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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.

 
Overcrowded transit camp in Idomeni
Photo Story

Refugee Day 2016: Don't let this be the #LastRefugeeDay!

20 Jun 2016
Photo Story
 
June 2016- Bourbon Argos Mediterranean search and rescue
Mediterranean migration

EU Migration Crisis Update - June 2016

Crisis Update 17 Jun 2016
 
Idomeni
Greece

I’ve met the people the EU has decided to no longer welcome and protect

Voices from the Field 17 Jun 2016
 
Samos island, Greece
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

EU States’ dangerous approach to migration places asylum in jeopardy worldwide

Press Release 17 Jun 2016
 
Samos island, Greece
Greece

Refugees arrive often cold, scared, unsure, confused and in distress

Voices from the Field 15 Jun 2016
 
Yemen

Treating gunshot, grenade and mine injuries in Aden

Voices from the Field 15 Jun 2016
 
Two months into ceasefire Taiz, Yemen
Yemen

In the two months of ‘ceasefire’, at least 700 civilians injured by heavy fighting in Taiz

Press Release 14 Jun 2016
 
MSF clinic in Abu Ghraib (Baghdad)
Iraq

There is a lack of humanitarian actors in Baghdad area

Voices from the Field 10 Jun 2016
 
Mobile clinic in Tel Afar - Ninewa - Iraq
Iraq

I left all my memories in Mosul

Voices from the Field 10 Jun 2016
 
Iraq

Displaced people face their third summer in harsh conditions

Project Update 10 Jun 2016
 
Old Fangak, South Sudan
South Sudan

Protecting children from preventable diseases

Voices from the Field 9 Jun 2016
 
Aweil Hospital, South Sudan
South Sudan

Paediatric care and treating malnutrition in Aweil

Project Update 9 Jun 2016
 
MSF health post in Yebi, Diffa, Niger
Niger

Tens of thousands of newly displaced without assistance in the Diffa region

Project Update 8 Jun 2016
 
Leer & Thonyor - May 2016
Child health

First ever MSF Paediatric Days

Project Update 8 Jun 2016
 
Leer & Thonyor - May 2016
Child health

First MSF Paediatric days to be organised in Stockholm

Event 8 Jun 2016
 
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HIV/AIDS

Governments at UN must address severe lack of treatment access in West and Central Africa during High-Level Meeting

Press Release 7 Jun 2016
 
Rocket Destruction Taiz Yemen
Yemen

122 people severely wounded in one day as fighting pounds the city of Taiz

Project Update 6 Jun 2016
 
Snakebite: little hope of a cure for the most vulnerable.
South Sudan

Little hope of a cure for the most vulnerable

Project Update 3 Jun 2016
 
Al Salamah MSF Hospital, Syria
Syria

We hope the bloodshed will stop, but it’s not likely to happen soon.

Voices from the Field 2 Jun 2016
 
Distributions, Azaz district
Syria

People trapped in Azaz urgently need safe haven - Turkey and the EU must open their borders

Press Release 2 Jun 2016
 
Bourbon Argos Search and Rescue Operations May 2016
Italy

I cannot accept that children or adults can die like this. I cannot accept it. Never.

Voices from the Field 2 Jun 2016
 
Mozambique, the HIV Corridor
Mozambique

Reaching out to sex workers in the Beira corridor

Project Update 2 Jun 2016
 
Violence in CAR. Bangui
Website

Applied Reflection on Humanitarian Practice (ARHP)

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TANZANIA: ONE YEAR OF TURMOIL FOR BURUNDIAN REFUGEES
Tanzania

One year of turmoil for Burundian refugees

Project Update 1 Jun 2016
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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