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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.

 
NAURU - MSF forced to end its Mental Health activities
Nauru

Refugees' lives in danger with MSF forced to end mental healthcare activities

Press Release 11 Oct 2018
 
Occupied Minds
Mental health

Occupied Minds: "My son is broken inside"

Voices from the Field 10 Oct 2018
 
Occupied Minds
Mental health

Occupied Minds: Dealing with one child arrested and then another

Voices from the Field 10 Oct 2018
 
Occupied Minds
Mental health

Occupied Minds: Allowing people to regain control of their lives

Voices from the Field 10 Oct 2018
 
Mental Healthcare in Mweso
Mental health

World Mental Health Day 2018: Beyond a healthy body

Project Update 10 Oct 2018
 
Kasai (Unframed)
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF adapts to changing needs in Greater Kasai region

Project Update 9 Oct 2018
 
Providing care in Donetsk area
Photo Story

Living with loneliness and trauma

9 Oct 2018
Photo Story
 
Mental Health: Rohingya Trauma and Resilience - Rohima Story
Photo Story

Rohingya trauma and resilience

8 Oct 2018
Photo Story
 
Alolish Jouda, health promoter
South Sudan

MSF resumes medical activities in Maban after suspension

Project Update 5 Oct 2018
 
Test and Treat, pilot programme Yambio
South Sudan

Helping Yambio’s demobilised child soldiers come to terms with their past

Project Update 5 Oct 2018
 
Khost - Neonatal
Afghanistan

“My sister, I will take care of you”

Voices from the Field 3 Oct 2018
 
Khost Comic Images
Afghanistan

Illustrating MSF’s busiest maternity ward

Project Update 3 Oct 2018
 
“My hope for the future? I don’t have hope”
Palestine

“When I sleep, it feels like knives moving through my leg”

Voices from the Field 2 Oct 2018
 
MSF in Al Dhale and Taiz, Yemen. July 2015
Yemen

MSF suspends activities after attack in Ad Dhale

Statement 2 Oct 2018
 
“My hope for the future? I don’t have hope”
Palestine

“Nothing can prepare you for this”

Voices from the Field 2 Oct 2018
 
Being Rohingya refugee beyond the mega-camp
Rohingya refugee crisis

Crisis update – September 2018

Crisis Update 1 Oct 2018
 
Being Rohingya refugee beyond the mega-camp
Bangladesh

Shanti Khana: Bringing peace to Rohingya refugees

Project Update 28 Sep 2018
 
Pregnant and HIV+ Mamotsieleli Molofotsane walks many hours to health center, Lesotho
Women's health

"I’ve seen with my own eyes, safe abortion saves women's lives"

Interview 27 Sep 2018
 
Niger - Magaria Paediatric Unit
Niger

One of the world’s biggest paediatric intensive care units is full

Press Release 25 Sep 2018
 
MSF TB Treatment in Mumbai, India
Tuberculosis

Global leaders must make bold commitments at first-ever UN tuberculosis summit

Press Release 25 Sep 2018
 
Aquarius: denouncing and activity
Mediterranean migration

Italian government pressures Panama to stop Aquarius rescues on world's deadliest maritime route

Press Release 23 Sep 2018
 
Diagnosing, treating and researching HIV-kala azar co-infection
Kala azar

Diagnosing, treating and researching HIV-kala azar co-infection in Ethiopia

Project Update 20 Sep 2018
 
Snakebite Amputation
Snakebite

Time to strike back at snakebite and end the antivenom access crisis

Report 19 Sep 2018
 
Consequences of war for civilian population in Bangassou
Central African Republic

“We simply can’t let these people down. But we remain vigilant”: MSF returns to Bangassou

Interview 18 Sep 2018
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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