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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 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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In the ER section of a makeshift hospital in Syria that MSF has converted from a farm.
Syria

Casualties arrive en masse at MSF hospital following an airstrike in Idlib

Following an airstrike in Idlib governorate, northwest Syria, a number of people, including young children, have been severely injured. MSF medical teams are responding. Press Release - 13 Dec 2021
 
Abdul Harma, head nurse at the Hospital specialising in COVID-19 in Hassakeh, in northeast Syria, provides care to Mr. Ali, who lives two hours away from Hassakeh by road.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 5 - May to September 2021

Read the fifth in a series of accountability and operational activities outline on MSF's response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Report - 8 Dec 2021
 
Ángel Alexis Ramirez Mejia, 9, plays under the Coatzacoalcos bridge on 25 March. Since leaving Comayagua, Honduras, he and his family have been travelling for 16 days, 14 of them on foot. MEXICO. Veracruz. Coatzacoalcos. March 25, 2021.
Photo story

A year in pictures 2021

Our Year in Pictures collection for 2021 looks back on 12 months of MSF teams providing medical care in extreme conditions and contexts across the globe. Photo Story - 8 Dec 2021
 
Sulaith Auzaque, fieldco in Catatumbo, and a migrant reaching the border with Colombia.
Colombia

Humanitarian needs persist on Colombia and Venezuela border

After three years of providing care, Médecins Sans Frontières is handing our projects over and calling for a stronger aid response for thousands of families on the border. Press Release - 7 Dec 2021
 
MSF teams have treated 163 patients with shrapnel, blast and other conflict-related injures at its trauma hospital in Mocha, Yemen between November 8th and November 28th as conflict heavily intensified, raising urgent concerns for the health and safety of the population as well as the capacity of the health system to cope with influxes of conflict-related injuries. Since the middle of November, MSF began to receive large influxes of war wounded patients. On November 12-13, teams received 34 wounded in two days and surgical teams worked around the clock to perform 20 surgeries in a single day. The following week, a second mass influx of 45 patients arrived to the hospital, including seven in critical condition. Of the 163 patients received by MSF since November 8th, 96 have arrived in with serious or critical condition.
Yemen

Hundreds of people with shrapnel injures treated at trauma hospital in Mocha

MSF teams have treated 163 patients with shrapnel, blast and other conflict-related injures at our Mocha trauma hospital in Yemen over a period of just 20 days.

Project Update - 6 Dec 2021
 
Kenya. Dadaab. Dagahaley. 20 June 2021. The landscape of Dagahaley Camp is a community camp that has existed since 1990 in Kenya's territory.
Kenya

Urgent solutions needed for refugees as camps set to close

With the planned closure of Kenya’s refugee camps, a precarious future awaits hundreds of thousands of Somalis. Press Release - 6 Dec 2021
 
An aerial view of Dagahaley camp
Kenya

In search of dignity: Refugees in Kenya face a reckoning

A new Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report outlines the potential dangers facing refugees in Kenya who will find themselves abandoned after camps close next year. Report - 6 Dec 2021
 
Seniors are waiting for medical care in the village of Vodiane.
Ukraine

Volunteers help fellow villagers access healthcare in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine

Volunteers are working with MSF in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine to help the elderly and vulnerable in the region access much-needed healthcare. Project Update - 3 Dec 2021
 
The rapid addition of inexperienced staff in an emergency situation, as happened in many hospitals during South Africa’s second COVID-19 wave, can produce challenges, which MSF witnessed first-hand in the field hospital at Ngwelezana Tertiary Hospital in northern KwaZulu-Natal. In this 113 bed COVID-19 facility MSF and Department of Health staff worked side by side from 11 January. To bring order to a potentially chaotic situation, the appointment of an experienced nurse activity manager to organize the facility was essential.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

In an unequal world, our response to COVID-19 cannot be one size-fits-all

MSF Director of Operations Dr Isabelle Defourny explains why she believes that the "one-size-fits-all" approach to COVID-19 vaccination advocated for by the UN is misguided. Opinion - 3 Dec 2021
 
The sandy paths of the Ambovombe road.
Climate emergency

A failure of ambition on climate action will amplify humanitarian needs

Humanitarian organisations are struggling to keep up with the demands of increasingly frequent, erratic, and overlapping crises at current levels of warming. bmj.com - 3 Dec 2021
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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