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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 activities and daily life of the refugees in Tasnimarkhola camp.
Rohingya refugee crisis

MSF surveys estimate that at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed during the attacks in Myanmar

Press Release 12 Dec 2017
 
User fees - testimonies from CAR
Access to Healthcare

8 ways user fees for health are harmful to people

Project Update 11 Dec 2017
 
User fees - testimonies from CAR
Global health

Health policies must focus on needs of individuals

Report 11 Dec 2017
 
Saving lives without salaries in Yemen
Yemen

“Just living has become more difficult”

Voices from the Field 11 Dec 2017
 
End of intervention in response to a Marburg fever outbreak
Uganda

MSF ends its intervention in response to the Marburg fever outbreak

Project Update 11 Dec 2017
 
Yemen

Crisis update - January 2018

Crisis Update 11 Dec 2017
 
MSF activities and daily life of the refugees in Tasnimarkhola camp.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Rohingya crisis - a summary of findings from six pooled surveys

Project Update 9 Dec 2017
 
Zemio hospital, where thousands of people had been sheltering from violence.
Central African Republic

“The only people left in Zemio are those who couldn’t run away”

Voices from the Field 9 Dec 2017
 
Voices after the earthquake
Mexico

MSF ends emergency response after the earthquakes

Project Update 8 Dec 2017
 
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Access to Healthcare

Taxing the ill - How user fees are blocking universal health coverage

Report 8 Dec 2017
 
Voices from Oaxaca
Photo Story

Voices after the earthquake

8 Dec 2017
Photo Story
 
Auto mechanic, Holger Hornauf, in Bangui, Central African Republic, December 2017.
Central African Republic

My first week in Bangui: A warm welcome!

msf.org 7 Dec 2017
 
MSF Medical Action - Rohingya Crisis
Rohingya refugee crisis

“This is still a population teetering on the edge.”

Voices from the Field 6 Dec 2017
 
Fatima and her son. Kilo, southern Ibb governorate
Yemen

“There is food in the shops but no money to buy it”

Voices from the Field 6 Dec 2017
 
Al Gamhouri hospital in Hajjah city, damaged by airstrike
Yemen

Intense fighting and blockade further reduce access to healthcare

Press Release 6 Dec 2017
 
Batangafo Hospital : the last place to hide
Central African Republic

“In Batangafo, people are afraid for their lives. It’s the only thing they have left.”

Project Update 6 Dec 2017
 
Samos RIC 3
Greece

Activity update – December 2017

Voices from the Field 5 Dec 2017
 
Trapped on the Greek islands
Greece

Families trapped on islands on the brink of a humanitarian emergency

Press Release 5 Dec 2017
 
Mental Healthcare in Mweso
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF strongly condemns violent robbery of compound in North Kivu

Project Update 4 Dec 2017
 
MSF HIV Programe in Bangui, Central African Republic
HIV/AIDS

Delivering differently to reach people living with HIV in West and Central Africa

Statement 4 Dec 2017
 
HIV Clinics in Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of Congo

Left behind by the HIV response - Kinshasa

MSF Access campaign. 1 Dec 2017
 
Mykolaiv Project
Ukraine

People co-infected with HIV to receive hepatitis C treatment in Mykolaiv region

Press Release 1 Dec 2017
 
Chiradzulu: HIV care for adolescents
HIV/AIDS

MSF at ICASA 2017

Event 1 Dec 2017
 
Raqqa governorate returnees
Syria

Booby-traps and landmines in Raqqa

Voices from the Field 30 Nov 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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