Skip to main content
Back to main menu

About Us

How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

Learn more
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.

Learn more
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.

Learn more
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.

Learn more

What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

View all topics Activities by country
Featured Gaza Israel war Conflict in Sudan Surgery & trauma care

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.

View all countries
Featured Palestine Sudan South Sudan

MSF Websites

A Global Network
Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
Other Sites
View Resource Centre
Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

GO TO SITE
Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

GO TO SITE
Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

GO TO SITE
4488 Results
 
Access to medicines

MSF puts drug patents under the spotlight

"Developing countries should not hesitate to check and challenge the validity of patents," says Ellen 't Hoen of MSF. "This is already beginning to happen in some countries, such as Kenya and Thailand." Press Release - 22 May 2003
 
msf-placeholder
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF opens 11 health posts near DRC cease-fire line

Previous MSF surveys in the zones have indicated that one in three children dies before the age of five. In some villages the people have to survive in the most basic conditions. We saw extremely fragile people, locally called the 'living skeletons'". Project Update - 16 May 2003
 
msf-placeholder
War and conflict

MSF sends medical teams to help civilians wounded in Chechnya bomb blasts

The latest explosions in Znamenskoe and Gudermes region, resulting in a high number of casualties and wounded, show once again that the situaton in Chechnya is far from normal contrary to declarations made by the authorities. Press Release - 14 May 2003
 
msf-placeholder
Access to medicines

MSF message for WHO member country delegations to 56th World Health Assembly

MSF, Oxfam and HAI are writing to present our concerns related to access to medicines. This issue will be discussed at the 56th World Health Assembly (WHA) on 19-28 May under the agenda items "IPRs, Innovation and Public Health" and "WHO's Medicines Strategy". Open Letter - 13 May 2003
 
msf-placeholder
Access to medicines

The G8 : no more broken promises

The G8 have the financial and pharmaceutical resources to do an enormous amount of good. They should do this. In other words, the G8 should move towards meeting past commitments rather than away from them, and to demonstrate to the developing world that it can put global health above the interests of industry in the developed world. No more broken promises. Project Update - 10 May 2003
 
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Report: Left without a choice: Chechens forced to return to Chechnya

Médecins Sans Frontières reveals the results of a survey carried out between the 3rd and 16th of February 2003 in the eight tent camps of displaced Chechens in Ingushetia. Report - 6 May 2003
 
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Left without a choice: Chechens forced to return to Chechnya

As the tent camps are about to be closed in Ingushetia, an MSF survey shows that more than 98% of Chechen displaced families living in the camps do not want to go back to Chechnya Press Release - 6 May 2003
 
msf-placeholder
Kenya

MSF welcomes announcement to increase AIDS treatment

Principal actors urged to set aside reservations about treatment with antiretroviral medicines in Africa, and to act now to increase such treatment. Press Release - 25 Apr 2003
 
Malaria

ACT NOW to get malaria treatment that works to Africa

This is an urgent call to international donors to join African countries in implementing World Health Organization (WHO) treatment guidelines for malaria. Report - 24 Apr 2003
 
Malaria

ACT NOW to get malaria treatment that works to Africa

MSF is seeking to change the current dynamic in which the lack of political and financial support on the part of donors means that endemic countries are often encouraged to "leave alone" failing malaria treatment and are not given financial and technical help to implement more effective strategies.


Download this PDF file
from the International Activity Report Report - 23 Apr 2003
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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.

Learn more