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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

A Global Network
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 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.

 
Tanya and Florence - Living With HIV
HIV/AIDS

Pfizer and GSK’s HIV/AIDS division, ViiV, prevents children with HIV from getting needed medicine

Press Release 23 Jul 2018
 
Key populations, peer-led HIV and SRH services
HIV/AIDS

Towards Peer-Led HIV and SRH Services for Sex Workers and Men Having Sex with Men

Report 23 Jul 2018
 
Key populations, peer-led HIV and SRH services
HIV/AIDS

Meeting the specific needs of key populations living with HIV

Project Update 23 Jul 2018
 
Insein clinic, for treatment for HIV, TB, and Hepatitis C in Yangon. By Alessandro Penso, Feb 2018.
Tuberculosis

Last-minute pressure to drop language on protecting access to affordable medicines from TB Summit declaration negotiations

Press Release 20 Jul 2018
 
multi-antigenes vaccination campaign in CAR
Central African Republic

Protecting as many children as possible in an emergency context

Project Update 20 Jul 2018
 
Old Fangak Stories
Photo Story

A hospital in the swamp

20 Jul 2018
Photo Story
 
Trapped in Moria
Photo Story

Trapped in Moria

19 Jul 2018
Photo Story
 
Maadi Clinic
Egypt

“Our patients were among the strongest and bravest human beings I have ever met”

Voices from the Field 19 Jul 2018
 
Surviving conflict in northeast Nigeria
Nigeria

“The situation in northeast Nigeria is deteriorating after years of conflict”

Interview 18 Jul 2018
 
Trapped in Moria
Greece

Confinement, violence and chaos: How a European refugee camp is traumatising people on Lesbos

Project Update 18 Jul 2018
 
Treating HIV and AIDS in Conakry
Website

AIDS 2018

aids2018.org
 
MSF IN CHAD: TACKLING MALNUTRITION IN AM TIMAN
Chad

Tackling malnutrition in Am Timan

Project Update 17 Jul 2018
 
Treating HIV and AIDS in Conakry
HIV/AIDS

MSF at AIDS 2018

Project Update 16 Jul 2018
 
Tuberculosis

EndTB: Bedaquiline- and delamanid- containing regimens achieve excellent interim treatment response without safety concerns

endtb.org 13 Jul 2018
 
Tuberculosis

TB Online: Activists call on Johnson & Johnson to drop the price of bedaquiline

tbonline.info 13 Jul 2018
 
Services in the referral hospital in Ansongo
Mali

“Insecurity has pushed people to their limits”

Interview 13 Jul 2018
 
Aquarius SAR: Winter conditions and high seas
Mediterranean migration

Drowning skyrockets as European governments block humanitarian assistance on Central Mediterranean

Press Release 12 Jul 2018
 
NFI distribution in Mosul's Old City
Photo Story

After the battle: The unfolding of a disaster

11 Jul 2018
Photo Story
 
Ebola outbreak Mbandaka
DRC Ebola outbreaks

“Congolese health workers have shown an amazing commitment to fighting Ebola”

Voices from the Field 11 Jul 2018
 
Rubber boat is waiting for a rescue
Mediterranean migration

Humanitarian reasons versus political interests

msf-crash.org 11 Jul 2018
 
Healthcare in Tigray, Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Fighting stigma and providing mental health to Eritrean refugees

Voices from the Field 10 Jul 2018
 
Rubber boat is waiting for a rescue
Mediterranean migration

NGOs are not in collusion with smugglers

msf-crash.org 10 Jul 2018
 
Zainab - war wounded - Mosul
Iraq

The agony of Mosul’s war wounded: “I've had about 15 operations on my leg so far.”

Voices from the Field 9 Jul 2018
 
Nashwan - war wounded - Mosul
Iraq

A year on from battle, Mosul’s healthcare system is still in ruins

Press Release 9 Jul 2018
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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