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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.

 
Syria

Double-tap bombing on MSF-supported hospital – hospital partially destroyed – patients under treatment died in transit

Project Update 1 Dec 2015
 
The Stop Stocks Outs Project South Africa April 2015
HIV/AIDS

HIV: Antiretroviral drugs fail to consistently reach patients in countries most affected by HIV/AIDS

Report 30 Nov 2015
 
HIV SUPPORT GROUP COMMUNITY MAPUTO MOZAMBIQUE
Access to medicines

Stockouts: Testimonies from patients and medical staff

Voices from the Field 30 Nov 2015
 
Niger: thousands displaced from Lake Chad
Niger

MSF assists victims of new wave of violence in Diffa region

Press Release 27 Nov 2015
 
Mediterranean migration

Meeting the most pressing needs at the Calais Jungle

Project Update 27 Nov 2015
 
Occupied Minds_ Mustafa Suliman
Palestine

'What they see during the day, they dream at night.”

Voices from the Field 27 Nov 2015
 
HIV program in Ndhiwa sub-county, Homa Bay
HIV/AIDS

Despite better access to treatment, many AIDS patients in African hospitals still die

Press Release 27 Nov 2015
 
Portrait of Sayed From Afghanistan
Mediterranean migration

“I had no choice but to run“

Voices from the Field 26 Nov 2015
 
South Africa

Chose life – chose treatment

Project Update 26 Nov 2015
 
Syrian refugees in Serbia
Mediterranean migration

Hundreds stranded without aid as new border control measures come into force

Crisis Update 26 Nov 2015
 

Statement by Christopher Stokes, MSF General Director

Statement 25 Nov 2015
 
Amy Le Compte, midwife in Peshawar
Pakistan

Delivering healthcare to women and children in the communities

Voices from the Field 25 Nov 2015
 
Meningitis Epidemic in Niger
Epidemics and pandemics

Epidemics: Neglected emergencies?

Report 25 Nov 2015
 
MSF in Al Dhale and Taiz, Yemen. July 2015
Yemen

“It was clear from our patients’ wounds that the snipers were shooting to kill”

Voices from the Field 24 Nov 2015
 
In Memoriam: MSF colleagues killed in the Kunduz Trauma Centre attack
Afghanistan

In Memoriam: MSF colleagues killed in the Kunduz Trauma Centre attack

Project Update 24 Nov 2015
 
Swaziland - Figthing HIV and TB dual epidemic
HIV/AIDS

Countries should take up new WHO ‘test and treat’ guidelines

Press Release 24 Nov 2015
 
Bourbon Argos: Search and Rescue Operations, November 2015
Mediterranean migration

“The crossing is more deadly and infinitely more miserable”

Voices from the Field 24 Nov 2015
 
Medical and mental healthcare for people displaced by violence in the Lake Chad area.
Photo Story

Lake Chad region: providing assistance in the epicentre of violence

23 Nov 2015
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Medical and mental healthcare for people displaced by violence in the Lake Chad area.
Lake Chad Crisis

“The only certainty is that people will remain uprooted and continue to live in fear”

Voices from the Field 23 Nov 2015
 
Syria

MSF appalled that another supported hospital in Damascus area hit by missiles

Statement 21 Nov 2015
 
Pozzallo Migrant Reception Centre
Mediterranean migration

Unacceptable conditions for migrants and asylum seekers in Pozzallo reception center, Italy

Press Release 20 Nov 2015
 
MSF treats spiking malaria in South Sudan with the help of local communities
South Sudan

MSF tackles spike in malaria with help of local communities

Project Update 20 Nov 2015
 
South Sudan

Activity Update, October 2015

Project Update 18 Nov 2015
 
Malakal, South Sudan
Photo Story

Malakal, An Inadequate Refuge

18 Nov 2015
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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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