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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.

 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of displaced civilians in DRC trapped by conflict, wounded unable to reach hospitals in Hauts Plateaux, South Kivu

Press Release 11 Mar 2010
 
Global

AIDS care gap between Europe and southern countries risks becoming a chasm

Press Release 9 Mar 2010
 
Afghanistan

Overcoming war, violence, intimidation and fear in Helmand province, Afghanistan, to bring desperately needed medical care

Project Update 9 Mar 2010
 
Chile

Ongoing support to hospitals, plus mobile clinics and more supplies after earthquake in Chile

Project Update 9 Mar 2010
 
Haiti

Haitians facing intolerable breach of human dignity

Project Update 7 Mar 2010
 
Chile

Initial aid to hospitals and assessments in areas most affected by earthquake in Chile

Project Update 3 Mar 2010
 
Chile

First MSF team in Chile assessing earthquake damage - more staff en route

Project Update 1 Mar 2010
 
Chile

MSF sends teams to Chile to evaluate the situation after earthquake

Project Update 27 Feb 2010
 
Haiti

Haiti staff interviews: MSF helps me treat my fellow Haitians

Voices from the Field 22 Feb 2010
 
Haiti

At night I sleep under a tent, during the day I work under one

Voices from the Field 21 Feb 2010
 
Bangladesh

Violent crackdown fuels humanitarian crisis for unrecognised Rohingya refugees Bangladesh

Report 18 Feb 2010
 
Bangladesh

Stateless Rohingya victims of violent crackdown in Bangladesh

Press Release 18 Feb 2010
 
Pakistan

MSF distributes basic living items to 35,000 people displaced by the conflict in Kurram Agency Pakistan

Project Update 16 Feb 2010
 
Afghanistan

Bleak living conditions in Afghanistan's Baghrami market

Project Update 12 Feb 2010
 
Haiti

Working through the disaster

Project Update 11 Feb 2010
 
Somalia

66 women and children injured by indiscriminate shelling admitted to Daynile Hospital, Mogadishu

Project Update 3 Feb 2010
 
Pakistan

MSF teams treat wounded from Lower Dir explosion in Pakistan

Project Update 3 Feb 2010
 
Haiti

Physical symptoms of mental health issues on the rise in Haiti as medical scope expands

Project Update 2 Feb 2010
 
Haiti

High surgical needs in Haiti remain as wider range of mental trauma begins to surface

Project Update 29 Jan 2010
 
Pakistan

2,100 children among displaced families in Munda, Pakistan vaccinated against measles

Project Update 27 Jan 2010
 
after the earthquake, logistic, material and post op cares are furnished by MSF.
Haiti

Tented and inflatable facilities bring peace of mind to surgery patients in Haiti

Project Update 26 Jan 2010
 
Haiti

Mobile clinics catch routine and unique injuries that are on the rise in Haiti after the earthquake

Project Update 23 Jan 2010
 
Haiti

Surgery in Haiti remains the focus but mobile clinics and clean water expand MSF scope

Project Update 22 Jan 2010
 

Paul McMaster: Equipment needed to save lives was here - then sent away

Project Update 21 Jan 2010
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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