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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.

 
MSF Sicily screening arrival of rescued migrants, Pozzallo
Italy

MSF ends activities in Pozzallo reception centre

Press Release 30 Dec 2015
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Katanga Measles Crisis Update - December 2015

Crisis Update 29 Dec 2015
 
Yemen

Crisis update – 23 December 2015

Crisis Update 23 Dec 2015
 
winterkits distribution in Aleppo
Syria

MSF delivers winter kits to 8,000 displaced families in Aleppo city

Press Release 23 Dec 2015
 
Life in Idomeni , Greece
Photo Story

Photo Story: Caught in limbo

23 Dec 2015
Photo Story
 
Niger - 10 years of MSF - Nurse Elise Danzara- testimony
Niger

“Today, Nigeriens know that their children can recover from malnutrition”

Voices from the Field 22 Dec 2015
 
PPCSI in Tama, Niger
Niger

Getting children to grow healthily

Project Update 22 Dec 2015
 
Yemen

“We can’t just stop our lives because of the war”

Voices from the Field 22 Dec 2015
 
Kenya - Cholera epidemic in Dadaab refugee camps
Kenya

Cholera outbreak spreads to Dadaab refugee camp

Project Update 17 Dec 2015
 
On board of the Dignity 1
Mediterranean migration

Interiew with Madeleine Habib - Captain of Dignity

Project Update 16 Dec 2015
 
Malawi floods, FEB 2015
Photo Story

A year in pictures 2015

16 Dec 2015
Photo Story
 
Refugees in DunKirk, France
Mediterranean migration

“There are plenty of families with young children amongst the refugees camped out in the mud of Grande-Synthe Camp”

Voices from the Field 15 Dec 2015
 
Syria

“Life in Raqqa was terrifying. During the day we lived with the government’s airstrikes; at night there were coalition airstrikes”

Voices from the Field 15 Dec 2015
 
Kunduz Hospital After the Attack
Afghanistan

Updated death toll – 42 people killed in the US airstrikes on Kunduz hospital

Statement 12 Dec 2015
 
Kunduz 1 Month After Commemoration - Spain
Kunduz hospital attack

MSF delivers petition calling for investigation into hospital attack

Press Release 9 Dec 2015
 
Dr. Alfonso Apolinar
Tanzania

“People cope with these tough living conditions because often they haven’t known anything else.”

Voices from the Field 9 Dec 2015
 
Centre de Référence en Urgence Obstétricale, Port-au-Prince
Photo Story

An unprecedented birth peak

8 Dec 2015
Photo Story
 
Chad: Deadly attack in Koulfoua Island, Lake Chad
Chad

I had never before seen these types of injuries”

Voices from the Field 8 Dec 2015
 
Syria

Bombing & fighting threaten provision of medical care & humanitarian aid, MSF warns

Press Release 7 Dec 2015
 
Chad

Deadly attack on Koulfa Island

Project Update 7 Dec 2015
 
Assistance at sea to refugee boats in distress
Mediterranean migration

MSF and Greenpeace launch life-saving operations in the Aegean Sea

Press Release 3 Dec 2015
 
Baby Nubia Is Released From MSF Clinic in Conakry
Photo Story

Nubia, the first newborn to survive Ebola

3 Dec 2015
Photo Story
 
Yemen

Nine wounded in Saudi-led coalition airstrike on MSF clinic in Taiz

Press Release 3 Dec 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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