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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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Shattered windows and external damage shown at Mechnikov hospital following attack on Dnipro
War in Ukraine

No place feels safe: Civilian and medical infrastructure hit amid rising casualties

On 25 October, a residential area in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro came under attack. At least 21 people were injured, and five people, including a child, lost their lives. Press Release - 27 Oct 2024
 
The MSF flag flutters in the wind at MSF’s clinic in Al-Tanideba camp for Tigray refugees, in Eastern Sudan.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF concerned following loss of contact with Dr Obeid at Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza

Médecins Sans Frontières is deeply concerned for the safety of Dr Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopaedic surgeon who was sheltering and working in Kamal Adwan hospital, north Gaza, whom we have lost contact with since 25 October. Statement - 26 Oct 2024
 
Um Mohammad, a 40-year-old Syrian refugee displaced from Qsaibeh, in South Lebanon, has three daughters. She used to maintain her employer's garden, landscaping and building fences around his land. The night she fled Qsaibeh, an airstrike landed dangerously close. She recalls joining the community with buckets of water to put out the fire, and then her employer told her it was time to leave. With her daughters, aged 18, 6, and 4, she packed a change of clothes for each and grabbed only a blanket, leaving behind the groceries she had just bought that day on her kitchen floor.
Lebanon

“Whatever we lose, we will come back”

In the southern Lebanese city of Saida, our mobile clinic teams are visiting people who have been displaced by Israeli bombardments. Photo Story - 24 Oct 2024
 
From January to October 2023, MSF provided 51,500 medical and nursing consultations in Darién, Panamá. MSF clinic in the Lajas Blancas Migrant Reception Station,
Panama

MSF resumes activities in Darién Gap

An MSF team returned to Panama at the beginning of October to work with the Ministry of Health to provide care to migrant and local communities. Project Update - 22 Oct 2024
 
An MSF staff member organizes activities for the children of the Azareh shelter. Beirut, Lebanon, October 11, 2024.
Lebanon

Beyond survival: Helping children and adults cope with the traumas of war in Lebanon

Our teams are running a mental health hotline and visiting displaced people in Lebanon, helping them learn practices for coping with the ongoing war. Project Update - 22 Oct 2024
 
Women and children waiting at distribution site PSA4 (Advanced Health post)
Burkina Faso

MSF temporarily suspends activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso due to escalating insecurity

MSF has suspended medical activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso, after a series of security incidents have threatened staff and patient safety. Press Release - 21 Oct 2024
 
The MSF flag flutters in the wind at MSF’s clinic in Al-Tanideba camp for Tigray refugees, in Eastern Sudan.
Gaza-Israel war

Last remaining hospitals in north Gaza under siege and people trapped

The Israeli forces must immediately stop their attacks on hospitals in North Gaza. Press Release - 19 Oct 2024
 
MSF van crossing a wooden bridge, a short distance away from a primary healthcare facility MSF is supporting in Cross River state. The wooden bridge was constructed after the concrete bridge collapsed. It is now old too, so, MSF van must cross without passengers to reduce weight. An MSF logistician guides the van as it drives across the wooden bridge.
Nigeria

Four challenges to reaching remote communities in Nigeria

Our driver, Mr Patrick A.Njok, tells us about his experiences delivering healthcare to remote communities in Nigeria. Voices from the Field - 18 Oct 2024
 
Najwa, 30, and her three children live in Zalingei´s looted bank. Together with thirty other displaced people from Al Hasahisa camp, she’s created an illusion of home: bank safes used as closets and bricked-up windowsills, once meant for sunlight, now holding a few tattered bags and wilted plants. “We are living in these conditions without a roof, and we have no food,” explains Najwa pointing at the torn sheets draped above the lobby. “But we’ve never received any assistance, not even a bar of soap. Soon the rainy season is coming, and we don’t know where to go.” Looted bank housing over 30 displaced people, Zalingei, Central Darfur state, Sudan. In the city center of Zalingei, some thirty displaced people have created an illusion of a home in a looted bank by turning bank safes into closets and sealing windows with bricks. “We are living in these conditions without a roof, and we have no food,” explains a mother living in the bank Najwa. “But we’ve never received any assistance, not even a bar of soap. Soon the rainy season is coming, and we don’t know where to go.” The war in Sudan is brutal and inhuman and has created one of the world’s largest displacement crises. In Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur, people have been forced to flee their homes – often at risk of violence or bombings – to find themselves living in deplorable conditions. Now having lived for months on end in abandoned banks, universities and other camps, people continue to survive largely cut off from humanitarian assistance, including food and water.
About MSF

IKEA Foundation supports MSF in scale-up for underreported Sudan crisis

The IKEA Foundation has provided MSF with a gift of €35 million to scale up our response to the Sudan conflict. Press Release - 17 Oct 2024
 
Concertina in detail.
Poland

MSF urges Polish authorities to retract announced suspension of right to seek asylum

The Polish authorities must change their course of action following a recent announcement planning to suspend the right to asylum. Press Release - 16 Oct 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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