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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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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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Arielle Vay, 68, rests in the MSF mobile clinic at the Rho IDP site, Djugu Territory, Ituri Province, 11 November 2019. PHOTO: ALEXIS HUGUET/MSF
Democratic Republic of Congo

The forgotten people of Ituri

Intra-communal violence in Ituri province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has forced 300,000 people to flee their homes. Many have settled in camps, living in dire conditions. Photo Story - 14 Feb 2020
 
May Chan (in red), a street cleaner in Hong Kong, attends the MSF health promotion session on novel coronavirus. “It is the first time to learn that if I cough without tissue, I should cough into my elbow but not my hands. This helps keep my hands clean and I think it is important for a cleaner to know that,” says May. She believes the proper application of infection prevention measures can keep her stay healthy.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF update on COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak

Read more on what we know about COVID-19 coronavirus, including how contagious and dangerous it is, and how to prevent from becoming infected with coronavirus. Project Update - 14 Feb 2020
 
The road to Metuge is heavily damaged due to the cyclone and rains, making some areas difficult to reach by car and with equipment
Mozambique

Invisible conflict has very real consequences for people in northern Mozambique

MSF is working in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, where a little-known conflict and very few organisations working on the ground results in poor access to healthcare for people. Voices from the Field - 13 Feb 2020
 
One of the main bridges of the city, which is a transit point where travellers use to rest before continuing their journey on the Beast, the cargo train that conects the south and north borders of Mexico. –––––– Uno de los puentes principales de la ciudad, la cual es un punto de tránsito donde los viajeros suelen tomar un descanso antes de continuar su viaje a bordo de la Bestia, el tren de carga que conecta las fronteras sur y norte de México.
Central American migration

Escaping violence into danger – no way out for Central American migrants

A new MSF report shows violence at home is a key push factor for many in Central America to make the dangerous journey north to the US, while exposing the devastating effects that the criminalisation of migration is having on people. Press Release - 11 Feb 2020
 
This sequence shows a couple of migrants trying cross the width of the Rio Bravo river, in front of the Eagle Pass International Bridge, where USA border police intercept them in the middle of the channel.
Central American migration

Report: No way out - The humanitarian crisis for Central American migrants and asylum seekers

The report, No way out: The humanitarian crisis for migrants and asylum seekers trapped between the United States, Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Central America, looks to expose the devastating effects that the criminalisation of migration is having on people fleeing violence. Report - 11 Feb 2020
 
The Kambe IDP site created in July 2019 following a new wave of violence. The Kambe site is composed of 4 blocks, 426 households, only 4 latrines and no shower space.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Displaced by community violence, living in dire conditions in Ituri province

Intra-community violence in northeastern DR Congo's Ituri province has forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes, settling in camps of makeshift shelter, with little access to food, water or safe sanitary conditions. Project Update - 7 Feb 2020
 
Everyday dozens of Venezuelans arrive in Arauca by feet fleeing the political and economic turmoil in their country.
Colombia

Venezuelan migrants at a crossroads on the Colombian border

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have fled the economic and political crisis gripping their country for Colombia. While Colombia is able welcome them, the country lacks the resources to help all, leaving many migrants stranded without assistance. Project Update - 6 Feb 2020
 
Children play in a small river created by heavy rains, next to the area where latrines are constructed inside a camp for internally displaced people in Pulka town, northeast Nigeria.
Nigeria

Northeast Nigeria: “The conflict is intensifying and the needs are massive”

MSF Head of Mission in Nigeria, Luis Eguiluz, describes the situation for people living in northeastern Nigeria, particularly in military-controlled towns, where outside these towns conflict is intensifying and providing help is dangerous. Interview - 4 Feb 2020
 
Community health worker Stephen Odyak visits a patient at her home 40 km from MSF’s new hospital in Al Kashafa refugee camp, in Sudan’s White Nile state. 08/01/2020
Sudan

Four things you need to know about South Sudanese refugees in Sudan

Sudan is home to thousands of South Sudanese refugees. Many live in camps and their needs are great. Here are four things you should know. Project Update - 3 Feb 2020
 
NFI distributions and water provision in various camps of Northwest Syria.
Syria

Advancing frontlines, mass exodus and reduced access to hospitals in Idlib

While thousands flee the latest military offensive in Idlib, Syria and the frontline advances, many hospitals have been partially or completely destroyed. Project Update - 31 Jan 2020
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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