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How we work

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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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MSF distributes winter supplies in the worst-hit camps for displaced people, northwest Syria, in October 2023.
Syria

As winter approaches in Syria, people in camps burn shoes for warmth

As winter approaches, people in northwest Syria's camps need support. Although our teams have distributed winter kits to 3,800 families, thousands are still in need of supplies. Project Update - 7 Nov 2023
 
Medium shot of newly arrived people walking down a rocky path in Samos island, Greece. MSF’s emergency medical aid response has shown the high medical and humanitarian needs amongst new arrivals. During our interventions, most people we assist are exhausted and severely distressed. A lot of them are dehydrated after spending a long time, sometimes several days, in the bush without access to food and water. When they arrive on the island, they usually immediately run to hide in hills/mountains, reportedly afraid to be found by the border forces and forced return.
Greece

In plain sight: the human cost of migration policies and violent practices at Greek sea borders

Accounts of violence at Greece’s borders have proliferated in recent years, against a landscape in which medical and humanitarian assistance for people crossing into Greece by land and sea is limited or absent. Report - 2 Nov 2023
 
An MSF team member walks behind a group of newly arrived people in Samos. Since 2021, MSF teams on Samos provide emergency medical care to people who arrive on the island by boat. Our support consists of medical and psychological first aid, including referrals to hospital by ambulance.
Greece

Asylum seekers in Greece report being beaten, strip-searched and sent back to sea

Refugees and asylum seekers arriving at islands in northern Greece tell of being subjected to violence, degrading treatment, and even illegally pushed back to sea. Press Release - 2 Nov 2023
 
Entrance of the Sinuni general hospital.
Iraq

MSF hands over medical activities at Sinuni General Hospital in Sinjar

MSF hands over its medical activities at Sinuni General Hospital in Sinjar, Iraq, to the Ninewa Directorate of Health and another humanitarian organisation after five years of activities. Project Update - 2 Nov 2023
 
Devastation caused by airstrikes in Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF staff cross out of Gaza

All MSF international staff unable to leave Gaza since 7 October have successfully crossed the Egypt border via the Rafah border crossing. Statement - 1 Nov 2023
 
On 20 and 22 October 2023, MSF evacuated 150 patients from Kherson region after the hospital was shelled. MSF transferred patients in ambulances from the hospital to the station, where they boarded the MSF medical evacuation train.
Ukraine

A Journey of Resilience: 36 hours caring for patients on a train

In Kherson, Ukraine, Dr. Nataliia Pivovar shares her experience of a 36-hour journey involved caring for vulnerable patients on a medical train in war-torn regions. Voices from the Field - 1 Nov 2023
 
On 20 and 22 October 2023, MSF evacuated 150 patients from Kherson region after the hospital was shelled. Patients were transferred to other health facilities around Ukraine using the MSF medical evacuation train.
Ukraine

MSF evacuates 150 patients as hospitals in Kherson are attacked repeatedly

MSF evacuated 150 patients from a hospital in Kherson, Ukraine, due to attacks on the facility. We strongly condemn the attacks on hospitals and reiterate our call for the protection of medical infrastructure amidst the war. Press Release - 30 Oct 2023
 
Residents search for survivors in the destruction caused by airstrikes in Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

Immediate ceasefire is needed in Gaza to stop the bloodshed

MSF calls for an immediate ceasefire to prevent more deaths in Gaza and allow desperately needed humanitarian supplies in. Press Release - 28 Oct 2023
 
Patients at Al Shifa hospital
Gaza-Israel war

Five ways the war in Gaza is impacting Palestinians’ health

The health consequences of the current crisis go beyond injuries from attacks. Here’s a broader view of the dire health situation in Gaza. Project Update - 27 Oct 2023
 
Alliance came with her son François, 12 months old, for a medical consultation as part of the nutrition programme at the Nyabiondo referral health centre, territory of Masisi. François had initially been admitted a month ago in the intensive therapeutic feeding unit. After his health state was getting better, he came back home but comes back every week for a screening to make sure his evolution remains steady, as part of the nutritional program that includes 98 children these last weeks.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence exacerbates malnutrition in North Kivu, DRC

MSF teams are witnessing a rapidly worsening nutrition situation among children in Masisi territory in North Kivu, DRC. A holistic response by all organizations is essential to meet the nutrition needs of the community. Project Update - 26 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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