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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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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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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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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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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 Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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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.

 
Tal Abyad Hospital
Syria

Seeking to assist Syrians, wherever they are in need of help

Press Release 23 May 2018
 
Rohingya camp expansion
Rohingya refugee crisis

Crisis update – May 2018

Crisis Update 23 May 2018
 
Snakebites in Paoua
Snakebite

Governments slated to vote on first-ever resolution at World Health Assembly

Statement 23 May 2018
 
Traditional Birth Attendants cooperate with MSF
Sudan

Dreams of returning home remain distant for displaced in Darfur camp

Voices from the Field 18 May 2018
 
North Yemen: living under daily coalition airstrikes
Photo Story

Living under daily coalition airstrikes

18 May 2018
Photo Story
 
Kenya

MSF responds to cholera outbreak amid heavy rains and flooding

Project Update 18 May 2018
 
Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in Bikoro
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Ninth Ebola outbreak in 40 years hits urban area

Project Update 17 May 2018
 
Influx of wounded patients in Sica hospital in Bangui
Central African Republic

Days of violence and mass casualties in Bangui

Project Update 17 May 2018
 
Bambari May 2017
Central African Republic

Fire and bloodshed in Bambari, a town symbolising peace

Project Update 17 May 2018
 
Journal article

Conflict and tuberculosis in Sudan

16 May 2018
Journal article
 
Tal Abyad hospital: Noora
Syria

Treating patients with chronic conditions in a war context

Project Update 16 May 2018
 
MSF assistance to migrants and refugees in Libya
Libya

The dangers refugees face fleeing

Interview 14 May 2018
 
Gaza protest
Palestine

Violence on demonstrators in Gaza is 'unacceptable and inhumane'

Statement 14 May 2018
 
Qalaat al-Madiq buses
Syria

Newly displaced Syrians face multiple challenges in Idlib and northern Hama

Project Update 14 May 2018
 
The "March of Return"
Palestine

“In half of the injured we received… the bone has literally been turned into dust.”

Voices from the Field 10 May 2018
 
Nurses Feda' Abu Rashed (Left) and Ala' Al-Share' (Right)
International Nurses' Day

Nurses without limits

Project Update 9 May 2018
 
Victims of airstrike in Sanaa
Yemen

MSF-supported hospitals treat mass casualties caused by airstrikes in Sana'a

Press Release 8 May 2018
 
Access to medicines

Access Campaign Year in Review 2017

msfaccess.org 7 May 2018
 
West Aleppo, Syria: MSF helps vaccinate tens of thousands of displaced Syrian children
Syria

Thousands of displaced kids in Aleppo catch up on vaccinations

Project Update 7 May 2018
 
Zwara, Libya
Libya

Time running out for 800 migrants and refugees in Zuwara detention centre

Statement 4 May 2018
 
Listening spaces in Diffa
Niger

In Diffa, listening spaces have been set up for and by women from the community

msf.lu 4 May 2018
 
Mobile Clinic - Moria Camp
Greece

Overcrowded, dangerous and insufficient access to healthcare in Moria

Statement 4 May 2018
 
Journal article

Impact of pyrazinamide resistance on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

1 May 2018
Journal article
 
Nigeria: Searching for aid after fleeing the fighting
Nigeria

Parched Pulka searches for water

Project Update 27 Apr 2018
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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