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Who We Are

Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

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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

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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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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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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MSF Websites

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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF 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 MSF 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 MSF 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 MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based in Brussels, MSF 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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MSF Supply

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

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MSF Logistique

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

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’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

MSF 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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MSF Academy for Healthcare

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

The MSF 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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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF 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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MSF 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 MSF 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 MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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MSF outreach activities in Boma, GPAA
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Latest

Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
endTB clinical trial results
India

MSF hands over drug-resistant tuberculosis project in Mumbai after 18 years

Project Update 24 Dec 2024
 
Am Timan Hospital
Conflict in Sudan

MSF condemns RSF's violent attack on Bashair Teaching hospital in South Khartoum

Press Release 20 Dec 2024
 
Influx of injured refugees and returnees in Renk
South Sudan

South Sudan receives thousands of displaced and injured people fleeing intensified war in Sudan

Press Release 20 Dec 2024
 
From Rafah to Khan Younis, lives in ruins
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza: Life in a death trap

Report 19 Dec 2024
 
Jabalia camp
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction

Press Release 19 Dec 2024
 
MSF Ends Operations of Geo Barents
Mediterranean migration

MSF ends operation of Geo Barents with commitment to return to Central Mediterranean Sea

Press Release 13 Dec 2024
 
MSF medical activities in northwest Syria
Syria

Three things to know about what’s happening in Syria

Project Update 12 Dec 2024
 
MSF support of burnt patients in September explosion
Haiti

MSF partially resumes medical activities in Port-au-Prince

Press Release 11 Dec 2024
 
Tabqa camp in northeast Syria
Syria

MSF responds to people’s developing needs in northeast Syria

Press Release 11 Dec 2024
 
Improving access to healthcare for the people, Atacora, Benin 08
Benin

Improving access to healthcare for people in Benin

Project Update 10 Dec 2024
 
Assosa CTC beds
South Sudan

Urgent response needed to stop cholera outbreak in Upper Nile state

Press Release 6 Dec 2024
 
MSF gynaecologists in Khost
Afghanistan

Excluding women from medical institutes threatens the future of healthcare in Afghanistan

Press Release 6 Dec 2024
 
Kebbi Malnutrition Crisis 03
Photo Story

A Year in Pictures 2024

5 Dec 2024
Photo Story
 
Inpatient feeding centre, Katsina
Nigeria

Levels of global acute malnutrition have doubled since last year in parts of northwest Nigeria

Press Release 5 Dec 2024
 
ITW Caroline Seguin Northern Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

Three questions about the “apocalyptic” situation in Gaza

Interview 3 Dec 2024
 
Gazan's Living conditions’ impact on babies and children's health
Gaza-Israel war

Obstacles to essential supplies deepen Gaza's catastrophic humanitarian and medical situation

Press Release 29 Nov 2024
 
Dr Filomena Januario treating a patient.
Mozambique

A personal commitment to HIV care in Mozambique

Project Update 29 Nov 2024
 
No access to care in Kurakhove 05
Ukraine

Providing care to people fleeing from the frontline in Ukraine

Project Update 28 Nov 2024
 
Emergency Medical Aid (EMA) for new arrivals in Samos, Greece
Greece

MSF responds to tragic shipwreck off Samos coast in Greece

Press Release 28 Nov 2024
 
MSF mobile medical unit visiting collective shelters
Lebanon

War and economic strain worsen health conditions in Lebanon

Project Update 26 Nov 2024
 
Nasser Hospital: gazan's livig conditions' impacto on babies and children's health
Gaza-Israel war

Lives of children and newborns put at risk by living conditions in Gaza

Project Update 22 Nov 2024
 
Violence in Port-au-Prince
Haiti

Violence and threats by police force MSF to suspend activities in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area

Press Release 20 Nov 2024
 
Girl Skull X-Ray
Conflict in Sudan

One in six war-wounded patients at south Khartoum hospital are children

Press Release 19 Nov 2024
 
Sumy city bombings 03
War in Ukraine

MSF provides medical support following Russian strike in Sumy

Press Release 18 Nov 2024
MSF 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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