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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
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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Bashair Teaching Hospital located in southern Khartoum, one of very few hospitals that is operational in Khartoum and where the MSF surgical team works.
Conflict in Sudan

MSF suspends surgery in Khartoum hospital as supplies remain blocked

Essential supplies needed to perform surgeries have been blocked, leading MSF to suspend our surgical activities at Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. Press Release - 19 Oct 2023
 
Gaza population seeking water in tanker trucks after the total shutdown of water and electricity.
Gaza-Israel war

Unconditional humanity needs to be restored in Gaza

MSF International President Dr Christos Christou calls for humanity to be restored to the Gaza-Israel war. Opinion - 17 Oct 2023
 
Destruction in Gaza
Palestine

MSF calls on the Israeli authorities to show humanity

As the ultimatum given to the population in Gaza expires, MSF calls on the Israeli authorities to show humanity. Project Update - 14 Oct 2023
 
Destruction in Gaza
Palestine

Indiscriminate violence and the collective punishment of Gaza must cease

MSF calls for an immediate cessation to the indiscriminate bloodshed, and the establishment of safe spaces and safe passage for people in Gaza to reach them as a matter of urgency. Press Release - 12 Oct 2023
 
El Fasher: 2 weeks since the beginning of the clashes
Conflict in Sudan

Six months of war and neglect in Sudan is a “catastrophic failure of humanity”

Six months into the conflict in Sudan, MSF calls for immediate increase in humanitarian efforts, the safeguarding of medical staff, humanitarian workers and civilians, the removal of administrative blockages on medical and humanitarian staff and supplies, and for people to be allowed unhindered access to humanitarian aid. Press Release - 12 Oct 2023
 
Damages in Gaza
Palestine

Hospitals are overwhelmed in ‘catastrophic situation’ in Gaza

Léo Cans, MSF Head of mission in Palestine, provides an update on the situation for people and MSF teams in Gaza. Voices from the Field - 10 Oct 2023
 
MSF counsellors and community-based health workers provide ongoing support to patients in villages, health clinics, and internally displaced peoples’ camps. Services include psychological education and counselling to help enhance understanding and coping skills for patients (and their caregivers) experiencing a wide range of mental health concerns. These photos were taken before Cyclone Mocha, which has increased the needs for mental health support in Rakhine state.
Myanmar

Following Cyclone Mocha, mental health counsellors in Myanmar are more important than ever

Following Cyclone Mocha that hit Rakhine state and the northwest of Myanmar, in May 2023, our teams are witnessing an increase in mental health needs among people affected in Rakhine state. Project Update - 10 Oct 2023
 
View of Herat area and MSF operations. An earthquake has struck western Afghanistan on 7 October. At approximately 11:10 am local time on Saturday, the region experienced a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, followed by three subsequent aftershocks measuring 5.5, 4.7, and 5.9 on the Richter scale. In the western region, MSF supports the Herat Regional Hospital and managed the paediatric section including triage, emergency room, inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC), paediatric ICU, intermediate care unit and the ambulatory (outpatient) therapeutic feeding centre (ATFC). In response to potential additional needs, MSF has established five medical tents within the hospital compound with the capacity to accommodate up to 80 patients.
Afghanistan

Three things to know about the situation in Herat following the earthquake

On Saturday 7 October, an earthquake hit Herat, west Afghanistan, and led to over 2,400 deaths. Our head of programmes in Afghanistan provides us with an update on the situation on the ground. Interview - 10 Oct 2023
 
The MSF flag flutters in the wind at MSF’s clinic in Al-Tanideba camp for Tigray refugees, in Eastern Sudan.
Conflict in Sudan

MSF-supported Al Nao hospital in Omdurman hit by shelling

MSF is shocked and outraged at the shelling that struck Al Nao hospital, in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in several deaths and injuries. We reiterate our call for medical facilities and civilian lives to be protected. Statement - 10 Oct 2023
 
MSF staff prepare a medical supplies donation for the ministry of health in Gaza after Israeli strikes on October 8, 2023
Palestine

MSF performs surgeries, donates supplies in Gaza amid overcrowded facilities

As we continue to perform surgeries and donates supplies in Gaza amid overcrowded facilities, we call on all parties to respect the sanctity of medical facilities, vehicles and personnel.

 Press Release - 8 Oct 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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