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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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Four-year old boy with hepatitis E receives medication at the MSF hospital in Bentiu camp. He lives in a small shelter shared by seven people. On average, each of them has access to 6L of clean water per day. This is all they can get as there are no extra water containers. International standard is all individuals should have access to a minimum 15L of clean water per day to ensure good health conditions.
South Sudan

Hepatitis E on the rise among poor sanitary conditions in Bentiu camp

MSF has repeatedly warned of the terrible sanitary conditions in Bentiu camp, South Sudan, as the number of hepatitis E cases continue to rise. The outbreak of the viral liver disease has resulted in the deaths of two people. Press Release - 25 Aug 2021
 
Newborn daughter of Aiesha*, admitted to the special care unit for critical care for respiratory distress at Al-Jamhouri hospital supported by MSF in Taiz City, Yemen. *name of the patient changed upon her request.
Yemen

Seeking healthcare in Taiz, a city split by a frontline

More than six years of war has split the city of Taiz in two, with a frontline dividing the city from people who need access to healthcare - something often inaccessible and unaffordable in Yemen. Project Update - 24 Aug 2021
 
A medical team, including two surgeons and an operating room nurse, was able to travel to Jérémie on August 15 and began working in St. Antoine’s hospital, completing 10 surgeries on 16 and 17 of august. MSF brought medical supplies, including sterilization material, for the medical facility.
Haiti

After the earthquake, a surgical team works nonstop

The 14 August earthquake in southern Haiti caused significant damage to infrastructure, killing over a thousand people and injuring many. MSF surgical team continues to provide care in its health facilities. Interview - 23 Aug 2021
 
MSF staff walk through site B for displaced people in Kabo, a town in northern Central African Republic.
Central African Republic

Renewed conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Central African Republic

Fighting across the Central African Republic has left many people wounded, hundreds of thousands displaced, and continues to restrict organisations’ ability to provide healthcare. Project Update - 20 Aug 2021
 
Operating theatre of the MSF Kunduz Emergency Trauma Unit, MSF surgical teams perform an operation on a patient injured by the fighting in Kunduz
Afghanistan

Medical needs urgent as ever in Afghanistan after Taliban takeover

As the government of Afghanistan collapsed last week and the Taliban have taken control, we continue to run activities across the country for myriad medical needs. Project Update - 18 Aug 2021
 
Rubbles from the earthquake in the city of Les Cayes.
Haiti

Death, destruction and thousands of injured people in wake of Haiti earthquake

After a 7.2 magnitude earthquake destroyed large swathes of Haiti’s infrastructure, killing over one thousand people, and leaving thousands injured, we are responding to the multiple needs in the country. Project Update - 17 Aug 2021
 
Nader Owidat (Counselor Educator) is conducting a COVID-19 health promotion activity with children in Masafer Yatta, a collection of 19 Palestinian hamlets in the Hebron Governorate (West Bank).
Palestine

“We are all afraid”: Settler attacks against Palestinians in Hebron on the rise

As Palestinians in Hebron have witnessed an increase in attacks by settlers since the beginning of the year, MSF continues to provide psychological treatment to people suffering from the impacts of living under occupation. Project Update - 16 Aug 2021
 
A mother returns after receiving the food distribution.
Madagascar

Emergency aid in Madagascar prevented as medical staff are denied access

We call on the Malagasy authorities to urgently grant entry visas to MSF staff in order to provide emergency medical care in the country. Press Release - 12 Aug 2021
 
Bonifácia de Oliveira, 109-years-old, was a COVID-19 patient that left a mark on everyone at Tefé Regional Hospital due to her determination and physical and emotional stability. She worked all her life in agriculture and became literate at the age of 100. Bonifácia was discharged the first week of March, 2021.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 4 - January to April 2021

Read the fourth in a series of accountability and operational activities outline on MSF's response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Report - 12 Aug 2021
 
Health workers in the intensive care unit (ICU) of Al Jumhouri isolation centre
Yemen

Treating COVID-19 in Yemen amongst fear, stigma and misinformation

In Yemen, we are responding to COVID-19 through treatment centres and health promotion but there are many obstacles that make treating the disease in such a complex context particularly challenging. Project Update - 11 Aug 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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