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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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Lomera's population has exploded following the discovery of gold in late December 2024. What was once a lakeside village of 1,500 residents has rapidly expanded into a sprawling settlement of makeshift shelters, now housing a growing transient population exceeding 12,000. While cholera is endemic in this region of the DRC, Lomera exhibits all key risk factors for an outbreak: inadequate clean water access; overcrowding; insufficient latrine capacity and open defecation; limited handwashing facilities; low vaccination coverage (the last vaccination campaign occurred in 2022); and the settlement's hillside location, where untreated waste flows downward into the lake, perpetuating contamination.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF responds to cholera outbreak following gold discovery in Lomera, South Kivu

In May, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched an emergency response to a cholera outbreak in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, triggered by a gold rush and poor sanitation. Project Update - 26 Jun 2025
 
MSF guards at the Tine transit camp have received a training on how to organise the flow of patients and inform medical staff in case of visible distress.
Conflict in Sudan

Sudanese refugees in Chad are safe from bombs but struggling to survive

More people are fleeing violence in Sudan, crossing the border into eastern Chad and settling in overcrowded camps. Project Update - 25 Jun 2025
 
A doctor from MSF is checking the X-ray of the chest of a patient suspected with tuberculosis in Zuwara, Libya.
Libya

MSF remains ready to resume medical activities in Libya

We are concerned for our former patients in Libya, as our suspension of activities continues. Press Release - 24 Jun 2025
 
Palestinian cars remained stuck at the Israeli gate blocking Hebron’s main entrance, waiting for it to reopen.
Palestine

Israel further tightens grip on the West Bank amid Iran escalation

As Israel escalates its conflict with Iran, we urge Israeli authorities to stop measures which prevents Palestinians in the West Bank from accessing healthcare. Press Release - 23 Jun 2025
 
A mosque in Masoudieh, Akkar, North Lebanon, has been turned into a shelter to house Syrian refugees fleeing uncertainty and fear after the fall of the Assad government and deadly attacks in coastal Syria in March 2025. The mosque is overcrowded, with more than 400 people living there with limited access to basic needs.
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Living as a humanitarian and refugee in Lebanon

Muhammad Sunallah, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, has worked as a nurse for MSF since 2011. Voices from the Field - 20 Jun 2025
 
Palestinian family picking up common mallow (Khobiza), a wild plant, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

Israeli authorities are suffocating Gaza with deliberate shortages of food, medicine and fuel

In Gaza, Palestine, deliberate Israeli-imposed shortages of essential supplies, including food and fuel, are putting lives at immediate risk. Press Release - 19 Jun 2025
 
An MSF outreach team arrives by boat to a remote village to provide primary healthcare services. In Ulang, MSF supported 13 primary healthcare facilities with staff, medicines, and other resources through a decentralized model of care, improving access to healthcare for communities in hard-to-reach areas.
South Sudan

Escalating insecurity forces MSF to close Ulang hospital in South Sudan

This closure leaves 150,000 people cut off from care in Ulang county. Project Update - 17 Jun 2025
 
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
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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