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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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431 Results
 
El Fasher: 2 weeks since the beginning of the clashes
Conflict in Sudan

Six months of war and neglect in Sudan is a “catastrophic failure of humanity”

Six months into the conflict in Sudan, MSF calls for immediate increase in humanitarian efforts, the safeguarding of medical staff, humanitarian workers and civilians, the removal of administrative blockages on medical and humanitarian staff and supplies, and for people to be allowed unhindered access to humanitarian aid. Press Release - 12 Oct 2023
 
MSF staff prepare a medical supplies donation in Gaza on October 8, 2023
Palestine

MSF performs surgeries, donates supplies in Gaza amid overcrowded facilities

As we continue to perform surgeries and donates supplies in Gaza amid overcrowded facilities, we call on all parties to respect the sanctity of medical facilities, vehicles and personnel.

 Press Release - 8 Oct 2023
 
People in line at a water point in Transit Centre in Renk
South Sudan

Aid woefully inadequate for returnees stuck in deplorable conditions in Renk

Nearly 300,000 South Sudanese fleeing the conflict in Sudan have returned to their homeland and are now stuck in deplorable conditions, at risk of measles, malaria and malnutrition. Press Release - 3 Oct 2023
 
Vaishnavi, pulmonary DRTB patient from Thane
TACTiC – Test, Avoid, Cure Tuberculosis in Children

Commitments made in today's UN TB Declaration to scale up TB testing and treatment, and improve TB care for children, require immediate, concrete action

MSF welcomes the second-ever UN Political Declaration on tuberculosis in which world leaders committed to ramp up TB testing, treatment and prevention, and to close the deadly gaps in all these areas for adults and children. msfaccess.org - 22 Sep 2023
 
Hepatitis E cases in Al-Tanideba, Sudan
Conflict in Sudan

Forty-nine people killed in Khartoum’s deadliest weekend since conflict began

Our teams treated over 100 people wounded in two separate locations of Khartoum, Sudan, following deadly attacks where at least 49 people were killed. Press Release - 12 Sep 2023
 
Market in Kostiantynivka damaged from missile attacked
War in Ukraine

Over 30 people hospitalised after deadly attack on marketplace in Kostiantynivka

Our teams have been providing lifesaving care to people injured in a deadly attack on a market place in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, where 17 people have reportedly been killed. Press Release - 8 Sep 2023
 
MSF Clinical Officer examines a child at the MSF Mobile Clinic
South Sudan

Sudan returnees arrive back in South Sudan in alarming health

People who had previously left South Sudan for Sudan are fleeing back to country following the outbreak of the conflict. But the poor state of health for many people, especially children, on arrival requires an urgent scale up in response. Press Release - 31 Aug 2023
 
MSF clinic in camp Ecole in Adré, Chad
Chad

MSF appeals for immediate response to Sudanese refugee crisis in Chad

We call on the UN, international donors and aid organisations to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of Sudanese refugees in Chad in order to prevent more suffering and loss of life. Press Release - 31 Aug 2023
 
MSF supported Al Nao hospital in Omdurman
Conflict in Sudan

Violence threatens people and vital hospital in Omdurman

As the conflict in Sudan intensifies, causing horrific injuries and death, we call on all warring parties to spare civilians from violence and to ensure the protection of hospitals and healthcare workers. Press Release - 17 Aug 2023
 
An aunt calms her 9-year-old niece
South Sudan

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

Our teams are seeing alarming levels of measles and malnutrition among people fleeing the conflict in Sudan and arriving in South Sudan. We call for an urgent scale up to the humanitarian response before more lives are lost. Press Release - 17 Aug 2023
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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