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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
Our offices around the world
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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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3160 Results
 
COVID-19 Prevention in Northwest Syria
Syria

Dozens of people treated following an airstrike in Idlib

Dozens of people have been treated at a hospital co-managed by MSF, following an airstrike in a relatively stable part of Idlib governorate, northwest Syria. Project Update - 26 Oct 2020
 
World Mental Health Day Package-Lebanon
Lebanon

“I needed to make myself useful to overcome the panic”

MSF psychologist Sara Tannouri in Lebanon speaks of the blast that devastated her home city Beirut, and its impact on mental wellbeing, including her own. Voices from the Field - 9 Oct 2020
 
Mental Health Crisis is Brewing in Dadaab
Kenya

COVID-19 further fuels mental health crisis in Dadaab as durable solutions falter

The mental health of refugees in Kenya's Dadaab camp complex is dramatically deteriorating as COVID-19 hinders promises of durable solutions. Project Update - 9 Oct 2020
 
MSF provides medical assistance in Covid+ centres in Paris and the suburbs
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

High COVID-19 rates found among people living in extreme hardship in Paris

A survey has found that people living under hardship - such as in shelters or workers' hostels - in Paris have infection rates of coronavirus COVID-19 of up to 94% in some areas. Press Release - 6 Oct 2020
 
Beneficiary of safe abortion care
Women's health

Proposed changes to US Global Gag Rule threaten wider harm to women

Proposed changes to an-already damaging US policy which restricts access to safe abortion and other forms of healthcare will further limit care for people in need. Interview - 28 Sep 2020
 
Home visit at indigenous village of Limao Verde
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF works to prevent spread of COVID-19 among indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul

Coronavirus COVID-19 has hit indigenous people in communities and villages across Brazil hard. MSF is in Mato Grosso do Sul state, providing consultations and home visits for people who have the virus. Project Update - 17 Sep 2020
 
Malaria peak in Batangafo
Central African Republic

In times of COVID-19, malaria remains the number one killer of children in CAR

While COVID-19 makes the headlines, malaria remains one of the biggest causes of death in the Central African Republic; it is the biggest killer of children under five. MSF teams are providing preventive medication to people in Batangafo, in the country's northwest. Project Update - 15 Sep 2020
 
Closure Insein Clinic, Yangon Myanmar - Minzayar Oo - June 2019
Myanmar

MSF hands over long-running HIV project in Yangon to ministry of health

After 26 years, MSF has handed over our HIV project in Yangon, Myanmar, to the Ministry of Health and Sports. Project Update - 10 Sep 2020
 
Pakistan: Meeting regular health needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Pakistan

Meeting regular health needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

Amid staff forced to be quarantined and hospitals temporarily shutting during the coronavirus pandemic in Pakistan, MSF staff have continued to deliver thousands of babies each week and provide medication for people with hepatitis C. Project Update - 8 Sep 2020
 
MSF activities continue in Gwoza, Borno State
Nigeria

“Children can draw assault rifles better than a football” in Borno state

In Gwoza, northeastern Nigeria's Borno state, children who have witnessed traumatic events - including those who have been abducted - are receiving care from MSF mental health teams. Interview - 8 Sep 2020
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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