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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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Commune of Ranobe, Amboasary District. People in the south-east of Madagascar are facing the most acute nutritional and food crisis the region has seen in recent years. MSF began setting up mobile clinics in Amboasary district in late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care.
Central African Republic

Attacks against staff and patients in Batangafo threaten continuation of healthcare

MSF calls on all armed groups to respect and protect humanitarian workers, patients and their caretakers, after spate of violent attacks in Batangafo. Press Release - 1 Sep 2023
 
The indigenous community of Bajo Chiquito, in Panama, is the first point where migrants arrive after crossing the jungle.
Panama

Migrants arriving in Panama in urgent need of assistance

As thousands of migrants continue to cross the dangerous Darién Gap to Panama, humanitarian assistance must be urgently expanded in the region to prevent death and suffering along this route.   Press Release - 1 Sep 2023
 
View of the nutritional unit of the MSF clinic in Adré, Chad, August 23, 2023
Chad

MSF appeals for immediate response to Sudanese refugee crisis in Chad

We call on the UN, international donors and aid organisations to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of Sudanese refugees in Chad in order to prevent more suffering and loss of life. Press Release - 31 Aug 2023
 
Resting area in the middle of Tabarre hospital.
Haiti

MSF fully reopens Tabarre hospital following armed intrusion

We have fully resumed medical services at Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after an armed intrusion in July caused us to suspend admissions in the trauma centre. 
 Press Release - 29 Aug 2023
 
Commune of Ranobe, Amboasary District. People in the south-east of Madagascar are facing the most acute nutritional and food crisis the region has seen in recent years. MSF began setting up mobile clinics in Amboasary district in late March to screen and treat acute malnutrition in remote villages like those of Ranobe commune, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food and medical care.
Libya

MSF to close medical activities in Tripoli

MSF will end medical activities in Tripoli, Libya, where we provide healthcare to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Press Release - 24 Aug 2023
 
Children walking through the outskirts of the camps.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Funding for Rohingya must increase as medical needs surge in camps

As the health situation for Rohingya in Cox's Bazar continues to deteriorate, international aid organisations must step up funding to improve access to healthcare. Project Update - 23 Aug 2023
 
The new MSF-built health post of Nganzi, standing behind the rubble of the old one. The old ramshackle facility was not fit to respond to the population’s needs, Mbomou prefecture, March 2023.
Central African Republic

Health emergency in Central African Republic requires urgent response

Vital support is needed in the Central African Republic, where instability, armed violence and a lack of international attention continue to contribute to one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world. Project Update - 21 Aug 2023
 
The MSF supported Al Nao hospital in Omdurman, to the northwest of Khartoum, where intense fighting is taking place.
Conflict in Sudan

Violence threatens people and vital hospital in Omdurman

As the conflict in Sudan intensifies, causing horrific injuries and death, we call on all warring parties to spare civilians from violence and to ensure the protection of hospitals and healthcare workers. Press Release - 17 Aug 2023
 
Temporary structures are set up in Camp Ecole, housing 150 000 refugees, before they are relocated to permanent camps.
Chad

MSF calls for urgent international support for refugees in Chad as major crisis looms

Urgent support for people seeking safety in Chad must be scaled up as thousands continue to flee the conflict in Sudan. People are at high risk of diseases and lack food, water, shelter and healthcare. Press Release - 14 Aug 2023
 
Fifty-five health facilities across northwest Syria were damaged by the quakes and services were suspended in 15 of them, including in the maternity centre supported by MSF in Jindires hospital in Aleppo province.
Türkiye and Syria earthquake response

Six months of humanitarian action after earthquakes in northwest Syria

Six months following the earthquakes that struck northwest Syria, rehabilitation efforts are still ongoing in the most affected areas. However, gaps in specialised healthcare services and issues related to underfunding still persist. Project Update - 11 Aug 2023
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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