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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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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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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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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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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 Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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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.

 
Nsanje: Treating advanced HIV
Access to medicines

MSF at the 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health

Event 10 Oct 2017
 
Sexual and reproductive healthcare in Choloma, Honduras
Honduras

“We have gone from seven deliveries each month to more than 30”

Project Update 10 Oct 2017
 
Living Conditions in Lesbos, Greece
Greece

EU border policies fuel mental health crisis for asylum seekers

Report 10 Oct 2017
 
Leah, counsellor, MSF Women's Clinic, Kamrangirchar
Bangladesh

"Now, no one can abuse me" - Counselling for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence

Voices from the Field 10 Oct 2017
 
Honduras: Mental healthcare for victims of violence
Photo Story

Healing minds - MSF and mental health

9 Oct 2017
Photo Story
 
Ethiopia Acute Watery Diarrhea Intervention Kebridahar 2017
Ethiopia

Crisis update – September 2017

Crisis Update 6 Oct 2017
 
Magaria pediatric unit and ITFC
Niger

“Treating children as quickly, and as close to home, as possible”

Press Release 6 Oct 2017
 
Magaria pediatric unit and ITFC
Photo Story

Ten days with Absatou and Fassouma

6 Oct 2017
Photo Story
 
Outdoors support clinics, Thaker. Leer, South Sudan
South Sudan

Continuing displacement is the new reality for many along northern frontier

Project Update 6 Oct 2017
 
MSF Medical Action - Rohingya Crisis
Rohingya refugee crisis

“If this is the better option, the other must have been a living hell”

Voices from the Field 6 Oct 2017
 
SAR activities June 2017
Mediterranean migration

MSF ends mission of search and rescue boat Prudence

Statement 5 Oct 2017
 
CAR - Mar 2017
Central African Republic

Crisis update - September 2017

Crisis Update 3 Oct 2017
 
MSF Response in Iligan City
Philippines

Helping people cope amid conflict in Mindanao

Voices from the Field 29 Sep 2017
 
Bombing of Hama Central/Sham hospital
Syria

Healthcare is being annihilated amid intensified bombings in Syria’s north-west

Press Release 28 Sep 2017
 
Saving lives without salaries in Yemen
Yemen

Government health staff are saving lives without salaries

Report 28 Sep 2017
 
MSF provides psychosocial support to those affected by the earthquake in Mexico.
Mexico

“Fear is still the predominant emotion in Mexico City”

Voices from the Field 26 Sep 2017
 
Minova Cholera
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treats 17,000 people in one of the largest national cholera outbreaks

Project Update 26 Sep 2017
 
MSF provides psychosocial support to those affected by the earthquake in Mexico.
Photo Story

Mexico earthquake: MSF provides psychosocial support

25 Sep 2017
Photo Story
 
Roberto Wright, MSF's emergency team Anthropologist in Somali region, Ethiopia
Ethiopia

“If people don’t understand what we do, they will never come to our health centres”

Voices from the Field 25 Sep 2017
 
Medical Guidelines Visual #2 for Social Media (EN)
Website

MSF Medical Guidelines

msf.org
 
Medical Guidelines Visual #2 for Social Media (EN)
Medical resource

MSF releases new medical guidelines app

Press Release 22 Sep 2017
 
Mosul Healthcare
Iraq

Crisis update – September 2017

Crisis Update 21 Sep 2017
 
East Ukraine- October 2017
Ukraine

MSF launches new mobile health clinic in eastern Ukraine

Press Release 21 Sep 2017
 
MSF Medical Action - Rohingya Crisis
Rohingya refugee crisis

Immediate action needed to avert massive public health disaster

Press Release 21 Sep 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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