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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.

 
Sleeping sickness

New study shows potential for shorter and safer sleeping sickness treatment

Press Release 16 Nov 2006
 
South Africa

Mass measles vaccinations are effective at early signs of outbreak

Press Release 16 Nov 2006
 
Access to medicines

Five years after DOHA, drug prices are on the rise

Press Release 14 Nov 2006
 
Sudan

A crisis of human suffering

Project Update 14 Nov 2006
 
South Sudan

MSF provides assistance to 50,000 newly displaced in south Darfur

Project Update 12 Nov 2006
 
Neglected diseases

Kala azar kills thousands each year

Project Update 10 Nov 2006
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF providing care to cholera outbreak victims in two health centres in Katanga province

Project Update 9 Nov 2006
 
Guatemala

Global Fund and Guatemalan government urged to commit resources to ensure broader HIV/AIDS treatment and lower drug prices

Press Release 3 Nov 2006
 
Tuberculosis

The XDR-TB emergency will require new strategies and new tools: business as usual would be fatal

Press Release 30 Oct 2006
 
Sri Lanka

MSF withdraws from Jaffna Peninsula

Project Update 19 Oct 2006
 
Sierra Leone

Lessons from pain: Treating Sierra Leone's endless health emergency

Report 17 Oct 2006
 
South Africa

Lusikisiki celebrates 2,200 people on ARV treatment at hand-over ceremony

Press Release 12 Oct 2006
 
Russia

Helping to reconstruct those damaged by war in Chechnya

Project Update 11 Oct 2006
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Dirty hands disease: MSF emergency team fights typhoid fever epidemic in Kikwit

Project Update 11 Oct 2006
 
Pakistan

One year after the earthquake in Kashmir: Interview with national staff member, Sajjad Hussein Khan, Assistant Administrator in Bagh

Voices from the Field 10 Oct 2006
 
Pakistan

Interview with national staff, Samran Afzal Emanuel, Supply Officer in Islamabad

Voices from the Field 10 Oct 2006
 
Pakistan

Interview with national staff, Usman Abid, assistant logistician in Islamabad

Project Update 10 Oct 2006
 
India

As Novartis challenges India's patent law, MSF warns access to medicines is under threat

Press Release 26 Sep 2006
 

Malaria house calls in Sierra Leone

Project Update 25 Sep 2006
 
Sudan

What impact does the security situation have on MSF work in Darfur

Voices from the Field 17 Sep 2006
 
Sudan

In the Darfur trap

Project Update 11 Sep 2006
 
Lebanon

The challenge of providing aid to the most needy in Lebanon

Project Update 8 Sep 2006
 
Sudan

In Darfur, cholera follows reduction in aid

Project Update 4 Sep 2006
 
Liberia

MSF responds to cholera outbreak in Liberia

Project Update 28 Aug 2006
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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