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

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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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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 Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

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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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Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

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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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Southern Africa Medical Unit

SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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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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Manson Unit

The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF.

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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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24 hours in Magaria ITFC

Gallery: Magaria: 24 hours with the teams

Photo Story30 May 2017

Since 2005, MSF has been supporting the Ministry of Public Health in Magaria, Zinder region, to reduce the mortality rate of children under five. MSF has been working in health structures that provide paediatric and nutritional care. 
MSF works in Magaria hospital’s paediatric unit and in the Intensive Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITCF). During the peak season for malnutrition and malaria, which usually runs from June to November, MSF also supports community health centres and offers primary healthcare and ensures treatment for severe malnutrition in children under five. In Magaria hospital’s paediatric unit, the teams treat children who have been hospitalised for severe illnesses other than malnutrition. They also support the Intensive Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITCF), where children with severe malnutrition and related illnesses such as malaria, respiratory infections or diarrhoea are treated. MSF teams also vaccinate the children to ensure that those hospitalised in the paediatric unit and the ITFC have all their immunisations.

24 hours in Magaria ITFC
A new day begins at Magaria hospital’s paediatric unit. Mothers stay with their hospitalised children, and in the morning, one of the first things they do is go to the washing area. Hygiene awareness is an important job undertaken by the MSF team.
Erwan Rogard/MSF
24 hours in Magaria ITFC
MSF provides three meals a day to the mothers or other caretakers whose children have been admitted to the paediatric unit. Here, a mother has come to collect her morning meal.
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24 hours in Magaria ITFC
Inside Magaria hospital’s paediatric unit. Early in the morning, MSF paediatrician Julia Rappenecker, accompanied by the centre’s medical personnel, check on the children who have been admitted to the intensive care unit in the last 24 hours.
Erwan Rogard/MSF
24 hours in Magaria ITFC
Fatima Lawan delivered triplets at Magaria hospital. One did not survive the birth; the other two, at 35 days old, are being cared for in the hospital’s paediatric unit.
Erwan Rogard
24 hours in Magaria ITFC
Mothers taking part in a cooking workshop organised by MSF. They are learning to make a nutrition-rich porridge. These cooking lessons are an important part of awareness-raising among the mothers, to aid the recovery of their children and ease their return home.
Erwan Rogard/MSF
24 hours in Magaria ITFC
MSF vaccinating the children who are being treated in the paediatric unit, including those in the Intensive Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITFC). These children were not previously vaccinated during the Ministry of Public Health’s expanded immunisation programme. Between January and March 2017, 3,376 vaccines were administered.
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24 hours in Magaria ITFC
In the morning, before the hospital’s paediatric unit opens its doors to visitors, MSF health promoters explain to the families the importance of sharing good news and encouragement with the patients and their caretakers.
Erwan Rogard/MSF
24 hours in Magaria ITFC
Children playing in front of a grandmother who has come to visit her grand-daughter and daughter who are in the Magaria Intensive Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITFC).
Erwan Rogard/MSF
24 hours in Magaria ITFC
Magaria hospital’s paediatric unit staff visit the different departments to follow up on patients and ensure that all children and their caretakers are sleeping under mosquito nets.
Erwan Rogard/MSF
24 hours in Magaria ITFC
Night has fallen on Magaria. A paediatric unit staff member updates the board with the number of the patients in each department.
Erwan Rogard/MSF