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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.

 
Mosul : Civilians caught in crossfire
Iraq

The patients we receive are the “lucky ones”

Voices from the Field 4 Apr 2017
 
Journal article

Describing the toll of war on health in absentia

3 Apr 2017
Journal article
 
Zummar Maternity / IPD - March 2017
Iraq

Stabilising emergencies in a pocket of safety

Project Update 3 Apr 2017
 
North Syria, Jan 2017
Syria

Explosive devices have deadly impact on people fleeing or returning home

Report 2 Apr 2017
 
MSF intervention in Banki, Borno State, Nigeria , July 2016
Nigeria

Case Study on humanitarian response in North-east Nigeria

Emergency Gap. 1 Apr 2017
 
Syria

Medical staff and patient killed in an attack on MSF-supported hospital

Press Release 31 Mar 2017
 
Medical care on the frontline - North Syria
Syria

An obligation to tell the world

Project Update 30 Mar 2017
 
Cervical Cancer In Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe

Preventing cervical cancer

Project Update 28 Mar 2017
 
MSF Clinic Hepatitis C Unit
Hepatitis C

MSF joins Europe-wide action challenging patent on key hepatitis C drug

Press Release 26 Mar 2017
 
SMC and vaccination in the north of Mali
Mali

MSF warns about the use of humanitarian aid for political and military interests

Report 24 Mar 2017
 
Clinical trial of a new vaccine against Rotavirus in Maradi / Niger
Niger

Innovative vaccine could prevent thousands of child deaths from diarrhoea

Press Release 23 Mar 2017
 
Sinethemba- MSF Treatment For TB in South Africa.
Tuberculosis

Fewer than five per cent of people in need are treated with new drugs

Press Release 23 Mar 2017
 
Besieged Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

MSF withdrawing from Ibb Al-Thawra hospital

Statement 23 Mar 2017
 
Mosul : Civilians caught in crossfire
Iraq

“Yesterday, it was calm; we only received 20 war-wounded patients”

Voices from the Field 22 Mar 2017
 
Mosul : Civilians caught in crossfire
Iraq

Thousands of wounded and sick coming from western Mosul

Press Release 22 Mar 2017
 
Clinical trial of a new vaccine against Rotavirus in Maradi / Niger
Photo Story

Innovative vaccine against rotavirus

21 Mar 2017
Photo Story
 
MSF national staff from Wau Shilluk who evacuated Wau Shilluk
South Sudan

“My future is unclear, and I don't know what will happen to all of us from Wau Shilluk.”

Voices from the Field 15 Mar 2017
 
MSF field hospital
South Sudan

Urgent humanitarian assistance needed for thousands of people who fled fighting in Wau Shilluk

Crisis Update 15 Mar 2017
 
East Aleppo
Syria

Warring groups must allow aid to population in need

Statement 14 Mar 2017
 
Winter Living Conditions in Belgrade, Serbia
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

One year after the EU-Turkey deal: migrants and asylum seekers are paying the price with their health

Report 14 Mar 2017
 
Journal article

Dilemmas in access to medicines: a humanitarian perspective

14 Mar 2017
Journal article
 
Medical care on the frontline - North Syria
Syria

No eyes on the ground

Project Update 13 Mar 2017
 
Damage in Al-Bayan hospital
Syria

Changes in medical practice in Syria

Report 13 Mar 2017
 
Ethiopia Acute Watery Diarrhea Intervention Kebridahar 2017
Ethiopia

“I feel like I have been given a second life by the doctors and nurses here.”

Project Update 10 Mar 2017
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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