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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.

 
Field hospitals - Syria 2012
Syria

Diary of a family's flight

Voices from the Field 17 Dec 2012
 
newly displaced people in and around Goma, in Muguga III camp
Democratic Republic of Congo

Displaced people in North Kivu are facing renewed turmoil

Project Update 17 Dec 2012
 
Central African Republic

Attack forces people to flee Ndélé town

Project Update 14 Dec 2012
 
Pibor, South Soudan
South Sudan

Saving lives at the clinic under the tree

Voices from the Field 13 Dec 2012
 
Lankien, Jonglei State and Nasir, Upper Nile State, South Sudan,
Neglected diseases

Millions of patients still waiting for medical 'breakthroughs' against neglected diseases

Press Release 13 Dec 2012
 
Iraq

A different approach to mental health

Project Update 12 Dec 2012
 
Idp’s living in precarious conditions
Syria

Sick and wounded trapped in Deir Azzour

Press Release 12 Dec 2012
 
Urban Survivors - Tegucigalpa
Social violence and exclusion

The medical consequences of violence

Project Update 11 Dec 2012
 
Mortality study, region around Boguila
Central African Republic

"As many children die here as in a war zone"

Voices from the Field 10 Dec 2012
 
Visit by Dr. Unni Karunakara to Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Victims of sexual violence must not suffer in silence

Voices from the Field 7 Dec 2012
 
HAT Screening in CAR
Sleeping sickness

National control activities crippled by lack of funding

Press Release 6 Dec 2012
 
Refugee crisis South Sudan, Upper Nile State, Batil and Doro.
Vaccination

GAVI needs to offer lower vaccine prices to humanitarian actors

Press Release 5 Dec 2012
 
Global health

Visions for the future of healthcare and how we're going to pay for it

Speech 30 Nov 2012
 
MSF activities in Goma, Mugunga I and III camp, Virunga Hospital.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Nine-year-old Eden wounded in Goma violence

Voices from the Field 30 Nov 2012
 
MSF activities in Goma, Mugunga I and III camp, Virunga Hospital.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Critical humanitarian situation in east of country

Project Update 30 Nov 2012
 
Morocco

"In Morocco migrants are trapped in a constant cycle of violence"

Voices from the Field 29 Nov 2012
 
Swaziland - Figthing HIV and TB dual epidemic
Eswatini

Trying out new approaches to treat HIV

Voices from the Field 28 Nov 2012
 
Pibor, South Soudan
South Sudan

South Sudan’s hidden crisis: how violence against civilians is devastating communities and preventing access to life saving healthcare in Jonglei

Report 27 Nov 2012
 
Lankien, Jonglei State and Nasir, Upper Nile State, South Sudan,
South Sudan

Violence a 'hidden crisis' in Jonglei

Press Release 27 Nov 2012
 
Malnutrition in Yida refugee Camp
South Sudan

Treating child malnutrition in Yida camp

Project Update 26 Nov 2012
 
Russia

MSF closes mental health programme in Ingushetia

Project Update 23 Nov 2012
 
2012.10.09.Iraq-Domeez Syrian refugee camp
Iraq

Providing healthcare to Syrian refugees in Domeez camp

Project Update 21 Nov 2012
 
Palestine

In Gaza, 'the wounded are stuck at home'

In the Media 21 Nov 2012
 
Displaced populations in North Kivu
Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands flee as rebels advance on Goma

Statement 20 Nov 2012
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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