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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.

 
Palestine

I was scheduled to leave Gaza the day after the military operation “Protective Edge” started

Voices from the Field 21 Jul 2014
 
Iraq - Medical care for those displaced by fighting in areas between Dohuk and Mosul
Iraq

“Today the greatest medical needs remain in areas that are extremely difficult and dangerous to reach”

Project Update 21 Jul 2014
 
Viral Load
HIV/AIDS

High prices hinder access to newer HIV drugs and optimal tests that ensure treatment is working

Press Release 21 Jul 2014
 
A night in Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza City
Palestine

Israel Must Stop Bombing Trapped Civilians

Press Release 21 Jul 2014
 
Ukraine

MSF vehicles stolen by armed men in Donetsk

Press Release 18 Jul 2014
 
Mozambique Viral Load
HIV/AIDS

We need a revolution in the delivery of care to beat HIV/Aids

Opinion 18 Jul 2014
 
Afghanistan

MSF cares for dozens of wounded following heavy fighting in central and northerm Helmand province

Project Update 18 Jul 2014
 
Gaza Strip ruins
Palestine

An MSF team entered Gaza on Thursday to scale up MSF emergency response as an Israeli ground offensive is launched

Voices from the Field 18 Jul 2014
 
Saving Gatluok, malnutrition in Leer, South Sudan
Access to medicines

MSF calls for wider access to vaccinations in emergencies

Press Release 18 Jul 2014
 
Malaysia

MSF expresses its condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of those on board the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17

Statement 18 Jul 2014
 
Yemen
Yemen

MSF supports IDPs in Sana’a and Amran

Press Release 17 Jul 2014
 
Bauchi cholera
Nigeria

MSF treats overs 13,500 cholera patients

Project Update 17 Jul 2014
 
Journal article

Visceral Leishmaniasis as an AIDS Defining Condition: Towards Consistency across WHO Guidelines

17 Jul 2014
Journal article
 
Thousands of Muslims flee Central African Republic
Central African Republic

Retrospective mortality study reveals massive levels of death due to violence against Muslims during peak of conflict

Press Release 16 Jul 2014
 
Journal article

SAMBA HIV semi-quantitative test, a new point-of-care viral load monitoring assay 1 for resource-limited settings.

16 Jul 2014
Journal article
 
IPD - Airport Bangui CAR
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Central African Refugees in Chad and Cameroon: “Suitcase or Coffin”

Report 16 Jul 2014
 
CAR 2010 Anna Surinyach
Central African Republic

Suitcase or Coffin

Project Update 16 Jul 2014
 
Panay Island - Mental health
Democratic Republic of Congo

“I have trouble believing that such a level of horror is possible”

Voices from the Field 16 Jul 2014
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF team treats survivors of abduction, sexual slavery and torture in mining region of eastern Congo

Project Update 16 Jul 2014
 
Journal article

Description of a large measles epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo, 2010–2013

14 Jul 2014
Journal article
 
Sarah Maynard MSF Project Coordinator Leer South Sudan
South Sudan

“The market is empty and people are going hungry”

Voices from the Field 14 Jul 2014
 
Saving Gatluok, malnutrition in Leer, South Sudan
South Sudan

Child malnutrition rates skyrocket in South Sudan

Press Release 14 Jul 2014
 
Cameroon - Buruli Ulcer sensitization week
Cameroon

"We're in the process of writing a page of medical history"

Voices from the Field 14 Jul 2014
 
MSF post-op clinic in Gaza City
Palestine

A population under siege

Voices from the Field 14 Jul 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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