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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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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push 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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290 Results
 
Rotation 12 - Rescues 1
Mediterranean migration

At least 30 people feared dead after tragic rescue in the central Mediterranean

A pregnant woman has died and at least 30 people are missing after the partial sinking of a rubber boat in the central Mediterranean Sea, while MSF teams managed to bring 71 survivors to safety. Press Release - 28 Jun 2022
 
SAR activities June 2017
Mediterranean migration

MSF statement on being summoned to preliminary hearing in Trapani court

Statement - 17 May 2022
 
Rotation 11 - Rescues 1 & 2
Mediterranean migration

After seven rescues from the central Mediterranean, 470 people need a place of safety

MSF teams conducted seven rescue operations from the central Mediterranean within 72 hours during which 470 people were rescued and brought upon the Geo Barents. The survivors need a safe place to disembark. Project Update - 16 May 2022
 
Geo Barents - Rotation 9 - Rescue 1
Mediterranean migration

Over 100 deaths at sea in one week as European States look away

While EU states continue to look away from tragedies taking place in the Central Mediterranean, 100 people have drowned and at least 130 others have been forcibly returned to Libya. Press Release - 6 Apr 2022
 
Rotation 8 Rescue 2
Mediterranean migration

Survivors of “most difficult rescue” need immediate place of safety

MSF's Geo Barents rescue ship has rescued 111 people over the last few days, including one rescue described as one of the "most difficult". The survivors urgently need a place of safety. Project Update - 11 Mar 2022
 
"We sit, we wait and we're scared": migrants' communities in Libya through the eyes of photographer Ricardo García Villanova
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Italy-Libya agreement: Five years of EU-sponsored abuse in Libya and the central Mediterranean

We urge the Italian government and EU to end all support for the system of returning migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to Libya and detaining them there. Project Update - 2 Feb 2022
 
Rescue 2 - Rotation 7
Mediterranean migration

Hundreds of people require port of safety after multiple rescues from Central Mediterranean

MSF teams have rescued over 400 people who have fled horrendous conditions in Libya and risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea in search of safety. Project Update - 25 Jan 2022
 
Story of a Syrian family on board
Mediterranean migration

The father who faced the sea so his sons might go to school

Following the response of MSF's search and rescue ship, the Geo Barents, to a boat's distress call, after which 99 people were rescued and 10 tragically died in the Mediterranean, a father recounts his ordeal in escaping Libya - and the sea. Voices from the Field - 26 Nov 2021
 
Rescue 3 - Rotation 5
Mediterranean migration

Ten more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route

MSF search and rescue teams found 10 people dead on a wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean Sea after 186 others were rescued within 24 hours. Press Release - 17 Nov 2021
 
Rescue 1 - Rotation 4
Mediterranean migration

Search and rescue: “They describe Libya as hell”

In the latest rescues from the Mediterranean, 140 survivors were unaccompanied minors. Julie Melichar describes the shocking reality of crossing the world's deadliest migration route. Voices from the Field - 31 Oct 2021
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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