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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.

 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Photo Story

Human Suffering: Inside Libya's migrant detention centres

1 Sep 2017
Photo Story
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Libya

Arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants must stop

Press Release 1 Sep 2017
 
Snapshots from Northern Syria
Syria

Conflict brings new arrivals every day to Ain Issa camp

Press Release 31 Aug 2017
 
Minova Cholera
Democratic Republic of Congo

South Kivu cholera outbreak threatens to spread out of control

Press Release 30 Aug 2017
 
Home-based care in Burj el-Barajneh refugee camp, Beirut.
Photo Story

Home-based care for refugees in Burj el-Barajneh

30 Aug 2017
Photo Story
 
Landslides in Freetown
Sierra Leone

MSF supports communities hit hard by mudslide and flooding

Project Update 24 Aug 2017
 
Marie Agama, 20, from Nigeria
Photo Story

Stories and testimonies of migrants fleeing violence

22 Aug 2017
Photo Story
 
Bangassou - multi antigen vaccination campaign.
Access to medicines

Patent Office dashes hopes for affordable pneumonia vaccine

Press Release 22 Aug 2017
 
Fleeing from Kasai
Democratic Republic of Congo

Crisis update – July 2017

Crisis Update 21 Aug 2017
 
Hepatitis C - Clinic Cambodia
Photo Story

Treating hepatitis C in Phnom Penh

21 Aug 2017
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Tanganyika, DRC - July 2017
Democratic Republic of Congo

No water, no space – dire living conditions in Kalémie

Press Release 18 Aug 2017
 
Violence in Buenaventura
Photo Story

Violence in Buenaventura

16 Aug 2017
Photo Story
 
Fleeing from Kasai
Democratic Republic of Congo

In Kasai, “even the birds had stopped singing”

Voices from the Field 16 Aug 2017
 
Violence in Buenaventura
Colombia

People suffer high levels of violence despite peace process

Report 16 Aug 2017
 
March 2017: Search and Rescue Operations in The Mediterranean
Website

Saving Lives at Sea

msf.org
 
March 2017: Search and Rescue Operations in The Mediterranean
Mediterranean migration

MSF launches new website on search and rescue work

Voices from the Field 15 Aug 2017
 
SAR activities June 2017
Mediterranean migration

Hindrance of humanitarian assistance will create a deadly gap in the Mediterranean Sea

Statement 12 Aug 2017
 
Ngala IDP Camp, Nigeria - July 2017
Nigeria

“People are dying of hepatitis E because they don’t have soap or clean water”

Project Update 10 Aug 2017
 
Batangafo 2017
Central African Republic

10,000 people sleep in Batangafo hospital after camp is looted and burned

Project Update 10 Aug 2017
 
Nigeria: Searching for aid after fleeing the fighting
Nigeria

Crisis Update - July 2017

Crisis Update 10 Aug 2017
 
Snapshots from Northern Syria
Syria

The silent war

Voices from the Field 8 Aug 2017
 
Wadi Khaled, Lebanon
Lebanon

Refugees and host community bound by suffering

Project Update 7 Aug 2017
 
MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-MOSUL-HUNGER
Iraq

Crisis update – July 2017

Crisis Update 4 Aug 2017
 
10,000 Syrian babies born in Irbid clinic
Jordan

10,000 babies born as refugees

Project Update 4 Aug 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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