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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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Our offices around the world
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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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Panoramic view of the outskirts of Axum city. The region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia is crisscrossed by multiple mountains. Many of the six million inhabitants of the region live in remote rural and mountainous areas.
Ethiopia

MSF calls for Tigray murders investigation and safety for humanitarian workers

After three MSF staff members were brutally murdered in Tigray, Ethiopia, MSF calls for an investigation into their killings and insists that aid teams be allowed to work in safety. Press Release - 7 Jul 2021
 
Condolence photos in MSF missions for Maria, Tedros and Yohannes
In Memoriam

María, Yohannes and Tedros, remembered by their colleagues

At the end of June, three MSF staff members were brutally murdered in Tigray, Ethiopia. We remember their lives and humanitarian careers. Voices from the Field - 7 Jul 2021
 
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About MSF

MSF mourns three colleagues brutally murdered in Ethiopia

Three MSF staff have been murdered while providing assistance to people in Tigray, Ethiopia. We deeply mourn their loss. Statement - 25 Jun 2021
 
Portal of MSF Emergency Center of Martissant, in Port-au-Prince. On the night of June 23, 2019, a patient was shot dead just in front of this portal while leaving the structure. Ironically, paintings on the portal remind us of the prohibition of carrying weapons in the emergency center. For months, Haitians have seen a steady decline in their purchasing power as the national currency devalued and fuel prices increased, against a backdrop of seemingly endless political stalemates and scandals. Since 9 June, tensions have escalated and there have been almost daily demonstrations and outbursts of violence in cities including Port-au-Prince, Les Cayes and Gonaïves.
Haiti

Haiti: Violence puts patients, medical activities, and staff at risk

A spike in violence in Haiti's capital is putting MSF's medical activities in jeopardy. Press Release - 12 Jun 2021
 
Dr Lia, a paediatrician, examines a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Boost hospital, Helmand's primary provincial hospital in the capital Lashkar Gah.
Afghanistan

The Continued Struggle to Access Medical Care in Afghanistan

Report - 8 Jun 2021
 
Heart tattoo inked hands of an HIV/hepatitis C co-infected patient during an interview with MSF.
Myanmar

All parties must ensure unimpeded access to healthcare in Myanmar

MSF urges Myanmar's de facto military government to ensure people have unconstrained access to healthcare and allow medical staff to provide care without fear. Press Release - 28 May 2021
 
Entrance to the main office in the compound.
Afghanistan

Analysing the unthinkable – one year after the Dasht-e-Barchi attack

MSF Director of operations, Dr Isabelle Defourny, outlines what's happened in the year since our maternity ward in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, was attacked, leaving 16 people dead. Interview - 10 May 2021
 
Images taken by MSF staff from inside Selekleka Hospital in Tigray, Ethiopia. As a result, the Hospital is now closed and unable to function, leaving a huge gap in the needs of the local population.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

People left with few healthcare options in Tigray as facilities looted, destroyed

An MSF assessment of healthcare facilities in violence-racked Tigray region, northern Ethiopia, finds 70% have been targeted by armed groups - leaving people with a serious lack of access to healthcare. Press Release - 15 Mar 2021
 
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Syria

MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing

The security and safety situation in Al-Hol camp, northeastern Syria, has deteriorated, with more than 30 people - including MSF staff - killed since January. Press Release - 2 Mar 2021
 
Violent clashes between gang members took place on February 23 around a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) burn care hospital in the neighborhood of Drouillard, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, forcing the staff to transfer 21 hospital patients to MSF's trauma hospital in the city's Tabarre neighborhood. MSF staff are pictured here transporting a burns patient upon arrival at MSF's Tabarre hospital on February 24.
Haiti

Staff forced to transfer burns hospital patients following Port-au-Prince violence

Violent clashes around the MSF burns centre hospital in Drouillard, a neighbourhood of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, have forced staff to transfer patients for their safety. Project Update - 25 Feb 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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