In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.
We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.
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.
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.
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.
This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.
This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.
SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.
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.
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.
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.
After five years of war, chronic shortages of supplies and staff have led to the collapse of Yemen’s health system.
The 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in Yemen came after diseases such as cholera and diphtheria had already reappeared in the country.
A recent upsurge in fighting has exacerbated the dire situation in Yemen. With huge numbers of people unable to access even basic healthcare, our activities in the country are among our most extensive worldwide.
Complicated delivery: The Yemeni mothers and children dying without medical care
24 Apr 2019
Yemen
Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs, northern Yemen
Opinion22 Feb 2021
Yemen
Yemen: “These sanctions have to make clear that they do not apply to humanitarian aid”
Interview18 Jan 2021
Yemen
Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities
Press Release14 Dec 2020
Yemen
Behind the conflict in Yemen
storymaps.30 Nov 2020
Yemen
Humanitarian response in Yemen: time to go back to the drawing board
Op-Ed11 Nov 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
As COVID-19 spreads, fear drives people away from hospitals in Yemen
Press Release9 Jul 2020
Yemen
Behind the conflict in Yemen
MSF Storymaps.25 Jun 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
“COVID-19 has made the health system's collapse complete” in Yemen
Project Update10 Jun 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
“We have a lot of people that die quickly” of COVID-19 in Yemen
Project Update2 Jun 2020
1986
1986
Year MSF first worked in the country
Reports & Analysis
Yemen
Complicated delivery: The Yemeni mothers and children dying without medical care
Report24 Apr 2019
Yemen
Government health staff are saving lives without salaries
Report28 Sep 2017
Yemen
Healthcare under siege in Taiz
Report30 Jan 2017
Yemen
MSF releases detailed documentation of attacks on two medical facilities ahead of UNSC closed session on protection of medical mission
Report27 Sep 2016
Yemen
The Steady Bleed: MSF Briefs on the Collapse of Healthcare in War-torn Yemen
Report1 Aug 2015
Yemen
The crisis in Yemen
Report1 Jul 2015
Related topics
Crisis Settings
War and conflict
Around one-quarter of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict.
Medical Activities
Cholera
Although easy to prevent and treat, cholera affects up to 4 million people worldwide per year, resulting in up to 140,000 deaths.
Crisis Settings
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move
There are many reasons for flight, including war, persecution, conflict, natural disaster, destitution and repression. With health and well-being jeopardised, the lives of the most vulnerable can be at risk.
Medical Activities
Malnutrition
More than 224 million children around the world last year suffered from malnutrition. It is the underlying contributing factor in nearly half of the deaths of children under five years of age.
Medical Activities
Surgery & trauma care
Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing surgical care for people in precarious contexts for decades.
In Focus
Attacks on medical care
Attacks against medical facilities and health workers, whether deliberate or indiscriminate, are part of generalised violence and atrocities committed against civilians in armed conflict. They deprive populations of health services, often when they need them the most.
