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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.

 
Largest measles outbreak: MSF intervenes in Kongo Central
Measles

Tackling a massive measles outbreak in DRC's Kongo Central province

Project Update 31 Jan 2020
 
Migrants and Refugees in Mexico shelters
Central American migration

Despite kidnapping and continued risks, migrants continue journey north through Mexico

Project Update 30 Jan 2020
 
Matamoros - Asylum-seekers and migrants at the US/Mexico border
Central American migration

The devastating toll of 'Remain in Mexico' asylum policy one year later

Press Release 29 Jan 2020
 
Children with Chronic diseases in Moria
Greece

Greece denies healthcare to seriously ill refugee children on Lesbos

Press Release 23 Jan 2020
 
Wishlist 2020 - FUTURE [Twitter version]
Access to medicines

Our 2020 wishlist - five New Year's resolutions for medical care

Campaign 22 Jan 2020
 
Pneumonia vaccine signs
Access to medicines

Gavi must ensure more children get new, more affordable pneumonia vaccine

Press Release 21 Jan 2020
 
Gaza: the human cost of a “pinpoint” conflict
Palestine

Deaths and broken lives, the aftermath of airstrikes in Gaza

Project Update 17 Jan 2020
 
Fighting malaria and a failing health system in Bolivar
Venezuela

Fighting malaria and a failing health system in Bolivar

Project Update 17 Jan 2020
 
Ocean Viking - Rotation 5
Mediterranean migration

Refugees trapped in Libya: Nowhere to go but the sea

Voices from the Field 15 Jan 2020
 
MSF cares for wounded protesters in Baghdad
Iraq

Tuk-tuks, the ambulances of the nation

Voices from the Field 14 Jan 2020
 
MSF cares for wounded protesters in Baghdad
Iraq

Mending broken lives: treating wounded protesters in Baghdad

Project Update 10 Jan 2020
 
January 2020 displacement in northwest Syria
Syria

Afraid of the bombs: why people discuss the weather in northwestern Syria

Project Update 9 Jan 2020
 
Haiti

Ten years after Haiti earthquake, medical care is deteriorating

Press Release 9 Jan 2020
 
MSF Tabarre
Haiti

Sunday morning in Tabarre emergency trauma hospital

Project Update 3 Jan 2020
 
Measles vaccination campaign in Yida refugees camp
South Sudan

Medical activities are handed over in Yida

Press Release 31 Dec 2019
 
Syria: Situation in Idlib deteriorates dramatically
Syria

“There are no safe places for people in Idlib”

Interview 27 Dec 2019
 
DRC-Mambasa: Emergency medical and psychological care for victims of sexual violence
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Military presence leads MSF to stop activities in Ebola-affected Biakato

Press Release 24 Dec 2019
 
Trapped in Danger
Photo Story

Trading in suffering: detention, exploitation and abuse in Libya

23 Dec 2019
Photo Story
 
Measles Unit in Biringi Hospital, Ituri Province
Democratic Republic of Congo

More effort needed to stop deadly measles epidemic

Project Update 20 Dec 2019
 
Measles outbreak in Maiduguri
Nigeria

Medical assistance urgently needed outside northeast ‘garrison’ towns

Interview 19 Dec 2019
 
Venezuelan migrants in Colombia: an unattended crisis
Colombia

Venezuelans in Colombia: an unattended crisis

Press Release 18 Dec 2019
 
The Migration Protection Protocol in the state of Tamaulipas
Mexico

Hopelessness and anxiety: the consequences of waiting for US asylum

Interview 18 Dec 2019
 
People on the move in Assamaka, Agadez
Photo Story

Niger, at the crossroads of migration

17 Dec 2019
Photo Story
 
Refugees from North-Eastern Syria in Iraq
Photo Story

A year in pictures 2019

17 Dec 2019
Photo Story
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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