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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.

 
Bangui airport
Central African Republic

A year of unimaginable violence, suffering and fear

Voices from the Field 24 Mar 2014
 
Guinea

Ebola epidemic declared, MSF launches emergency response

Project Update 22 Mar 2014
 
Journal article

Do non-monetary incentives for pregnant women increase antenatal attendance among Ethiopian pastoralists?

21 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
Journal article

Does research make a difference to public health? Time for scientific journals to cross the Rubicon

21 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, a killer disease

Project Update 21 Mar 2014
 
Journal article

A Qualitative Assessment of a Community Antiretroviral Therapy Group Model in Tete, Mozambique

20 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
Journal article

Directly-Observed and Self-Administered Tuberculosis Treatment in a Chronic, Low-Intensity Conflict Setting in India

20 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
HIV and DR-TB treatment in Swazialnd, October 2013 (MSB3196 )
Tuberculosis

The old devil in new clothes

Voices from the Field 19 Mar 2014
 
Occupied Minds - Occupied Palestinian Territory
Palestine

One year in Hebron and East Jerusalem

Voices from the Field 19 Mar 2014
 
IDP Camp Tomping, Juba, South Sudan
South Sudan

First rains exacerbate deplorable living conditions in Tomping camp, Juba

Project Update 19 Mar 2014
 
Tuberculosis

Test Me Treat Me' TB manifesto

Project Update 17 Mar 2014
 
HIV and DR-TB treatment in Swazialnd, October 2013
Tuberculosis

The new face of an old disease: Urgent action needed to tackle global Drug-Resistant TB threat

Press Release 17 Mar 2014
 
Refugees fleeing violence in CAR in southern Chad
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

"What's happening right now is unacceptable"

Project Update 17 Mar 2014
 
Tuberculosis

Multidrug-resistant TB patient stories

Project Update 17 Mar 2014
 
Tuberculosis

A breath of hope for Drug-Resistant TB

Project Update 17 Mar 2014
 
MSF Chagas project in Aiquile, Bolivia
Mexico

Agreement between MSF and state government will help prevent Chagas disease

Press Release 14 Mar 2014
 
Cameroon

35,000 flee fighting in Central African Republic

Project Update 14 Mar 2014
 
A "medical home" in Milan for the homeless
Italy

An MSF “medical home” for the homeless in Milan

Project Update 13 Mar 2014
 
Syria

MSF response to Syrian crisis

Project Update 12 Mar 2014
 
IDP Camps, Melut County, South Sudan
South Sudan

15,000 flee clashes in Upper Nile state

Project Update 11 Mar 2014
 
Dadaab Refugee camp, Kenya.
Kenya

Humanitarian aid must be prioritised in Dadaab camps, despite return of refugees to Somalia

Press Release 10 Mar 2014
 
Bannon Dadaab press photos
Kenya

Dadaab refugees: An uncertain tomorrow

Report 10 Mar 2014
 
IWD
Women's health

Forced to Flee - women's health and displacement

Report 8 Mar 2014
 
Basic Health units and mobile clinics for displaced people in Peshawar district
Women's health

International Women's Day 2014: Forced to Flee

Voices from the Field 7 Mar 2014
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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