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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.

 
Serbia: Games of violence
Serbia

Children repeatedly abused by border authorities

Project Update 3 Aug 2017
 
The last frontier
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

The last frontier – migrants stuck in Italy risk all to reach France

Project Update 3 Aug 2017
 
The last frontier
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Harsh living conditions for migrants in Ventimiglia

Press Release 3 Aug 2017
 
Cholera outbreak in Yemen
Yemen

Crisis update – July 2017

Project Update 3 Aug 2017
 

Q&A: Why MSF didn’t sign the Code of Conduct for Search and Rescue

Statement 2 Aug 2017
 
SAR activities June 2017
Mediterranean migration

MSF committed to saving lives on Mediterranean but will not sign the Italian “Code of Conduct”

Press Release 31 Jul 2017
 
Raqqa IDPS in north Syria
Syria

Raqqa’s besieged residents deprived of urgent medical care

Project Update 31 Jul 2017
 
Malnutrition in Pakistan
Pakistan

“I suddenly found myself treating my own premature triplets”

Voices from the Field 31 Jul 2017
 
Measles Vaccination in Maniema, DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

Over one million children vaccinated against measles

Voices from the Field 28 Jul 2017
 
AIDS in era of antiretrovirals
HIV/AIDS

MSF concerned by high numbers of AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa

Press Release 25 Jul 2017
 
Living Conditions in Lesbos, Greece
Greece

A dramatic deterioration for asylum seekers on Lesbos

Report 24 Jul 2017
 
Assisting victims of violence in Reynosa
Mexico

“One in four patients we assist has experienced violence”

Project Update 24 Jul 2017
 
Advanced HIV management in Homa Bay
HIV/AIDS

MSF at IAS 2017

Project Update 23 Jul 2017
 
South Sudan

MSF strongly condemns the armed robbery of its clinic

Press Release 14 Jul 2017
 
Seeking malaria treatment around Aweil, South Sudan
South Sudan

Malaria preparedness vital as rains begin

Project Update 12 Jul 2017
 
Central African Republic

Baby brutally killed at a hospital

Statement 12 Jul 2017
 
SGBV Medical Emergency Haiti
Haiti

Against their will: New report on sexual violence

Report 12 Jul 2017
 
SGBV Medical Emergency Haiti
Photo Story

Against their will

12 Jul 2017
Photo Story
 
In and around Rutshuru DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

Release our colleagues abducted four years ago

Press Release 11 Jul 2017
 
TESTIMONY: Roger Gutiérrez, MSF field coordinator
Yemen

“Some families have to choose between taking a child to hospital or feeding the others”

Voices from the Field 10 Jul 2017
 
Daily Life in Abs Hospital
Yemen

Urgent need for improved water and sanitation to curb cholera

Press Release 10 Jul 2017
 
Displaced in Borno state
Nigeria

On the move and unable to move because of conflict

Voices from the Field 7 Jul 2017
 
Destroyed Ambulances in East Ghouta, Syria
Global health

MSF urges G20 to take action on health issues

Press Release 6 Jul 2017
 
Health facilities damaged inside Mosul
Iraq

Medical care in West Mosul: “There are no heroes in this story, only victims”.

Voices from the Field 6 Jul 2017
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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