic at the hospital. Their main activities are Health promotion, informing on prevention measures such as washing hands and learning how to identify first symptoms and Hygiene kit (mask and soap) distribution. On a daily basis MSF conducts health promotion for nearly 100 patients and their family members at the hospital premises per day.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19

The increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in the second wave in India have been devastating to the healthcare system. Medical facilities and staff are struggling to cope with the surge in cases, namely in Mumbai.
 Project Update - 30 Apr 2021
 
Patient is carried to the ambulance shortly after the start of a heavy rain in Tefé. She will go to the airport and from there to the state capital, Manaus, where there are more resources for her treatment of COVID-19. The transfer of this patient took place in late December 2020, before the health system in Manaus collapsed for the second time and referrals to the state capital were interrupted.
Brazil

COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling

Coronavirus COVID-19 has caused the health system in Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state, to collapse, forcing city hospitals to stop receiving serious patients from other towns. Project Update - 21 Jan 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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