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How we work

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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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UKRAINE. Mariupol. 24 February 2022. A civilian house destroyed by a rocket. MSF has been working in eastern Ukraine for the last eight years, trying to improve access to health care for remote, conflict-affected populations.
War in Ukraine

Civilians must be allowed safe passage out of dire conditions in Mariupol

Heavy shelling and a lack of water, electricity and heating has made living conditions in Mariupol, southern Ukraine, extremely difficult. MSF urges for safe passage for people out of the city fleeing the war. Project Update - 5 Mar 2022
 
UKRAINE. Mariupol. 24 February 2022. Burning civilian houses hit by a rocket. MSF has been working in eastern Ukraine for the last eight years, trying to improve access to health care for remote, conflict-affected populations.
War in Ukraine

Accessing areas most affected by fighting in Ukraine

As the conflict in Ukraine intensifies, and hundreds of thousands of people have fled the country, we aim to support people in areas hardest hit by the fighting. Interview - 3 Mar 2022
 
View of the temporary accommodation site in Korczowa, southeastern Poland, for people who fled Ukraine because of the Russian invasion. The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than a half a million people had fled Ukraine since Russian invasion.
Ukraine

MSF mobilises response in Ukraine and nearby countries as conflict escalates

As conflict in Ukraine escalates and hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes, MSF emergency teams are mobilising a response in Ukraine and neighbouring countries. Project Update - 1 Mar 2022
 
An abandoned house in one of the villages where MSF works.
War and conflict

MSF assesses response as Ukraine conflict escalates

The escalation of conflict in Ukraine has led MSF teams to take the painful decision to suspend most activities; but teams remains and are assessing our response. Statement - 25 Feb 2022
 
A Ministry of Health staff member checks a child’s rapid malaria test at an MSF-supported health centre in Farazala, northern Central African Republic.
Central African Republic

MSF forced to reduce medical activities in Kabo

MSF is forced to reduce medical activities in Kabo due to insecurity. Press Release - 17 Feb 2022
 
Salamata, has been living for more than two years with her husband, children and nearly 2,000 other people in the camp at the edge of the town of Barsalogho, north central region, Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso

Four things to know about the crisis in Burkina Faso

With months of violent tension in Burkina Faso culminating in military takeover on Monday 24 January, people are paying the price - here are four key things to know about the current crisis. Project Update - 28 Jan 2022
 
MSF stretcher bearers in the hospital after installing a patient inside the ambulance for referral. MSF supports a referral system between its supported hospitals in Ibb and Taiz governorate. MSF also supports a referral system in other governorates such as Aden, Abyan, Lahj, Amran, Sa’ada and Hajja.
Yemen

‘Unjustifiable’ Saudi-led coalition air strike on prison kills and injures hundreds

An air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa'ada City Remand Prison in the early hours of January 21 has killed at least 82 people and injured 266, according to the Ministry of Health, with the death toll likely to increase as researchers still comb the rubble. Press Release - 22 Jan 2022
 
View of Rhoe Internally displaced people camp at sunset. As a result of successive attacks in the region, more than 40,000 additional people have been forced to take refuge in the Rhoe site in 2 months, bringing its population to more than 65,000 displaced.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of people in precarious conditions as violence set to repeat in Ituri

As cycles of violence return to Ituri province, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes and are living in precarious and dangerous conditions in displacement camps. Project Update - 19 Jan 2022
 
Someone shows a bullet that landed on France's property in Damala, a neighbourhood parallel to the road where the fighting happened on 13 January 2021. France Beldo, 31, was wounded during this clash between rebel groups and the national forces supported by their international allies on the outskirts of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Another bullet is still lodged in her shoulder. France says: "We cannot stay in such violence all the time, with the sounds of guns. Fear is winning people over. We cannot go out, if we do, we are always fearful."
Central African Republic

A visual journey through a year of renewed violence in an old conflict

We take a visual journey through a photo essay detailing the struggles of people in CAR and how our teams support those with myriad needs through medical care. Project Update - 17 Dec 2021
 
In the ER section of a makeshift hospital in Syria that MSF has converted from a farm.
Syria

Casualties arrive en masse at MSF hospital following an airstrike in Idlib

Following an airstrike in Idlib governorate, northwest Syria, a number of people, including young children, have been severely injured. MSF medical teams are responding. Press Release - 13 Dec 2021
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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