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How we work

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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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2094 Results
 
Parts of the building fom the severely destroyed Al shifa hospital compound in Gaza city.
Gaza-Israel war

“The ceasefire in Gaza must be immediately restored”

Israeli forces have shattered the two-month old ceasefire which had been in place in Gaza, Palestine, as they launched large-scale strikes on the enclave. Statement - 18 Mar 2025
 
Destruction in Donetsk region due to shelling.
Ukraine

Ongoing medical needs amid relentless attacks in Dobropillia, eastern Ukraine

Dobropillia, a former city of refuge for nearby towns in eastern Ukraine, has come under constant threat, and MSF is working to support the overburdened health care system. Project Update - 14 Mar 2025
 
People collect water next to a building that is in danger of collapsing in Beit Lahia, Gaza North.
Gaza-Israel war

Israeli authorities must stop use of aid as a tool of war in Gaza

Israeli authorities have cut off electricity supplies and blocked all aid going into the Gaza Strip, Palestine, amounting to collective punishment and putting lives at risk. Press Release - 11 Mar 2025
 
Sudan, White Nile, Kosti, Cholera outbreak, A mother caring for her child at the paediatric section, in Kosti Cholera Treatment Center. March 5, 2025.
Conflict in Sudan

Thousands of cholera patients treated in Sudan’s White Nile State

Over 2,700 patients have been treated and 92 people are dead following a cholera outbreak in Sudan's White Nile State. Project Update - 10 Mar 2025
 
An MSF vehicle is parked next to ruined buildings in Beit Hanoun.
Gaza-Israel war

“People in Gaza still need an immediate and massive scale-up of humanitarian supplies”

Sarah Vulstyeke, recently returned from the Gaza Strip, Palestine, describes what she saw when our teams started running mobile clinics among the devastation of northern Gaza. Voices from the Field - 7 Mar 2025
 
Les équipes MSF ont organisé des cliniques mobiles dans plusieurs localités reculées du Nord-Kivu afin d’évaluer les besoins des populations et d’apporter un soutien aux déplacés des camps de Goma revenus dans leur village d’origine. ENG MSF teams have organized mobile clinics in several remote localities in North Kivu to assess the needs of the population and provide support to displaced people from the Goma camps who have returned to their villages of origin.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF adjusts emergency response around Goma amid mass departures from displacement camps 

Following intense fighting, people who had been displaced to Goma are now on the move again. Project Update - 27 Feb 2025
 
Close-up of an MSF speakerphone during an emergency medical aid response in Samos island, Greece. MSF has been responding to requests for emergency medical assistance to people arriving by boat on the island of Samos since August 2021. MSF’s emergency response has shown the high medical and humanitarian needs amongst new arrivals. During our interventions, most people we assist are exhausted and severely distressed. A lot of them are dehydrated after spending a long time, sometimes several days, in the bush without access to food and water.
Democratic Republic of Congo

People are trapped in a climate of insecurity amidst clashes in parts of South Kivu

The situation in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo, has deteriorated in recent days. Project Update - 23 Feb 2025
 
Ludmilla, 40-years-old and her son Vladislav, 11-years-old, are being checked by Kirill, Kelly and Grisha from MSF in a metro station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 11, 2022. Ludmilla used to be a refueling operator before the war, in the sourroundings of Kharkiv city. For two weeks, she stayed home under the bombings, but one day, a loud eplosion was too close and she came to live in the subway. "I was very scared and worried for my child when I saw him presing our cat on his chest, saying : mommy, I don't want to die." Until the last second, they hesitated with her family between going abroad or staying : "But Kharkiv is our city, we need to stay, and we need to stay together," she says. So they moved with her mom, husband and son. "All the cold, the bad sleep, it is nothing compared to the war," she says. "At least we feel safe here." She came to see MSF because of knee problems that have started around a year before. She had done all the tests in December, and had an operation planned for the end of February, but then the war started. "Running while coming her eI urt myself even more," she says, hoping to get some painkillers.
Ukraine

The medical humanitarian needs in Ukraine remain as urgent as ever

People continue to bear the burden of the war’s devastation. Press Release - 21 Feb 2025
 
Commune of Ranobe, Amboasary District. People in the south-east of Madagascar are facing the most acute nutritional and food crisis the region has seen in recent years. MSF began setting up mobile clinics in Amboasary district in late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF staff member critically injured in Masisi town after shots hit MSF base

An MSF staff member has been critically injured after shots hit the MSF base in Masisi town, in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. Press Release - 20 Feb 2025
 
People jump on a ship at the port of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Some navigation through Lake Kivu was restablished today 18 February 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: Injured seek treatment from MSF-supported hospitals in Bukavu amid fighting

Marcus Bachmann, our head of programmes in DRC's South Kivu province, provides insights on the evolving conflict. Interview - 18 Feb 2025
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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