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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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Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
IDP CAMP JUBA 3 SOUTH SUDAN
Malaria

Malaria control in emergencies: time for action

Opinion 25 Apr 2014
 
Kigali, genocide Rwandan Tutsis, april 1994
Rwanda

Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide: “We don’t talk about things that are hard to recount”

Voices from the Field 25 Apr 2014
 
Baraka, South Kivu, DRC, March 2014. Josine Blanksma at work and in and around hospital.
Malaria

"My heart leaps for joy": the ups and downs of treating malaria in DRC

Voices from the Field 25 Apr 2014
 
Malaria

Another weapon in the fight against malaria

Project Update 25 Apr 2014
 
Photo Story

Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Niger

25 Apr 2014
Photo Story
 
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Madaoua
Malaria

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention - “It’s not a miracle cure, but it is an effective preventative strategy”

Project Update 25 Apr 2014
 
Siyabulela Qwaka, XDR TB Survivor
South Africa

"This disease is for heroes. If you can fight this, you can stand anything in this world"

Voices from the Field 24 Apr 2014
 
Disease prevention

Taking the fridge out of the equation

Project Update 23 Apr 2014
 
PCV Vaccination Campaign in Yida Camp
Access to medicines

Heat-stable vaccines urgently needed to reach the one in five children missed by immunisation worldwide

Press Release 22 Apr 2014
 
Journal article

Optimal Evidence in Difficult Settings: Improving Health Interventions and Decision Making in Disasters

22 Apr 2014
Journal article
 
Journal article

Humanitarian work in prisons: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

22 Apr 2014
Journal article
 
Guinea

MSF continues Ebola response

Project Update 22 Apr 2014
 
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Uganda

MSF increases its capacity for action to aid refugees from South Sudan

Project Update 17 Apr 2014
 
Ansongo, Mali
Mali

“MSF was in Ansongo throughout the crisis, the population appreciates our work”

Voices from the Field 17 Apr 2014
 
Lebanon -Providing medical care to Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley
Access to Healthcare

Stories from non-communicable chronic diseases patients in Lebanon

Voices from the Field 17 Apr 2014
 
Lebanon -Providing medical care to Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley
Lebanon

Treating chronic diseases among Syrian refugees, a priority for MSF

Project Update 16 Apr 2014
 
Central African Republic

Exodus of Muslims: Interviews with refugees in Chad

Project Update 16 Apr 2014
 
Journal article

Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea — Preliminary Report

16 Apr 2014
Journal article
 
Journal article

Association of Blood Lead Level with Neurological Features in 972 Children Affected by an Acute Severe Lead Poisoning Outbreak in Zamfara State, Northern Nigeria

16 Apr 2014
Journal article
 
Malakal South Sudan 2014
South Sudan

"No news from Malakal"

Project Update 14 Apr 2014
 
Cambodia Active Case Finding Pilot Program
Tuberculosis

Active Case Finding in Cambodia: Searching for TB one village at a time

Project Update 14 Apr 2014
 
Fistula Camp Boguila, CAR 2012
Central African Republic

Thousands of people flee fighting in Boguila town

Project Update 12 Apr 2014
 
Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF resumes activities in Ebola centre in southeast Guinea

Press Release 11 Apr 2014
 
Journal article

Intensive-Phase Treatment Outcomes among Hospitalized Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients: Results from a Nationwide Cohort in Nigeria

10 Apr 2014
Journal article
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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