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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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MSF Websites

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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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266 Results
 
A day at Blantyre cervical cancer referral hospital
Malawi

Three things to know about cervical cancer in Malawi

Malawi has the second highest prevalence and mortality rate of cervical cancer in the world. Our head of mission in Malawi explains what our teams are doing to prevent deaths related to the disease. Interview - 3 Feb 2023
 
MSF-supported Al-Jamhouri Hospital | Neonatal Ward
Yemen

Giving birth in the face of persistent obstacles in Taiz

Access to vital healthcare services for pregnant women in Taiz, Yemen, remains a challenge due to years of war. Project Update - 1 Feb 2023
 
Kiribati: Where planetary and public health collide
Kiribati

Planetary and public health collide in Kiribati

Kiribati, a group of Pacific islands, is extremely vulnerable to climate change. MSF teams have started working in the country given the challenges people have in accessing healthcare. Project Update - 19 Jan 2023
 
Boost Hospital - Female IDP | Lashkar Gah
Afghanistan

Female Afghan healthcare workers hold fears for future following NGO ban

Following the ban imposed by the Taliban preventing women from working with NGOs, MSF female workers voice their fears for the future and their frustrations. Voices from the Field - 19 Jan 2023
 
New maternity in CAR 16
Central African Republic

The forgotten emergency of maternal healthcare in the Central African crisis

A lack of maternal and obstetric care is fuelling a healthcare emergency in Central African Republic. It is unacceptable that women’s and babies’ lives are being lost for reasons that are preventable. Project Update - 10 Jan 2023
 
Excluded women: the severe limitations of access to sexual and reproductive health
Honduras

Addressing the dangerous gap in sexual and reproductive healthcare in Honduras

Due to a severe lack of sexual and reproductive healthcare in northern Honduras, pregnant adolescents cannot receive much-needed care. Our teams are empowering the community to bridge the gap. Interview - 2 Sep 2022
 
Mozambique: The challenge of a safe pregnancy and childbirth in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Overcoming the challenges of having a safe pregnancy in Cabo Delgado

In Cabo Delgado, Mozambique ongoing violence has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in search of safety. Eduardo Mondlane camp, located in Mueda, is home to more than 2,000 displaced families. In the camp, many pregnant women have little to no information about pregnancy and there are many challenges to having a safe childbirth. Photo Story - 27 May 2022
 
Maternal services insufficient in Mosul
Iraq

Delivering babies in a city with few maternity services

Five years after the battle for Mosul, the healthcare system in the Iraqi city remains fragile. Pregnant women and their babies are among the most vulnerable needing access to quality healthcare. Project Update - 6 Apr 2022
 
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Afghanistan

A hospital of women, for women: Preserving maternity care in Khost

Babies are still being born in Afghanistan despite the political upheaval - at MSF's hospital in Khost we continue to ensure women have a safe place to give birth. Project Update - 16 Dec 2021
 
Women and girls prevented from having a safe abortion
Safe abortion care

Putting patients first for safe abortion care

How MSF integrated safe abortion care into our medical projects around the world Interview - 18 Nov 2021
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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