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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.

 
Liberia

MSF’s new Ebola management centres already overwhelmed

Press Release 27 Aug 2014
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

MSF deeply saddened by deaths of a Guinean, a Liberian and a Sierra Leonean colleague

Statement 26 Aug 2014
 
Journal article

The development of a multilingual tool for facilitating the primary-specialty care interface in low resource settings: the MSF tele-expertise system

26 Aug 2014
Journal article
 
MSF Ebola Training Brussels 2014
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola Epidemic confirmed in Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF sends specialists and material to the epicentre

Press Release 26 Aug 2014
 
Vaccination Campaign against Cholera Gambella Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees receive cholera vaccine

Press Release 25 Aug 2014
 
Central African Republic

"The population does not buy the idea that this is a religious conflict”

Voices from the Field 25 Aug 2014
 
Journal article

Hepatitis B virus in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: a cross sectional serosurvey in different cohorts

23 Aug 2014
Journal article
 
MSF clinic for IDPs in Baharka Camp, Iraq Kurdistan
Iraq

Stories from Bharka Camp

Voices from the Field 20 Aug 2014
 
MSF clinic for IDPs in Baharka Camp, Iraq Kurdistan
Iraq

“With so many IDPs the challenge is to target our work to the most vulnerable”

Voices from the Field 20 Aug 2014
 
Central African Republic

MSF receives 31 new wounded at the General Hospital

Project Update 20 Aug 2014
 
Palestine

Lift the Blockade on Gaza

Op-Ed 20 Aug 2014
 
Kailahun, Sierra Leone
Haemorrhagic fevers

International Response to West Africa Ebola Epidemic Dangerously Inadequate

Project Update 15 Aug 2014
 
Kailahun, Sierra Leone
Haemorrhagic fevers

New Strategies and More Hands-on Capacity Needed to Curb Ebola Epidemic

Speech 15 Aug 2014
 
Journal article

Patch-testing for the management of hypersensitivity reactions to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs: a case report

15 Aug 2014
Journal article
 
Ansongo. SMC
Mali

protecting children from the most deadly childhood disease

Voices from the Field 15 Aug 2014
 
Mozambique - HIV and TB care
Mozambique

Home care in Mozambique: reaching out to patients

Project Update 15 Aug 2014
 
Batangafo hospital
Central African Republic

Thousands of people fearing violence look for refuge at the hospital and military compound in Batangafo

Press Release 14 Aug 2014
 
Refugee Doctors
Iraq

Successive Waves of Population Displacement

Project Update 14 Aug 2014
 
Palestine

"I am a doctor, I am here to provide care. Patients also need to be listened to."

Project Update 14 Aug 2014
 
Cholera Juba South Sudan
South Sudan

Cholera admissions decrease in the South

Project Update 14 Aug 2014
 
Domiz refugee camp
Syria

The Reach of War: A Day in the Life of the Syrian Conflict

Press Release 13 Aug 2014
 
Iraq-IDPs from Sinjar District
Iraq

MSF responding to dramatic influx of displaced people from Sinjar

Project Update 13 Aug 2014
 
Palestine

Entire streets which are no more than piles of rubble

Voices from the Field 12 Aug 2014
 
Vaccination measles Kalonge (DRC)
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF forced to suspend a measles vaccination campaign following a violent incident in the Kalonge area

Press Release 12 Aug 2014
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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