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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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On a rainy day in Gaza City, the surroundings of the MSF Clinic.
Gaza-Israel war

Relief after temporary ceasefire: Immense scale-up of life-saving aid must flow into Gaza now

The temporary ceasefire agreement in Gaza is a relief, but it arrives more than 465 days and 46,000 lives too late. Statement - 18 Jan 2025
 
As a global financial hub, Hong Kong projects an image of prosperity and resource abundance. In its shadows however, consistently marginalised groups fall outside of the well-developed healthcare system’s reach. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided free primary healthcare to the homeless communities in Hong Kong’s Yau Tsim Mong and Shum Shui Po districts, the majority of whom are aged 50 or above, since August 2023. People experiencing homelessness in Hong Kong do not receive adequate medical care most often due to their lack of health literacy and inability to prioritise their own health and well-being. Responding to these unmet needs, MSF initiated a model of social-medical partnerships with local NGOs to deliver holistic patient-centred care, which MSF teams provided by offering regular basic health screenings, health promotion sessions and psychosocial support for people experiencing homelessness, while collaboration partners offered ongoing case follow-up. These local partners also received support in capacity-building to ensure continuity of care for people in the programme as MSF’s project came to an end in December 2024.
Hong Kong

MSF completes healthcare project for people experiencing homelessness in Hong Kong

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided free basic healthcare to communities of people who are experiencing homelessness in Hong Kong’s Yau Tsim Mong and Shum Shui Po districts between August 2023 and December 2024. Project Update - 17 Jan 2025
 
MSF in Agok, South Sudan. South Sudan faces many challenges, including ongoing conflict, displacement, food shortages/malnutrition, lack of social services including health care, and insecurity. MSF hospitals have been under attack from different armed groups, putting the medical staff and patients at risk.
South Sudan

MSF strongly condemns armed attack on our healthcare workers in Nasir county

On 15 January, unidentified armed men fired at two of our boats sailing to Ulang, South Sudan, after a delivery of supplies. Press Release - 16 Jan 2025
 
A woman walks past a mural in Bois-Verna, a residential area of Port-au-Prince.
Haiti

Providing support to victims and survivors of sexual violence in Port-au-Prince

MSF provides treatment to victims and survivors of sexual violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but further services are urgently needed across a city wracked by violence. Press Release - 13 Jan 2025
 
Bashair Teaching Hospital located in southern Khartoum, one of very few hospitals that is operational in Khartoum and where the MSF surgical team works.
Conflict in Sudan

MSF denounces violent attacks leading to suspension of activities at key Khartoum hospital

We have taken the difficult decision to suspend all our medical activities in Bashair hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. Press Release - 10 Jan 2025
 
A premature child is being treated in the Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, Gaza, where MSF teams are supporting and working in the neonatal intensive care unit of the pediatric department. Over a quarter of the patients admitted in the NICU are premature newborns with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).
Gaza-Israel war

Newborns and other patients at risk as Nasser hospital in Gaza runs out of fuel, MSF warns

The lives of newborn babies and other patients are at risk in three hospitals in Gaza, Palestine, as they run out of fuel needed to run generators for electricity to power lifesaving machines. Press Release - 8 Jan 2025
 
MSF staff on their way to the mobile clinic in Jaber center, in H2 area, Hebron, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory. H2 in Hebron is one of the most restricted areas in the West Bank, with 28 fortified checkpoints isolating it from the rest of the city. These restrictions severely limit movement for Palestinian residents and healthcare workers. Following the events of 7 October 2023, MSF had to suspend activities in Jaber due to harassment and violence faced by patients. Temporary mobile clinics were set up, but access remained a challenge. After months of restrictions, MSF resumed operations in Jaber in May 2024, though staff continue to face delays and searches at checkpoints. MSF provides critical support in Hebron through clinics, maternity services, reproductive health care, emergency training, and relief distribution for displaced populations.
Palestine

Access to healthcare is seriously compromised in H2 area of Hebron

Access to healthcare has been seriously compromised for Palestinians living in the the H2 area of Hebron, the West Bank, Palestine. Press Release - 8 Jan 2025
 
View of the newly constructed buildings at the referral health center in Nyabiondo, supported by MSF since 2009, in support to the Ministry of Health. Between January and September 2023, medical teams conducted 43 363 consultations. Located dozens of kilometres away from the Masisi hospital, the support given to this referral health centre brings access to free medical care closer to the communities. The centre welcomes patients every day for outpatient consultations, as well as inpatients in most departments, such as intensive care, paediatrics, maternity, internal medicine, and Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre.
Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: Nearly 160 wounded treated by MSF in North and South Kivu following recent armed clashes

MSF and Ministry of Health teams in DRC have treated 75 wounded people following major clashes between the armed group M23/AFC and the Congolese army.



Press Release - 7 Jan 2025
 
On 20 November, five MSF vehicles parked in front of our clinic in Gaza city were destroyed by the intervention of the Israeli forces. The clinic was also damaged as a result and part of the building was engulfed by fire for a few hours. The cars and the clinic were clearly identified with the MSF logo. This happened while 21 people, including an MSF staff and his family members, were sheltered in the clinic and more than 50 others were in the guesthouse across the street: luckily, they survived unscathed. The cars that were destroyed were the ones used in the aborted evacuation of our staff and their relatives on 18 November, resulting in the killing of two people. Some of the staff sheltering in the MSF premises that day were witnesses to the incident.
Gaza-Israel war

Strikes, raids and incursions: Over a year of relentless attacks on healthcare in Palestine

A timeline of attacks on MSF or MSF-supported medical facilities and medical practitioners in Palestine since 7 October 2023. Project Update - 7 Jan 2025
 
MSF nurse tending to newborn in neonatal intensive care unit of Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, Gaza. From October 2024 to December 2024, the MSF supported neonatal intensive care unit has had 325 admissions. For months, the hospital has struggled with supplies due to the ongoing blockade by Israeli forces of the strip – with medical teams often lacking enough basic medical supplies including soap. MSF teams in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are treating children with respiratory infections, dehydration, and premature newborns with complications. The health needs of children are so high that the NICU has been operating beyond its bed capacity for over three months. Over a quarter of the patients in the department are admitted for respiratory distress syndrome, a condition that can present in premature infants, making them even more vulnerable in dire living conditions many face in Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

Babies in Gaza at risk of disease and death as winter approaches

As temperatures drop and living conditions deteriorate in Gaza, Palestine, babies are at increased risk of disease and death. Project Update - 2 Jan 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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