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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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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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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.

 
Nubia At MSF Ebola Treatment Center In Conakry, Guinea.
Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola Activity Update - March 2016

Crisis Update 23 Mar 2016
 
Moria Reception Centre in Lesbos, Greece
Greece

MSF ends activities inside the Lesvos hotspot

Press Release 22 Mar 2016
 
Journal article

Opportunities, limits and challenges of perceptions studies for humanitarian contexts

21 Mar 2016
Journal article
 
Overcrowded transit camp in Idomeni
Mediterranean migration

EU Migration Crisis Update - March 2016

Crisis Update 21 Mar 2016
 
MSF treats DR-TB cases
Tuberculosis

Just 2% of people with the severest cases of drug-resistant TB currently have access to new, more effective treatments

Report 21 Mar 2016
 
Idomeni after the closing of the border
Photo Story

Trapped at Europe's borders

18 Mar 2016
Photo Story
 
Idomeni after the closing of the border
Mediterranean migration

Why the EU’s deal with Turkey is no solution to the “crisis” affecting Europe

Project Update 18 Mar 2016
 
Dismantling of MSF shelters in Calais' Jungle
France

More than 4,000 migrants still entrenched in Calais Jungle

Project Update 17 Mar 2016
 
Zwara, Libya
Libya

Health system in a state of hidden crisis

Project Update 17 Mar 2016
 
South Sudan - Pibor violence and looting
South Sudan

MSF resumes limited medical activities in Pibor in response to urgent medical needs

Project Update 17 Mar 2016
 
Internally displaced People form Taiz Enclave Yemen
Yemen

Dramatic influx of wounded amidst fierce fighting in Taiz

Project Update 16 Mar 2016
 
Abs Hospital, Hajja, Yemen
Yemen

MSF treats more than 40 wounded following deadly airstrike on marketplace

Project Update 16 Mar 2016
 
Dec 2013 - 2015: Relentless violence in Unity State, South Sudan
South Sudan

Leer population take shelter from violence in the MSF compound

Statement 16 Mar 2016
 
Journal article

Volunteers and responsibility for risk-taking: Changing interpretations of the Charter of Médecins Sans Frontières

14 Mar 2016
Journal article
 
The refugees are being squeezed further north in Calais' Jungle
France

Anger, loss as French police raze Jungle camp

Project Update 14 Mar 2016
 
Suar and his daughter
Syria

My story could easily be the plot of a movie

Voices from the Field 14 Mar 2016
 
Najah
Syria

I have a roof over my head and good people around me. It’s better than living under bombings

Voices from the Field 14 Mar 2016
 
PCV Vaccination Campaign in Yida Camp
Access to medicines

MSF launches challenge to Pfizer’s patent on the pneumonia vaccine in India to increase access to more affordable versions

Crisis Update 11 Mar 2016
 
New shelters in Grande Synthe
France

Out of the mud and into shelters: move from Basroch camp accomplished

Project Update 10 Mar 2016
 
Jeanine and her daughters.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Suffering has been a part of my life. But I fight. I'm still standing!

Voices from the Field 10 Mar 2016
 
Mass-casualty influx northern Syria
Syria

The fear is constant

Voices from the Field 10 Mar 2016
 
East Damascus - voice from the field
Syria

Everyone is fatigued with the fear and deaths – a doctor in a Damascus suburb

Voices from the Field 10 Mar 2016
 
Barrel bombing of MSF Supported Hospital
Syria

The feeling of powerlessness is excruciating, but I cannot abandon my people

Voices from the Field 9 Mar 2016
 
MSF-supported hospital in northern Syria destroyed in attack
Syria

War-wounded and war-dead in Syria – medical data provides a stark warning that 2015 must not be repeated

Press Release 9 Mar 2016
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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