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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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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.

GeoMSF
Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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On the morning of 24 June 2023, the team on Geo Barents rescued 13 people, including 2 women and 2 unaccompanied minors, who were in distress on a unseaworthy rubber boat in the Malteser Search and Rescue zone. The survivors had spent more than 3 days at the Mediterranean Sea. After the rescue was over, the Italian authorities assigned La Spezia, northern Italy, as a place of safety to disembark the survivors.
Greece

EU migration policies are once again killing people as they search for safety

On June 14, a shipwreck off the coast of Greece left up to 500 people dead or missing in the Mediterranean sea, marking the deadliest tragedy at sea in years. Press Release - 30 Jun 2023
 
A multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment facility in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
Somalia

Recovering from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Somaliland

After four years of caring for patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Somaliland, we are handing over our project to the Ministry of Health Development. Project Update - 28 Jun 2023
 
The health center of Blukwa'Mbi is empty. The population only comes for extreme emergencies due to the ongoing insecurity in the health zone of Drodro, Ituri province, DRC.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Cycles of violence leave people in Ituri cut off from food and healthcare

It is essential that humanitarian assistance is provided for the 1.7 million people displaced across Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, where they face food shortages and limited healthcare. Project Update - 26 Jun 2023
 
Formerly lined with cacti, the roads and paths are now buried under the sand. The food hunger season, which usually ends in April, is becoming more critical each year in the desert regions of southern Madagascar. Three consecutive years of drought have severely affected harvests and access to food, in a context now marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to a drop in seasonal employment and other sources of income. From December onwards, violent sand winds also covered part of the arable land and food used during the lean season, such as cactus fruit. As a result, the chronic food and nutrition crisis, known on the island as kéré, is hitting the inhabitants even harder. Since the last week of March, an MSF team of medical and logistical staff has been working in the Amboasary district in the Anosy region to assess the situation and the activities the organisation could implement to help respond to the emergency. The last MSF operation in Madagascar goes back to 2017 when we supported Madagascar’s Ministry of Health to tackle an outbreak of pneumonic plague.
Climate emergency

MSF France: une feuille de route pour la réduction de notre empreinte environnementale

msf.fr - 23 Jun 2023
 
People cautiously keep a distance as their jerrycans wait in line at one of the few accessible water points. The long queues are often avoided due to safety concerns, as crowded areas may become targets.
Conflict in Sudan

Restrictions and insecurity obstruct vital medical care in Sudan

We are facing administrative and bureaucratic restrictions in Sudan; hampering our ability provide vital medical care for people in need in the country. Press Release - 23 Jun 2023
 
A view of the Zero transit site hosting dozens of families struggling to survive with very limited basic necessities like shelter, water, sanitation, and food. The conflict in Sudan, which erupted in April 2023, has caused the deaths of hundreds of people and forced more than 100,000 to flee across the border to South Sudan.
South Sudan

People fleeing conflict in Sudan struggle for survival

As thousands of people who have fled violence in Sudan are now struggling to survive in South Sudan, we call on the medical and humanitarian community to launch an urgent response. Press Release - 22 Jun 2023
 
View of Rusayo displacement site, a dozen kilometers outside Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, where it is estimated that around 85.000 people found refuge
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF calls for a rapid increase in humanitarian aid for North Kivu crisis

An urgent humanitarian response must be implemented in North Kivu, DRC, as hundreds of thousands of displaced people in desperate conditions remain vulnerable to malnutrition, diseases and violence. Press Release - 21 Jun 2023
 
Shelter from a newly arrived refugee shelter in Nakivale camp.
Uganda

Thousands in need of assistance in Ugandan refugee settlement

Thousands of refugees fleeing violence from DRC have arrived in Nakivale settlement, Uganda, where conditions are precarious, leaving many vulnerable to hunger and diseases. Project Update - 20 Jun 2023
 
MSF teams in Adre hospital, Chad, respond to a major influx of Sudanese war wounded fleeing Sudan’s conflict
Conflict in Sudan

Armed groups in El Geneina must spare civilians amid intense violence

As violence intensifies in El Geneina, Sudan, MSF calls on all parties to the conflict to spare civilians and to allow humanitarian teams to access the city safely. Press Release - 19 Jun 2023
 
On 1 May 2023, just after completing trainings and entering Malta's search and rescue region, Geo Barents was alerted by the Alarm Phone about a boat in distress located in the international waters off Malta. The rescue operation was completed in four hours. 300 people, including 52 women and girls – three of them pregnant - and a total of 77 minors safely embarked on Geo Barents.
Mediterranean migration

The EU must not be complicit in the loss of lives at sea and in rights violations at Europe’s borders

In the wake of the tragic sinking of a boat carrying potentially as many as 750 people in the Mediterranean Sea, MSF and other organisations call on the EU to act on their search and rescue responsibilities. Press Release - 16 Jun 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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