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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.

 
Mobile clinic in Sindhupalchowk and Pasuwa districts, Nepal
Nepal

MSF doctor describes the challenge of getting aid to hardest hit areas

Voices from the Field 1 May 2015
 
Yemen

Crisis update – 27 April

Crisis Update 30 Apr 2015
 
Sierra Leone - Health Promotion in Freetown

Fighting Ebola in the slums of Freetown

Voices from the Field 29 Apr 2015
 
Sierra Leone - Health Promotion in Freetown

Promoting health at the heart of the communities

Voices from the Field 29 Apr 2015
 
South Sudan

Nomads of war: A headmaster and his family living under a tree

Voices from the Field 29 Apr 2015
 
Earthquake in Nepal - MSF Response
Nepal

MSF teams have arrived and are assessing needs

Crisis Update 27 Apr 2015
 
Nepal

MSF sending teams and supplies to Nepal

Project Update 27 Apr 2015
 
MSF hospital in Aden
Yemen

Population flees Haradh as latest attacks leave 11 dead and 67 wounded

Press Release 27 Apr 2015
 
Renewed conflict in Upper Nile, South Sudan
South Sudan

Nomads of war - perpetual displacements of South Sudanese families in Upper Nile

Press Release 27 Apr 2015
 
Nepal

MSF sending more medical and relief teams to assist victims of the Nepal earthquake

Crisis Update 26 Apr 2015
 
Nepal

MSF is sending medical and non-medical teams to assist victims of the Nepal Earthquake

Statement 25 Apr 2015
 
Rutshuru Hospital, DR Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo

Malaria epidemic in “a pediatric unit crammed with beds”

Voices from the Field 25 Apr 2015
 
Boats from migrants arrival at Pozzallo Italy
Mediterranean migration

Seeing families, children, and babies coming off the boats

Voices from the Field 24 Apr 2015
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Treating children during the Malaria peak at Rutshuru General Hospital

Voices from the Field 24 Apr 2015
 
Malaria

Working to prevent children from falling ill

Voices from the Field 24 Apr 2015
 
Mediterranean migration
Mediterranean migration

MSF and MOAS – Answers to some frequently asked questions

Voices from the Field 24 Apr 2015
 
Migrant Route Augusta Italy 2014
Mediterranean migration

European leaders are digging in their heels - saving lives in danger right now is still not their priority

Statement 24 Apr 2015
 
Iraq

“Their Lives are Shattered”

Voices from the Field 23 Apr 2015
 
Test and Treat, pilot programme Yambio
HIV/AIDS

HIV: MSF-UNAIDS report endorses community models of care

Report 23 Apr 2015
 
Healthcare in Boguila, Central African Republic
Central African Republic

“Without healthcare in Boguila our children would be like dead leaves falling from a tree”.

Project Update 22 Apr 2015
 
South Sudan

Fighting in Malakal town increases fear and tension in the civilian population in Upper Nile

Project Update 22 Apr 2015
 
South Africa

MSF teams respond to health needs of displaced people in South Africa following xenophobic violence targeting foreign nationals

Press Release 21 Apr 2015
 
Sudan

MSF supports the Ministry of Health to respond to measles outbreak in Sudan

Project Update 21 Apr 2015
 
Ukraine

MSF expands its medical activities in Debaltseve

Voices from the Field 21 Apr 2015
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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