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How we work

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How we're run

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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 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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Portrait of Emad at la pointe rouge, Marseille. Emad, 36, was evacuated from Gaza to France in March 2025. He has worked for MSF for the past 9 years in Gaza, as medical team leader and head of nursing activities. Originally from Jabalia camp in Northern Gaza, he recently arrived in Marseille with his wife and three daughters. One of them, Sila, 7, has a heart disease and was already waiting for a medical evacuation before October 2023. Marseille, France, June 2025.
Gaza-Israel war

Leaving Gaza: a medical evacuation

Emad, a father from Gaza, Palestine, was evacuated with his family to France. In this documentary, he recounts what they endured during the war. Documentary - 30 Jul 2025
 
“La consolidación de la consulta de planificación familiar ha sido un gran logro durante mi trabajo en Médicos Sin Fronteras. Las pacientes son atendidas por un equipo médico especializado compuesto por personal de MSF y personal del hospital previamente capacitado”. Jusluis, Médico Gineco-obstetra de MSF. ---- “The consolidation of the family planning consult has been a great achievement during my work at Médecins Sans Frontières. Patients are seen by a specialised medical team composed of MSF staff and previously trained hospital staff,” says Jusluis, MSF obstetrician-gynecologist.
Women's health

US plan to destroy US$9.7 million of contraceptives is unconscionable

MSF condemns the decision of the US government to destroy critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work. Press Release - 29 Jul 2025
 
Sandra, superviseuse en charge de la protection chez MSF, anime une séance d’information avec des femmes et jeunes filles survivantes de violences sexuelles dans la salle d’attente du centre de santé de Mugunga 3 à Goma. Elles attendent leur tour pour passer dans la tente de triage. Sandra, an MSF supervisor, leads an information session with sexual violence survivors in the waiting room of the Mugunga 3 Health Centre in Goma. The patients are waiting to enter the triage tent.
Democratic Republic of Congo

For women in eastern DRC, nowhere is safe from sexual violence

In Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MSF teams continue to record alarming numbers of sexual violence cases, with hundreds of victims and survivors seeking care at health centres each week. Project Update - 29 Jul 2025
 
MFS cars next to Kajo Keji airstrip.
South Sudan

MSF condemns abduction of Health Ministry staff in southern South Sudan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the abduction of a Ministry of Health staff member from an MSF ambulance in South Sudan’s Morobo County. Press Release - 27 Jul 2025
 
Asma’u sits beside her child Shamsiya who is admitted for malnutrition at the Kofar Suari Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre, Katsina, Katsina state.
Nigeria

Mobilisation is urgently needed to avoid further deaths from northern Nigeria malnutrition crisis

In the first six months of 2025, our teams treated nearly 70,000 children for malnutrition in Katsina state in northern Nigeria. Press Release - 25 Jul 2025
 
A Palestinian mother identified as Donia Alouf, 33 years old and her son 1 year old Ahmed, who was diagnosed with malnutrition. Donia receives medical assistance in Gaza clinic in Gaza city. She is 8 months pregnant, she herself is also malnourished.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF finds one in four young children and pregnant women malnourished at Gaza facilities

At screenings in our facilities in Gaza last week, 25 per cent of young children and pregnant women were malnourished. Press Release - 25 Jul 2025
 
In the village of Anjara, west of Aleppo city, there are clear signs of the nearly 14-year-long war—destroyed buildings and a lack of signs of life. The MSF mobile team provides primary healthcare to people who have recently returned to Anjara and other rural areas in Aleppo governorate.
Syria

MSF expands support to respond to people’s unmet needs across Syria

Our teams provide assistance to people in need across Syria, including in areas previously under the control of the former government, where we had not been granted authorization to operate. Project Update - 24 Jul 2025
 
MSF doctor is conducting clinical examinations for measles patients in the MSF run isolation ward at Al-Wahda hospital. Dhamar governorate – Yemen.
Yemen

Measles threatens children's lives in Dhamar

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to a measles outbreak in Dhamar, Yemen, where years of conflict have left people with limited access to healthcare. Project Update - 24 Jul 2025
 
The Walikale general reference hospital is the only referral hospital in Walikale territory, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. In cases of serious complications or rare or unusual diseases/illnesses, Médecins Sans Frontières refers patients by helicopter to Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF is the only international humanitarian organisation responding to people’s growing needs in Walikale, DRC

People in Walikale, in North Kivu, DRC, have been displaced by conflict and are now facing food insecurity. Press Release - 24 Jul 2025
 
Multiple babies share one incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of Al Helou hospital north Gaza because of a lack of incubators. Having babies sharing one incubator highly increases the chances of infection. The immune system of newborns, especially premature ones, is not yet developed.
Gaza-Israel war

Premature babies fight for their lives in north Gaza

Dr Joanne Perry shares her experience of working in a NICU in Gaza. Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 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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