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How we work

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

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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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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.

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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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2011 Results
 
New maternity in CAR 16
Central African Republic

The forgotten emergency of maternal healthcare in the Central African crisis

A lack of maternal and obstetric care is fuelling a healthcare emergency in Central African Republic. It is unacceptable that women’s and babies’ lives are being lost for reasons that are preventable. Project Update - 10 Jan 2023
 
Northwest Syria: Winterization activities
Syria

Humanitarian access to northwest Syria must be ensured

MSF calls on the UN Security Council to renew the Syria cross-border resolution to allow for the provision of humanitarian aid into the northwest, to avoid preventable deaths. Press Release - 5 Jan 2023
 
Treating Malnutrition in Abs Hospital, Yemen
Yemen

Five reasons why severe childhood malnutrition is surging in Yemen

The healthcare network across Yemen continues to collapse, and with food insecurity rife across the country, our teams are seeing a worrying rise of malnutrition in children at our hospitals. Project Update - 9 Dec 2022
 
Cholera in NW Syria, MSF responses
Syria

Combatting cholera amidst displacement and the remnants of war

As Syrians continue to deal with displacement and the devastation of war, the rapid spread of cholera is a new and dangerous threat for the most vulnerable people. Project Update - 22 Nov 2022
 
Cholera MSF Community Response
Haiti

Vaccines and urgent response needed as cholera wave rises

As cholera cases rapidly increase in Haiti, amongst a political, economic and security crisis, MSF calls on other organisations and donors for an urgent scale up in the response to the outbreak.
 Press Release - 17 Nov 2022
 
Informal settlement of displaced people just outside Goma
Democratic Republic of Congo

North Kivu: Thousands of people fleeing violence urgently need aid

An urgent response from humanitarian actors is required to meet the huge needs of thousands of people in Kanyaruchinya, displaced by ongoing fighting between the March 23 movement (M23) and the Congolese army. Project Update - 8 Nov 2022
 
Al-Hol camp
Syria

A lost generation live in fear inside Syria's Al-Hol camp

A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lays bare the cruelty of the long-term detainment of more than 50,000 people in Al-Hol, northeast Syria. Project Update - 7 Nov 2022
 
Al-Hol camp
Syria

Between two fires: Danger and desperation in Syria’s Al-Hol camp

A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lays bare the cruelty of the long-term detainment of more than 50,000 people, the majority of whom are children, in Al-Hol, northeast Syria.

 Report - 7 Nov 2022
 
Physiotherapy in Kyiv
War in Ukraine

Providing physiotherapy for the war-wounded in Ukraine

With large numbers of war-wounded people needing post-operative care in Ukraine, MSF teams are providing people with physiotherapy so they are able to heal and learn to live with their disabilities. Project Update - 4 Nov 2022
 
Man carries belongings through flood waters
Climate emergency

Urgent action needed to mitigate deadly consequences of climate change

World leaders must act to mitigate the triple threat of climate change, conflict, and health emergencies, which prove a deadly mix for the most vulnerable. Statement - 4 Nov 2022
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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