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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
Content Portal

Latest

Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
Violence in eastern Ukraine
Ukraine

Effects of conflict spreading whilst health system struggles to cope

Project Update 29 Aug 2014
 
Bentiu South Sudan - Floods inside the UN Internally Displaced People's camp
South Sudan

The struggle to protect civilians in South Sudan

Voices from the Field 29 Aug 2014
 
Bangui, General Hospital, VVS
Photo Story

MSF treats victims of sexual violence in Bangui

28 Aug 2014
Photo Story
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF response to the WHO new Ebola roadmap

Statement 28 Aug 2014
 
Honduras - Servicio prioritario
Honduras

MSF makes care for rape survivors a priority

Project Update 28 Aug 2014
 
Palestine

Life has returned to Gaza

Voices from the Field 27 Aug 2014
 
Gaza, MSF Support to Al Shifa hospital
Palestine

Medical care through war and truce

Project Update 27 Aug 2014
 
Liberia

MSF’s new Ebola management centres already overwhelmed

Press Release 27 Aug 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF deeply saddened by deaths of a Guinean, a Liberian and a Sierra Leonean colleague

Statement 26 Aug 2014
 
Journal article

The development of a multilingual tool for facilitating the primary-specialty care interface in low resource settings: the MSF tele-expertise system

26 Aug 2014
Journal article
 
MSF Ebola Training Brussels 2014
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola Epidemic confirmed in Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF sends specialists and material to the epicentre

Press Release 26 Aug 2014
 
Vaccination Campaign against Cholera Gambella Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees receive cholera vaccine

Press Release 25 Aug 2014
 
Central African Republic

"The population does not buy the idea that this is a religious conflict”

Voices from the Field 25 Aug 2014
 
Journal article

Hepatitis B virus in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: a cross sectional serosurvey in different cohorts

23 Aug 2014
Journal article
 
MSF clinic for IDPs in Baharka Camp, Iraq Kurdistan
Iraq

Stories from Bharka Camp

Voices from the Field 20 Aug 2014
 
MSF clinic for IDPs in Baharka Camp, Iraq Kurdistan
Iraq

“With so many IDPs the challenge is to target our work to the most vulnerable”

Voices from the Field 20 Aug 2014
 
Central African Republic

MSF receives 31 new wounded at the General Hospital

Project Update 20 Aug 2014
 
Palestine

Lift the Blockade on Gaza

Op-Ed 20 Aug 2014
 
Kailahun, Sierra Leone
Haemorrhagic fevers

International Response to West Africa Ebola Epidemic Dangerously Inadequate

Project Update 15 Aug 2014
 
Kailahun, Sierra Leone
Haemorrhagic fevers

New Strategies and More Hands-on Capacity Needed to Curb Ebola Epidemic

Speech 15 Aug 2014
 
Journal article

Patch-testing for the management of hypersensitivity reactions to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs: a case report

15 Aug 2014
Journal article
 
Ansongo. SMC
Mali

protecting children from the most deadly childhood disease

Voices from the Field 15 Aug 2014
 
Mozambique - HIV and TB care
Mozambique

Home care in Mozambique: reaching out to patients

Project Update 15 Aug 2014
 
Batangafo hospital
Central African Republic

Thousands of people fearing violence look for refuge at the hospital and military compound in Batangafo

Press Release 14 Aug 2014
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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