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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.

 
Naser Hospital, Ibb city, Yemen
Yemen

Humanitarian response in Yemen: time to go back to the drawing board

Op-Ed 11 Nov 2020
 
Distribution in Deir Hassan
Syria

Taking risks to survive as COVID-19 spreads in the northwest

Project Update 11 Nov 2020
 
COVID-19 Intervention: National Public Health Laboratory, Juba
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Governments must demand pharma make all COVID-19 vaccine deals public

Press Release 11 Nov 2020
 
Ebola intervention in Equateur province
DRC Ebola outbreaks

New strategies at work in eleventh Ebola outbreak in DRC

Interview 4 Nov 2020
 
MSF Mobile Clinics
Mozambique

Urgent assistance needed for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by violence in Mozambique

Press Release 3 Nov 2020
 
Measles outbreak in Pibor
South Sudan

Urgent vaccination campaign needed to stop spread of measles in Pibor

Press Release 3 Nov 2020
 
Ebola intervention in Equateur province
DRC Ebola outbreaks

DRC's eleventh Ebola outbreak

Crisis Update 3 Nov 2020
 
Lankien Hopsital, Jonglei State in northeastern South Sudan
About MSF

Do you leave or do you stay: COVID-19 in South Sudan

msf.org 1 Nov 2020
 
Rescue Jan 15th & 16th
Italy

“The survivors share the memory of the big wave that threw them into the water”

Voices from the Field 29 Oct 2020
 
MSF COVID-19 intervention in Jordan's Zaatari camp
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF responds as COVID-19 arrives in Jordan’s largest refugee camp

Project Update 28 Oct 2020
 
MSF in Nariño
Colombia

MSF responds to a resurgence of violence in Norte de Santander and Nariño

Project Update 28 Oct 2020
 
Measles Vaccination Campaign in Timbuktu
Mali

Prevention is better than cure – vaccinating against measles in Timbuktu

Project Update 27 Oct 2020
 
COVID-19 Prevention in Northwest Syria
Syria

Dozens of people treated following an airstrike in Idlib

Project Update 26 Oct 2020
 
Tetimony - Omaima, 52. Vathy Camp, Samos
Greece

Negligent and dangerous COVID-19 response in Vathy camp, Samos

Project Update 26 Oct 2020
 
Patient in an MSF ambulance
Cameroon

Doctors Without Borders responds to school shooting in southwest Cameroon

Press Release 24 Oct 2020
 
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Mediterranean migration

Lives on the line as legal appeal lodged to free the Sea-Watch 4

Press Release 23 Oct 2020
 
Floods in Pibor
South Sudan

Worsening flooding increases health risks

Project Update 22 Oct 2020
 
IRAQ – The “Behind the scenes” humanitarians / Muammar Al-Hiyali
Iraq

Humanitarians behind the scenes in Iraq

Voices from the Field 20 Oct 2020
 
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Mediterranean migration

Five things to know about the Mediterranean search and rescue crisis

Project Update 16 Oct 2020
 
2009-2019: Boost Hospital
Afghanistan

Sharing patients’ stories “as devastating as their injuries” in Afghanistan

Voices from the Field 15 Oct 2020
 
Tachira medical staff
Venezuela

MSF teams improve conditions for Venezuelan returnees in quarantine centres

Project Update 13 Oct 2020
 
NCD - Khanaqin-Alwand, Iraq
Iraq

MSF hands over last projects in Diyala, Iraq, after six years

Project Update 13 Oct 2020
 
World Mental Health Day Package-Lebanon
Lebanon

“I needed to make myself useful to overcome the panic”

Voices from the Field 9 Oct 2020
 
Mental Health Crisis is Brewing in Dadaab
Kenya

COVID-19 further fuels mental health crisis in Dadaab as durable solutions falter

Project Update 9 Oct 2020
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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