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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.

 
Humanitarian Action’s Dr Olga talking to the patients
Russia

Supporting people displaced by the conflict in Ukraine to Russia

Project Update 20 Sep 2022
 
Arop Magut’s foot
Snakebite

Why rapid treatment is essential after a snakebite

Medium. 16 Sep 2022
 
MIGRANT PUSHBACK | Lithuania Belarus Border
Lithuania

Repeated pushbacks cause mental and physical suffering for people crossing Lithuanian border

Project Update 16 Sep 2022
 
Yevhenia Koval, IDP from Kherson regoin
War in Ukraine

The enormous mental health needs for displaced people in Ukraine

Voices from the Field 13 Sep 2022
 
MSF provides medical care for stranded asylum-seekers in the Netherlands
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Project for stranded asylum-seekers in Ter Apel, Netherlands, closes

Press Release 12 Sep 2022
 
DMJ Assessment
Pakistan

Five questions about the destructive floods in Pakistan

Interview 12 Sep 2022
 
Malnutrition emergency: mobile clinic in Ranobe
War in Ukraine

MSF’s International President starts a visit to Ukraine with the aim to expand our medical support to new areas

Statement 7 Sep 2022
 
Niger: climate change adds more hardship for the most vulnerable
HIV/AIDS

Countries must re-engage on HIV, TB and malaria or risk seeing everything undone

Project Update 7 Sep 2022
 
Excluded women: the severe limitations of access to sexual and reproductive health
Honduras

Addressing the dangerous gap in sexual and reproductive healthcare in Honduras

Interview 2 Sep 2022
 
Camps Dadu District
Pakistan

Five things to know about the devastating floods in Pakistan

Project Update 1 Sep 2022
 
Foreigner Registration Centre (FRC) | Kybartai
Lithuania

A “hierarchy of suffering” exacerbates asylum seekers’ mental health in Lithuania

Press Release 30 Aug 2022
 
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF provides medical care to asylum-seekers in the Netherlands

Press Release 26 Aug 2022
 
Dedougou health centre
Burkina Faso

Thousands displaced after escalating violence in Boucle du Mouhoun region

Project Update 26 Aug 2022
 
MSF team in Bermal
Afghanistan

MSF’s emergency project in Paktika province comes to a close

Project Update 25 Aug 2022
 
Camplife/shelters of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Rohingya refugee crisis

One million Rohingya remain in precarious conditions five years after horrific violence in Myanmar

Voices from the Field 25 Aug 2022
 
Mental health group session
South Sudan

Meeting mental health needs in the aftermath of violence

Project Update 24 Aug 2022
 
Médecine donations following airstrike
Palestine

Caring for the severely injured after deadly escalation in Gaza

Project Update 19 Aug 2022
 
Chaman| Mother and Child Hospital | Dr Sajjad
Pakistan

Pakistan annual report 2021

Report 16 Aug 2022
 
Jean Louis in his house
Haiti

Haitians fleeing deadly conflict are turned away by the US

Project Update 12 Aug 2022
 
Mesoamerican endemic Nephropathy (MeN) a humanitarian crisis in Guatemala
Guatemala

Fighting chronic kidney disease in southern Guatemala

Project Update 11 Aug 2022
 
Mozambique: Inside MSF’s relief items kits distributions to newly displaced people in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Tens of thousands of people displaced by conflict in need of essential items in Cabo Delgado

Voices from the Field 11 Aug 2022
 
Emergency Medical Aid (EMA) for new arrivals in Samos, Greece
Greece

Fear, beatings and forced returns for people seeking safety on Greek island of Samos

Project Update 9 Aug 2022
 
Violent practices against migrants
Hungary

Alarming violence occurring at Hungary-Serbia border

Press Release 4 Aug 2022
 
North Kivu: displaced communities are losing hope as M23 crisis drags on
Democratic Republic of Congo

Hundreds of thousands at risk without food, shelter or healthcare in North Kivu

Project Update 3 Aug 2022
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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