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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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4634 Results
 
Local villagers in Abaiang conducting blood pressure tests to screen women of child-bearing age for hypertension. MSF has provided testing equipment and conducted training with local community members.
Kiribati

Dedicated health professionals improve care for people on Kiribati

Kiribati has some of the highest burdens of disease in the Pacific region, and one of the lowest rates of access to primary healthcare. MSF’s collaboration with the Ministry of Health is helping to strengthen care for women and children in remote communities.
 Project Update - 23 May 2025
 
Jacqueline Zulu, MSF's health promotion officer, holds PREP and PEP medication before giving it to sex workers. MSF provides anti-HIV drugs to sex workers to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Sex workers have an HIV prevalence of 60% in Malawi and are the key population most affected by the disease.
Access to medicines

Deadly Gaps: Don't turn away from saving lives

MSF released a report covering the challenges that the worldwide response to malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis may face if the Global Fund's upcoming replenishment conference is insufficient. Report - 15 May 2025
 
For over one year from autumn 2023, a team from Doctors of the World (DOTW) UK and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided primary healthcare to individuals accommodated at Wethersfield mass containment site. In May 2024, we released a report documenting a mental crisis unfolding at the site. Over the following months, our team continued to respond to high levels of mental distress amongst patients and identified worrying numbers of people for whom the site was unsuitable. Men attending our clinic had experienced abuse and violence in their countries of origin and on their journeys to the UK and were subjected to poor conditions and structural violence at the site.
United Kingdom

UK government must immediately close Wethersfield mass containment site for asylum seekers

Prime Minister Starmer has refused to set a date for the site’s closure despite evidence of psychological harm and suffering. Press Release - 15 May 2025
 
Destroyed streets and buildings in Beit Lahia, Gaza North.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe caused by siege on Gaza

We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives in Gaza. Statement - 14 May 2025
 
Two trucks are being packed with non-food items at the MSF warehouse in Mandalay. This NFI kit usually contains: a lighter, blanket, tarp, mosquito net, jerry can, soap, towel, toothbrush, toothpaste, menstrual pads, bucket with lid, hairbrush, chlorine, nappy.
Myanmar

Response to devastating earthquake in Myanmar driven by solidarity and dedication

Jessa Pontevedra describes how entire communities came together to respond to, and support each other through, Myanmar's earthquake emergency. Voices from the Field - 9 May 2025
 
A view of MSF health post in Tawila Umda, a few minutes before its opening. Located on the main arrival site of displaced people from Zamzam and El-Fasher, it aims at providing immediate medical care to those the most in need: people arrived in an advanced state of dehydration and exhaustion, even sometimes suffering from non-severe gunshot or shrapnel wounds. The health post offers the possibility to refer the most urgent cases directly to the MSF supported hospital in Tawila city. It also provides routine vaccination catch-up and malnutrition screening for children under 5. Such a health post is usually designed to provide 50 consultations per day. On that day, more than 270 medical consultations were realised in the facility - it was the less busy day of the week, from far.
Conflict in Sudan

People fleeing Zamzam camp arrive to overwhelmed humanitarian response in Tawila

Three weeks since the deadly attack on Zamzam camp, Sudan, people are still arriving in Tawila malnourished and injured. Project Update - 6 May 2025
 
View of the Musenyi site, flooded by the rains. Homes on the site are highly vulnerable to the rains due to the impermeable soil, and residents are trying to protect their homes as best they can. Flooding and stagnant water increase the risk of water-borne diseases and malaria. ------------ Vue du site de Musenyi, inondé par les pluies. Les habitations du site sont très vulnérables aux pluies du fait du sol imperméable, et les résidents tentent de protéger les maisons comme ils peuvent. Les inondations et eaux stagnantes posent des risques accrus de maladies hydriques et de paludisme.
Burundi

Burundi: Congolese refugees in Musenyi site face humanitarian and health emergency

Some 18,000 Congolese people are now staying at a refugee site in Burundi with the capacity to host only 10,000 people. Project Update - 6 May 2025
 
Midwife May Phyoe Thu (38), checks Win Win's bloodpressure. The 38 year old woman lost her husband in the eqartquake, and her son was trapped under the rubble for 5 hours. Since then, he has feared being in the dark and becomes anxious easily.
Myanmar

One month since devastating earthquake in Myanmar

We collected testimonies about the 28 March earthquake from people who visited our team during mobile clinics in Mandalay. Voices from the Field - 2 May 2025
 
A line of beds at the paediatric ward in the Cholera Treatment Center (CTC). MSF has been running a CTC in Assosa since Nov 12th, a few km away from Malakal hospital, to respond to the increasing needs of cholera patients in Malakal. The CTC currently has 90 beds, with capacity to scale up to 100.
United States of America

What MSF teams see after first 100 days of US aid budget cuts

While MSF does not take US government funding, our teams are witnessing the effects of funding cuts globally. Press Release - 25 Apr 2025
 
Kyiv 24 April after the attack.
War in Ukraine

The relentless and indiscriminate bombing in Ukraine must cease

A series of recent strikes on civilian targets across Ukraine, including on the capital, Kyiv, has killed dozens of people. Press Release - 24 Apr 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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