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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.

 
Democratic Republic of Congo

65,000 children vaccinated against measles despite access difficulties

Project Update 3 Feb 2013
 
Pakistan

Increase in measles cases in eastern Balochistan

Project Update 31 Jan 2013
 
surgical care to victims of violence
Syria

MSF criticises aid imbalances

Press Release 29 Jan 2013
 
Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, December 2011
Afghanistan

MSF treats victims of Kunduz bomb blast

Press Release 28 Jan 2013
 
Syria

All parties to the conflict must respect medical facilities

Press Release 26 Jan 2013
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands at risk of violence and malaria in Katanga province

Project Update 25 Jan 2013
 
Mali

MSF gains access to town devoid of healthcare

Project Update 25 Jan 2013
 
Mali

"The worst thing would be to get to Konna too late"

Voices from the Field 24 Jan 2013
 
Project Update

'Decade of Vaccines' blueprint ignores high vaccine prices and lacks ambition

Press Release 24 Jan 2013
 
India

Final hearings begin in Bayer's appeal against Indian move to allow production of more affordable cancer drug

Statement 18 Jan 2013
 
newly displaced people in and around Goma, in Muguga III camp
Democratic Republic of Congo

Sexual violence rife in Goma camps

Project Update 17 Jan 2013
 
Mali

MSF calls for access to Konna

Press Release 17 Jan 2013
 
Central African Republic

MSF expands emergency response despite peace deal

Project Update 14 Jan 2013
 
Syria: Azaz ciity airstrike patients
Syria

Airstrike on market kills 20, injures 99

Press Release 14 Jan 2013
 
Mali

MSF calls for warring parties to respect the safety of civilians

Press Release 13 Jan 2013
 
Syria, MSF managed to enter Idlib Governorate, end of march 2012
Syria

Destitute civilians suffer intense bombing in Idlib governorate

Press Release 10 Jan 2013
 
Iraq - Dialysis in Kirkuk
Iraq

MSF completes dialysis unit support project in Kirkuk

Project Update 9 Jan 2013
 
Mauritania

Alarming malnutrition and mortality among malian refugees

Voices from the Field 9 Jan 2013
 
Refugees in Upper Nile State South Sudan
South Sudan

We did not want to leave but we could not stay

Voices from the Field 7 Jan 2013
 
MSF maternity hospital in eastern Khost province, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

MSF reopens Khost maternity hospital

Project Update 2 Jan 2013
 
Somalia

Operating at our own risk in Somalia

Project Update 2 Jan 2013
 
MDR-TB in Mathare, Nairobi
Tuberculosis

Bedaquiline: First new tuberculosis drug in 50 years

Press Release 31 Dec 2012
 
Response to Typhoon Bopha, Philippines
Philippines

MSF team runs mobile clinics following typhoon

Project Update 31 Dec 2012
 
In Memoriam

One year after the killing of our two colleagues in Somalia

Statement 29 Dec 2012
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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