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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 MEDSF 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 MEDSF 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 MEDSF projects are implemented in the field and to participate in critical thinking on humanitarian and medical action.
Based in Brussels, MEDSF 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 MEDSF missions.
This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MEDSF missions.
This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.
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 MEDSF’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.
MEDSF 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.
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 MEDSF 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 MEDSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MEDSF 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.
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.
Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and more; health facilities have been attacked, looted and destroyed.
Patients have been killed in their beds; health workers have been attacked as they rescued the wounded. A hospital is where the most vulnerable, the sick and injured, gather in times of war. 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 people of health services, often when they need them the most.
MEDSF denounces killing of fourteenth staff member in Israeli attack in Gaza
Statement2 Oct 2025
Gaza-Israel war
MEDSF forced to suspend Gaza City activities amid intensified Israeli offensive
Press Release26 Sep 2025
Gaza-Israel war
MEDSF mourns Hussein Alnajjar, thirteenth colleague killed in Gaza
Statement17 Sep 2025
Conflict in Sudan
Sudan: MEDSF suspends activities at Zalingei hospital following armed attack
Press Release19 Aug 2025
South Sudan
MEDSF suspends activities in two South Sudan counties after second abduction
Press Release5 Aug 2025
South Sudan
MEDSF condemns abduction of Health Ministry staff in southern South Sudan
Press Release27 Jul 2025
Ethiopia
Ethiopia: MEDSF releases findings of internal review into 2021 Tigray killing of three staff members
Press Release15 Jul 2025
Gaza-Israel war
Remembering our colleagues killed in Gaza
Project Update4 Jul 2025
Research & Analysis
Afghanistan
The Continued Struggle to Access Medical Care in Afghanistan
Report8 Jun 2021
Attacks on medical care
MEDSF President to UN Security Council: “Stop these attacks”
Speech3 May 2016
Attacks on medical care
Kunduz, Afghanistan, 36°43’4.91’’N, 68°51’43.96’’
Opinion10 Nov 2015
Book
Saving Lives and Staying Alive
5 Sep 2016
Book
Journal article
Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières
25 Jun 2014
Journal article
Yemen
MEDSF releases detailed documentation of attacks on two medical facilities ahead of UNSC closed session on protection of medical mission
Report27 Sep 2016
Syria
MEDSF urges Syrian government and its allies to stop indiscriminate bombing in Aleppo
Press Release30 Sep 2016
Attacks on medical care
Hospital bombings: Building evidence with images
Project Update15 Feb 2017
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In Focus
Kunduz hospital attack
On 3 October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed our trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 42 people. Our request for an independent investigation has so far gone unanswered.
Crisis settings
War and conflict
More than one third of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for people affected by armed conflict.
Syria
War has been raging in Syria for more than a decade, leaving thousands of people dead, displacing millions and destroying civilian areas and health facilities.
Yemen
Discover how we deliver medical humanitarian assistance in Yemen, where indiscriminate bombings and chronic shortages of supplies and staff have led to the closure of more than half the country's health facilities.
Central African Republic
Learn about our medical humanitarian work in the Central African Republic, where years of intense violence have resulted in thousands being killed or wounded and millions being displaced, severely restricting access to medical care, food, water and shelter.
South Sudan
In South Sudan, MEDSF delivers one of its largest assistance programmes worldwide.
