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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 Websites

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Our offices around the world
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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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Photograph taken in the streets in Khan Younis, near Nasser hospital, 13 March 2024
Gaza-Israel war

Supply shortages and patient influxes leave Nasser hospital at breaking point

As another hospital in southern Gaza, Palestine, shuts down due to Israeli evacuation orders, Nasser hospital risks being overwhelmed. Press Release - 5 Jul 2024
 
THESE PHOTOS MAY ONLY BE USED FOR MSF COMMUNICATIONS. PLEASE DON'T SHARE TO EXTERNAL MEDIA. Refugees, mostly women and children wait for a WFP food distribution point to open at a temporary camp on April 22, 2024 in Adre, Chad. Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the the Sudanese Armed Forces, (SAF), which began in March 2023, over 600,000 new refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan, into Chad.
Conflict in Sudan

Voices of El Geneina; surviving the conflict one year on

El Geneina Teaching hospital in Sudan continues to stand as a vital healthcare facility, despite being looted, providing lifesaving medical services to people in need. Exposure MSF - 4 Jul 2024
 
Syrian refugee children peak through the ventilation opening of a tent. “Fear keeps my family of 10 crammed together in the tent all day,” says Wael [name changed to preserve anonymity]. His children stopped leaving their 4x4 meter tent to play to avoid tension with the local community. Children's mental health has been among the first impacted by rising discriminatory rhetoric in Lebanon. (To note: The children depicted in the photo aren't Wael's).
Lebanon

Trapped in fear, Syrian refugees face unbearable choices in Lebanon

Against a backdrop of an acute socio-economic collapse in Lebanon, Syrian refugees in the country are being increasingly targeted, leaving many too scared to seek healthcare. Project Update - 28 Jun 2024
 
On 17 February 2023, the 48 survivors, including 9 minors, finally touched the ground after a long and unnecessary journey to Ancona. We hope they will have the chance of accessing the healthcare, services and safety they deserve and need.
Gaza-Israel war

Statement on accusations against MSF staff member Fadi Al-Wadiya

MSF responds to further allegations against staff member Fadi Al-Wadiya, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, Palestine. Statement - 27 Jun 2024
 
Rohingya women hoping to get seen by doctors in crowded waiting room at MSF mobile clinic in Rakhine state.
Myanmar

MSF suspends medical activities in northern Rakhine state, Myanmar

MSF has suspended medical activities in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, due to escalating conflict and access restrictions. Project Update - 27 Jun 2024
 
Am Timan, Chad 2015 Close up Logo, Stethoscope
Gaza-Israel war

MSF response to Israeli allegations linked to colleague’s killing

MSF responds to Israeli allegations linking our colleague Fadi Al-Wadiya, a physiotherapist killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, to a terrorist group. Statement - 26 Jun 2024
 
A nurse wears a reusable face mask during a patient consultation in northern Mozambique, where climate-sensitive diseases, such as those spread by mosquitoes, are common
Climate emergency

How to provide healthcare without harming the environment

An MSF pilot project is working to replace single-use face masks with masks that can be washed and reworn up to 40 times. doctorswithoutborders.org - 25 Jun 2024
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF colleague killed in Gaza City

A sixth MSF staff member has been killed in Gaza. Fadi Al-Wadiya was a father of three and an MSF physiotherapist. Statement - 25 Jun 2024
 
The MSF flag flutters in the wind at MSF’s clinic in Al-Tanideba camp for Tigray refugees, in Eastern Sudan.
Access to medicines

MSF strengthening commitment to access to products for healthcare

MSF is implementing a new structure starting January 2025 on access to healthcare products. Press Release - 25 Jun 2024
 
Lietchuor (47,000 person) is a permanent camp located in an area prone to flooding. MSF is running an OPD, an IPD and an ITFC. A screening of children in May under 5 showed a global acute malnutrition rate of 16%. *** Local Caption *** An estimated (in May 2014) 110,000 South Sudanese have arrived in Gambella region since December 2013. People arrive in a very bad physical status and the conditions in the camps are quite poor (lack of shelter, sanitation).
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Ongoing investigation into the killings of María, Tedros and Yohannes

Three years ago, our staff members María, Tedros, and Yohannes were murdered while providing lifesaving assistance in Tigray, Ethiopia. We deeply mourn their loss and remain committed to seeking justice. Statement - 24 Jun 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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