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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.

 
MSF response to Moria Fire
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Enough is enough: new pact, same misery for refugees

Op-Ed 5 Oct 2020
 
Testimony from Vathy Camp. Samos - July 2020
Greece

European policies of deterrence and containment degrade human life

Op-Ed 1 Oct 2020
 
COVID-19 Intervention: National Public Health Laboratory, Juba
South Sudan

Young biotechnologists at the forefront of the COVID-19 response

Project Update 1 Oct 2020
 
Beneficiary of safe abortion care
Women's health

Proposed changes to US Global Gag Rule threaten wider harm to women

Interview 28 Sep 2020
 
COVID-19 ward in Al-Kindy hospital, Baghdad
Iraq

COVID-19 outbreak in Baghdad is “very alarming”

Project Update 24 Sep 2020
 
Heavy floods threaten the lives of thousands of people in Greater Pibor
South Sudan

Heavy floods threaten the lives of thousands of people in Greater Pibor

Project Update 23 Sep 2020
 
Surge in COVID-19 cases adds new challenges to the humanitarian response in north-west Syria
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Ten-fold increase in COVID-19 cases adds new challenges in northwest Syria

Project Update 22 Sep 2020
 
Palestine: Tackling COVID-19 in Hebron, the epicenter of the outbreak
Palestine

Tackling COVID-19 in Hebron, the epicentre of the outbreak in Palestine

Project Update 21 Sep 2020
 
Eshowe Rural COVID-19 Response
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 and rural South Africa

org.za 21 Sep 2020
 
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Mediterranean migration

Detainment of fifth search and rescue ship in five months condemns people to die at sea

Press Release 20 Sep 2020
 
MSF emergency clinic after Moria fire
Mediterranean migration

“Enough is enough”: Time to stop the cycle of suffering for refugees on Greek islands

Project Update 17 Sep 2020
 
Old Fangak Stories
About MSF

Challenging times in Old Fangak

msf.org 17 Sep 2020
 
Home visit at indigenous village of Limao Verde
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF works to prevent spread of COVID-19 among indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul

Project Update 17 Sep 2020
 
Malaria peak in Batangafo
Central African Republic

In times of COVID-19, malaria remains the number one killer of children in CAR

Project Update 15 Sep 2020
 
Mask distribution in Machar Colony
About MSF

Snakes, ladders and COVID-19: Pakistan

msf.org 14 Sep 2020
 
Closure Insein Clinic, Yangon Myanmar - Minzayar Oo - June 2019
Myanmar

MSF hands over long-running HIV project in Yangon to ministry of health

Project Update 10 Sep 2020
 
Moria Fire Camp
Greece

All people in Moria camp must be evacuated to safety in wake of destructive fire

Project Update 9 Sep 2020
 
Pakistan: Meeting regular health needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Pakistan

Meeting regular health needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

Project Update 8 Sep 2020
 
MSF activities continue in Gwoza, Borno State
Nigeria

“Children can draw assault rifles better than a football” in Borno state

Interview 8 Sep 2020
 
Wound and burn care medical point
Lebanon

“The explosion did not distinguish between its victims and neither should the aid response”

Interview 4 Sep 2020
 
Ebola outbreak in DRC's Equateur province
DRC Ebola outbreaks

Responding to new Ebola outbreak in Équateur province

Project Update 4 Sep 2020
 
Yasin, 9 year-old boy in Moria
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Greek police enforce unwarranted and cruel quarantine of Moria camp on Lesbos

Statement 3 Sep 2020
 
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Mediterranean migration

Sea-Watch 4 is allocated a port of safety 11 days after first rescue

Interview 2 Sep 2020
 
Streer view - Mbawa camp
Nigeria

“When I think about going home, I remind myself that a live dog is better than a dead lion”

Project Update 1 Sep 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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