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How we work

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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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2094 Results
 
Commune of Ranobe, Amboasary District. People in the south-east of Madagascar are facing the most acute nutritional and food crisis the region has seen in recent years. MSF began setting up mobile clinics in Amboasary district in late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF warns of disastrous consequences for civilians amid Rafah offensive

Statement - 24 May 2024
 
Vue de la zone Delmas 18 à Port-au-Prince, après des combats entre des groupes armés et les forces de police.
Haiti

Urgent need of medical supplies in Haiti as extreme violence isolates people in need

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, urgently needs medical supplies as escalating violence has forced over 30 medical centres and hospitals to close. Press Release - 21 May 2024
 
Since the start of the war in Sudan, healthcare facilities and medical staff have faced repeated attacks, including lootings of hospitals. In Zalingei, the teaching hospital has been looted and attacked multiple times throughout the year. During one attack by armed men in the hospital, a doctor was shot while operating on a patient. The doctor survived the shooting, but one patient died. After over year of attacks on healthcare, Sudan's health system is barely functioning, and people have been cut from life-saving care. Often those most impacted are the ones displaced, unable to reach health services or buy medicine after losing their homes, belongings, and livelihoods. In Zalingei, MSF teams are providing secondary care in the Zalingei teaching hospital and supporting the Ministry of Health with rehabilitation, training and incentives for staff. In April, the teams re-opened the emergency, maternity, inpatient therapeutic feeding center and pediatric departments.
Sudan

People abandoned amidst horrific violence and humanitarian void in Central Darfur

As conflict escalates in Zalingei, Central Darfur, Sudan, people displaced by extreme violence have been left without basic services amidst a humanitarian void. Project Update - 17 May 2024
 
Views of El Fasher Hospital in July 2023.
Sudan

Nowhere is safe as deadly fighting escalates in El Fasher, North Darfur

As violence escalates in El Fasher, Sudan, the MSF-supported South Hospital has received hundreds of casualties. Dr Prince Djuma Safari, MSF deputy medical coordinator, describes the situation on the ground. Voices from the Field - 15 May 2024
 
Palestinians on their way back to their homes after visiting MSF mobile clinic in the Al-Majaz community in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron. In the Hebron district of Masafer Yatta, for Palestinians, frequent roadblocks, military raids and attacks by settlers make accessing health facilities increasingly difficult. And to make matters worse, no local organisations can provide basic healthcare services due to a lack of funds, restrictions by the Israeli army and poor road infrastructure that leads into the town.
Gaza-Israel war

Palestinians face increase in extreme violence and restrictions in the West Bank

Since the eruption of war in Gaza on 7 October, MSF medical teams have witnessed a massive increase in extreme violence against Palestinians across the West Bank, in Palestine. Project Update - 15 May 2024
 
The return of the displaced to Khan Younis and another from Rafah, during the end of last April and during the beginning of this month.
Gaza-Israel war

Another hospital in Gaza forced to close amid intensified Israeli offensive in Rafah

MSF has been forced to stop providing lifesaving care at Rafah Indonesian Field hospital, in Gaza, due to the intense onslaught by Israeli forces. Press Release - 14 May 2024
 
People are gathering at a health facility in El Fasher
Conflict in Sudan

Bomb kills two children and puts El Fasher hospital out of action amid fighting

MSF urges warring parties to ensure protection of civilians and health structures amidst an intense escalation of fighting in Sudan. Press Release - 12 May 2024
 
On average, about 50 patients visit the clinic seeking medical attention.
Conflict in Sudan

MSF forced to suspend essential support in Wad Madani due to obstructions and harassment

After repeated security incidents and harassment, MSF has been forced to suspend work and withdraw staff from Madani Teaching Hospital in the capital of Al Jazirah state, Sudan.  Press Release - 9 May 2024
 
MSF’s Al-Mawasi temporary primary healthcare centre in Rafah opened in January 2024
Gaza-Israel war

Thousands forced to flee as Israeli military offensive intensifies and aid is blocked in Rafah

As the Rafah offensive intensifies, MSF calls for an immediate ceasefire and the reopening of the Rafah border crossing to allow lifesaving assistance to flow into Gaza. Press Release - 8 May 2024
 
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, June 21, 2022. After being treated and stabilized by the MSF team in Turgeau, these patients, victims of a road accident, were discharged from the hospital and returned home. MSF/Johnson Sabin
Haiti

People cut off from vital healthcare as intense violence grips Port-au-Prince

Violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has escalated dramatically, with armed groups expanding to new areas, leaving people too afraid to seek vital healthcare. Project Update - 3 May 2024
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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