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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.

 
MSF activities in South Teheran
Iran

After a cold night on the streets, a warm reception

Voices from the Field 6 Nov 2019
 
Malaria outbreak in North Darfur, Sudan
Sudan

Four questions on the malaria outbreak in western Sudan

Interview 4 Nov 2019
 
Palliative care to cancer patients in Bamako, Mali
Mali

Supporting cancer patients in Bamako

Project Update 1 Nov 2019
 
Mass-casualty influx northern Syria
Syria

Blast in Syria’s Idlib region causes multiple casualties

Project Update 1 Nov 2019
 
Georgia: DR-TB patients find hope in new treatments
Pakistan

Innovative TB trial starts in Sindh province

Press Release 31 Oct 2019
 
Arduous and lengthy treatment of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis

Patients tackle arduous and lengthy tuberculosis treatment in Papua New Guinea

Project Update 30 Oct 2019
 
2018 Union Conference - Johnson & Johnson (J&J) protest
Access to medicines

MSF protests at TB conference against drug corporations keeping lifesaving medicines from people

Press Release 30 Oct 2019
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

No true accountability three years after bombing of MSF-supported hospital

Press Release 30 Oct 2019
 
Migrants and Refugees in Mexico shelters
Central American migration

More people kidnapped, abused on migration route in southern Mexico

Press Release 30 Oct 2019
 
Southern Chhatisgarh TB tracing
India

India: treating TB in the jungle

exposure.co 29 Oct 2019
 
Iraq - Newly arrived refugees from NE Syria
Iraq

Mental health issues emerge amongst people fleeing northeast Syria

Project Update 28 Oct 2019
 
Ocean Viking - Rotation 3 - Rescue 3
Mediterranean migration

European leaders must urgently allow disembarkation of 104 survivors

Press Release 28 Oct 2019
 
IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno state
Nigeria

Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question lifesaving assistance

Statement 25 Oct 2019
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Multiple casualties from shelling on village in northwestern Syria

Project Update 25 Oct 2019
 
Floods in Pibor
South Sudan

“The only way to move around the hospital now is by boat”

Voices from the Field 25 Oct 2019
 
Floods in Pibor
South Sudan

People stranded, cut off from care in severe flooding in South Sudan

Press Release 21 Oct 2019
 
Bardarash refugee camp
Iraq

MSF providing medical care in Iraq to people fleeing northeast Syria

Statement 21 Oct 2019
 
Mexico: Migrants are exposed to danger in Reynosa, Tamaulipas
Mexico

Migration policies that kill

Interview 18 Oct 2019
 
Migrants and refugees in Zintan and Gharyan detention centres in Libya
Libya

Closure of detention centre exposes migrants and refugees to even worse conditions

Press Release 17 Oct 2019
 
Hospital Mobile Clinic Matchika Bambari CAR
Medical resource

International medical guides: practical tools for the field

MSF medical resource 17 Oct 2019
 
Overcoming MDR-TB in Conflict: Lashio Clinic
Myanmar

Displaced couple cured of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Shan state

Project Update 17 Oct 2019
 
Benue: Mbawa Camp Context
Nigeria

Working with displaced people in Benue state, Nigeria

Voices from the Field 16 Oct 2019
 
Zamfara: IDP Context
Nigeria

On the run from violence in Zamfara state

Project Update 15 Oct 2019
 
Emergency North East Syria: Civilians Fleeing Offensive Ras al-Ain
Syria

Northeast Syria: MSF forced to evacuate staff due to extreme volatility in the region

Press Release 14 Oct 2019
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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