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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 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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2094 Results
 
A child runs through the streets of Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria, where ISIS-affiliated families are gathered, in difficult living conditions.
Syria

A lost generation live in fear inside Syria's Al-Hol camp

A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lays bare the cruelty of the long-term detainment of more than 50,000 people in Al-Hol, northeast Syria. Project Update - 7 Nov 2022
 
A child runs through the streets of Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria, where ISIS-affiliated families are gathered, in difficult living conditions.
Syria

Between two fires: Danger and desperation in Syria’s Al-Hol camp

A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lays bare the cruelty of the long-term detainment of more than 50,000 people, the majority of whom are children, in Al-Hol, northeast Syria.

 Report - 7 Nov 2022
 
MSF physiotherapist Ahmad Alrosan massages the leg of patient during a session following leg surgery. Kyiv, Ukraine, September 2022.
War in Ukraine

Providing physiotherapy for the war-wounded in Ukraine

With large numbers of war-wounded people needing post-operative care in Ukraine, MSF teams are providing people with physiotherapy so they are able to heal and learn to live with their disabilities. Project Update - 4 Nov 2022
 
A man pulls his belongings through the flood waters in Bentiu. The floods in Unity State have devastated the area, forcing people to leave their homes in search of safety.
Climate emergency

Urgent action needed to mitigate deadly consequences of climate change

World leaders must act to mitigate the triple threat of climate change, conflict, and health emergencies, which prove a deadly mix for the most vulnerable. Statement - 4 Nov 2022
 
Bokika Josephine, 51, during an MSF medical consultation at the Hervé Farm IDP site in Kwamouth.
Democratic Republic of Congo

A humanitarian desert: Lacklustre response amid horrific violence in DRC

Two months after horrific violence broke out in Mai-Ndombe and Kwilu provinces in DRC, people are living in fear and there continues to be a serious lack of humanitarian response. Voices from the Field - 1 Nov 2022
 
MSF Occupational Therapist Yousef Alwikhery assists a young patient at Al Awda hospital in Gaza. Yousef says "As occupational therapists, we really become a part of our patients’ psychosocial support system – an aspect of our work which is not widely known about. Here at Al-Awda hospital, I work with patients from their arrival in the inpatient ward, through to our outpatient clinic, all the way to their discharge. We spend a great deal of time with our patients and their families, helping them adjust to their new reality."
Palestine

Rebuilding lives through occupational therapy in Gaza

MSF occupational therapist, Yousef Alwikhery, helps injured patients on their long road to recovery in Gaza. He talks about the challenges and rewards of helping people rebuild their lives. Voices from the Field - 28 Oct 2022
 
Flooding in Upper Nile, South Sudan.
South Sudan

Conflict in Greater Upper Nile impedes assistance to people already devastated by flooding

Forty thousand people have been displaced in the Greater Upper Nile area of South Sudan since August, when escalations in fighting forced people to flee in search of safety. MSF is providing assistance to people as the insecurity poses challenges to delivering medical services. Press Release - 21 Oct 2022
 
MSF teams have decided to support the local COVID-19 vaccination efforts and have deployed 10 fixed and mobile vaccination teams.
Syria

Cholera spreads across Syria putting vulnerable people at serious risk

After 15 years of absence, Cholera is spreading across Syria. Our teams are working with local health authorities in the northeast and northwest of the country in response to the outbreak. Project Update - 21 Oct 2022
 
Haiti CTC Turgeau – MSF Health Promoter Jose informs patients about cleaning practices to avoid the contagion of the disease. Raising awareness about protective measures is key to prevent the spread of the disease.
Haiti

Haiti on the verge of health disaster

People in Haiti are facing violence, insecurity, severe fuel shortages, the resurgence of cholera, and are struggling to access healthcare. Press Release - 21 Oct 2022
 
MSF psychologist Marina Popova in session with patients at the shelter for Displaced Persons. Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, June 2022.
Ukraine

Providing care to displaced people in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, MSF teams have been working in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, providing medical care and mental health support to people affected by the war. Project Update - 20 Oct 2022
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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