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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.

 
Central African Republic

Economic collapse brings a ghost town and severe malnutrition to Carnot, CAR

Project Update 7 Sep 2009
 
Papua New Guinea

First cholera outbreak in 50 years in Papua New Guinea moves from small town to provincial capital

Project Update 7 Sep 2009
 
Chad

Staff member safely released

Press Release 2 Sep 2009
 
India

MSF response to India's rejection of patents on key HIV/AIDS drugs

Press Release 2 Sep 2009
 
Ethiopia

MSF teams respond to diarrhoea outbreak

Project Update 2 Sep 2009
 
Somalia

Security incidents amidst large-scale humanitarian care by MSF in Somalia during first six months of 2009

Project Update 1 Sep 2009
 
Pakistan

The strain on the host families is tremendous: Internal displacement from the Swat valley

Project Update 28 Aug 2009
 
Pakistan

MSF reinforces its presence in Mardan and Lower Dir

Project Update 26 Aug 2009
 
Italy

MSF assists the five survivors - 73 feared dead - of boat tragedy in Lampedusa, Italy

Project Update 25 Aug 2009
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Survivors of a horrific attack tell their story

Voices from the Field 21 Aug 2009
 
Malawi

In southern Malawi, decentralizing care to HIV/AIDS patients compensates for a lack of medical staff

Project Update 20 Aug 2009
 
Yemen

MSF assists victims of new wave of warfare in Yemen

Project Update 19 Aug 2009
 
Central African Republic

In just two weeks 390 children treated for malnutrition at new MSF nutritional project in the Central African Republic

Project Update 18 Aug 2009
 
Somalia

Looting brings suspension of MSF work in Jilib, Somalia

Statement 17 Aug 2009
 
Zimbabwe

Are we beyond cholera and the crisis in Zimbabwe?

Project Update 17 Aug 2009
 
Zimbabwe

I thought I was going to die

Voices from the Field 17 Aug 2009
 
Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan government has an obligation to release civilians and provide adequate assistance

Voices from the Field 13 Aug 2009
 
Sri Lanka

The war in Sri Lanka has ended but the suffering continues

Project Update 13 Aug 2009
 
Sri Lanka

It's amazing what you can be thankful for: surgery in northern Sri Lanka

Project Update 13 Aug 2009
 
Chad

MSF staff member held by unknown group

Press Release 9 Aug 2009
 
Chad

International staff member remains missing in Chad

Press Release 7 Aug 2009
 
Chad

Two MSF aid workers missing in Chad

Press Release 6 Aug 2009
 
War and conflict

MSF continues to assist populations in violent areas of northern DRC and southern Sudan

Project Update 5 Aug 2009
 
South Sudan

Assisting LRA victims in southern Sudan

Project Update 5 Aug 2009
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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