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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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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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A patient’s wounded arm, Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region. An elderly patient is sitting in a wheelchair next to her husband. Her whole face is covered with small scratches. She is crying. Her husband leans over and whispers something in her ear, trying to comfort her. "My brother is under the rubble," she says, repeating this phrase over and over again.
Ukraine

Providing care to people fleeing from the frontline in Ukraine

Come on the scene at a transit centre in Pavlohrad, eastern Ukraine, as an MSF team provides care to recently arrived evacuees. Project Update - 28 Nov 2024
 
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.
Greece

MSF responds to tragic shipwreck off Samos coast in Greece

On 28 November 2024, an MSF emergency team responded to a shipwreck off the coast of Samos island, Greece. Press Release - 28 Nov 2024
 
In Arsal, an arid town along the Lebanese-Syrian border, thousands of people have fled Israeli bombardments on the Baalbek-Hermel governorate. MSF's mobile medical unit is visiting collective shelters that have opened up in the town to deliver primary healthcare, essential medications, health promotion, and sexual and reproductive health services to those in need. MSF also has a long-standing presence in Arsal through our primary healthcare clinic, which provides vital services to the community.
Lebanon

War and economic strain worsen health conditions in Lebanon

Before the escalation between Hezbollah and Israel on 8 October 2023, Lebanon was already facing an economic crisis that impacted people. Project Update - 26 Nov 2024
 
A paediatrician at the MSF-supported Nasser hospital monitors a newborn post-surgery, providing critical care for one of the many premature babies and babies with malformation.
Gaza-Israel war

Lives of children and newborns put at risk by living conditions in Gaza

At Nasser hospital in South Gaza, we consulted more than 10,000 children for upper respiratory tract infections in five months. Project Update - 22 Nov 2024
 
Vue de la zone de Delmas 18, après des combats entre des groupes armés et les forces de police.
Haiti

Violence and threats by police force MSF to suspend activities in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area

As of 20 November, MSF will stop admissions and transfers to our five medical facilities in Haiti's capital following threats from police officers. Press Release - 20 Nov 2024
 
While shopping with her mother at a nearby market this 20-month-old toddler was struck by shrapnel after a bomb-blast tore through the neighbourhood. Along with other casualties the unnamed girl was brought to the Bashair Training Hospital in South Khartoum. During the Xray a part of the girls skull cap fell onto the table. An MSF emergency team operated on the girl and managed to save her life.
Conflict in Sudan

One in six war-wounded patients at south Khartoum hospital are children

Children account for 1 in 6 of war-wounded patients who arrive at Bashair Teaching hospital in south Khartoum, Sudan. Press Release - 19 Nov 2024
 
On the evening of 17 November, a densely populated area in Sumy city, northeastern Ukraine was bombed. The explosion struck a courtyard surrounded by residential buildings, damaging 13 structures and dozens of apartments. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency ambulance teams provided medical assistance to injured residents. According to preliminary information from local authorities, 84 people were wounded, including 11 children. Eleven fatalities were reported, among them two children: a nine-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl.
War in Ukraine

MSF provides medical support following Russian strike in Sumy

Following Russian airstrikes in north-east Ukraine, MSF teams have responded by providing medical care. Press Release - 18 Nov 2024
 
Mr Yurii has been in hospital for a month and a half, following a mine-blast injury that resulted in amputation. "I was in trauma for a month, trying to save my leg, but the infection was severe. Initially, I was very worried, but I accepted it. They showed me how to train and the types of prostheses available, and I realised I could walk again. Now I’m actively working with MSF psychologists and physical therapists. They listen, offer advice, and bring me interesting books. I enjoy historical and professional ones; the last ones were about Genghis Khan and the Cossacks. I still want to learn to drive, so I have work ahead of me." Mr Yurii is focusing on balance exercises to expedite his progress with the prosthesis.
Ukraine

Providing holistic care to Ukraine’s war injured

In Cherkasy hospital in central Ukraine, MSF is working with the Ministry of Health to provide war-wounded patients with physiotherapy and psychological support. Project Update - 18 Nov 2024
 
Leon Safari, a 36-year-old displaced person from Sake, 23 Km, western Goma, now living in Bulengo camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, works at the plant monitoring the pump’s operation and treating the water.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF again calls for urgent water and sanitation response in North Kivu displacement camps

MSF warns of the consequences of unsanitary conditions and life-threatening shortages of clean water in North Kivu's camps for displaced people. Press Release - 18 Nov 2024
 
Destruction and search for wounded/dead in debris following bombings in North Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

In Gaza, all the components of a society have been destroyed

Isabelle Defourny, President of MSF France, and Christopher Lockyear, MSF Secretary General, describe a clear pattern of unimaginable violence in north Gaza, Palestine. Op-Ed - 15 Nov 2024
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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