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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.

 
SYRIA IDLIB DISTRIBUTION
Syria

People in northwest Syria continue to struggle despite truce

Project Update 17 Mar 2020
 
Medical Evacuation to Bentiu PoC
South Sudan

Huge numbers of wounded and displaced as violence continues in Jonglei and Greater Pibor area

Press Release 17 Mar 2020
 
Respirator Masks
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Help and solidarity needed in Europe to protect medical staff from COVID-19

Press Release 16 Mar 2020
 
Georgia: DR-TB patients find hope in new treatments
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Challenges in supporting COVID-19 response

Interview 16 Mar 2020
 
Lesbos and Samos Oct2019
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Evacuation of squalid Greek camps more urgent than ever over COVID-19 fears

Press Release 12 Mar 2020
 
MSF intervention in Lodi
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF starts COVID-19 response activities in four northern Italian hospitals

Press Release 12 Mar 2020
 
Lesbos and Samos Oct2019
Greece

Greece, the ‘shield’ of Europe, and EU leaders push migrants into danger

Project Update 11 Mar 2020
 
Joanne Liu visiting an ETC in Butembo, DR Congo
DRC Ebola outbreaks

After the fire - how we could have better managed the DRC Ebola outbreak

Op-Ed 11 Mar 2020
 
Refugee population in Andeamboukane, Mali
Mali

Fleeing violence in Niger, refugees in Mali remain vulnerable

Project Update 9 Mar 2020
 
Deir Hassan Camp
Syria

Displaced people face a desperate situation in Idlib

Project Update 9 Mar 2020
 
Emergency care in Tabarre hospital
Haiti

Port-au-Prince: Over 360 people admitted for lifesaving care in three months

Project Update 6 Mar 2020
 
Training session for COVID-19 in Cambodia
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Preparing for COVID-19 in South-East Asia

Interview 5 Mar 2020
 
Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Non-communicable diseases

Why are so many women dying of cervical cancer?

Project Update 5 Mar 2020
 
Boost Hospital, Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Afghans face impossible choices in their struggle for medical care

Press Release 5 Mar 2020
 
Displaced families in Herat
Afghanistan

Reality check: Afghanistan's neglected healthcare crisis

Report 5 Mar 2020
 
Living conditions on Samos
Greece

EU must address migration emergency as Greek islands reach breaking point

Statement 4 Mar 2020
 
MSF in Nariño
Social violence and exclusion

Violence in southwestern Colombia leaves people struggling to access assistance

Statement 3 Mar 2020
 
Pibor-Thousands flee into the bush as conflict intensifies
South Sudan

Thousands flee into the bush as conflict intensifies in east South Sudan

Statement 2 Mar 2020
 
Deir Hassan Camp
Syria

People in northwestern Syria forced to move as frontlines move

Voices from the Field 2 Mar 2020
 
Trapped in Danger
Libya

Arbitrary detention in Libya must end as asylum seeker dies in detention centre fire

Press Release 2 Mar 2020
 
Deir Hassan Camp
Syria

MSF to scale up response in Idlib, Syria as tensions reach a new peak

Statement 28 Feb 2020
 
Rotation 7 - Quarantine of Ocean Viking
Mediterranean migration

Ocean Viking arbitrarily quarantined by Italian authorities over COVID-19 fears

Project Update 28 Feb 2020
 
Qadimoon camp (Northwest Syria)
Syria

Horrific day of indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Idlib, Syria

Press Release 26 Feb 2020
 
A curious family in Barsalogho IDP camp
Burkina Faso

Security and living conditions have deteriorated at ‘blistering speed’ for over 750,000 people

Project Update 24 Feb 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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