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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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MSF cars inside Aweil project base.
Ukraine

MSF treats wounded bus passengers in Ukraine

An MSF team treated wounded people after an attack on a bus in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine. Project Update - 26 Aug 2025
 
The taro leaf is used as a symbol of Rohingya existence, with the proverb Hoñsu Fathar Faaní, or water off a taro leaf. Water doesn't absorb into the hydrophobic taro leaf, instead floating on top, and easily falling off, without leaving a trace. Rohingya, without recognised documentation of their homes and lives in Myanmar, feel like floating people, unable to leave a trace or mark in the world. Photographed during Rohingya Taro Leaf symbol workshops and camp walks
Rohingya refugee crisis

Life in the Rohingya camps

This photo essay shares a series prepared by Rohingya photojournalist, Sahat Zia Hero, and Australian
photographer, Victor Caringal. Photo Story - 25 Aug 2025
 
A little boy struggles under the weight of a water jerrycan to bring it back to his displaced family's tent. This daily burden, carried by children, is a direct result of the man-made water crisis. With 70% of Gaza's piped water lost to bomb-damaged networks, water trucking is the only source of water for thousands in Gaza, however, water trucking is frequently hindered by militarized zones and constant bombardment.
Gaza-Israel war

Israeli authorities are starving Palestinians of water in Gaza

Organisations like MSF would be able to increase the amount of safe water in Gaza, however, Israel is blocking imports of critical water treatment items. Press Release - 21 Aug 2025
 
MSF prioritizes access to clean water as part of our emergency response in Chiure, southern Cabo Delgado, supplying 600,000 liters to both resettlement centers in just two weeks.
Mozambique

Violence in Cabo Delgado sparks new wave of mass displacement as needs surge

An estimated 50,000 people have been newly displaced in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, following attacks by a non-state armed group. Press Release - 21 Aug 2025
 
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. 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.
Conflict in Sudan

Sudan: MSF suspends activities at Zalingei hospital following armed attack

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to reduce its teams and suspend all activities at Zalingei hospital in Central Darfur state, Sudan. Press Release - 19 Aug 2025
 
After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024, prisoners and detainees were released from prisons and security branches whose reputation in ill treatment and torture methods precedes them. Many survivors spent years in detention under very harsh conditions, deprived of proper food and sometimes medical care, and exposed to cycles of physical and psychological abuse. In light of the huge medical and mental health needs former prisoners and detainees are experiencing, MSF piloted a program for survivors of ill treatment in its project in Idlib, where we’ve received some patients. One of them shared her story with us. This animation supports the longer article piece and serves as a short visual story of her testimony.
Syria

New MSF programme treats survivors of detention in Syria

After the gates of detention centres opened in Syria in late 2024, MSF began a new programme for survivors. Project Update - 18 Aug 2025
 
The MSF hospital in Agok is the only facility providing secondary care in the entire Abyei region of South Sudan. This structure deals with emergencies, surgeries, treatments of HIV, tuberculosis, chronic diseases as well as neglected diseases, such as snake bites, a real scourge in the region. In 2019, in order to improve the quality of care, a radiology room was set up and the pharmacy was extended. A lack of specialized structures in the surrounding states forces some patients to travel very long distances to get to Agok hospital, some have to walk for up to 10 hours. This phenomenon illustrates the need for a comprehensive hospital in a country where health care is almost non-existent
Gaza-Israel war

Response to GHF allegations regarding MSF activities at Nasser hospital

Response to GHF allegations regarding MSF activities at Nasser hospital. Statement - 15 Aug 2025
 
Palestinians at the GHF distribution site in Netzarim putting their lives at risk to receive some food. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). All four distribution sites operated by the GHF are located in areas under full Israeli military control and “secured” by private American armed contractors. Between 7 June and 24 July 2025, MSF health centres in close proximity received 1,380 injured people, including 28 dead bodies from the GHF sites with 174 gunshot wounded. MSF calls for an immediate cessation of the GHF distribution mechanism and urges states and private donors to refrain from funding what is essentially a death trap.
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza: Israel threatens to ban major aid organisations as starvation deepens

Over 100 organisations joined a letter to call for an end to Israel's weaponisation of aid. Open Letter - 14 Aug 2025
 
With no beds available, corridors and outdoor areas at Nasser Hospital are filled with patients, as medical facilities in Gaza struggle amid the ongoing Israeli genocide.
Gaza-Israel war

“Medicine is being strangled”: An MSF doctor on collapse of Gaza's healthcare system

Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib provides his testimony about the current state of the health system in Gaza, Palestine. Voices from the Field - 14 Aug 2025
 
Internally displaced people gathered in an old school in Dali camp, Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan.
Conflict in Sudan

War fuels cholera outbreak across Sudan with MSF seeing over 2,300 patients and 40 dead in one week

An ongoing cholera outbreak in Sudan, fuelled by the ongoing war, is overwhelming treatment centres, with MSF teams seeing over 2,300 patients in the last week. Press Release - 14 Aug 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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