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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
Content Portal

Latest

Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
Snapshots from Borno State // Amina story
Nigeria

Amina, a 15-year-old mother in Maiduguri

Voices from the Field 18 Aug 2016
 
Journal article

Defective interfering genomes and Ebola virus persistence

18 Aug 2016
Journal article
 
MSF Yellow Fever Vaccination in Kinshasa, DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF mobilises hundreds of workers for massive yellow fever vaccination campaign in Kinshasa

Project Update 16 Aug 2016
 
Airstrike hits Abs hospital in Hajjah
Yemen

Death toll rises to 19 in airstrike on MSF-supported Abs hospital in Hajjah

Project Update 16 Aug 2016
 
Katanga, DRC Sept 2013, Sam Phelps
Democratic Republic of Congo

After ten years, Shamwana project is closed

Press Release 16 Aug 2016
 
Airstrike hits Abs hospital in Hajjah
Yemen

Eleven people dead and at least 19 injured after airstrike hits Abs hospital in Hajjah

Statement 15 Aug 2016
 
Colombia

Malaria caused by the falciparum parasite spreading throughout country

Project Update 15 Aug 2016
 
Boost Hospital, Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Patient numbers falling in Helmand as intensifying conflict restricts access

Project Update 12 Aug 2016
 
Central African Republic - Zemio Project - Patient Stories
Central African Republic

MSF nurse speaks with patients from HIV programme in Zémio

Project Update 12 Aug 2016
 
Syria

People are scared to go to hospitals

Voices from the Field 11 Aug 2016
 
Journal article

Humanitarianism and the Migration Crisis

11 Aug 2016
Journal article
 
Testimony of a nigerian refugee
Nigeria

We are scared to return

Voices from the Field 11 Aug 2016
 
Syrian Refugees Stranded in the "Berm" Jordan/Syria Border
Jordan

People in the Berm are stuck between life and death

Voices from the Field 11 Aug 2016
 
MSF-supported hospital in northern Syria before it was destroyed
Syria

Providing healthcare in communities affected by conflict and violence in northern Syria

Project Update 10 Aug 2016
 
Emergency response in Eastern Nigeria
Nigeria

Crisis Info on Borno emergency - August 2016

Project Update 10 Aug 2016
 
Routine vaccination (EPI)
Syria

Internally displaced people and host communities in urgent need of humanitarian assistance

Project Update 10 Aug 2016
 
India

Kashmir unrest one-month update - MSF donates external fixators for trauma victims, continues psychological first aid

Project Update 9 Aug 2016
 
MSF Supported Hospital Bombed in Idlib, Syria
Syria

MSF-supported hospital in Idlib bombed to the ground amid increased intensity of attacks

Press Release 8 Aug 2016
 
Ansongo hospital in Gao region, northern Mali, where MSF carries out consultations and assists deliveries.
Mali

Recent clashes in the north are hampering the deployment of humanitarian assistance

Project Update 4 Aug 2016
 
Untreated Violence
Sexual violence

Untreated Violence: The need for patient-centred care for survivors of sexual violence

org.za 1 Aug 2016
 
Paediatric care in national hospital in Bissau
Guinea-Bissau

Many children would be saved if they arrived at the hospital earlier

Voices from the Field 29 Jul 2016
 
MSF Activities in Ukraine
Ukraine

MSF concludes medical humanitarian activities in Bakhmut

Press Release 29 Jul 2016
 
Aleppo city
Syria

Trapped, under attack and struggling to survive in Aleppo

Project Update 28 Jul 2016
 
India

MSF calls for affordable pneumonia vaccines ahead of Pfizer’s patent hearing in India

Press Release 28 Jul 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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