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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.

 
Revolting attack on pregnant women and babies
Afghanistan

Fifteen mothers confirmed killed in Kabul maternity wing attack

Project Update 3 Jun 2020
 
Oxygen bottles in Yemen
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

“We have a lot of people that die quickly” of COVID-19 in Yemen

Project Update 2 Jun 2020
 
Libya: Crisis Within a Crisis
Photo Story

Conflict and COVID-19 adds up to a crisis within a crisis in Libya

2 Jun 2020
Photo Story
 
Out of Darkness- fighting Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C

Increasing access to hepatitis C treatment in Ukraine

Project Update 2 Jun 2020
 
Venezuela: MSF opens COVID-19 centre in Caracas
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF opens COVID-19 centre in Venezuela

Project Update 29 May 2020
 
MSF Measles Intervention Bossangoa: Measles Hospital Ward
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Continuing essential medical services during COVID-19

Project Update 28 May 2020
 
Responding to COVID-19 in Ukraine
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Unregulated market for personal protective equipment puts lives at risk

Press Release 28 May 2020
 
MSF nurse during screening activities with Warao people (indegenous group from Venezuela) at a shelter in Manaus, Brazil.
Brazil

MSF responds to the COVID-19 pandemic in Amazonas

Press Release 27 May 2020
 
MSF COVID-19 Response in Lebanon
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Offering extra protection against COVID-19 to Lebanon’s most vulnerable

Project Update 26 May 2020
 
MSF intervention in care homes
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF concludes COVID-19 response in Spain

Press Release 25 May 2020
 
Surviving conflict in northeast Nigeria
Nigeria

MSF statement on inquiry in Borno, Nigeria

Statement 22 May 2020
 
Al Amal COVID-19 Isolation and treatment center
Yemen

Catastrophe unfolding in Aden’s only COVID-19 treatment centre

Press Release 21 May 2020
 
South-Sudan: thousands at risk of cholera and malnutrition in Pieri
South Sudan

Renewed violence in Pieri kills and wounds dozens, including MSF staff

Press Release 19 May 2020
 
An MSF nurse waits to be called up to a patient's room in the COVID+ centre in Chatenay-Malabry, in the Parisian suburbs
Photo Story

In pictures: MSF responds to COVID-19

19 May 2020
Photo Story
 
Drouillard
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF opens a COVID-19 treatment centre in Haiti

Project Update 18 May 2020
 
MSF activities, Moria Clinic
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Five things we can do to protect people on the move during COVID-19

Project Update 18 May 2020
 
Pibor-Thousands flee into the bush as conflict intensifies
Sudan

MSF urges respect for medical action after violent incursion in Central Darfur

Statement 15 May 2020
 
An MSF ambulance picking up a patient at night in Mathare
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

COVID19 and lack of protective equipment threaten lifesaving care in Kenya.

Project Update 15 May 2020
 
Covid-19 Response in Liberia
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 in West Africa: “Let’s prepare for a long-distance run”

Op-Ed 15 May 2020
 
Revolting attack on pregnant women and babies
Afghanistan

“They came to kill the mothers” in Kabul maternity hospital attack

Voices from the Field 14 May 2020
 
Medical Evacuation to Bentiu PoC
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

People in protection of civilians camps in South Sudan found to have COVID-19

Project Update 13 May 2020
 
Revolting attack on pregnant women and babies
Afghanistan

Revolting attack on maternity ward kills pregnant women and babies in Afghanistan

Press Release 13 May 2020
 
Centre de Traitement des Épidémies de Nongo, à Conakry
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF supports the COVID-19 pandemic response in Guinea

Project Update 12 May 2020
 
MSF intervention in care homes
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

I do not clap at 8pm

MSF CRASH. 10 May 2020
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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