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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.

 
Routine vaccination (EPI)
Syria

Internally displaced people and host communities in urgent need of humanitarian assistance

Project Update 10 Aug 2016
 
India

Kashmir unrest one-month update - MSF donates external fixators for trauma victims, continues psychological first aid

Project Update 9 Aug 2016
 
MSF Supported Hospital Bombed in Idlib, Syria
Syria

MSF-supported hospital in Idlib bombed to the ground amid increased intensity of attacks

Press Release 8 Aug 2016
 
Ansongo hospital in Gao region, northern Mali, where MSF carries out consultations and assists deliveries.
Mali

Recent clashes in the north are hampering the deployment of humanitarian assistance

Project Update 4 Aug 2016
 
Untreated Violence
Sexual violence

Untreated Violence: The need for patient-centred care for survivors of sexual violence

org.za 1 Aug 2016
 
Paediatric care in national hospital in Bissau
Guinea-Bissau

Many children would be saved if they arrived at the hospital earlier

Voices from the Field 29 Jul 2016
 
MSF Activities in Ukraine
Ukraine

MSF concludes medical humanitarian activities in Bakhmut

Press Release 29 Jul 2016
 
Aleppo city
Syria

Trapped, under attack and struggling to survive in Aleppo

Project Update 28 Jul 2016
 
India

MSF calls for affordable pneumonia vaccines ahead of Pfizer’s patent hearing in India

Press Release 28 Jul 2016
 
MSF intervention in Banki, Borno State, Nigeria , July 2016
Project Update

Crisis Info - July 2016

Crisis Update 27 Jul 2016
 
MSF intervention in Banki, Borno State, Nigeria , July 2016
Nigeria

MSF warns of large-scale humanitarian disaster in Borno State

Press Release 27 Jul 2016
 
Dialysis center in Al-Jumhori hospital in Sana’a, Yemen
Yemen

Dialysis treatment at breaking point

Press Release 26 Jul 2016
 
22 people lost their lives at sea and 209 rescued
Mediterranean migration

MSF doctor recounts finding deaths at sea

Voices from the Field 25 Jul 2016
 
Transit Zone on the Serbia - Hungarian Border
Serbia

Sharp increase in violence against migrants since border closures in the Balkans

Project Update 22 Jul 2016
 
Migrants Detention Centers Libya 2016
Photo Story

Trapped in transit - refugees, migrants and asylum seekers locked up in Libya

22 Jul 2016
Photo Story
 
MSF intervention in Borno state, Nigeria
Nigeria

Crisis Info on Borno Emergency - July 2016

Crisis Update 22 Jul 2016
 
Inauguration of new Surgical Department in Ramtha Project, Jordan
Jordan

Working hand in hand to make a difference in Syrian lives

Voices from the Field 21 Jul 2016
 
MSF HIV Clinics in Kinshasa, DRC
HIV/AIDS

Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions 18th Edition

Report 20 Jul 2016
 
MSF's Emergency Surgical Project in Ramtha, Jordan
Jordan

MSF calls for medical evacuation of Syrian war wounded into northern Jordan and inaugurates new surgical department in Ramtha

Press Release 20 Jul 2016
 
MSF Mobile Clinic in Juba, South Sudan
South Sudan

MSF treats more than 2,700 people following violence in Juba

Project Update 20 Jul 2016
 
Emergency response in Eastern Nigeria
Nigeria

Health disaster in Borno State

Press Release 20 Jul 2016
 
22 people lost their lives at sea and 209 rescued
Mediterranean migration

22 people die at sea, 209 more are rescued

Statement 19 Jul 2016
 
Project Update

MapSwipe app lets public help deliver medical care to most vulnerable

Press Release 19 Jul 2016
 
Niger. Thousands of newly displaced people in Diffa Region
Niger

There are several thousand displaced people who are isolated and it is difficult for the aid to reach them

Project Update 19 Jul 2016
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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