# Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

> Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is the reference for medical-emergency humanitarian work, delivering independent, privately funded frontline care in conflict and epidemics.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

MSF operates in around 70 countries with some 70,000 staff, delivering frontline trauma surgery and epidemic response where almost no one else will — Aleppo, Yemen, Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, plus the Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014) and Mpox in the DRC (2024). It was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

Roughly 97% of its funding comes from private donors; MSF refuses most government money to preserve its operational independence, which is the structural reason it can speak honestly about conditions on the ground even when governments fund the perpetrator.

https://www.msf.org