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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

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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 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.

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CRASH

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.

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UREPH

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.

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ARHP

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

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MEDSF Analysis

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.

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MEDSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MEDSF missions.

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MEDSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MEDSF 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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MEDSF Medical Guidelines

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.

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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

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.

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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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MEDSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MEDSF staff in several countries, MEDSF has created the MEDSF 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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MEDSF Paediatric Days

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.

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MEDSF Foundation

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.

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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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MEDSF 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 MEDSF 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 MEDSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MEDSF.

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MEDSF outreach activities in Boma, GPAA
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Daniel Kuju, health promotion supervisor, and Beatrice Johnson, community health educator, visit semi-nomadic communities in Labarab, Greater Pibor administrative area to conduct health awareness sessions. South Sudan, February 2024.
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MEDSF Staff Killed and Hospital Partially Destroyed in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan

Kunduz 10 years on

Project Update 3 Oct 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MEDSF denounces killing of fourteenth staff member in Israeli attack in Gaza

Statement 2 Oct 2025
 
Instagram Takeover from Dnipro and Kherson
Ukraine

Displaced people struggle in eastern Ukraine’s overcrowded shelters

Project Update 2 Oct 2025
 
Triple protection for children against malaria in Cibitoke
Burundi

Children receive triple protection against malaria in Cibitoke

Project Update 2 Oct 2025
 
Rohingya: Kutupalong Refugee Camp
Rohingya refugee crisis

The illusion of choice: Rohingya voices echo from the camps

Report 29 Sep 2025
 
Rohingya: Hep C Testing
Rohingya refugee crisis

Rohingya refugees express feeling unsafe, lacking control over their future

Press Release 29 Sep 2025
 
Five MEDSF staff load tents on to a truck in Gaza City
Gaza-Israel war

MEDSF forced to suspend Gaza City activities amid intensified Israeli offensive

Press Release 26 Sep 2025
 
MEDSF provides healthcare in Mocímboa da Praia as thousands of displaced people return
Mozambique

MEDSF suspends activities in Mocímboa da Praia as violence surges

Press Release 26 Sep 2025
 
Besieged, attacked, starved
Conflict in Sudan

After watching her mother killed, she was raped: Darfur’s sexual violence must end

Project Update 25 Sep 2025
 
Dost Muhammad receives his medication
Pakistan

Clinic provides support to people returning to conflict-damaged homes in Pakistan

Project Update 24 Sep 2025
 
Nukus, Uzbekistan, World TB Day 2025
Uzbekistan

MEDSF successfully concludes Nukus tuberculosis project in Uzbekistan

Project Update 24 Sep 2025
 
A Preventable Pain: Yemenis Endure Acute Watery Diarrhea Spread
Yemen

Yemen witnesses worrying spike in acute watery diarrhoea cases

Press Release 23 Sep 2025
 
One year since the escalation of Israeli war
Lebanon

One year on from the escalation in Lebanon

Project Update 22 Sep 2025
 
Israeli authorities are starving Palestinians of water
Gaza-Israel war

MEDSF condemns Israeli attack on water distribution site in Gaza City 

Statement 18 Sep 2025
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MEDSF mourns Hussein Alnajjar, thirteenth colleague killed in Gaza

Statement 17 Sep 2025
 
Mobilisation for Gaza in front of the Parliament in Bern
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza: Leaders of major aid groups call on world leaders to intervene following UN genocide conclusion

Open Letter 17 Sep 2025
 
'This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing'
Gaza-Israel war

Doctors cannot stop genocide, world leaders can

Opinion 15 Sep 2025
 
New wave of displacement after attack on Zamzam camp
Conflict in Sudan

Deadly attacks across Darfur leave nearly 100 wounded in MEDSF-supported facilities

Press Release 11 Sep 2025
 
Malnutrition in Kebbi
Nigeria

Malnutrition crisis in Nigeria: “This is an emergency”

Voices from the Field 11 Sep 2025
 
Gaza City evacuation orders
Palestine

Gaza City offensive is a death sentence for one million Palestinians

Project Update 11 Sep 2025
 
MEDSF Supports Ebola Outbreak Response in Kasaï
Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: MEDSF supports Ebola outbreak response in Kasaï

Project Update 10 Sep 2025
 
Risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank: Palestinians are being forced from their land
Palestine

MEDSF teams see risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank

Press Release 4 Sep 2025
 
Aquarius Search and Rescue - July 2016
About MEDSF

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim starts as new MEDSF International President

Press Release 3 Sep 2025
 
Ambulances outside MEDSF’s Mother and Child hospital in Houban,
Yemen

Yemen: MEDSF hands over hospital in Taiz after a decade of care

Project Update 28 Aug 2025
MEDSF Logistique - Bordeaux
How we work

How we deliver medical humanitarian assistance

Everywhere we work, the circumstances are unique. Nonetheless, our programmes generally follow a common set of practices designed to make sure our resources and expertise are used to maximum effect.

 

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