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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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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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At the village of Biaro. The Zairian Red Cross are present (brought here by the rebels of Kabila, who want to make sure the bodies are burried as fast as possible, fearing typhus epidemic) and make a count of all the orphans: above 1000 children. They are lined up along the railway tracks.Tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees, (they all come from the refugee camps of Goma and Bukavu), fleeing the Zairian rebels of Laurent- Desire Kabila, for the last 5 months, hiding in the bush, exhausted, famished, and all waiting to return home, to Rwanda, are today in the midst of a new nightmare. They had taken residence in camps in 1994, when they fled their country in fear of retribution for the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi by Hutu extremists. The presence of Hutu nettled Zairian Tutsi, who joined forces with Kabila, a longtime Mobutu foe, and launched the insurgency. The fighting forced most of the Rwandan refugees to go home in Autumn 96, but about 350.000 of them have been marooned in tough eastern Zaire, fighting terrain. They are dying at an alarming rate. They need food, water ans safe passage home. But no one has made the refugees a priority. The Zairian rebels of Kabila who seized Kisangani, Zaire'sthird city, had ordered the Rwandan Hutu Refugees, who were in this region's camps, to move back south.
MSF Speaking Out

Does speaking out defend, expand, or limit humanitarian access and humanitarian space?

This course is an interactive self-study course, which includes a learning journey.

The series of MSF Speaking Out Case Studies (SOCS) learning modules emphasise and expand critical thinking and analysis skills using a two-part approach. These courses are based on MSF's speaking out dilemmas in complex humanitarian contexts. Pat one is thematics-based and is focused on humanitarian access, humanitarian space and speaking out. Part two investigates the case study, The Hunting and Killing of Rwandan Refugees in Zaire-Congo: 1996-1997 and speaking out dilemmas surrounding how MSF was instrumentalised – used as refugee "bait". - 19 May 2025
 
Jacqueline Zulu, MSF's health promotion officer, holds PREP and PEP medication before giving it to sex workers. MSF provides anti-HIV drugs to sex workers to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Sex workers have an HIV prevalence of 60% in Malawi and are the key population most affected by the disease.
Access to medicines

Deadly Gaps: Don't turn away from saving lives

MSF released a report covering the challenges that the worldwide response to malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis may face if the Global Fund's upcoming replenishment conference is insufficient. Report - 15 May 2025
 
For over one year from autumn 2023, a team from Doctors of the World (DOTW) UK and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided primary healthcare to individuals accommodated at Wethersfield mass containment site. In May 2024, we released a report documenting a mental crisis unfolding at the site. Over the following months, our team continued to respond to high levels of mental distress amongst patients and identified worrying numbers of people for whom the site was unsuitable. Men attending our clinic had experienced abuse and violence in their countries of origin and on their journeys to the UK and were subjected to poor conditions and structural violence at the site.
United Kingdom

UK government must immediately close Wethersfield mass containment site for asylum seekers

Prime Minister Starmer has refused to set a date for the site’s closure despite evidence of psychological harm and suffering. Press Release - 15 May 2025
 
Destroyed streets and buildings in Beit Lahia, Gaza North.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe caused by siege on Gaza

We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives in Gaza. Statement - 14 May 2025
 
A survivor of violence makes handicrafts as part of her recovery at MSF’s Comprehensive Care Centre (CAI in Spanish). The CAI's social work team organizes artistic activities as part of the multidisciplinary treatment for people who have been victims of extreme violence and mistreatment. Patients receive medical, psychological and physiotherapeutic care, among other services, at the CAI. In this centre patients are both migrants and Mexican citizs who have suffered acts of violence in their countries of origin or while traveling, such as rape, kidnapping or torture.
Mexico

Increase in admissions at MSF centre specialised in treating people for extreme violence in Mexico City

We are seeing more people for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and acute stress at our Mexico City centre. Project Update - 13 May 2025
 
Two trucks are being packed with non-food items at the MSF warehouse in Mandalay. This NFI kit usually contains: a lighter, blanket, tarp, mosquito net, jerry can, soap, towel, toothbrush, toothpaste, menstrual pads, bucket with lid, hairbrush, chlorine, nappy.
Myanmar

Response to devastating earthquake in Myanmar driven by solidarity and dedication

Jessa Pontevedra describes how entire communities came together to respond to, and support each other through, Myanmar's earthquake emergency. Voices from the Field - 9 May 2025
 
Close-up of an MSF speakerphone during an emergency medical aid response in Samos island, Greece. MSF has been responding to requests for emergency medical assistance to people arriving by boat on the island of Samos since August 2021. MSF’s emergency response has shown the high medical and humanitarian needs amongst new arrivals. During our interventions, most people we assist are exhausted and severely distressed. A lot of them are dehydrated after spending a long time, sometimes several days, in the bush without access to food and water.
Conflict in Sudan

Sudan: MSF returns to Khartoum’s Bashair Teaching hospital amidst soaring cholera needs

We have again joined Ministry of Health staff at Bashair Teaching hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, after a suspension in January 2025. Project Update - 9 May 2025
 
A view of MSF health post in Tawila Umda, a few minutes before its opening. Located on the main arrival site of displaced people from Zamzam and El-Fasher, it aims at providing immediate medical care to those the most in need: people arrived in an advanced state of dehydration and exhaustion, even sometimes suffering from non-severe gunshot or shrapnel wounds. The health post offers the possibility to refer the most urgent cases directly to the MSF supported hospital in Tawila city. It also provides routine vaccination catch-up and malnutrition screening for children under 5. Such a health post is usually designed to provide 50 consultations per day. On that day, more than 270 medical consultations were realised in the facility - it was the less busy day of the week, from far.
Conflict in Sudan

People fleeing Zamzam camp arrive to overwhelmed humanitarian response in Tawila

Three weeks since the deadly attack on Zamzam camp, Sudan, people are still arriving in Tawila malnourished and injured. Project Update - 6 May 2025
 
View of the Musenyi site, flooded by the rains. Homes on the site are highly vulnerable to the rains due to the impermeable soil, and residents are trying to protect their homes as best they can. Flooding and stagnant water increase the risk of water-borne diseases and malaria. ------------ Vue du site de Musenyi, inondé par les pluies. Les habitations du site sont très vulnérables aux pluies du fait du sol imperméable, et les résidents tentent de protéger les maisons comme ils peuvent. Les inondations et eaux stagnantes posent des risques accrus de maladies hydriques et de paludisme.
Burundi

Burundi: Congolese refugees in Musenyi site face humanitarian and health emergency

Some 18,000 Congolese people are now staying at a refugee site in Burundi with the capacity to host only 10,000 people. Project Update - 6 May 2025
 
MSF Fangak hospital in South Sudan burning after being bombarded
South Sudan

South Sudan: MSF strongly condemns the deliberate bombing of our hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei state

Our hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei state, was attacked on the morning of 3 May. Press Release - 4 May 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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