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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.

 
Ebola outbreak in DRC's Equateur province
Haemorrhagic fevers

Vaccination halves mortality among people infected with Ebola

Press Release 8 Feb 2024
 
Youssef Al-Khishawi, an MSF water and sanitation agent, oversees a water distribution for displaced people in the southern Gaza town of Rafah’s Saudi neighborhood.
Gaza-Israel war

Lack of clean water brings disease and suffering in Gaza

Project Update 8 Feb 2024
 
General referral hospital of Mweso
Democratic Republic of Congo

People and medical facilities caught in crossfire as violence escalates in North Kivu

Press Release 7 Feb 2024
 
Earthquake Northwestern Syria, 7 February 2023
Türkiye and Syria earthquake response

One year after earthquake, mental scars are still raw in Syria

Project Update 6 Feb 2024
 
A rubber boat leaving the French coasts to the UK
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF offers temporary shelter for people stuck in dire conditions in Calais

Press Release 6 Feb 2024
 
Hepatitis E cases in Al-Tanideba, Sudan
Sudan

Urgent response needed amid high death rates and malnutrition crisis in North Darfur

Press Release 5 Feb 2024
 
Gaza - Al Aqsa Hospital
Gaza-Israel war

The last medics providing healthcare amidst death and destruction in Gaza

Voices from the Field 2 Feb 2024
 
Patients at Al Shifa hospital
Gaza-Israel war

Staff at Al-Shifa struggle to care for patients as needs remain huge

Voices from the Field 31 Jan 2024
 
MSF speed boat delivers hepatitis E vaccines
South Sudan

MSF launches mass vaccination campaign amid deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan

Press Release 30 Jan 2024
 
Inside Gaza - illustrations
Gaza-Israel war

UNRWA funding suspensions jeopardise lifeline for millions in Palestine

Press Release 29 Jan 2024
 
The Emirati hospital, Rafah, Gaza: Displaced, pregnant, and living in a tent.
Gaza-Israel war

Displaced pregnant women at high risk amid dire conditions in Rafah

Project Update 29 Jan 2024
 
Nasser hospital
Gaza-Israel war

With Nasser hospital out of commission, people in southern Gaza run out of healthcare options

Press Release 26 Jan 2024
 
Lassa in Ebonyi State - Nigeria
Nigeria

Tackling the spread of Lassa fever in Nigeria

Project Update 25 Jan 2024
 
Safe Abortion Care in Beira, Mozambique
Safe abortion care

Breaking barriers to safe abortion care in Mozambique

Project Update 23 Jan 2024
 
AlHol MH/ NES
Syria

Unveiling the mental health crisis at Al-Hol Camp in northeast Syria

Project Update 19 Jan 2024
 
MSF reopening project in Harmanli
Bulgaria

MSF provides medical care to asylum seekers arriving in Harmanli

Project Update 19 Jan 2024
 
Faces and Voices from Wad Madani 02
Sudan

Restrictions and lack of medicines deprive people in Khartoum state of lifesaving care

Press Release 18 Jan 2024
 
MSF staff carry supplies
Myanmar

Health workers struggle to respond amid severe restrictions in Rakhine state

Voices from the Field 16 Jan 2024
 
Faces and Voices from Wad Madani 06
Conflict in Sudan

Severe humanitarian needs after half a million people flee violence in Wad Madani

Project Update 15 Jan 2024
 
Rafah Indonesian Hospital
Gaza-Israel war

Evacuation orders and bombing around Gaza hospitals leaves people with few healthcare options

Press Release 12 Jan 2024
 
Medical mobile team in Nabatiyeh, south of Lebanon
Lebanon

Providing healthcare to people displaced by military escalation along Lebanon's southern border

Project Update 10 Jan 2024
 
Damages in Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza: MSF condemns strike on shelter that killed staff member’s five-year-old daughter

Press Release 9 Jan 2024
 
Ourang refugee camp, eastern CHhd
Conflict in Sudan

MSF survey sheds new light on scale and intensity of ethnic violence in Sudan

Press Release 9 Jan 2024
 
Palestinians in Hebron, West Bank, live in constant fear as violence surges
Palestine

Palestinians in Hebron live in constant fear as violence surges

Project Update 3 Jan 2024
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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