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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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An MSF staff sees a patient in a consultation during a mobile clinic in Ciudad Juárez, in northern Mexico.
Central American migration

Dehumanising migration policies leave people abandoned in the Americas

MSF calls on governments in the region to shift away from harsh deterrence tactics and towards humane migration policies. Press Release - 12 Aug 2025
 
South Sudanese refugees queue to be registered with the DRC’s National Committee of Refugees. Once registration is complete, they become eligible to receive Non-Food Item (NFI) kits from MSF. They kits contain mosquito nets, buckets, soap and other essential items.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Fleeing conflict, facing crisis: South Sudanese refugees gather in Ituri, DRC

More than 33,000 refugees from South Sudan have fled violence to arrive in northern DRC, where they face difficult living conditions. Project Update - 6 Aug 2025
 
A group of caretakers at the MSF water point in the MSF outpatient department in Kule camp The camp, while it offers safety and basic services, life in Kule is becoming increasingly difficult as humanitarian aid continues to shrink due to reductions in global funding. MSF began providing medical care in Kule Refugee Camp in 2014. For many families, MSF remains one of the few dependable sources of healthcare. Gambella, Ethiopia. July 2025
Ethiopia

Aid cuts threaten refugee lives in Ethiopia’s Gambella region

Significant aid cuts in Ethiopia’s Gambella region are threatening refugee lives, as basic services like food distribution, healthcare, clean water, and disease prevention rapidly deteriorate. Press Release - 6 Aug 2025
 
View of the waiting room for mothers in the Dogdore healh center
Chad

Redefining healthcare: when communities lead the way in Chad

In Chad, MSF teams are striving to durably reinforce existing community health systems rather than temporarily replace them, so they last after we eventually leave. Documentary - 5 Aug 2025
 
Damaged residential buildings and cars. Reports indicate strikes on homes, hospitals, schools, and universities in residential areas where families with children live. At least 8 people were reportedly killed during last night, including a six-year-old child, and more than 100 injured — among them, children. In recent months, attacks on Kyiv have become more frequent. Since the full-scale invasion by Russian forces in 2022, many people have come to the city seeking safety — now, even here, they are at risk. Kyiv is also home to major hospitals that provide specialised care. Patients with serious or complex medical needs are often transferred here from other parts of the country. Attacks on the city put both this care and the people who depend on it in danger. “MSF in Ukraine is witnessing the devastating, continuous impact of intensified airstrikes on cities and residential areas across the country,” says Ainur Absemetova, MSF’s Head of Mission. “These attacks not only destroy homes and essential infrastructure like schools, hospitals, power and water systems — they also undermine people’s sense of safety and dignity, leaving them in a constant state of fear and uncertainty. This ongoing terror intensifies existing trauma, deepens insecurity, anxiety and increases the urgent need for emergency medical and psychological support.”
War in Ukraine

Increasing bombardment in Kyiv threatens lives and medical care

Kyiv, Ukraine has came under heavy attack by drones and missiles, with strikes on homes and hospitals, threatening lives and medical care. Press Release - 31 Jul 2025
 
“La consolidación de la consulta de planificación familiar ha sido un gran logro durante mi trabajo en Médicos Sin Fronteras. Las pacientes son atendidas por un equipo médico especializado compuesto por personal de MSF y personal del hospital previamente capacitado”. Jusluis, Médico Gineco-obstetra de MSF. ---- “The consolidation of the family planning consult has been a great achievement during my work at Médecins Sans Frontières. Patients are seen by a specialised medical team composed of MSF staff and previously trained hospital staff,” says Jusluis, MSF obstetrician-gynecologist.
Women's health

US plan to destroy US$9.7 million of contraceptives is unconscionable

MSF condemns the decision of the US government to destroy critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work. Press Release - 29 Jul 2025
 
In the village of Anjara, west of Aleppo city, there are clear signs of the nearly 14-year-long war—destroyed buildings and a lack of signs of life. The MSF mobile team provides primary healthcare to people who have recently returned to Anjara and other rural areas in Aleppo governorate.
Syria

MSF expands support to respond to people’s unmet needs across Syria

Our teams provide assistance to people in need across Syria, including in areas previously under the control of the former government, where we had not been granted authorization to operate. Project Update - 24 Jul 2025
 
The Walikale general reference hospital is the only referral hospital in Walikale territory, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. In cases of serious complications or rare or unusual diseases/illnesses, Médecins Sans Frontières refers patients by helicopter to Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF is the only international humanitarian organisation responding to people’s growing needs in Walikale, DRC

People in Walikale, in North Kivu, DRC, have been displaced by conflict and are now facing food insecurity. Press Release - 24 Jul 2025
 
MSF staff carried out patrols on the Rodolfo Robles International Bridge, which links Guatemala and Mexico, to identify individuals or families in need of medical-humanitarian services.
Guatemala

MSF concludes project for migrants in Guatemala

From late 2021 to June 2025, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ran a project for people migrating through Guatemala, seeking to reach the United States. Project Update - 23 Jul 2025
 
MSF logistic team are supporting with moving the medical boxes to the clinic in Jinba, Masafer Yata south of Hebron, Palestine
Palestine

Never-ending violence by Israeli settlers and military psychologically scars Palestinians in Hebron

MSF teams are providing mental health support to people in Hebron, in the West Bank, through mobile clinics. Project Update - 21 Jul 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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