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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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Our offices around the world
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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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Gitarama. One of more than 7.000 mostly Hutu inmates at the overcrowded Gitarama prison stares out from behind the bars. Some 120 inmates were transferred by the UN in an effort to try to relieve overcrowding.
MSF Speaking Out

The violence of the new rwandan regime 1994-1995 (PDF, 3.8 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_The_Violence_of_the_new_Rwandan_regime_1994-1995.pdf - 25 Apr 2019
 
Pont du Ruzizi, Bukavu. Arrivee des refugies rwandais. Les refugies attendent du cote rwandais de pouvoir traverser le point et rejoindre le Zaire ou des camions les emmeneront aux camps situes aux alentours de Bukavu.
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Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania 1994-1995 (PDF, 5.5 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_Rwandan_Refugee_Camps_Zaire_Tanzania.pdf - 25 Apr 2019
 
During the violent period of clan warfare in Somalia, which followed the ousting of the Siad Barre regime in 1991, the health care system along with all state services, collapsed. MSF is working in Somalia since 1997.
MSF Speaking Out

Somalia 1991-1993: civil war, famine alert and UN “military humanitarian” intervention 1991-1993 (PDF, 12.5 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/2019-04/MSF%20Speaking%20Out%20Somalia%201991-1993.pdf - 25 Apr 2019
 
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA, ASIA, 25.11.97. Hospital health center. Conditions in these hospitals are very poor. The government of North Korea has difficulties in supplying its people with food. The crop was ruined this year. Many young children are suffering and dying of malnutrition. Photo by Peter van Quaille /MSF-H From the Illustrious database.
MSF Speaking Out

MSF And North Korea 1995-1998 (PDF, 5 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_Coree_du_Nord.pdf - 25 Apr 2019
 
6 R UMAX PL-II V1.4 [4]picture from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, 1999
MSF Speaking Out

SPEAKING OUT CASE STUDIES

In MSF, this means a willingness to speak on behalf of the people we seek to help: to bring abuses and intolerable situations to public attention. Through case studies, we openly examine and analyse our actions and decision-making processes during humanitarian emergencies that have led us to speak out. - 25 Apr 2019
 
A view of the newborn unit managed by MSF in DHQ Timergara, Pakistan. The unit receives newborn children with medical complications from the Mother and Child Health center, which is also managed by MSF in the hospital. The unit also has a separate breastfeeding area for mothers.
Pakistan

Drugs meant to help give life come with serious health risks

In Pakistan, the misuse of labour-inducing drugs poses serious health risks to mothers and new-borns. MSF has implemented training for medical workers in the country, which has one of the highest maternal and neonatal mortality rates in the world, to educate them on the risks. Project Update - 24 Apr 2019
 
Two premature twins closely monitored at the neonates department of the MSF run “Mother and Child”. Public hospitals in the area is not fully functioning and the few private health facilities that are still running are inaccessible or unaffordable to many people. Taiz Houban. Yemen
Yemen

Complicated delivery: The Yemeni mothers and children dying without medical care

After four years of war in Yemen, MSF finds that access to medical care in the country is limited and the lack of timely access can be deadly, particularly for pregnant women and children. Report - 24 Apr 2019
 
Caretaker with a patient coming from Taiz city to the mother and child hospital in Taiz houban.
Yemen

Mothers and children left to die in Yemen without access to medical care

A new MSF report describes how pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable to high rates of mortality due to a lack of easy access to hospitals in Yemen's war-torn healthcare system. Press Release - 24 Apr 2019
 
Chechele IDP camp, one of the largest sites near the small town of Banko Gotiti, in the Gedeo area of south Ethiopia. Thousands of people live in the camp, in huts made of leaves from the common ‘false banana’ tree. These huts will not withstand the heavy downpours of the approaching rainy season, and will not provide protection when the nights become bitterly cold.
Ethiopia

Alarming rates of malnutrition among displaced people in southern Ethiopia

Alarming rates of malnutrition among children and pregnant women in displaced people’s camps in southern Ethiopia have forced MSF to launch an emergency response. Press Release - 17 Apr 2019
 
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Libya

Detained refugees trapped, Libyan families flee, as fighting worsens in Tripoli

The worsening fighting in Tripoli continues, forcing thousands of Libyans to flee and trapping refugees and migrants in detention centres. MSF teams are on the ground, providing healthcare and emergency food and water. Project Update - 17 Apr 2019
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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