Who we are

MSF is an international humanitarian organisation providing medical care in more than 70 countries.

Since 1971, we have been treating people caught in complex crises and chronic healthcare emergencies around the world.

From our paediatric nurses to our off-road drivers, we are experts at working in fast-moving and highly-insecure environments. So, whether it's launching a rapid response or delivering community care, we go wherever we are needed most.

In 2023, we admitted more than 1.3 million people to our hospitals and held more than 16.4 million consultations, including at mobile clinics and in refugee camps.

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MSF worked in more than 70 countries in 2022

Our vital work often hits the headlines when there's an emergency such as an earthquake, war or disease outbreak.

However, our teams are also running long-term medical programmes for vulnerable groups cut off from care, or speaking out about unseen suffering and the policies that cause it.

Around the world, 365 days a year, we are there even when the cameras are not.

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What makes MSF different?

Nurse Regina Abuk Thor examines two days old Amel Akoi Garang. The mother Catherina Peter Eduat holdes the baby in her arms.
MSF runs the maternity unit in Aweil State Hospital in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan.

How we work

We are a global humanitarian movement with 51,000 staff across 70 countries. Discover how we respond to medical emergencies and provide support from the UK.

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On the way to Castor hospital, Bangui.
Half a million people have been displaced in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, fleeing the fighting that took place there in December between the self-defence groups called anti-Balaka (anti-machete) and the forces of the ex-Séléka. The UN estimates that the number of displaced people throughout CAR could be more than 900,000 people, in a country twice the size of France and with only 4.6 million inhabitants.
The fighting in Bangui caused at least a thousand deaths in December. Since then, MSF has treated almost 3,000 people wounded by grenades, gunshot or machetes. The medical organisation is also assisting people in different displaced camps in the city, such as at the airport (100,000 people), Boy Rabe (35,000) or Don Bosco (35,000). Humanitarian aid has been slow to get to the displaced people, especially in need of water and sanitation. While Christians have fled to the airport (protected by French troops) and religious centres, Muslims are regrouping in their own neighborhoods or leaving Bangui and the country in their thousands.

Our values

At the core of MSF’s identity is a commitment to independence, neutrality and impartiality

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Staff at MSF's Hangha paediatric hospital in Sierra Leone talk with a mother about her child's health

How we spend your money

Find out why our donors trust us, as well as information on staff salaries and our annual reports

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We are a global movement of over 51,000 people from over 160 countries. In 2023, more than 42,000 of our staff, from surgeons to warehouse managers, were hired locally from the places we support.