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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 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.

 
MSF response in Bangassou and Ndu
Central African Republic

MSF teams ramp up support as violence escalates

Project Update 14 Jan 2021
 
Ethiopian Refugees Crossing: Hamdayet Entry Point
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

Providing assistance to people in Ethiopia and Sudan in wake of Tigray violence

Project Update 12 Jan 2021
 
COVID-19 response in Intensive care unit of HUG
Switzerland

Responding to the second wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland

Project Update 11 Jan 2021
 
Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign in Kinshasa
Yellow fever

Fractioning doses of yellow fever vaccine can help save more lives

Press Release 8 Jan 2021
 
Tripoli
Lebanon

Overlapping crises in Lebanon increase needs and worsen access to care

Project Update 8 Jan 2021
 
MSF Clinic: inpatient department and surgical capacity, Gogrial, Warrap State. South Sudan
Mali

Patient dies after an MSF ambulance is violently detained in Mali

Press Release 7 Jan 2021
 
Mobile clinics Hebron Dec-20
Palestine

“For one year no one came here” to provide medical care in the West Bank

Project Update 5 Jan 2021
 
Consequences of war for civilian population in Bangassou
Central African Republic

MSF provides care in post-election attacks in Bangassou, CAR

Project Update 4 Jan 2021
 
Ouaka - General View
Central African Republic

Shooting shows civilians continue to pay high price for the perpetual cycle of violence in CAR

Press Release 30 Dec 2020
 
25 de Junho IDP Camp - Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Trying to survive a three-year nightmare in Mozambique

Voices from the Field 29 Dec 2020
 
Ouaka - General View
Central African Republic

Medical care at arm’s length: the continuous struggle of the people of Ouaka

Project Update 24 Dec 2020
 
Al Hashaba transit camp for refugees from Ehtiopian Tigray Region
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

“Services for the refugees need to increase, otherwise it will be a disaster”

Voices from the Field 23 Dec 2020
 
Neglected crisis in central Mali
Mali

Central Mali: no choice but to flee

Project Update 22 Dec 2020
 
MSF | Amhara Region
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

“They saw soldiers and civilians coming in, wounded or dead”

Project Update 18 Dec 2020
 
Harin Halil
Greece

Alarming mental health distress among asylum seekers on Greek islands

Project Update 17 Dec 2020
 
Giving birth in Dasht-e-Barchi
Afghanistan

Patients face persistent insecurity amid “peace process”

Project Update 16 Dec 2020
 
Impact of hurricanes Eta and Lota
Honduras

MSF steps up medical care in response to humanitarian crisis in Honduras

Press Release 16 Dec 2020
 
Eshowe Rural COVID-19 Response
Access to medicines

Governments must act fast on consensus supporting historic move to suspend monopolies during pandemic

Press Release 15 Dec 2020
 
Treating a child during an outreach activity in Maiduguri
Nigeria

Extra-long malaria season in Borno claims lives

Project Update 14 Dec 2020
 
ReCivilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities in Yemen
Yemen

Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities

Press Release 14 Dec 2020
 
COVID-19 response in intensive care units in HUG
Photo Story

A year in pictures 2020

11 Dec 2020
Photo Story
 
An orphan with grandmother in MSF Shinkafi hospital
Nigeria

Killings, looting and abductions in Zamfara state

Project Update 9 Dec 2020
 
Violence in Nariño, Colombia
Colombia

Getting closer to Colombia’s conflict

Voices from the Field 4 Dec 2020
 
Life inside South Sudan’s Largest Displacement Camp
South Sudan

Fear of violence, poor living conditions in South Sudan’s largest displacement camp

Project Update 3 Dec 2020
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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