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How we work

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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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Patients at the Masisi General Reference Hospital recover following surgical operations. Almost all of them have suffered some kind of violent injury.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF briefs UN Security Council on staggering violence in DRC

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim addressed the UN Security Council, providing them with a briefing on what MSF witnesses in the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo. Speech - 12 Dec 2025
 
MSF flag blowing in the wind at Aweil project base.
Myanmar

Deadly airstrike on a hospital in Mrauk-U, Myanmar

Today, MSF learned of the bombing and destruction of the Mrauk-U general hospital in Rakhine state, Myanmar. Statement - 11 Dec 2025
 
MoH doctor working with MSF, Nyantau Mancit Samuel examines a female patient at the resuscitation area of the MSF supported Accident and Emergency unit at Gwoza General Hospital, Gwoza local government area of Borno state, northeast Nigeria.
Nigeria

MSF launches emergency medical services in Gwoza, Borno state

MSF began emergency medical activities at Gwoza General hospital in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, in August 2025. Project Update - 11 Dec 2025
 
Dr. Carlos Camacho, an MSF medical doctor, and Apalessio Sanöma Ye’kwana, an MSF intercultural mediator, during a medical examination with a boy from the Fuduuwaaduinha community. All activities are carried out with the support of intercultural mediators—community members who speak both languages and help bridge communication between medical teams and patients.
Brazil

MSF wraps up activities in northern Brazil

Over nearly three years, our work in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory strove to respect traditional practices and improve medical care. Project Update - 11 Dec 2025
 
MSF mental health counselor and social worker supervisor on their way to assess the needs of a family that was attacked by settlers in Shi’b al-Butum, south of the West Bank, Palestine.
Palestine

Palestinians are preparing themselves for loss in the West Bank

A psychologist working in the West Bank of Palestine provides testimony on the daily fears that people live with. Voices from the Field - 10 Dec 2025
 
At the Mweso General Hospital, a mother holds her two-year-old daughter, injured by a bomb blast.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Piecing together bodies and minds amid violence in eastern DRC

Civilians are paying the heaviest price of the ongoing armed violence across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as they suffer from trauma wounds, mental health issues and are victims of sexual violence. Project Update - 9 Dec 2025
 
Mother and daughter in an IDP camp Arual Manyok, 32, and her daughter Adit Ayuel, 3, who received Malaria Drug Administration( MDA), talk to MSF staff in front of their tukul. "If we compare before and after MSF started bringing malaria drugs, there is a big difference. All the children who got the medicine have not had malaria again. Only the children who did not get the drugs are getting sick.” says Arual South Sudan is at the middle of the malaria season. The majority of patients at Mayen Abun Hospital are positive for malaria, some of them suffering from severe cases. As this is a recurring situation, MSF has been running a mass drug administration (MDA) rounds since 2023, providing prophylactic treatment to children under the age of 15. This has already had a massive impact on the community: positive rates among children are much lower than in previous years (even though the country as a whole is experiencing an increased malaria peak compared to previous years due to the influx of refugees and flooding), and the rate of severe cases is also much lower. An MSF outreach team visited one IDP camp to check some of the children who had already received 3 rounds of prophylaxis and to discuss the impact with the families.
South Sudan

Gaps in healthcare threaten lives as violence escalates in South Sudan

Amid escalating violence, disease outbreaks, healthcare shortages, and decreasing aid funding, South Sudan’s health system is stretched to breaking point. Press Release - 9 Dec 2025
 
A newly arrived family in Jerbana, just 20 km from the Sudanese border, with all their belongings on a donkey-drawn cart. This is the mode of transport used by most refugees crossing into South Sudan.
South Sudan

Left behind in crisis: Escalating violence and healthcare collapse in South Sudan

An MSF report documents the persistent and worsening barriers to healthcare in South Sudan, at a time when the humanitarian situation in the country is deteriorating. Report - 9 Dec 2025
 
Palestinians at the GHF distribution site in Netzarim putting their lives at risk to receive some food. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). All four distribution sites operated by the GHF are located in areas under full Israeli military control and “secured” by private American armed contractors. Between 7 June and 24 July 2025, MSF health centres in close proximity received 1,380 injured people, including 28 dead bodies from the GHF sites with 174 gunshot wounded. MSF calls for an immediate cessation of the GHF distribution mechanism and urges states and private donors to refrain from funding what is essentially a death trap.
Photo story

A Year in Pictures 2025

MSF teams around the world continued to respond to crises in 2025. Our Year in Pictures offers a glimpse into the work carried out by our teams in over 75 countries over the past 12 months. Photo Story - 5 Dec 2025
 
MFS cars next to Kajo Keji airstrip.
South Sudan

MSF healthcare facility hit during an airstrike in South Sudan

Our healthcare facility in Pieri, South Sudan, has been hit during an airstrike. We call for the immediate protection of medical facilities in South Sudan. Press Release - 4 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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