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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.

 
Crisis in Aburoch, South Sudan
South Sudan

Fighting and deplorable conditions in Aburoc force 20,000 people to flee

Project Update 11 May 2017
 
Diffa, Niger: a region devastated by the Boko Haram crisis
Photo Story

The burden of violence in the Diffa region

10 May 2017
Photo Story
 
Diffa, Niger: a region devastated by the Boko Haram crisis
Niger

Diffa - the burden of violence

Project Update 10 May 2017
 
Yemeni chronicles
Yemen

MSF calls for increased response to cholera outbreak

Press Release 9 May 2017
 
Nigeria: Fighting the worst meningitis C epidemic in nine years
Nigeria

Fighting the worst meningitis C outbreak since 2008

Project Update 9 May 2017
 
Airstrikes hit an MSF-supported hospital in Dara’a governorate.
Syria

"MSF adapts to respond to the needs of a war-afflicted population"

Voices from the Field 8 May 2017
 
Post Operative Care in South Mosul, Iraq
Iraq

Crisis update Mosul - May 2017

Crisis Update 8 May 2017
 
Treating MDR-TB in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Sept 2013
Tuberculosis

New report highlights need to better tackle world’s deadliest infectious disease

Project Update 7 May 2017
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

MSF condemns incursion by armed men into supported hospitals in East Ghouta

Statement 1 May 2017
 
Measles Vaccination in Maniema, DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF staff treat measles cases across five provinces

Press Release 28 Apr 2017
 
A Fair Shot petition handover
Vaccination

Investors join MSF in calling Pfizer to reduce the price of pneumonia vaccine

Press Release 27 Apr 2017
 
In April 2017, up to 25,000 people were forced to flee Kodok for the IDP camp in Aburoc as the frontline approached.
South Sudan

Intense fighting around Kodok forces up to 25,000 people to flee without humanitarian support

Press Release 27 Apr 2017
 
Diffa: Water and sanitation conditions
Niger

Hepatitis E outbreak linked to water shortages and poor sanitation

Press Release 26 Apr 2017
 
Yemeni chronicles
Yemen

MSF statement at Geneva donor conference

Statement 25 Apr 2017
 
MSF AWD ward in Kebridahar 2017
Ethiopia

Thousands hit by outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea during worst drought for decades

Project Update 24 Apr 2017
 
From Misrata to Tripoli
Libya

From Misrata to Tripoli, a first-hand account from Dr Tankred Stoebe

Voices from the Field 24 Apr 2017
 
Journal article

MSF publishes study on the accuracy of HIV rapid diagnostic tests

20 Apr 2017
Journal article
 
SMC and vaccination in the north of Mali
Mali

"There is a crisis overlap in northern Mali"

Voices from the Field 20 Apr 2017
 
Nigeria: Searching for aid after fleeing the fighting
Photo Story

Searching for aid after fleeing the fighting

19 Apr 2017
Photo Story
 
Nigeria, Banki, March 2017
Nigeria

As refugees flee violence, others are forcibly returned

Press Release 19 Apr 2017
 
Nigeria, Banki, March 2017
Nigeria

Testimonies of forced return

Voices from the Field 19 Apr 2017
 
Nigeria-Rann_March-2017
Nigeria

“Falling sick in Rann is almost a death sentence”

Voices from the Field 19 Apr 2017
 
Bria Hospital
Central African Republic

“Our paediatric hospital had to suddenly function as an adult trauma centre”

Voices from the Field 13 Apr 2017
 
CAR - Mar 2017
Central African Republic

Civilians pay the price of renewed, brutal fighting

Press Release 13 Apr 2017
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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