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How we work

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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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Medium shot of an MSF worker standing in the waiting area outside the mobile clinic in the Closed Control Access Centre in Zervou, Samos. MSF provides primary -including sexual and reproductive health care services by deploying a mobile clinic and team into the closed camp three times per week. A health promotion team is also visiting the camp to discuss and implement hygiene practices and ensure that people in the camp are aware of the support MSF can provide to its patients as a medical humanitarian organization.
Greece

Children diagnosed with malnutrition on Greece's Samos island

Our medical team has reported six cases of malnutrition among children at the closed controlled access centre on Samos island, Greece. Press Release - 7 Apr 2025
 
The nurses in charge of the pharmacy at the Daraya Health Centre are reviewing the medication availability schedules. الممرضات المسؤولات عن الصيدلية في مركز داريا الصحي يقمن بالتدقيق على جداول الأدوية المتوفرة
Syria

Syria: MSF opens emergency room in Daraya

MSF began working in Daraya in March in partnership with the Directorate of Health. Project Update - 7 Apr 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF mourns the killing of eleventh colleague in Gaza

Our colleague, Hussam Al Loulou, was killed by an airstrike on the morning of 1 April. Statement - 4 Apr 2025
 
A metal factory in Kamrangirchar where a worker is wearing a mask while dealing with metal items. MSF teams in Kamrangirchar worked closely with the factory workers during occupational health (OH) sessions for factory workers.
Bangladesh

MSF hands over decade-long programme in Kamrangirchar

Due to a global review and financial reprioritisation, after more than a decade working in partnership with the community in Kamrangirchar, by the end of March 2025, MSF handed over our Kamrangirchar projects. Project Update - 3 Apr 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

Civilians and MSF teams trapped by violence in Walikale, DRC

Intensifying violence between armed groups in Walikale, in North Kivu province, DRC, has trapped people and our teams, and is preventing the delivery of supplies. Press Release - 2 Apr 2025
 
In Arauca, a department in dispute between non-state armed groups on the border with Venezuela, MSF has started a project in early March that will offers exual and reproductive health services, comprehensive care for survivors of sexual violence, mental health consultations, care for children under five years of age; and will support the first level structures. In the image, an n MSF team provides medical care, family planning methods and psychological care in a settlement in Arauca.
Colombia

Worsening conflict leaves tens of thousands without essential care in Colombia

Médecins Sans Frontières has launched activities in Catatumbo and Arauca in Colombia, areas affected by ongoing fighting between armed groups. There is an urgent need to increase humanitarian aid in isolated and hard-to-reach communities. Press Release - 2 Apr 2025
 
MSF water and sanitation engineers assessing a borehole in Beit Lahia city, north of Gaza strip, Palestine.
Gaza-Israel war

One month into deadly Israeli-imposed blockade, critical medicines in Gaza start to run out

Shortage of medication is forcing MSF teams to dress wounds with no pain relief and ration essential medicines. Israeli authorities must end collective punishment of people in Gaza. Press Release - 2 Apr 2025
 
MSF teams have been present in Nampala area (central Mali) since 2022 to support the local health authorities, either in the health center or on the outskirts. Following a critical incident against the MSF team and then restrictions of movements, MSF operations have been suspended for a few months. Activities have restarted mid-March for offering primary health care to the population.
Mali

MSF resumes medical activities in central Mali

Following the suspension of MSF activities in Nampala, central Mali in October last year due to security incidents, teams have returned to the town to once again provide care. Interview - 1 Apr 2025
 
Akobo , Jonglei State, cholera response A cholera treatment unit. An ongoing cholera outbreak is spreading through northern and Eastern South Sudan, spilling into Ethiopia. In Akobo, Jonglei State, South Sudan, MSF teams set up an emergency cholera response to support the efforts of the ministry of health since early March. In less than three weeks, MSF had treated more than 300 cases.
Cholera

People affected by violence and cholera in South Sudan arrive exhausted in Ethiopia

Escalating violence and a widespread cholera outbreak are pushing communities to the brink on both sides of the South Sudan-Ethiopia border. Press Release - 31 Mar 2025
 
Sameera Abkir, 25, is examined by MSF doctors at the Romalia mobile clinic in West Darfur. She developed an arm infection due to a poorly administered injection following a home delivery. January 2025.
 12 days after giving birth at home, she visited the Romalia mobile clinic to have both her baby and herself checked. She arrived with her husband on a cart pulled by a donkey. Upon arrival, she was running a high fever and had a wound on her arm. She explained that following the home delivery, she had experienced severe abdominal pain, and her brother had purchased a medication for her, which was injected into her arm. She had pain in her arm and she couldn’t hold her baby properly. After conducting several tests, the doctors at the clinic discovered an infection in her arm. They promptly disinfected and dressed the wound and prescribed antibiotics for treatment.
Conflict in Sudan

Pregnant women face miscarriage and delivery complications in Darfur, Sudan

Pregnant women in Darfur face harrowing journeys and many obstacles to access healthcare, often resulting in miscarriage and delivery complications. Project Update - 28 Mar 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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