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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.

 
Sea Watch 4 - Rotation01 - Life On Deck
Activity Report

Year in Review 2020

Project Update 17 May 2021
 
Cabo Delgado: Mapupulo IDP site
Mozambique

Focus on fighting ‘terrorists’ ignores real humanitarian needs in Cabo Delgado

Opinion 14 May 2021
 
Bombed building in Gaza
Palestine

Heavy Israeli bombing pushes Gaza to the edge of catastrophe

Press Release 13 May 2021
 
MSF search and rescue ship Geo Barents
Mediterranean migration

MSF returns to saving lives at sea in central Mediterranean

Press Release 13 May 2021
 
Revolting attack on pregnant women and babies
Afghanistan

Analysing the unthinkable – one year after the Dasht-e-Barchi attack

Interview 10 May 2021
 
MSF mobile medical team in Batken region, Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan border clashes leave thousands in shock and homeless

Project Update 10 May 2021
 
Treating the COVID-19 Second wave
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

More oxygen supplies needed to avoid COVID-19 patients “gasping for air”

Press Release 10 May 2021
 
Building trust with the communities
DRC Ebola outbreaks

DRC's twelfth Ebola outbreak

Crisis Update 7 May 2021
 
Ethiopia: People in rural Tigray hit by impact of crisis and humanitarian neglect
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

People in rural Tigray hit hard by conflict and neglect

Project Update 5 May 2021
 
Mobile clinic in villages around Titao
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Burkina Faso: providing healthcare in a region ravaged by violence

Project Update 4 May 2021
 
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Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19

Project Update 30 Apr 2021
 
Woman treated for COVID-19 Venezuela
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 3 - September to December 2020

Report 29 Apr 2021
 
Migrants in the City of Coatzacoalcos
Central American migration

Migrants through Mexico further criminalised, exposed to danger, through militarised border pact

Project Update 27 Apr 2021
 
Ocean Viking - Second Rotation, First Rescue
Mediterranean migration

Ongoing human tragedy in Mediterranean following 130 people feared dead

Statement 23 Apr 2021
 
Indoor residual spraying in Burundi - 2020
Malaria

Pumps, bicycles and satellites: fighting malaria in Burundi

Project Update 22 Apr 2021
 
MSF supports COVID-19 response in Peru as hospitals face collapse
Peru

COVID-19 leaves high numbers of deaths and overwhelmed hospitals in Peru

Press Release 20 Apr 2021
 
People on the move in Assamaka, Agadez
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Deportations put migrants’ lives at risk in Niger

Project Update 20 Apr 2021
 
Palma Response - Pemba Stadium
Mozambique

Fear and loss for people fleeing violence in Cabo Delgado

Voices from the Field 16 Apr 2021
 
MSF response to COVID-19 in Porto Velho - Rondonia
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe

Press Release 15 Apr 2021
 
République Centrafricaine / Central African Republic
Sexual violence

Healing the visible and invisible wounds of sexual violence in CAR

Project Update 13 Apr 2021
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Libya

Libya: One dead and two injured in shooting in Tripoli detention centre

Press Release 9 Apr 2021
 
MSF clinic in Pagak reception centre. Ethiopia, March 2021.
Ethiopia

Asylum seekers trapped in appalling conditions in Gambella region

Project Update 9 Apr 2021
 
The growing impact of the conflict in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Violence in Cabo Delgado: “Many have seen dead bodies along the way”

Voices from the Field 2 Apr 2021
 
Measles intervention in Bosobolo, North Ubangi
Democratic Republic of Congo

In DRC, measles is spreading and killing again in what seems to be a never-ending fight

Project Update 31 Mar 2021
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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