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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.

 
Overcoming MDR-TB in Conflict: Lashio Clinic
Myanmar

Displaced couple cured of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Shan state

Project Update 17 Oct 2019
 
Benue: Mbawa Camp Context
Nigeria

Working with displaced people in Benue state, Nigeria

Voices from the Field 16 Oct 2019
 
Zamfara: IDP Context
Nigeria

On the run from violence in Zamfara state

Project Update 15 Oct 2019
 
Emergency North East Syria: Civilians Fleeing Offensive Ras al-Ain
Syria

Northeast Syria: MSF forced to evacuate staff due to extreme volatility in the region

Press Release 14 Oct 2019
 
Humanitarian and medical needs of Venezuelan migrants and asylum seekers in Roraima state, Brazil
Brazil

Taking care of the mental health of Venezuelan children in Brazil

Project Update 11 Oct 2019
 
Emergency North East Syria: Civilians Fleeing Offensive Ras al-Ain
Syria

Northeast Syria: Turkish military operation results in displacement and hospital closure

Press Release 11 Oct 2019
 
DMITRY Story: “I have nowhere to go.”
Belarus

TB patients improve treatment adherence with psychological and social support

Project Update 10 Oct 2019
 
OLEG Story: "I’d been through many things in my life, but I’d never experienced anything like it.”
Tuberculosis

TB drug delamanid must be more affordable and made available in more countries

Statement 10 Oct 2019
 
Palestine: The invisible mental health crisis plaguing the West Bank
Palestine

The invisible mental health crisis plaguing the West Bank

Project Update 10 Oct 2019
 
Johnson & Johnson demonstration - bedaquiline
Access to medicines

MSF demands Johnson & Johnson reduce price of lifesaving TB drug

Press Release 10 Oct 2019
 
Mabalako
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola response overshadows already fragile health system

Project Update 9 Oct 2019
 
Mental Health testimonies
Mental health

The Yazidi - a community without hope

exposure.co 9 Oct 2019
 
Advanced HIV in Kinshasa
HIV/AIDS

Burden sharing or burden shifting? How the HIV/TB response is being derailed

Report 7 Oct 2019
 
Insein clinic, for treatment for HIV, TB, and Hepatitis C in Yangon. By Alessandro Penso, Feb 2018.
HIV/AIDS

Urgent boost and reality check needed for HIV and TB funding

Press Release 6 Oct 2019
 
Mental Health testimonies
Iraq

MSF warns of mental health crisis among Yazidis in Iraq

Press Release 4 Oct 2019
 
TVT
Ethiopia

Displacement and humanitarian response in Ethiopia: challenges and dilemmas in complex crises

Report 3 Oct 2019
 
Beni ebola treatment center
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Vaccinating against Ebola in a challenging context

Project Update 3 Oct 2019
 
Lebogang Seketema, MSF Driver
South Africa

Drivers for victims: changing lives in Rustenburg

Project Update 2 Oct 2019
 
Syria

Women treated for gunshot wounds amidst violence and unrest in Al-Hol camp

Press Release 30 Sep 2019
 
MSF protest against sofosbuvir patent in Munich
Access to medicines

20 years on, the access-to-medicines battle is going global

Op-Ed 27 Sep 2019
 
AskPharma Protest
Access to medicines

6 things Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know!

Project Update 26 Sep 2019
 
MSF on the migration route to Mexico
El Salvador

El Salvador is not a safe country for refugees or asylum seekers

Press Release 26 Sep 2019
 
Safe Abortion Colombia illustration
Colombia

Women and girls prevented from having a safe abortion

Press Release 25 Sep 2019
 
MSF worker sits with a female patient
Colombia

Unsafe abortion: women at risk

Report 25 Sep 2019
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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