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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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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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An MSF Landcruiser driving on the road from Herat city to the remote districts of the province for an assessment of the needs in the community following multiple earthquakes.
Afghanistan

New restrictions limit access to care for women in Herat

On 5 November, new local restrictions were implemented in Herat province, Afghanistan, requiring women to wear a burqa to enter public health facilities. Press Release - 10 Nov 2025
 
Open water taps fed by an NGO-supported large red tank, with women filling water gallons in the Ghweiran neighborhood of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
Syria

People in northeast Syria continue to struggle to access basic needs

According to an assessment conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), families in northeast Syria are struggling to access healthcare, water, and food. Press Release - 6 Nov 2025
 
A selection of illustrations by Ella Baron, composed from testimonies of patients in Cherkasy and Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
Ukraine

Ukraine: Battles of the mind

Ella Baron, an illustrator from the UK, visited our projects in Cherkasy and Vinnytsia, Ukraine, to capture testimonies through drawing. Photo Story - 4 Nov 2025
 
The main highway to Kisan village. According to the residents, Palestinians are prohibited from walking here by Israeli forces.
Palestine

Living between checkpoints in the West Bank

Shireen Nazzal and Shoruq Al-Madmooj share their testimony about living and working in the West Bank, Palestine. Documentary - 31 Oct 2025
 
Close-up of an MSF speakerphone during an emergency medical aid response in Samos island, Greece. MSF has been responding to requests for emergency medical assistance to people arriving by boat on the island of Samos since August 2021. MSF’s emergency 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.
Libya

MSF ordered to leave Libya within one month

We received a letter from the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordering us to leave Libya by 8 November 2025. Press Release - 29 Oct 2025
 
Three years after the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement ended hostilities in Ethiopia's Tigray region, over 760,000 people remain displaced, many in overcrowded camps with limited access to food, clean water, sanitation, and shelter, as communities grapple with the lasting impacts of violence and collapsed services. The psychological impact of the conflict exacerbated by the current living situation remains one of the most pressing but often overlooked consequences. As trauma caused by violence, loss, and displacement continues to affect thousands of people in the region, access to mental health care remains extremely limited leaving a lot of survivors to cope with the long-term effects of trauma alone. MSF currently provides mental health counseling at two locations in the region. Since 2023, Mental health care services have been offered at the Five Angels and Semaetat IDP Camp, and starting in 2024, counseling is also offered at the MSF facility within Maiani Hospital. These services include one-on-one counseling, psycho-education sessions with health promotion teams, group therapy, and referrals to hospitals for psychiatric care, ensuring regular support for the community.
Ethiopia

Mental health care cannot wait in Tigray

Three years since the cessation of hostilities in Tigray, Ethiopia, people are living with the psychological impacts of trauma without widely available support. Project Update - 10 Oct 2025
 
Restrictive immigration policies such as Title 42 have serious consequences on the migrant population. An example of this is the current situation in Plaza de la República in Reynosa, north-eastern Mexico, where more than 2,000 people from the Northern Triangle of Central America are living in tents in open air, in deplorable conditions of habitat and security, after being expelled from the United States when they were seeking protection. MSF provides primary health and mental health services, as well as support in providing clean water for the population in the Plaza de la Republica.
Mexico

MSF concludes work in Reynosa and Matamoros after eight years of care for migrants

We have concluded our project for migrants in the cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, in Mexico, due to a decrease in people attempting to migrate north. Project Update - 7 Oct 2025
 
View of a displaced person’s camp housed in the premises of a former MSF hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Haiti

People and the health system are trapped in escalating violence in Haiti

Our teams in Haiti continue to treat victims and survivors of violence, while the health system struggles to cope with people's needs. Project Update - 3 Oct 2025
 
People from the frontline areas arrive at the transit centre for IDPs in Dnipropetrovsk region (eastern Ukraine). They usually spend a few days here before moving further west. The Médecins Sans Frontières mobile clinic comes here twice a week. Our doctors and nurses examine patients. They often have chronic illnesses, and some of them arrive with injuries from the hostilities. Our health promoters and psychologists also work with patients to identify their needs and provide psychological support.
Ukraine

Displaced people struggle in eastern Ukraine’s overcrowded shelters

MSF teams are running mobile clinics for people who have been newly displaced by intensifying fighting in eastern Ukraine. Project Update - 2 Oct 2025
 
Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Rohingya Response: Ershadullah (60) at an MSF water point in the Kutupalong refugee camp. He fled to Bangladesh in 2017.
Rohingya refugee crisis

The illusion of choice: Rohingya voices echo from the camps

This report draws on the voices and experiences of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to inform the
discussions at the upcoming UN conference. Report - 29 Sep 2025
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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