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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

A Global Network
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.

 
Snapshots from Tabqa
Syria

"We need your help to stop the bombing"

Voices from the Field 24 Feb 2018
 
Syria

Doctors and nurses collapsing as medical response in East Ghouta reaches its limits

Press Release 24 Feb 2018
 
Diphtheria intervention in Cox's Bazar
Bangladesh

“We had to learn around the clock how to treat diphtheria”

Voices from the Field 22 Feb 2018
 
Destroyed Ambulances in East Ghouta, Syria
Syria

Extraordinary mass-casualty influxes in East Ghouta as hospitals run short of life-saving medicines

Press Release 21 Feb 2018
 
Rohingya Exodus - 6 months
Photo Story

Rohingya exodus - six months into the humanitarian crisis

20 Feb 2018
Photo Story
 
Kunduz Hospital After the Attack
War and conflict

Humanitarian Wars? - Interview with Rony Brauman

msf-crash.org 19 Feb 2018
 
Rohingya Exodus - 6 months
Rohingya refugee crisis

Journey of death and life

Voices from the Field 19 Feb 2018
 
Rohingya Exodus - 6 months
Bangladesh

The crisis is not over - Rohingya refugees are still arriving

Voices from the Field 19 Feb 2018
 
Introducing the team.
Photo Story

Decentralised healthcare in Upper Nile State

13 Feb 2018
Photo Story
 
Patients arrive with a multitude of different problems.
South Sudan

The stark choices facing displaced people in Aburoc

Project Update 13 Feb 2018
 
Syria

The situation in the northwest is quickly going from very bad to worse

Voices from the Field 9 Feb 2018
 
Simphiwe Zwide - MSF Treatment For TB in South Africa.
Tuberculosis

Drug-resistant TB: “Some of our patients simply can’t wait for clinical trials"

Project Update 9 Feb 2018
 
Zambia, cholera vaccination in Lusaka
Zambia

Encouraging new results further demonstrate effectiveness of the single dose oral cholera vaccine

Press Release 9 Feb 2018
 
Harare Central Hospital Psychiatric Unit
Photo Story

Zimbabwe mental health project

8 Feb 2018
Photo Story
 
Borgo Mezzanone, the“Pista” ghetto
Italy

Migrants and refugees on the margins of society

Report 8 Feb 2018
 
Pneumonia

MSF challenges Pfizer’s monopoly on lifesaving pneumonia vaccine in South Korea

Press Release 6 Feb 2018
 
Idlib: Newly displaced persons.
Syria

Idlib’s population suffers the consequences of heavy fighting and airstrikes

Voices from the Field 5 Feb 2018
 
Snakebites in Paoua
Photo Story

Affordable and quality antivenoms needed for snakebites

5 Feb 2018
Photo Story
 
MSF supported cholera treatment center in Al-Sadaqa hospital, Aden, Yemen
Yemen

“On an average day in Taiz, we hear around five explosions per minute”

Voices from the Field 1 Feb 2018
 
Liberia pediatric surgery
Liberia

MSF opens paediatric surgery programme

Project Update 31 Jan 2018
 
CAR - Mar 2017
Central African Republic

Renewed violence threatens people and healthcare in Bria

Project Update 31 Jan 2018
 
Bangassou - General context 2016
Central African Republic

“It was horrible leaving our patients behind when they needed us”

Voices from the Field 31 Jan 2018
 
Christelle Story - Batangafo
Central African Republic

Attacks on medical facilities leave people without options

Project Update 30 Jan 2018
 
Syria

MSF-supported hospital in Idlib closed after damage from airstrikes

Statement 29 Jan 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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