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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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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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Hanan cooks over an open flame, the only way to feed her family. A glimpse into daily life marked by exhaustion and perseverance.
Gaza-Israel war

EU governments’ hypocrisy fuelling suffering in Gaza

European leaders must act decisively to expedite a ceasefire and humanitarian aid for Gaza. Press Release - 16 Jun 2025
 
The severely destroyed Al shifa hospital compound in Gaza city.
Gaza-Israel war

“You must act now”: open letter to European leaders on Gaza

Read the letter from Dr Christos Christou and Christopher Lockyear for EU leaders regarding their hypocrisy on the conflict in Gaza. Open Letter - 16 Jun 2025
 
MSF hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan, after being deliberately bombed on 3 May 2025.
Attacks on medical care

What is the cost for killing humanitarians?

Secretary General Chris Lockyear writes on attacks on humanitarians which today happen in a climate of seeming impunity. Opinion - 16 Jun 2025
 
On the morning of 7th of June, the team on Geo Barents carried out two rescue operations in the Libyan SAR region. In total, 146 are safely on-board and receiving the care they require. The Italian authorities assigned Genova as a place of safety. In the first rescue, 37 people were found in distress on a white fiberglass boat. As for the second rescue, 109 people were in distress aboard a grey rubber boat.
Mediterranean migration

New MSF report denounces violence and obstruction of lifesaving response in the Central Mediterranean

Our latest advocacy report illustrates how search and rescue vessels are being removed from the Central Mediterranean using medical data and testimony. Press Release - 12 Jun 2025
 
This pictures captures the harrowing moment an overcrowded boat capsized last night. Luckily, the @MSF team managed to retrieve all 45 people safely from the water. ❗It is simply unacceptable that people in search of safety and protection have to risk their lives on flimsy boats THIS IMAGE IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR MSF USE.
Mediterranean migration

Deadly Manoeuvres: Obstruction and Violence in the Central Mediterranean

Read MSF's latest advocacy report on search and rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean. Report - 12 Jun 2025
 
At the MSF-supported Kishinji health center in the Minova health zone, a displaced woman speaks at an MSF-organized session to raise awareness on sexual violence.
Activity Report

Year in Review 2024

Read MSF's Operations Directors' review of the challenges faced by our teams in providing care in 2024. Opinion - 12 Jun 2025
 
Une consultation médicale au centre de santé de Makombo (à 45km de Goma) appuyé par MSF entre février et mai 2025 en réponse à la crise à l’est de la RDC. MSF y est intervenu entre février et mai 2025 notamment dans la prise en charge des victimes de violences sexuelles. A medical consultation at the Makombo health centre (45km from Goma) supported by MSF between February and May 2025 in response to the crisis in eastern DRC. MSF worked there between February and May 2025, treating victims of sexual violence in particular.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Sexual violence is a persistent emergency in eastern DRC

Persistently high levels of sexual violence are being reported in eastern DRC, where the safety of civilians and access to care must be improved.
 Press Release - 11 Jun 2025
 
Zeineb Adam – in the foreground – watches after her daughter, Safa, 6 months, in one of the three isolation wards MSF set-up in Rokero hospital, to treat the influx of severe measles cases that has been ongoing since June 2024.
Sudan

Children in Darfur urgently need immunisation as measles spreads

Children across the Darfur region in Sudan urgently need to be caught up on vaccination as a measles outbreak spreads. Press Release - 10 Jun 2025
 
Market day in Mantcharné. A mobile vaccination team moves between the stalls to raise awareness among the community and administer the diphtheria vaccine.
Chad

Chad: MSF tackles logistical challenges to vaccinate 500,000 people against diphtheria

A mass vaccination campaign saw 500,000 people immunised against diphtheria in Chad. . Project Update - 10 Jun 2025
 
MSF’s laboratory scientist Chima Chinda, 32, is working on a blood sample of a suspected Lassa fever case at the Virology Unit of the Federal Teaching Hospital in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state capital.
Nigeria

MSF hands over Lassa fever care in Ebonyi state

After seven years, our teams have handed over care for Lassa fever to state health authorities. Project Update - 9 Jun 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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