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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.

 
Treating a child during an outreach activity in Maiduguri
Nigeria

Extra-long malaria season in Borno claims lives

Project Update 14 Dec 2020
 
ReCivilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities in Yemen
Yemen

Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities

Press Release 14 Dec 2020
 
COVID-19 response in intensive care units in HUG
Photo Story

A year in pictures 2020

11 Dec 2020
Photo Story
 
An orphan with grandmother in MSF Shinkafi hospital
Nigeria

Killings, looting and abductions in Zamfara state

Project Update 9 Dec 2020
 
Violence in Nariño, Colombia
Colombia

Getting closer to Colombia’s conflict

Voices from the Field 4 Dec 2020
 
Life inside South Sudan’s Largest Displacement Camp
South Sudan

Fear of violence, poor living conditions in South Sudan’s largest displacement camp

Project Update 3 Dec 2020
 
Thalassemia in Zahleh
Lebanon

Saving the lives of children with thalassaemia in Lebanon

Project Update 3 Dec 2020
 
Covid-19 in Amazon region
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 2 – June to August 2020

Report 2 Dec 2020
 
Emergency Malaria Outbreak South Kivu DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: Violent attacks against staff force MSF to end projects in Fizi territory, South Kivu

Press Release 1 Dec 2020
 
HIV project - Bangui
HIV/AIDS

HIV is in a state of silent crisis in Central African Republic

Project Update 30 Nov 2020
 
The journey to reversing the curve
HIV/AIDS

Bending the HIV curve in Kenya's Ndhiwa sub-county

Project Update 30 Nov 2020
 
Ethiopian Refugees Crossing - Hamadayet Border
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

MSF providing medical care and assistance in Sudan to people fleeing violence in Ethiopia

Project Update 27 Nov 2020
 
Laylan camp: trucks for belongings
Iraq

Displaced people in Iraq’s Laylan camp express fears as camp closes

Press Release 24 Nov 2020
 
MSF withdraws from the Pérez de León II hospital in Petare (Caracas)
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Staff entry restrictions force MSF to withdraw from COVID-19 response in Venezuela hospital

Press Release 24 Nov 2020
 
Refugees in Bosnia
Mediterranean migration

“What Europe is experiencing today, is not a humanitarian crisis, but a crisis of humanity.”

Speech 19 Nov 2020
 
Salamabia Sexual Violence
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF denounces ongoing violence in Salamabila

Statement 19 Nov 2020
 
Ebola intervention in Equateur province
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Improved medical response sees the end of DRC’s eleventh Ebola outbreak

Project Update 19 Nov 2020
 
COVID-19 Intervention: National Public Health Laboratory, Juba
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Governments must support landmark proposal to waive COVID-19 patents

Press Release 19 Nov 2020
 
Everybody Breathes: Treating TB in Eshowe, South Africa
Tuberculosis

Step up for TB report 2020

Report 16 Nov 2020
 
Zhytomyr TB Hospital
Tuberculosis

MSF calls on governments and donors to speed up TB testing and treatment

Press Release 16 Nov 2020
 
Sea Watch 4 - Open Arms
Mediterranean migration

Carnage in the Mediterranean is the direct result of European state policies

Press Release 13 Nov 2020
 
MSF COVID-19 response in care home Božice
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF supports COVID-19 response in nursing homes in Czech Republic

Project Update 13 Nov 2020
 
NCD Non-Communicable Diseases in Jordan
Non-communicable diseases

Eight reasons why diabetes is a humanitarian emergency

Project Update 13 Nov 2020
 
MSF provides medical assistance in Covid+ centres in Paris and the suburbs
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF supports nursing home staff as urgent appeal for medical personnel in France launched

Project Update 11 Nov 2020
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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