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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
Content Portal

Latest

Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
Journal article

Palliative Care in Humanitarian Medicine

25 Jan 2017
Journal article
 
Emergency Gap
Access to Healthcare

Insecurity - always an insurmountable obstacle?

Report 25 Jan 2017
 
Mpoko airport IDP camp
Central African Republic

Five reasons to care about the closure of Mpoko camp

Project Update 24 Jan 2017
 
DRC: Paediatric care in Manono General Hospital
Democratic Republic of Congo

More than 200 people treated for injuries at Manono hospital, Tanganyika

Voices from the Field 23 Jan 2017
 
Aid Drops In Remote Areas Of Haiti
Haiti

Massive distribution of building materials, three months after Matthew

Project Update 23 Jan 2017
 
Aerial bombing of a displaced camp in Rann
Nigeria

"Most of the dead and injured were women and children"

Voices from the Field 20 Jan 2017
 
Aerial bombing of a displaced camp in Rann
Nigeria

Death toll rising in Rann attack

Statement 19 Jan 2017
 
DR TB Treatment in Uzbekistan
Access to medicines

Pioneering clinical trial for drug-resistant tuberculosis starts

Press Release 19 Jan 2017
 
Victims of bombing on a displaced camp in Rann, Nigeria
Nigeria

“I can’t find the words to describe what I saw in Rann”

Voices from the Field 19 Jan 2017
 
Global

MSF briefings and interventions at WHO Executive Board 140th session

Event 18 Jan 2017
 
Aquarius SAR: Winter conditions and high seas
Mediterranean migration

How to stop the rising tide of death in Mediterranean

Voices from the Field 18 Jan 2017
 
DRC: Drug poisoning in Ariwara, Ituri
Democratic Republic of Congo

An epidemic of dystonic reactions in central Africa

The Lancet Global Health. 17 Jan 2017
 
Victims of bombing on a displaced camp in Rann, Nigeria
Nigeria

MSF strongly condemns the aerial bombing of a camp for displaced people in Rann

Statement 17 Jan 2017
 
Journal article

The alarming consequences of poor quality medicines

17 Jan 2017
Journal article
 
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence and its humanitarian impact: the case of Kivu

MSF-Analysis. 16 Jan 2017
 
Photo Story

A day at the general rural hospital in Thi As Sufal district

14 Jan 2017
Photo Story
 
Medical and mental health in Ukraine
Ukraine

“Pavlopil used to be a nice place to live”

Voices from the Field 13 Jan 2017
 
Medical and mental health in Ukraine
Ukraine

“Your entire universe falls apart”

Voices from the Field 13 Jan 2017
 
Food distribution in Kabo, CAR
Central African Republic

MSF distributes food to 10,500 displaced and vulnerable people in the north

Press Release 12 Jan 2017
 
White Nile Project Sudan
Sudan

White Nile State becomes a haven for those fleeing South Sudan's war

Project Update 10 Jan 2017
 
Erbil Iraq - Debaga Camp and Mobile Clinic
Iraq

MSF assists traumatised people from Mosul

Project Update 10 Jan 2017
 
Winter Living Conditions in Belgrade, Serbia
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Thousands trapped in freezing temperatures in Greece and the Balkans

Project Update 9 Jan 2017
 
Maira Modu's family
Photo Story

Food distribution in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria

6 Jan 2017
Photo Story
 
Food distribution in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Nigeria

Food distribution in Maiduguri

Project Update 5 Jan 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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