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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.

 
Emergency intervention in the Transit camp of Bubukwanga
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF urges military personnel conducting operations in the Beni region to take every precaution to protect hostages’ lives

Press Release 8 Apr 2014
 
Philippines- Burauen
Philippines

In the eye of the typhoon: MSF's Typhoon Haiyan response

Report 7 Apr 2014
 
Ebola Treatment Center in Conakry, Guinea
Guinea

An MSF epidemiologist explains the dangerous nature of Ebola

Voices from the Field 7 Apr 2014
 
Ebola Treatment Center in Conakry, Guinea
Guinea

Successes and challenges in response to Ebola outbreak

Project Update 7 Apr 2014
 
getting fully dressed with protective clothing
Guinea

"There is a lot to do in a very short time" to contain Ebola

Voices from the Field 4 Apr 2014
 
Violence in CAR. Bangui
Central African Republic

"The international response to the conflict is extremely disheartening"

Voices from the Field 4 Apr 2014
 
Ebola, Guéckédou, Guinea April 2014
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF strengthens response to Guinea Ebola outbreak

Project Update 3 Apr 2014
 
Journal article

Can Timely Vector Control Interventions Triggered by Atypical Environmental Conditions Prevent Malaria Epidemics? A Case-Study from Wajir County, Kenya

3 Apr 2014
Journal article
 
Vaccination campaign in refugees camp in Bitoye
Chad

Despite mass vaccination, measles cases in N’djamena not decreasing

Press Release 1 Apr 2014
 
Komotini Detention Centre, Northern Greece
Greece

Invisible Suffering

Report 1 Apr 2014
 
Greece

Greece must end systematic and prolonged detention of migrants, says MSF

Press Release 1 Apr 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola in Guinea - an unprecedented epidemic

Project Update 1 Apr 2014
 
a thousand people in transit on their way to Cameroon victims of attacks
Central African Republic

"Carnot has not been calm since then"

Voices from the Field 31 Mar 2014
 
Ebola epidemic confirmed by the Guinean Ministry of Health on March 22
Guinea

Mobilisation against an unprecedented Ebola epidemic

Press Release 31 Mar 2014
 
M'Poko (MPoko) camp (Bangui airport area)
Central African Republic

Central African Republic: A year of continuing violence against civilians

Report 28 Mar 2014
 
Kala Azar in Bihar, India
India

Access to kala azar treatment in public healthcare system needs to be scaled up

Project Update 28 Mar 2014
 

Slideshow: Giving birth in Central African Republic - Sonia's story

Voices from the Field 27 Mar 2014
 
Kunduz Trauma Centre - Aug 2013
Afghanistan

MSF treats 17 wounded after Kunduz bomb blast

Project Update 26 Mar 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola epidemic in Guinea

Voices from the Field 26 Mar 2014
 
Occupied Minds - Occupied Palestinian Territory
Palestine

Growing up quickly in a West Bank refugee camp

Project Update 26 Mar 2014
 
Journal article

Reliability and accuracy of the South African Triage Scale when used by nurses in the emergency department of Timergara Hospital, Pakistan

26 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
MSF nurse attends to a severly dehydrated child
Ethiopia

MSF races against time to provide assistance to South Sudanese refugees

Project Update 26 Mar 2014
 
Guinea

MSF reinforces teams to help control spread of Ebola epidemic

Project Update 25 Mar 2014
 
PK 12 camps
Central African Republic

MSF treats 38 people wounded in renewed attacks in Bangui

Project Update 25 Mar 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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