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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.

 
Jeanine and her daughters.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Suffering has been a part of my life. But I fight. I'm still standing!

Voices from the Field 10 Mar 2016
 
Mass-casualty influx northern Syria
Syria

The fear is constant

Voices from the Field 10 Mar 2016
 
East Damascus - voice from the field
Syria

Everyone is fatigued with the fear and deaths – a doctor in a Damascus suburb

Voices from the Field 10 Mar 2016
 
Barrel bombing of MSF Supported Hospital
Syria

The feeling of powerlessness is excruciating, but I cannot abandon my people

Voices from the Field 9 Mar 2016
 
MSF-supported hospital in northern Syria destroyed in attack
Syria

War-wounded and war-dead in Syria – medical data provides a stark warning that 2015 must not be repeated

Press Release 9 Mar 2016
 
MSF Clinic Hepatitis C Unit - Noor Alam #3
Pakistan

Stories from patients cured of hepatitis C at MSF’s Machar Clinic in Karachi

Voices from the Field 9 Mar 2016
 
MSF Clinic Hepatitis C Unit
Pakistan

When they are diagnosed with hepatitis C, patients think they will die

Voices from the Field 9 Mar 2016
 
New shelters in Grande Synthe
France

Cynicism beyond bounds, Grande-Synthe

Press Release 9 Mar 2016
 
Zounaga one-shot
Central African Republic

It’s hard to believe that this town was empty just two days ago

Crisis Update 9 Mar 2016
 
New shelters in Grande Synthe
France

New quarters for the Grande-Synthe camp

Project Update 7 Mar 2016
 
Journal article

Experimental treatment with favipiravir for Ebola virus disease

7 Mar 2016
Journal article
 
Carnot, CAR
Central African Republic

Despite the return to calm some displaced people in Carnot have yet to return home

Opinion 7 Mar 2016
 
South Sudan - Pibor violence and looting
South Sudan

Looming medical crisis in Pibor following devastating violence and looting of MSF medical compound

Press Release 4 Mar 2016
 
South Sudan - Pibor violence and looting
South Sudan

Fear, worry but also relief; a week of extraordinary violence and courage in Pibor

Project Update 4 Mar 2016
 
North Yemen: living under daily coalition airstrikes
Yemen

Crisis update – 3 March 2016

Crisis Update 3 Mar 2016
 
Idomeni after the closing of the border
Greece

"Help us to find a safe path"

Voices from the Field 3 Mar 2016
 
Fighting in Malakal, South Sudan
South Sudan

MSF condemns outrageous attack in UN protection site in Malakal

Press Release 2 Mar 2016
 
"RETURN TO ABUSER" - Family and Sexual Violence Papua New Guinea
Photo Story

Cycles of abuse and gender based violence revealed in Papua New Guinea

1 Mar 2016
Photo Story
 
"RETURN TO ABUSER" - Family and Sexual Violence Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Return to Abuser

Report 1 Mar 2016
 
Northern Yemen, Oct15-Feb16
Yemen

Practising medicine under fire

Voices from the Field 26 Feb 2016
 
Hepatitis C in Mumbai
India

Patent challenge hearing on Gilead hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir starts in India

Project Update 26 Feb 2016
 
Iraq - Domiz Syrian refugee camp
Iraq

Seven months in an endless race to provide access to aid

Voices from the Field 25 Feb 2016
 
Calais' Jungle
France

Refugees face ‘slow death’ in Calais' Jungle

Voices from the Field 25 Feb 2016
 
Batangafo - NFI distribution
Central African Republic

MSF distributes relief item kits to fire-displaced families in Batangafo

Project Update 25 Feb 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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