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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.

 
Voices from Oaxaca
Mexico

MSF assists people following Mexico City earthquake

Press Release 21 Sep 2017
 
Cholera outbreak in Maiduguri
Nigeria

MSF scales up activities as cholera spreads in Borno state

Project Update 19 Sep 2017
 
Rohingyas Fleeing into Bangladesh
Rohingya refugee crisis

International humanitarian access to Rakhine State must urgently be permitted

Press Release 18 Sep 2017
 
‘My doctors told me – this is the only chance’ - First Patient Finishes Treatment at MSF's TB Project in Belarus
Belarus

“My doctors told me it was my only chance”

Voices from the Field 15 Sep 2017
 
Chad

In eastern Chad, cholera continues to spread

Project Update 15 Sep 2017
 
Pakistan Behind The Headlines
Pakistan

MSF asked to close medical activities in Kurram Agency, north-west Pakistan

Statement 14 Sep 2017
 
Libya

Returned migrants are being robbed, raped and murdered in Libya

UNHCHR. 8 Sep 2017
 
Fatima, from Dara'a, Syria
Syria

Syrian war wounded look forward to returning home

Voices from the Field 7 Sep 2017
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Libya

5 Reasons not to block migrants & refugees in Libya

Project Update 7 Sep 2017
 
Refugees Fleeing into Bangladesh
Rohingya refugee crisis

Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh urgently require medical and humanitarian assistance

Press Release 6 Sep 2017
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Libya

European governments are feeding the business of suffering

Open Letter 6 Sep 2017
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Libya

MSF International President to speak on Libya detention centres

Project Update 5 Sep 2017
 
Cholera outbreak in Maiduguri
Nigeria

MSF scaling up efforts to contain cholera in Maiduguri

Press Release 1 Sep 2017
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Photo Story

Human Suffering: Inside Libya's migrant detention centres

1 Sep 2017
Photo Story
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Libya

Arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants must stop

Press Release 1 Sep 2017
 
Snapshots from Northern Syria
Syria

Conflict brings new arrivals every day to Ain Issa camp

Press Release 31 Aug 2017
 
Minova Cholera
Democratic Republic of Congo

South Kivu cholera outbreak threatens to spread out of control

Press Release 30 Aug 2017
 
Home-based care in Burj el-Barajneh refugee camp, Beirut.
Photo Story

Home-based care for refugees in Burj el-Barajneh

30 Aug 2017
Photo Story
 
Landslides in Freetown
Sierra Leone

MSF supports communities hit hard by mudslide and flooding

Project Update 24 Aug 2017
 
Marie Agama, 20, from Nigeria
Photo Story

Stories and testimonies of migrants fleeing violence

22 Aug 2017
Photo Story
 
Bangassou - multi antigen vaccination campaign.
Access to medicines

Patent Office dashes hopes for affordable pneumonia vaccine

Press Release 22 Aug 2017
 
Fleeing from Kasai
Democratic Republic of Congo

Crisis update – July 2017

Crisis Update 21 Aug 2017
 
Hepatitis C - Clinic Cambodia
Photo Story

Treating hepatitis C in Phnom Penh

21 Aug 2017
Photo Story
 
Tanganyika, DRC - July 2017
Democratic Republic of Congo

No water, no space – dire living conditions in Kalémie

Press Release 18 Aug 2017
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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