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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 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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The MSF Search and Rescue boat, Oyvon, after disembarkation of its 3rd rotation at the Trapani port On the 1st of September 2026, the 18 rescued people by vessel Oyvon have disembarked safely in Trapani (Italy).
Mediterranean migration

Europe is failing its legal and moral obligation to save lives at sea

MSF's search and rescue vessel rescued 18 people in distress on the central Mediterranean Sea on 18 August. Statement - 8 Sep 2026
 
Inside MSF car during a movement between Nilefa Kiji and Fori, two MSF run facilities that provide nutrition treatment.
Nepal

As communities in Nepal turn to recovery, immediate needs do not require MSF response

Following assessments by MSF teams of affected areas following the devastating flash floods in Nepal, we found that the government led response does not require our assistance. Project Update - 8 Sep 2026
 
Paediatrician carries out an exam on a child in the MSF run inpatient therepeutic feeding centre at the Zalingei Teaching Hospital. 26 July, Zalingei, Central Darfur.
Sudan

Aid cuts force mass clinic closures across Sudan, leaving millions without healthcare

As aid organisations pull out of Sudan, local clinics are left without the funds or medicines they need to provide people with lifesaving care. Press Release - 8 Sep 2026
 
Ouré-Cassoni, Chad - July 23, 2026. Children fill jerrycans with water taken from Lake Karyari, near the refugee camp. In an attempt to get cleaner water, they dig holes in the ground. Water supplied to the camp does not meet residents' needs. Families send children to fetch water from the lake, where the shoreline is contaminated with animal feces. However, the water drawn from the holes is also contaminated. CREDIT: Flurina Rothenberger for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Chad

Sudanese refugees face the effects of humanitarian funding cuts in Ouré-Cassoni, Chad

In Ouré-Cassoni camp, on the Chadian side of the border with Sudan, humanitarian funding cuts are impacting people's ability to meet their daily needs. Project Update - 7 Sep 2026
 
Atlantic Route migrants on Dakar port
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF assists migrants in distress who disembarked on West African shores

During the last week of August, MSF teams assisted migrants who disembarked in Mauritania and Senegal. Press Release - 7 Sep 2026
 
A beach buia pictured in Tebunginako village, Abaiang. This raised structure, often used to live and sleep in, is built from coconut tree wood with a palm-thatched roof offers shade and ventilation from the island heat and is a common sight in Kiribati. Kiribati (pronounced Ke-ree-bas) is a vast but climate-vulnerable island nation made up of 32 atolls and one raised coral island in the Pacific. It lies half-way between Hawaii and Australia. With a total land mass of just 811 square km spread over 3.5 million square km of ocean, the country has unique social and geographical challenges. The increase in frequency and intensity of storms and other extreme weather events, the intrusion of salt water with a rising sea, along with declining rainfalls and higher temperatures, threaten ecosystems and are rapidly deplete freshwater supplies.
Kiribati

Water security and public health in a changing climate

In Abaiang, Kiribati, MSF works with communities to protect water sources and strengthen climate-resilient health systems. Project Update - 4 Sep 2026
 
A man walks over the remains of his house in the Santafé neighborhood, one of the most affected by the earthquake in Buenaventura.
Colombia

Urgent needs persist three weeks after earthquake in Colombia

MSF teams are providing people with care in Valle del Cauca, Chocó, and Risaralda, departments of Colombia where the earthquake response has been more limited. Project Update - 2 Sep 2026
 
Water being provided in Al Safa camps during the early phase of MSF’s response in Abu Jubayhah.
Conflict in Sudan

Bringing water and healthcare to displaced people in Abu Jubayhah, South Kordofan

MSF teams began providing clean water and healthcare to displaced people in Abu Jubayhah, South Kordofan state, Sudan, in June 2026. Project Update - 1 Sep 2026
 
Activity to monitor progress of the Cholera Prevention Project among “Lumière Households” in Djoungolo Health District, led by the Head of Mission.
Cameroon

Communities in Cameroon take an active role in preventing cholera

In Djoungolo, a neighbourhood of Cameroon's capital which is regularly affected by cholera, MSF teams are placing the community at the heart of cholera prevention efforts. Project Update - 28 Aug 2026
 
Teenagers take part in a drawing class with volunteers at the day center called Le GR1, located in Marseille.
France

Unaccompanied minors in Marseille need continued support as MSF teams shift focus

After six years of working in Marseille, France, with unaccompanied minors, our teams are shifting our focus. Project Update - 27 Aug 2026
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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