Skip to main content
Back to main menu

About Us

How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

Learn more
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.

Learn more
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.

Learn more
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.

Learn more

What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

View all topics Activities by country
Featured Cholera Gaza Israel war Mediterranean migration

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.

View all countries
Featured Haiti Palestine Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

MSF Websites

A Global Network
Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
Other Sites
View Resource Centre
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

GO TO SITE
Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

GO TO SITE
Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

GO TO SITE
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.

GeoMSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
Learn more
4633 Results
 
MSF OCA hospital, bossangoa, CAR
Central African Republic

MSF outraged by killing of staff member

Press Release - 19 May 2016
 
A mother waits outside the MSF clinic. MSF has been providing medical care and psychological support in Idomeni since March 2015. Over 60% of the population is vulnerable women and children.
Greece

MSF resumes activities in Idomeni after clashes and tear gas cause a temporary suspension

Project Update - 19 May 2016
 
Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) teams are providing psychological and logistical support to people in the areas affected by the 7.8 magnitude Ecuadorian earthquake on the 16th April 2016. The teams are working in several areas were people have built temporary shelters, while some sleep in the open, afraid to sleep inside due to aftershocks. MSF is distributing NFI & tents for the people who are sleeping in the open. Official figures put the death toll at 650 people, with 48 people missing and more than 29,000 in shelters. MSF teams in Ecuador are concentrating their efforts in areas where help has not yet arrived. MSF has conducted individual counseling sessions, psycho-social activities, counseling groups and medical consultations. It has also
Ecuador

Mental health after the earthquake

Interview with Ionara Rabelo, MSF psychologist working in Ecuador Voices from the Field - 19 May 2016
 
Samos, Greece. Since the agreement between Europe and Turkey made on March 18th 2016, Greece has turned refugee camps into detention camps. Refugees are sorted and wait to be sent back to Turkey for those who came after March 20th.
Mediterranean migration

MSF calls for immediate opening of 'hotspots'

Two months after the signing of the EU-Turkey deal the situation continues to deteriorate for migrants incarcerated on the Greek islands. MSF calls for the immediate opening of hotspots. Press Release - 18 May 2016
 
On May 9, there were 135 children hospitalized in the paediatric ward of Pawa General Hospital, most of them for severe malaria. As there are only 22 beds, most of the patient are resting on the floor between beds or in the hallway.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF responds to a particularly deadly outbreak of malaria in the north east of the country

Crisis Update - 17 May 2016
 
An aerial view of Dagahaley refugee camp, Dadaab, Kenya.
Kenya

Show the world that safe refuge is possible

Hundreds of thousands of people cannot be punished for the actions of a few Statement - 13 May 2016
 
Idomeni, border between Greece and Macedonia domeni, frontière entre la grèce et la macédoine. 1 200 refugees are stuck since the closing of the border, waiting for an agreement between Europe and Turkey (which happened on March 18th 2016)
Mediterranean migration

The mismanagement and poor planning Europe is demonstrating is beyond belief

“All over Greece we are witnessing the consequences of inhumane policies that have left thousands stranded and forgotten without access to basic services or information. European states and authorities have decided to make deterrence their only priority and given up on providing protection and assistance to these people – despite their moral and legal responsibility to do so.” Project Update - 12 May 2016
 
Khaled, a Yazidi man from Sinjar mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan. He is in Katsikas camp with his family since March 18, 2016.
Project Update

Testimony from Yazidi refugees in Katsikas Camp, Greece

"We thought that Europe might protect people who have suffered the kind of suffering we have undergone. But we feel like criminals, forced to hide in the mountain, " says Shemi, an Yazidi refugee in Greece. "Look at where we are. We pray that someone hears us, so that the road opens. I don’t want to die here. I don’t want to die watching my grandchildren suffering. " Voices from the Field - 12 May 2016
 
msf-placeholder
Global

Shorter TB regimens offer new hope

By Leonardo Palumbo, Regional Advocacy Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Opinion - 12 May 2016
 
People hold hands on a beach in Molyvos, Lesbos, calling for safe passage and no more deaths. The activity was held in solidarity with other protests across Europe on Saturday February 27 as thousands of people in more than 100 cities marched in support of refugee rights. Copyright: Giorgos Moutafis / MSF / Greenpeace
Mediterranean migration

In 2016 who still counts as human?

"Through this deal, EU leaders have made a choice that should raise serious questions for the citizens of affluent Europe. In 2016 who still counts as human? Whose lives matter? What happened to empathy? And where has solidarity gone when faced with the anguish and despair of those whose lives have been shattered?" Statement - 12 May 2016
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.

Learn more