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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 Response Measles Vaccination (Am Timan District)
Content Portal

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War in Gaza:: find out how we're responding
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Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
Cameroon - Care for malnourished CAR refugees
Photo Story

Gallery: Central African refugees in Cameroon

4 Dec 2014
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DIMITRIS JANNUSSIS, MSF DOCTOR
Greece

Testimonies from Syrian refugees and MSF staff

Voices from the Field 3 Dec 2014
 
Mediterranean migration

EU and Greece turn their backs on refugees arriving at Greek islands

Press Release 3 Dec 2014
 
Exodus - Mexico
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

EXODUS: Three stories, three continents, but a shared motivation – to escape violence

Voices from the Field 2 Dec 2014
 
MSF staff in Guinea Ebola mission responds to support messages
Haemorrhagic fevers

International Ebola response slow and piecemeal, risks becoming a ‘double failure’, says MSF

Press Release 2 Dec 2014
 
Ukraine Under Bombardment
Ukraine

Testimonies from patients and medical staff in the Donetsk region

Voices from the Field 2 Dec 2014
 
Ukraine Under Bombardment
Photo Story

Gallery: Ukraine's war ravaged eastern regions

2 Dec 2014
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Ukraine Under Bombardment
Ukraine

“People are extremely anxious; they just don’t know what the next months hold.”

Crisis Update 1 Dec 2014
 
MSF in Poua hospital
HIV/AIDS

‘Double victims’ – in conflict zones, people with HIV are twice as vulnerable

Voices from the Field 1 Dec 2014
 
Kala Azar in Bihar, India
Kala azar

Increased access to diagnosis and treatment of HIV-VL co-infection is imperative for eliminating kala azar

Press Release 1 Dec 2014
 
Mental Health in Colombia, September 2014
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Minds and bodies marked by sexual violence in Colombia

28 Nov 2014
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White Nile
Sudan

Separated by borders, united by needs

Project Update 27 Nov 2014
 
Mozambique

Not alone anymore

Voices from the Field 26 Nov 2014
 
Patients count their pills in a CAG members meeting
HIV/AIDS

Community models of care explained

Project Update 26 Nov 2014
 
Colombia

Sexual violence, an unattended medical emergency

Press Release 25 Nov 2014
 
Cholera Haiti 2014
Haiti

Too few beds to treat cholera patients

Press Release 24 Nov 2014
 
Trauma Surgical Project in Jordan
Jordan

A year of saving Syrian lives

Project Update 24 Nov 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF staff member evacuated from Mali

Press Release 21 Nov 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - 21st November 2014

Crisis Update 21 Nov 2014
 
WAD 2014 PORTRAIT - Zimbabwe
HIV/AIDS

Beyond the rhetoric: Implement proven community strategies to fight HIV/AIDS

Press Release 20 Nov 2014
 
Dr Monica Arend-Trujillo in Bo, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone

“Yesterday was a day of three miracles”

Voices from the Field 20 Nov 2014
 
Mali

MSF expands activities to fight Ebola outbreak

Project Update 20 Nov 2014
 
Dr Susanne Mortazavi, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 2014
Women's health

The perils of childbirth in Democratic Republic of Congo

Voices from the Field 20 Nov 2014
 
Health clinic for children in the PK 5 neighborhood of Bangui
Photo Story

Gallery: A Saturday morning with fever and worry

19 Nov 2014
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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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