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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.

 
Ecuador Earthquake: MSF Response Teams
Ecuador

We want to restore people’s normal daily activities

Project Update 2 May 2016
 
Kunduz Hospital After the Attack
Kunduz hospital attack

Some of MSF’s questions in response to the U.S. military investigation into their attack on the hospital

Open Letter 29 Apr 2016
 
Kunduz Hospital After the Attack
Kunduz hospital attack

Initial reaction to public release of U.S. military investigative report on the attack on MSF trauma hospital

Press Release 29 Apr 2016
 
AL QUDS ALEPPO HOSPITAL, ATTACK HOSPITAL
Syria

Update on airstrike at Al Quds hospital

Project Update 29 Apr 2016
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

Crisis update - April 2016

Crisis Update 29 Apr 2016
 
Azaz district, Aleppo governorate
Syria

Airstrike destroys MSF-supported hospital in Aleppo killing 14

Project Update 28 Apr 2016
 
Zwara, Libya
Libya

Hospitals closed or operating on a reduced schedule

Interview 27 Apr 2016
 
Mariana Daisa Esmeralda Castillo
Ecuador

Earthquake in Ecuador: I’m so scared to go back home

Voices from the Field 27 Apr 2016
 
Ecuador Earthquake: MSF Response Teams
Ecuador

The population is fearful and nervous

Project Update 27 Apr 2016
 
A Fair Shot 1 million pneumonia deaths infographic
Access to medicines

2,500 flowers are placed in front of Pfizer’s HQ, representing number of children who die of pneumonia each day.

Press Release 27 Apr 2016
 
Dasht-e-Barchi public district hospital in Kabul
Photo Story

Maternity service in the district public hospital of Dasht-e-Barchi

26 Apr 2016
Photo Story
 
Dasht-e-Barchi, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

The number of deliveries has doubled since the project opened

Voices from the Field 26 Apr 2016
 
Dasht-e-Barchi maternity in Kabul
Afghanistan

“A postpartum haemorrhage can happen to anyone”

Voices from the Field 26 Apr 2016
 
Dasht-e-Barchi public district hospital in Kabul
Afghanistan

Nurturing premature babies with their mothers’ embrace

Project Update 26 Apr 2016
 
SMC and vaccination in the north of Mali
Mali

Vaccination rate increases by 50 per cent in Ansongo

Project Update 25 Apr 2016
 
DRC-Mambasa: Emergency medical and psychological care for victims of sexual violence
Democratic Republic of Congo

In Mambasa, MSF teams provide care to four new rape survivors each day

Project Update 25 Apr 2016
 
La malaria sigue su escalada en Congo
Global

World Malaria Day: five challenges in the fight against the disease

Project Update 25 Apr 2016
 
Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Japan

People have to continue living in shelters for a while

Voices from the Field 25 Apr 2016
 
MSF first rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016
Mediterranean migration

MSF resumes Search and Rescue activities in the central Mediterranean

Press Release 24 Apr 2016
 
NFI distribution in Azaz district
Syria

Situation critical for tens of thousands displaced over 10 days

Voices from the Field 22 Apr 2016
 
IDPs in Sortoni camp
Sudan

Conditions in Sortoni camp, North Darfur leave 61,000 residents who fled Jebel Mara in danger

Project Update 22 Apr 2016
 
Ecuador Earthquake
Ecuador

MSF teams offer psychosocial support, distribute medicines in affected areas

Project Update 22 Apr 2016
 
Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Japan

MSF starts medical activities in the area of Minami-aso after Kumamoto Quake

Project Update 21 Apr 2016
 
India

Access Campaign: New threat against affordable medicines in trade negotiations with India and ASEAN

Press Release 21 Apr 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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