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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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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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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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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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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 Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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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.

 
Journal article

Risk Factors Associated with Default from Multi- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment, Uzbekistan: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis

6 Nov 2013
Journal article
 
Somalia

A timeline of MSF in Somalia

Project Update 4 Nov 2013
 
Tuberculosis

DR-TB drugs under the microscope: Sources and prices for drug-resistant tuberculosis medicines - 3rd Edition

Report 30 Oct 2013
 
Osh project, fighting TB
Tuberculosis

First new TB drug in 50 years risks being squandered without better research and pricing strategies

Press Release 30 Oct 2013
 
PCV Vaccination Campaign in Yida Camp
Access to medicines

Global alliance for vaccinations meets to examine progress, MSF points to needed policy changes

Press Release 28 Oct 2013
 
Syria - Al Safira district
Syria

Civilians forced to flee Al Safira under heavy bombardment

Press Release 25 Oct 2013
 
Journal article

Don't Shoot the Ambulance: Medicine in the Crossfire

24 Oct 2013
Journal article
 
Journal article

The drug and vaccine landscape for neglected diseases (2000–11): a systematic assessment

24 Oct 2013
Journal article
 
DRC - Displacements of population following heavy fighting in Geti
Democratic Republic of Congo

“People have simply been abandoned" in South Irumu

Press Release 24 Oct 2013
 
Honduras - Dengue outbreak in San Pedro Sula
Honduras

MSF fights deadly outbreak of dengue fever

Project Update 23 Oct 2013
 
Dera Murad Jamali Hospital. Eastern Balochistan, Pakistan.
Pakistan

Access Denied

Op-Ed 21 Oct 2013
 
Fighting in CAR reaches unprecedented levels of violence, with PR CAR, Oct 16 2013
Central African Republic

Fighting reaches unprecedented levels of violence

Press Release 16 Oct 2013
 
Transit camp in Aleppo province
Syria

Political will shown to work for chemical weapons access in Syria – same now needed urgently for humanitarian aid

Press Release 15 Oct 2013
 
Fashoda, South Sudan
South Sudan

New refugees from Sudan in need of assistance

Project Update 11 Oct 2013
 
Project Update

EU member states must recognise human cost of repressive migration policies

Press Release 9 Oct 2013
 
Iraq - Mental health care for Syrian refugees
Iraq

As soon as the door is closed, we spend time with them, and we listen

Project Update 8 Oct 2013
 
Iraq - Mental health care for Syrian refugees
Syria

An invisible crisis - alarming psychological needs among refugees in Iraq

Project Update 8 Oct 2013
 
Iraq - Mental health care for Syrian refugees
Syria

It is difficult to have hope for the future when we don’t know what will happen

Voices from the Field 8 Oct 2013
 
CAR
Central African Republic

9,000 children vaccinated against measles, polio in Gadzi

Project Update 7 Oct 2013
 
1st October 2013, MSF now operating in a second hospital in Gaza, Al-Shifa hospital,
Palestine

MSF operating in second hospital in Gaza

Project Update 7 Oct 2013
 
Chad - Malaria emergency in Massakory
Chad

Malaria peak, a preventable emergency

Project Update 7 Oct 2013
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF limits medical activities in Mweso

Statement 7 Oct 2013
 
Pakistan

MSF still without authorisation to enter earthquake-affected Awaran area

Project Update 4 Oct 2013
 
Somalia

MSF launches website revealing insights to its decisions to speak out on crises

Press Release 3 Oct 2013
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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