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How we work

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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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Midwife May Phyoe Thu (38), checks Win Win's bloodpressure. The 38 year old woman lost her husband in the eqartquake, and her son was trapped under the rubble for 5 hours. Since then, he has feared being in the dark and becomes anxious easily.
Myanmar

One month since devastating earthquake in Myanmar

We collected testimonies about the 28 March earthquake from people who visited our team during mobile clinics in Mandalay. Voices from the Field - 2 May 2025
 
MSF staff offloading the truck to prepare for the distribution in outskirts of Nyala / South Darfur
Conflict in Sudan

Action must be taken now to avert worsening malnutrition crisis in South Darfur

The upcoming rainy season in South Darfur, Sudan, will worsen an existing malnutrition crisis if action is not taken now. Press Release - 28 Apr 2025
 
A line of beds at the paediatric ward in the Cholera Treatment Center (CTC). MSF has been running a CTC in Assosa since Nov 12th, a few km away from Malakal hospital, to respond to the increasing needs of cholera patients in Malakal. The CTC currently has 90 beds, with capacity to scale up to 100.
United States of America

What MSF teams see after first 100 days of US aid budget cuts

While MSF does not take US government funding, our teams are witnessing the effects of funding cuts globally. Press Release - 25 Apr 2025
 
MSF nurse Belal is tending to Sham’s dressings at the clinic in Gaza City. After their house in Beit Hanoun was targeted, she sustained burn injuries.
Gaza-Israel war

No relief and no chance of recovery for Gaza’s burn patients

In Gaza, Palestine, burn patients are subjected to prolonged suffering. Project Update - 25 Apr 2025
 
Kyiv 24 April after the attack.
War in Ukraine

The relentless and indiscriminate bombing in Ukraine must cease

A series of recent strikes on civilian targets across Ukraine, including on the capital, Kyiv, has killed dozens of people. Press Release - 24 Apr 2025
 
The MSF hospital in Agok is the only facility providing secondary care in the entire Abyei region of South Sudan. This structure deals with emergencies, surgeries, treatments of HIV, tuberculosis, chronic diseases as well as neglected diseases, such as snake bites, a real scourge in the region. In 2019, in order to improve the quality of care, a radiology room was set up and the pharmacy was extended. A lack of specialized structures in the surrounding states forces some patients to travel very long distances to get to Agok hospital, some have to walk for up to 10 hours. This phenomenon illustrates the need for a comprehensive hospital in a country where health care is almost non-existent
Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence against civilians must end in DRC as second MSF staff killed in Masisi

A second MSF staff member has been killed in Masisi, North Kivu, DRC, as civilians and aid workers are victims to the violence. Press Release - 24 Apr 2025
 
MSF staff working to set up a tent to extend the bed capacity of the Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) in Assosa to respond to the growing needs of the population amid the outbreak. MSF has been running a CTC in Assosa since Nov 12th, a few kilometres away from Malakal hospital, to respond to the increasing needs of cholera patients in Malakal.
South Sudan

The first 72 hours of a cholera outbreak

Diyani Dewasurendra recounts the first 72 hours of a cholera outbreak in South Sudan. Voices from the Field - 23 Apr 2025
 
Short caption: Martha*, 25, in an Ethiopian shelter in Beirut. She came to Lebanon to earn a living a year and a half ago. Long caption: For the first three months Martha* spent in Lebanon, she was going through sexual harassment, but her employer did not believe her. “My employer would yell at me if I ask her for anything or ask her a question. She mistreated me, often delaying paying me my salary,” says Martha*. “She did not believe I was going through sexual harassment. She even did not believe me when I told I her I was sick.” *Name changed to protect identity
Lebanon

Trapped and abused: migrant workers’ experiences in Lebanon

MSF’s clinic in Bourj Hammoud, a northern suburb of Beirut, primarily serves migrants who are generally excluded from social services. Project Update - 23 Apr 2025
 
New families arrived in Tawila following new attacks in Zamzam camps.
Conflict in Sudan

Desperate situation for people fleeing Zamzam camp in Sudan

People are fleeing Zamzam camp in Sudan following horrific violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Press Release - 18 Apr 2025
 
Displaced Palestinian family riding a tuktuk; coming back to settle in Beit Lahia city, north of Gaza strip.
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them

Palestinian lives are being systematically destroyed in Gaza, while Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarians. Press Release - 16 Apr 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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