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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

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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
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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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Gaza - attacks must stop now!

As the war in Gaza stretches into a ninth week, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launches a campaign to call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire. In addition, we call for a stop on the attacks on healthcare, on indiscriminate bombing, on the forcible displacement of people, and on the siege which is depriving over a million Palestinians in Gaza of essential food, water, shelter and medical care.

MSF offices around the world are targeting their governments or multilateral organisations with open letters, protests and social media initiatives.

On this page, you will find the key elements behind our campaign; we encourage you to join our mobilisation by sharing these materials on your own social media channels and help us to demand that in Gaza, it must all stop now!

Open letter to the UN Security Council

MSF International President Dr Christos Christou has written to the United Nations Security Council, asking them to use their diplomatic leverage to stop the attacks and end the siege.

Read the letter here.

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OPEN LETTER video_GAZA: ALL MUST STOP NOW_EN

This is our open letter for Gaza. We are witnessing the fundamental principle of humanity being openly disgraced. We are watching as hospitals are being actively targeted and turned into morgues. Despite Israel’s claims, its all-out assault is not being waged just on Hamas. It is being waged on all of Gaza and its people at any cost. Even wars have rules. But Israel is clearly trading them in for its own military doctrine based on disproportionality. Northern Gaza is being erased from the map. The people of Gaza have been handed a death sentence. It is inhumane and indefensible. Thus far, world leaders have either been complicit by funding or providing Israel with weapons, or have made no efforts other than empty words. “We did what we could. Remember us.” *Al-Awda Hospital The indiscriminate and relentless attacks must stop now. The forcible displacements must stop now. The assaults on hospitals and medical staff must stop now. The siege and restrictions on aid must stop now. It must ALL STOP NOW. MSF logo 2023
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EMBARGO until 4th December 2023 MASH-UP VIDEO FOR GAZA • 10 OCTOBER 2023 – Matthias Kennes, MSF Head of Mission in Gaza – MSF “Airstrikes are just continuing in Gaza City.” • 10 OCTOBER 2023 – Dr. Mohamed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF Deputy Medical Coordinator for Gaza – Al Jazeera “It’s very critical. It’s every single minute, as I said. I mean, every single minute there is a strike.” • 13 OCTOBER 2023 – Meinie Nicolai, MSF Belgium General Director – MSF “Unprecedented doesn’t even cover the medical humanitarian impact. Gaza is being flattened.” • 27 OCTOBER 2023 – Claire Magone, MSF France General Director – BFM TV "We are forced to watch this deliberate and planned slaughter of thousands - perhaps tens of thousands - of civilians". “On est condamné à assister à ce qui est un sacrifice assumé et organisé de milliers - peut-être de dizaines de milliers - de civils”. • 29 OCTOBER 2023 – Léo Cans, MSF Head of Mission for Palestine – Channel 4 “This is pure horror. When the doctor tells us about what is going on in the hospitals, they us themselves the word ‘hell’, the word ‘nightmare’.” • 1 November 2023 – Christos Christou, MSF International President - MSF “The bombing, the all-out assault, needs to stop. NOW.” • 5 November 20203 – Dr. Mohamed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF Deputy Medical Coordinator for Gaza - MSF "The hospital is almost collapsing. Surgeons are operating on the ground, on the floor, they are operating everywhere.” • 7 November 2023 – Emily Callahan, MSF Nurse Activity Manager in Gaza - CNN “There were children with massive burns down their faces, down their necks, all over their limbs and because the hospitals are so overwhelmed, they are being discharged immediately after.” • 11 November 2023 – Dr. Mohammed Obeid, MSF surgeon at Al-Shifa hospital - MSF “Some of the people who go outside the hospital, they want to go to the South. They bombed them also. They bombed their family. So, the situation is very, very bad. We need help. No one hears us.” • 23 November 2023 Dr. Hafez Abukhussa – MSF plastic and reconstructive surgeon in Gaza – MSF “I haven’t seen this kind of injuries and this severity of injuries in the previous wars.” • 23 November 2023 – Joseph Belliveau – MSF Canada Executive Director – ParlVu/SenVu “This brutal annihilation of an entire population’s health system stretches beyond what humanitarian aid can fix. Doctors can’t stop bombs. "