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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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MSF-Nurse Habiba Jannat Deba (26) and patient Abu Hashim (58) during Hepatitis C testing in Kutupalong refugee camp. photo from a series (1/3)
Rohingya refugee crisis

Rohingya refugees express feeling unsafe, lacking control over their future

Ahead of this week's UN Conference, Rohingya people have made their concerns and calls for a sustainable future clear. Press Release - 29 Sep 2025
 
Five MSF staff load tents on to a truck in Gaza City
Gaza-Israel war

MSF forced to suspend Gaza City activities amid intensified Israeli offensive

The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.
 Press Release - 26 Sep 2025
 
An MSF team walk through the town of Mocímboa da Praia, in northern Mozambique, to assess people’s medical and humanitarian needs.
Mozambique

MSF suspends activities in Mocímboa da Praia as violence surges

MSF suspends activities in the town and district of Mocímboa da Praia in Cabo Delgado province as violence surges. Civilians, medical workers must be protected. Press Release - 26 Sep 2025
 
Images of displacement in an daround Tawila.
Conflict in Sudan

After watching her mother killed, she was raped: Darfur’s sexual violence must end

Sexual violence in Sudan is being used systematically against civilians amid an intensifying conflict. Our teams in Tawila, North Darfur, provided medical care to over 300 survivors in just two months. Project Update - 25 Sep 2025
 
Dost Muhammad receives his medication from the pharmacy at the MSF primary healthcare clinic in Tirah Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where, since 2022, MSF has been providing free care to families who have returned after years of displacement due to conflict.
Pakistan

Clinic provides support to people returning to conflict-damaged homes in Pakistan

An MSF team is providing care to returning communities in Tirah Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, through a clinic. Project Update - 24 Sep 2025
 
Khalima Mamutova, a state lab microbiologist and former MSF staff next to the Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing (tNGS) machine in the laboratory in the city of Nukus, the republic of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. This state-of-the-art lab, developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and MSF, is equipped with tools like GeneXpert and tNGS for rapid, precise TB diagnostics.
Uzbekistan

MSF successfully concludes Nukus tuberculosis project in Uzbekistan

We and our partners marked the conclusion of the Karakalpakstan Tuberculosis Programme in Uzbekistan. Project Update - 24 Sep 2025
 
The medical team is having a discussion at the admission tent at the Diarrhea treatment centre, Abs General Hospital, Hajjah governate, Yemen.
Yemen

Yemen witnesses worrying spike in acute watery diarrhoea cases

Our teams are witnessing a sharp rise in acute watery diarrhoea cases in Hodeidah and Hajjah governorates in Yemen. Press Release - 23 Sep 2025
 
Nurses with MSF's mobile clinics in Nabatieh measure the vital signs of a member of the community.
Lebanon

One year on from the escalation in Lebanon

A year has passed since Israel escalated its war in Lebanon. MSF teams are caring for communities as they recover. Project Update - 22 Sep 2025
 
Palestinians wait with worn-out containers to fill them from a truck. The scarcity of water and the danger of collection create immense tension.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF condemns Israeli attack on water distribution site in Gaza City 

On 15 September, Israeli forces fired upon our clearly marked water truck in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Gaza City. Statement - 18 Sep 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF mourns Hussein Alnajjar, thirteenth colleague killed in Gaza

Hussein Alnajjar, an MSF nurse, was killed following an airstrike near his tent in Gaza. MSF mourns his loss, the thirteenth of colleagues in Gaza to be killed. Statement - 17 Sep 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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