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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.

 
Journal article

Independent Origin of Plasmodium falciparum Antifolate Super-Resistance, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia

4 Aug 2014
Journal article
 
Mexico

Forced migrants in Mexico

Project Update 4 Aug 2014
 
Central American migration

Central American insomnia

Project Update 4 Aug 2014
 
Palestine

"The truce did not last"

Project Update 1 Aug 2014
 
Journal article

Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea: Where Ecology Meets Economy

31 Jul 2014
Journal article
 
Palestine

Clashes, raids and arrests damage Palestinians’ psychological health

Project Update 31 Jul 2014
 
West Bank July 2014
Palestine

Clashes, raids and arrests damage Palestinians’ psychological health

Press Release 31 Jul 2014
 
Gulan Camp Khost Province Afghanistan 2014
Afghanistan

North Waziristan refugees in Afghanistan: MSF provides humanitarian aid in Gulan refugee camp

Press Release 31 Jul 2014
 
Shifa hospital compound, Gaza City
Palestine

“Violence has no religion”: testimony of a Palestinian member of the MSF team in Gaza

Voices from the Field 31 Jul 2014
 
Shifa hospital compound, Gaza City
Palestine

“Here I feel safe” confides a Palestinian member of staff taking refuge in the MSF office

Voices from the Field 31 Jul 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

Sasobas, Ebola survivor

Project Update 30 Jul 2014
 
Cholera Juba South Sudan
South Sudan

Cholera claiming lives in Upper Nile State, South Sudan

Project Update 30 Jul 2014
 
Niger. "Mamans lumières" programme
Niger

The mothers of light

Project Update 30 Jul 2014
 
Journal article

Second-line failure and first experience with third-line antiretroviral therapy in Mumbai, India

30 Jul 2014
Journal article
 
Journal article

Clinical features and management of a severe paradoxical reaction associated with combined treatment of Buruli ulcer and HIV co-infection

30 Jul 2014
Journal article
 
Shifa hospital compound, Gaza City
Palestine

MSF strongly condemns attack on Al Shifa hospital

Press Release 29 Jul 2014
 
Syria

Car bombs in northern Syria target Eid shoppers

Press Release 28 Jul 2014
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

A team of MSF vaccinated 38,000 children against measles in Minova before continuing the campaign in Kalonge

Project Update 25 Jul 2014
 
HIV positive family
Zimbabwe

Divided we fall

Project Update 25 Jul 2014
 
Myanmar

MSF welcomes offer to resume operations in Rakhine, Myanmar but remains cautious

Press Release 25 Jul 2014
 
HIV/AIDS

More positive stories needed

Project Update 25 Jul 2014
 
Journal article

Impact of Introducing the Line Probe Assay on Time to Treatment Initiation of MDR-TB in Delhi, India

24 Jul 2014
Journal article
 
Ebola Treatment Centre in Kailahun, Sierra Leone
Haemorrhagic fevers

Operational Update: The Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Project Update 24 Jul 2014
 
Iraq - Medical care for those displaced by fighting in areas between Dohuk and Mosul
Iraq

Hospitals destroyed by air strikes leave Iraqis without healthcare

Press Release 24 Jul 2014
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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