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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.

 
Syria

MSF surgeon killed in Syria

Press Release 5 Sep 2013
 
Chad - Malaria emergency in Massakory
Chad

Alarming increase in malaria, MSF launches response

Voices from the Field 3 Sep 2013
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Disclaimer on Syria

Statement 2 Sep 2013
 
Giving birth in South Sudan
South Sudan

MSF and traditional birth attendants save lives

Project Update 2 Sep 2013
 
MSF PROJECTS AFGHANISTAN - Kabul
Afghanistan

Preventative mobile clinics in Kabul

Project Update 30 Aug 2013
 
Emergency at Boost hospital Afghanistan
Afghanistan

"Conflict still rages and humanitarian needs will only grow"

Voices from the Field 30 Aug 2013
 
Afghanistan

A maternity hospital in Khost

Project Update 30 Aug 2013
 
XDR-TB can be cured. The story of Phumeza Tisile.
South Africa

"I didn't want to be a TB statistic"

Voices from the Field 29 Aug 2013
 
Lebanon, Tripoli – Bringing healthcare to neighbourhoods isolated by sectarian violence
Lebanon

Bringing healthcare to neighbourhoods isolated by sectarian violence

Project Update 29 Aug 2013
 
Syria

MSF statements should not be used to justify military actions

Statement 28 Aug 2013
 
Mobile HAT Team Bili
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF completes sleeping sickness screening for 16,000 people

Project Update 27 Aug 2013
 
Emergency intervention in the Transit camp of Bubukwanga
Uganda

MSF increases assistance to refugees fleeing violence in DRC

Project Update 27 Aug 2013
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Thousands suffering neurotoxic symptoms treated in hospitals supported by MSF

Press Release 24 Aug 2013
 
Iraq - Thousands of Syrians crossing the border into Iraqi Kurdistan
Syria

MSF provides healthcare to Syrians crossing into Iraqi Kurdistan

Project Update 23 Aug 2013
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF starts emergency rabies intervention

Project Update 23 Aug 2013
 
Egypt

Supporting hospitals and anticipating needs

Project Update 22 Aug 2013
 
Lives in the balance: the urgent need for HIV and TB treatment in Myanmar
Myanmar

Seeking new ways to tackle urgent health threat of drug-resistant TB

Project Update 20 Aug 2013
 
South Sudan

Fear and rainy season keep people from seeking care in Pibor

Project Update 20 Aug 2013
 
Somalia

Why MSF decided to leave Somalia

Opinion 20 Aug 2013
 
Bouza and Madaoua have received initial doses of the medicine.
Niger

More than 180,000 children benefit from new anti-malaria treatment

Project Update 19 Aug 2013
 
Pinga, North Kivu, April 2013
Democratic Republic of Congo

Panic in Pinga

Voices from the Field 19 Aug 2013
 
Haiti - Leogane container hospital
Haiti

"Call for backup – all hands on deck!"

Voices from the Field 19 Aug 2013
 
Guri-el Hospital
Somalia

MSF forced to close all medical programmes in Somalia

Press Release 14 Aug 2013
 
Somalia

MSF forced to withdraw from Somalia - indepth interview

Project Update 14 Aug 2013
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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