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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.

 
Photo Story

A day at the general rural hospital in Thi As Sufal district

14 Jan 2017
Photo Story
 
Medical and mental health in Ukraine
Ukraine

“Pavlopil used to be a nice place to live”

Voices from the Field 13 Jan 2017
 
Medical and mental health in Ukraine
Ukraine

“Your entire universe falls apart”

Voices from the Field 13 Jan 2017
 
Food distribution in Kabo, CAR
Central African Republic

MSF distributes food to 10,500 displaced and vulnerable people in the north

Press Release 12 Jan 2017
 
White Nile Project Sudan
Sudan

White Nile State becomes a haven for those fleeing South Sudan's war

Project Update 10 Jan 2017
 
Erbil Iraq - Debaga Camp and Mobile Clinic
Iraq

MSF assists traumatised people from Mosul

Project Update 10 Jan 2017
 
Winter Living Conditions in Belgrade, Serbia
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Thousands trapped in freezing temperatures in Greece and the Balkans

Project Update 9 Jan 2017
 
Maira Modu's family
Photo Story

Food distribution in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria

6 Jan 2017
Photo Story
 
Food distribution in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Nigeria

Food distribution in Maiduguri

Project Update 5 Jan 2017
 
Mobile clinic in Borgulia, Tal Afar district, Iraq
Iraq

New maternity clinic ensures women deliver safely in Tal Maraq in the northwestern district of Tal Afar

Project Update 4 Jan 2017
 
Abs hospital airstrike aftermath, Hajjah, Yemen
Yemen

Crisis update - December 2016

Crisis Update 31 Dec 2016
 
MSF's Irbid NCDs project provides medical care to Syrian and Jordanian patients for second year
Jordan

Even those who’ve managed to dodge bullets can’t escape fatal diseases.

Voices from the Field 28 Dec 2016
 
MSF's Irbid NCDs project provides medical care to Syrian and Jordanian patients for second year
Jordan

Clinic to treat ‘silent killers’ sees patient numbers rise

Statement 28 Dec 2016
 
Syria

MSF delivers medical supplies to hospitals and relief items to displaced families from East Aleppo

Project Update 23 Dec 2016
 
Displacement in Diffa
Niger

Insufficient humanitarian response to crisis in Diffa

Report 21 Dec 2016
 
East Aleppo – Inside a hospital destroyed by an airstrike
Syria

MSF sends medical supplies to the wounded evacuated from east Aleppo

Project Update 16 Dec 2016
 
Dec 2013 - 2015: Relentless violence in Unity State, South Sudan
Photo Story

A year in pictures 2016

15 Dec 2016
Photo Story
 
Hepatitis E Outbreak, Chad, Dec 2016.
Chad

MSF teams treating and preventing hepatitis E in Am Timan

Project Update 14 Dec 2016
 
Libya

Providing healthcare to detained refugees and migrants

Project Update 14 Dec 2016
 
East Aleppo
Syria

MSF calls on all sides to spare the lives of civilians trapped in the Aleppo battle

Statement 13 Dec 2016
 
Abs hospital airstrike aftermath, Hajjah, Yemen
Yemen

Saudi-led airstrike on Abs hospital cannot be justified as "unintentional error"

Statement 9 Dec 2016
 
East Aleppo – Inside a hospital destroyed by an airstrike
Photo Story

East Aleppo - Inside a hospital destroyed by an airstrike

9 Dec 2016
Photo Story
 
MSF ends operations in Zaatari refugee camp
Jordan

"I consider myself luckier than a lot of other wounded Syrians who couldn't reach Jordan for treatment"

Voices from the Field 7 Dec 2016
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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