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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.

 
Maternal services insufficient in Mosul
Iraq

Delivering babies in a city with few maternity services

Project Update 6 Apr 2022
 
Geo Barents - Rotation 9 - Rescue 1
Mediterranean migration

Over 100 deaths at sea in one week as European States look away

Press Release 6 Apr 2022
 
Eastern Ukraine Mobile Clinics - Vodiane Village
War in Ukraine

Area around hospitals, houses, bombed in Mykolaiv

Press Release 5 Apr 2022
 
Mamfe District Hospital
Cameroon

MSF suspends medical activities in South-West Cameroon over ongoing staff detention

Press Release 5 Apr 2022
 
Ukraine - First train referral
War in Ukraine

“You have a medical train? I have patients for you.”

Voices from the Field 3 Apr 2022
 
Kigulube project
Climate emergency

MSF commits to reduce carbon emissions to help safeguard the most vulnerable

Statement 29 Mar 2022
 
Title 42
Central American migration

Pushed back, beaten and exposed: Stories from the US-Mexico border

Voices from the Field 29 Mar 2022
 
Jamtoli and Hakimpara healthcare centres
Bangladesh

Unprecedented increase of scabies cases in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps

Project Update 25 Mar 2022
 
Mariupol, Ukraine AP 13 March
War in Ukraine

Bombs over Mariupol: Each day is like losing your whole life

Voices from the Field 24 Mar 2022
 
Surayo with her son Zainidin
Tajikistan

Helping kids to beat TB in Tajikistan

Project Update 23 Mar 2022
 
Lita's general hospital
Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence and sense of impunity force stop to lifesaving care

Press Release 21 Mar 2022
 
Venezuelan Migrants in Peru
Central American migration

Peru: Venezuelan migrants struggle to survive

Project Update 18 Mar 2022
 
MSF surgeon in Okhmatdyt hospital, Kyiv
War in Ukraine

Staff in major Kyiv hospital receive training for potential increase in casualties

Project Update 18 Mar 2022
 
MSF Clinic: inpatient department and surgical capacity, Gogrial, Warrap State. South Sudan
Ethiopia

MSF seeks answers from government after new media report on killing of staff

Statement 17 Mar 2022
 
Irpin
War in Ukraine

War in Ukraine has displaced me twice and I’m on the road again

Voices from the Field 16 Mar 2022
 
Every day thousands of Ukrainians arrive in Slovakia - traumatised and exhausted
War in Ukraine

Every day thousands of Ukrainians arrive in Slovakia – traumatised and exhausted

Interview 14 Mar 2022
 
Ukrainian refugees in Palanca
War in Ukraine

Thousands of people flee bombings in south Ukraine and head west

Project Update 12 Mar 2022
 
Rotation 8 Rescue 2
Mediterranean migration

Survivors of “most difficult rescue” need immediate place of safety

Project Update 11 Mar 2022
 
Lviv Train Station, Ukraine
War in Ukraine

“There’s an urgent humanitarian race against time in Ukraine”

Voices from the Field 11 Mar 2022
 
Measles - Isolation Ward Boost Hospital | Patient
Afghanistan

Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children in Afghanistan

Project Update 9 Mar 2022
 
MSF responds to massive displacement in Twic County
South Sudan

Humanitarian aid urgently needed for thousands of displaced people from Agok

Project Update 9 Mar 2022
 
MSF in Odessa
War in Ukraine

In Odessa, “everyone is preparing for the worst”

Interview 8 Mar 2022
 
Medical emergency supplies on its way to Kyiv
War in Ukraine

Emergency medical supplies rushed to Kyiv by train from Ukraine warehouse

Project Update 6 Mar 2022
 
Mariupol - March 03, 2022
War in Ukraine

Corridors are not enough for civilians and humanitarian aid in Ukraine

Project Update 5 Mar 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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