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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 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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2094 Results
 
These displaced women have carried their dishes down from the 4th floor of the building they are taking shelter in to wash them near a water tank MSF fills with clean water. Meanwhile, many others, elderly and living with disabilities, cannot do so safely. Soon, these trips, often multiple a day, will no longer be needed, as MSF is rehabilitating the water system and installing communal washing points on each floor.
Lebanon

Bringing clean water and sanitation services to forcibly displaced families in Lebanon

MSF is supporting families who have been forcibly displaced by Israeli bombardments and evacuation orders in Lebanon. After visiting a shelter in Beirut, Maryam Srour reflects on the work to bring clean water and sanitation services to unfit buildings. Voices from the Field - 16 Apr 2026
 
In Daba Naira camp of Tawila, in North Darfur state, western Sudan, families live in fragile straw huts and makeshift shelters that provide almost no protection from harsh weather or fire. Overcrowding and sparse materials leave many exposed to constant risk, reflecting the extreme vulnerability of displaced communities.
Conflict in Sudan

Three years of war have shattered Sudan's lifelines

As Sudan marks three years of war, violence and atrocities continue to devastate the lives of millions of people, and constrained humanitarian access is compounding suffering. Press Release - 15 Apr 2026
 
IDPs informal shelter in Gaza City
Gaza-Israel war

"This is not a ceasefire": Life in Gaza continues to be suffocated six months on

Six months since a fragile and ineffective ceasefire was implemented in Gaza, Palestine, Israeli forces continue their violent attacks and expand their military control of the Strip. Press Release - 10 Apr 2026
 
Less than 10 hours after the announcement of a regional ceasefire, a little after 2pm, Israeli forces conducted a large-scale attack of several airstrikes across Lebanon. The attacks struck multiple locations, including major cities. Hospitals across the country are reporting mass casualty incidents. According to the Ministry of Public Health, hundreds of people have been killed and injured. These indiscriminate attacks have struck in heavily residential areas, causing death and injuring among civilians - and make it very clear that there is no ceasefire in Lebanon despite announcements.
Lebanon

Lebanon: Testimony from a night of mass casualties in Beirut

Safa Bleik was at a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, when Israeli forces launched mass-scale strikes across the country. She recounts a night spent trying to stabilise patients with serious injuries. Voices from the Field - 9 Apr 2026
 
Surgical suite in the MFH
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza: Israeli entry restrictions cause critical shortage of medical supplies

Dr Randa Abu El-Khair Masoud, MSF medical adviser, describes shortages in chronic disease medications and dressing materials at our hospitals and clinics in Gaza. Project Update - 3 Apr 2026
 
MSF flag blowing in the wind at Aweil project base.
Conflict in Sudan

Strike on Al‑Jabalain hospital results in 10 fatalities, including seven medical staff

A drone attack, reportedly carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), targeted Al‑Jabalain hospital in White Nile state, Sudan, on 2 April, resulting in at least 10 fatalities. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2026
 
MSF supported Chadian authorities at Mabrouka hospital until its closure on 21 February. "We closed and transferred the hospital within a few hours since there were bullets and shelling near the hospital and security could not be guaranteed” explains Patrick Baffoun, deputy project coordinator in Tine.
Chad

Tine, two months after repeated attacks at the border

Drone strikes by the Sudanese Armed Forces, Rapid Support Forces, and allied groups are hitting civilian areas along the Chad-Sudan border. Press Release - 2 Apr 2026
 
Families shelter under trees in Nyatim, Jonglei State, South Sudan, where displaced people live in the open without adequate shelter, food, or access to basic healthcare after fleeing violence in Lankien and surrounding areas.
South Sudan

As people die in Nyatim, humanitarian access must be opened

People who have been displaced by recent violence in Lankien and Pieri, South Sudan, need humanitarian assistance in Nyatim, where they have sought safety. Press Release - 30 Mar 2026
 
A home in Khallet Athaba photographed by MSF in 2024, now completely demolished by the Israeli forces. This picture shows the building before being demolished.
Palestine

West Bank: Palestinian daily life consumed by new wave of violence as world looks elsewhere

In the West Bank, Palestine, people live with constant fear and trauma from intensifying violence as the world focuses on the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran. Project Update - 27 Mar 2026
 
Lebanon, Beirut, 2026. A man reads book in the Azarieh in central Beirut, where displaced families took shelter in an abandoned building. With over a million people registered as displaced, Lebanon is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis. Thousands have fled their homes under threat of fire - often with nothing.
Lebanon

People in Lebanon are being cut off from care as Israeli attacks intensify

Israeli bombardment and forced displacement of people across Lebanon is severely impacting people’s lives and their access to essential services, including healthcare. Press Release - 24 Mar 2026
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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