en ع
Back to main menu

About us

Who We Are

Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

Learn more
How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

Learn more
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.

Learn more
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.

Learn more

What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

View all topics Activities by country

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.

View all countries

MSF Websites

A Global Network
Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
Other Sites
View Resource Centre
MSF Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

GO TO SITE
Access Campaign

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.

GO TO SITE
Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Southern Africa Medical Unit

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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Manson Unit

The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Illustration of fightings in Khartoum, Sudan

Conflict in Sudan

Last updated on 8 November 2024.

On 15 April 2023, intense fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum and across most of Sudan. Since then, the conflict has killed and injured thousands of people.

People across large parts of Sudan, especially in Darfur, have experienced ongoing violence, including intense urban warfare, gunfire, shelling, and airstrikes. Our teams are treating patients with injuries caused by explosions, bullets, and stabbings. Healthcare workers and facilities have been attacked and looted.

An estimated 11 million people have been displaced, including nearly 3 million who have sought safety in Chad, Egypt and South Sudan (UNHCR). Displaced people’s camps lack adequate healthcare and humanitarian aid. There are catastrophic levels of malnutrition.

With very few international aid organisations on the ground, the humanitarian response is far from adequate. Restrictions imposed on humanitarian organisations by the Sudanese authorities further isolate people in need of assistance. 

MSF’s response in Sudan

In Sudan, MSF is present in 11 out of the 18 states in the country. Our 1,400 Sudanese staff and 200 international staff currently work in and/or support 21 hospitals and 12 basic healthcare facilities or clinics. We also provide healthcare in mobile clinics in two camps.

In Sudan, MSF teams:

  • Provide emergency medical treatment, including surgeries, for war wounded and non-war related injuries.
  • Run mobile clinics for displaced people.
  • Respond to disease outbreaks.
  • Provide maternal and paediatric healthcare
  • Offer water and sanitation services.
  • Donate medicines and medical supplies to healthcare facilities, and provide incentives, training, and logistical support to Ministry of Health staff.
  • Treat severe acute malnutrition.
  • Conduct vaccination campaigns.

 

A map of Sudan highlighting MSF's medical activities as of November 2024.
MSF medical activities in Sudan, November 2024.

MSF emergency response in Sudan (January-September 2024)

558,000

558,

Outpatient consultations

135,970

135,97

Emergency room admissions

39,000

39,

Cases of malnutrition treated

32,770

32,77

births assisted

MSF’s response in bordering countries

Map of MSF Regional Response in Sudan in July 2024
Map of MSF Regional Response in Sudan in July 2024

Chad

Over 899,000 refugees and returnees have crossed the border from Sudan to Chad. People are living in camps in Chad and are facing difficulties securing even their most basic needs. With a lack of water, food, proper shelter, and healthcare people are suffering from diarrhoea, malnutrition, and malaria.  

MSF teams are responding in three border regions, Sila, Wadi Fira, and Ouaddaï.

In Chad, we provide basic healthcare, malnutrition screening and treatment, vaccinations, and sexual and reproductive healthcare through existing local health facilities, and mobile clinics. Our teams have also begun digging boreholes to supply camps with water. In some places, we provide refugee communities with plastic sheeting, mosquito nets and bars of soap, which are crucial to prevent the spread of malaria and diarrhoea.

South Sudan 

Since the eruption of conflict in Sudan, over 820,000 people have crossed into South Sudan to seek refuge. This influx has overwhelmed the already dire humanitarian situation in the country. Our teams are running emergency activities in Renk, Bulukat and Twic to provide the refugees and returnees with healthcare services through mobile clinics and hospitals.

 
An aunt calms her 9-year-old niece
South Sudan

Children at deadly risk of measles and malnutrition after fleeing conflict in Sudan

Press Release 17 Aug 2023
 
Sudanese refugees in Adré, eastern Chad
Chad

MSF calls for urgent international support for refugees in Chad as major crisis looms

Press Release 14 Aug 2023
 
Illustration of fightings in Khartoum, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Lack of essential visas for MSF staff threatens lifesaving care in hospital

Press Release 9 Aug 2023
 
Sudanese refugees in Chad
Conflict in Sudan

Wounded people arrive in Chad to escape horrific violence in Sudan

Project Update 2 Aug 2023
 
Emergency Surgical Team at Bashair Hospital Khartoum, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Staff beatings, death threats jeopardise MSF’s presence in Khartoum hospital

Press Release 21 Jul 2023
 
El Geneina City
Conflict in Sudan

Restrictions and insecurity obstruct vital medical care in Sudan

Press Release 23 Jun 2023
 
Emergency Response for Returnees and Refugees from Sudan
South Sudan

People fleeing conflict in Sudan struggle for survival

Press Release 22 Jun 2023
 
Influx of wounded in Adre Hospital
Conflict in Sudan

Armed groups in El Geneina must spare civilians amid intense violence

Press Release 19 Jun 2023
 
Influx of wounded in Adre Hospital
Chad

Over 600 war-wounded Sudanese arrive in eastern Chad hospital in just three days

Press Release 16 Jun 2023
 
Emergency Surgical Team at Bashair Hospital Khartoum, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Over 1,100 patients in five weeks mark level of suffering in Khartoum

Press Release 15 Jun 2023
 
Mobile Clinics in Wad Madani, Sudan, June 2023
Conflict in Sudan

Displaced people face disease and dire conditions after latest violence in Khartoum

Project Update 13 Jun 2023
 
MSF response in eastern Chad
Conflict in Sudan

Refugees fleeing violence trapped and forgotten in Chad due to rainy season

Press Release 9 Jun 2023