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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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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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A view of mud houses in Raees Golam Mustafa Golla, in Dera Murad Jamali, nearly 40km from the MSF facility in DMJ. These homes are often damaged when rains put residents' lives at risk during the monsoon season, which typically runs from July to September.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Harsh winter conditions deepen humanitarian crisis for Afghans in Pakistan

Mass deportations and winter conditions are pushing Afghan refugees in Pakistan into a deepening humanitarian and health crisis. Project Update - 2 Jan 2026
 
MSF flag blowing in the wind at Aweil project base.
South Sudan

MSF evacuates staff from Lankien healthcare facility following airstrikes

Following airstrikes in Lankien town, South Sudan, MSF has evacuated some key staff members from its healthcare facility. Statement - 31 Dec 2025
 
Maria, the newborn, is lying next to her mother in the postnatal care ward at the Nawa National Hospital. Since July 2025, MSF is supporting the maternity department at the Nawa National Hospital, providing maternal and inborn neonate care, health promotion, and mental health support.
Syria

Addressing people’s medical needs in Dara’a after years of conflict

MSF teams respond to people's medical needs in Dara'a governorate, Syria, after years of conflict. Project Update - 24 Dec 2025
 
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MSF opened a mobile clinic on 10 December to provide access to healthcare for Congolese refugees settled in the Ndava transit site. Burundian police trucks continue to bring new arrivals to the site.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Congolese refugees in Burundi in dire need of support

Following the influx of people to Burundi, Congolese refugees face dire living conditions in the camps, with limited access to clean water, food, hygiene and basic needs. Press Release - 23 Dec 2025
 
With no beds available, corridors and outdoor areas at Nasser Hospital are filled with patients, as medical facilities in Gaza struggle amid the ongoing Israeli genocide.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF’s vital humanitarian activities in Gaza at risk from Israeli registration rules

Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are at risk of losing lifesaving healthcare in 2026 due to Israeli authorities' new regulations. Statement - 22 Dec 2025
 
Ferdos holds her 11-month-old baby, Banan, who is infected with measles, in the isolation ward at El Geneina Teaching Hospital, supported by MSF. War forced Ferdos and her family to flee to El Geneina, where they live in overcrowded conditions with other families. Her son contracted measles and infected his 11-month-old daughter.
Conflict in Sudan

Measles cases surge in Darfur, Sudan, despite months of calling for vaccination

Our teams in Central, South, and West Darfur are seeing measles cases rise in the absence of an urgent and effective vaccination campaign. Project Update - 19 Dec 2025
 
Cintia, a nurse and head of maternity and safe abortion services at Munhava Health Center in Beira, Mozambique, speaks with a patient. Before she began supporting safe abortion care, she said, "I didn't agree with it because of religion, community, myths in general. But seeing that many people were dying because of abortion, to prevent maternal deaths I eventually accepted it. I do safe abortions without any prejudice. [My friends and family] still think it is a sin. Even for me, they say that I will not go to heaven. Others say, 'do you still receive communion in church?' Every now and then I get down, but then I think of the patient, and that’s it!"
Mozambique

Looking back on 11 years of HIV care in Beira, Mozambique

We recently concluded our HIV prevention and treatment services in Beira, Mozambique. Our colleague reflects on the 11 years we cared for stigmatised groups in the community. Interview - 19 Dec 2025
 
Children playing under a tree in Iridimi camp near Iriba in eastern Chad.
Conflict in Sudan

Documentary: El Fasher under siege

Four people from El Fasher, Sudan, share their testimony about the destruction of their city. Documentary - 16 Dec 2025
 
Maria João, a displaced person from Memba District, receives a medical consultation at an MSF mobile clinic in Alua Velha, Eráti District, Nampula Province. Her health has deteriorated due to injuries from fleeing and possible infections, while her children, aged 10 and 13, face dietary and health challenges. Despite seeking medical help, the local clinic lacked medicines. Maria fled attacks carried out by a Non-State Armed Group active in Norther Mozambique. She arrived in Alua Velha with her husband and two children, having escaped gunfire and destruction in her home village of Necoro, in Memba district. They walked 25 km before taking a motorbike to reach safety. Initially, they lived under a mango tree for five days before moving into her husband’s family home, which is now overcrowded with 15 people and insufficient resources. In Necoro, she sold mahewe (a fermented beverage made from corn flour, water and sugar) but her house and freezer where she stored the beverage were burned, and her husband’s motorbike was destroyed. She reports being too frightened to return to Necoro, where violence, including beheadings and arson, has displaced her four times since 2024. Although she sometimes helps with farming in Alua Velha, she has no clear plans for the future and lacks the means to rebuild her life. The conflict has impacted her health, food security and finances, leaving her with no belongings or prospects.
Mozambique

MSF begins emergency response after 100,000 people flee violence in northern Mozambique

MSF teams are providing displaced people, and host communities, with medical care and essential services. Project Update - 16 Dec 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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