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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

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MSF intervention in Lodi
Photo Story

A year of a pandemic: our response to COVID-19 in pictures

11 Mar 2021
Photo Story
 
Mental health activities in Manaus
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

One year of a pandemic

Opinion 11 Mar 2021
 
MSF-WTO_Aerial
Access to medicines

Countries obstructing COVID-19 patent waiver must allow negotiations to start

Press Release 9 Mar 2021
 
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Ethiopia

People in Tigray “are suffering from a lack of medical care”

Project Update 5 Mar 2021
 
Self-care: Different People
Women's health

Practicing self-care: empowering women to manage their own health

Project Update 4 Mar 2021
 
The growing impact of the conflict in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Displaced by violence, people in Cabo Delgado arrive in more mental than physical pain

Interview 4 Mar 2021
 
Emergency North East Syria: Civilians Fleeing Offensive Ras al-Ain
Syria

A decade of war in Syria: 10 years of increasing humanitarian needs

Project Update 3 Mar 2021
 
Al Hol Camp - Eastern Al Hasakah Governorate
Syria

MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing

Press Release 2 Mar 2021
 
Butembo and its surroundings, the new epicentre of the outbreak
DRC Ebola outbreaks

MSF responds in North Kivu to twelfth Ebola outbreak in DRC

Project Update 25 Feb 2021
 
Transfer of burns patients
Haiti

Staff forced to transfer burns hospital patients following Port-au-Prince violence

Project Update 25 Feb 2021
 
Ouaka - General View
Central African Republic

People, medical facilities hit during violence in southern CAR

Project Update 22 Feb 2021
 
Palestine: The invisible mental health crisis plaguing the West Bank
Palestine

“In Israel, you’re 60 times more likely to have a COVID vaccine than in Palestine”

Opinion 22 Feb 2021
 
IDP Mobile Clinic in Abs
Yemen

Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs, northern Yemen

Opinion 22 Feb 2021
 
Tsgay Testimony | Hamdayet Reception Area
Ethiopia Tigray crisis

For refugees in Hamdayet, Sudan, “everyone is hungry, and everyone is tired”

Project Update 19 Feb 2021
 
EBOLA GUECKEDOU CONAKRY GUINEA 2014
Guinea

Five questions on the Ebola outbreak in Guinea

Interview 19 Feb 2021
 
Eshowe Rural COVID-19 Response
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Southern Africa needs the right COVID-19 vaccines, at the right price – right now

Press Release 18 Feb 2021
 
Closure of Yangon HIV project
Myanmar

MSF concerned for welfare of healthcare workers and people in Myanmar

Statement 17 Feb 2021
 
Iraq : Treating COVID-19 in Baghdad
Iraq

Severe COVID-19 patients in Iraq “were almost sure to die”

Project Update 16 Feb 2021
 
Herat Covid-19 Treatment Centre (CTC)
Afghanistan

Keeping an eye on COVID-19 cases in Herat, Afghanistan

Project Update 12 Feb 2021
 
The journey of a wounded woman at MSF'SICA hospital in Bangui
Photo Story

A journey of healing in CAR amid post-electoral violence

9 Feb 2021
Photo Story
 
Pakistan

After 12 years of support, MSF hands last hospital activities over in Timergara, Pakistan

Project Update 8 Feb 2021
 
Young patient with diabetes in Paoua
Non-communicable diseases

No fridge, no problem, to store insulin for people with diabetes

Project Update 5 Feb 2021
 
MSF descentralized model of care
Cameroon

Healthcare in the community, by the community in Cameroon

Project Update 4 Feb 2021
 
South Sudan - MSF hospital in Agok
Cameroon

Ambulance fired on in South-West Cameroon

Statement 4 Feb 2021
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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