MSF is an international, independent, 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. We offer vital services such as surgery, obstetric and paediatric care, vaccinations and mental health counselling and we also train the local stuff. We also focus on the needs of displaced people, providing care for malnutrition and sexual violence. In many areas, we are responding to outbreaks of epidemics and serious diseases such as malaria, cholera, measles, HIV and tuberculosis.
Today, we provide medical and humanitarian care in more than 75 countries around the world. 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.