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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.

 
a thousand people in transit on their way to Cameroon victims of attacks
Central African Republic

Escalating violence endangering civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid

Press Release 7 Mar 2014
 
Journal article

Outcomes in Adolescents Undergoing Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 2008-2013

6 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
Nelisiwe Ziqugu, Community Health Agent, doing door to door HIV testing. KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
HIV/AIDS

Two new studies point to impact of HIV treatment on transmission in high-HIV-burden African contexts

Press Release 6 Mar 2014
 
MSF Speaking Out

The violence of the new Rwandan regime 1994 - 1995

Speaking out. 4 Mar 2014
 
Malawi

Gearing up for handover

Project Update 4 Mar 2014
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF releases report on shocking humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Press Release 3 Mar 2014
 
Thousands of Muslims flee Central African Republic
Central African Republic

Trapped in PK 12 camp with nowhere to run

Voices from the Field 3 Mar 2014
 
Malnutrition in Bihar, India
India

A step closer to effective treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Bihar

Press Release 3 Mar 2014
 
intensive care ward at Baraka Hospital
Democratic Republic of Congo

Everyday Emergency: Silent Suffering in Democratic Republic of Congo

Report 3 Mar 2014
 
Myanmar (MSB6259)
Myanmar

MSF to resume HIV/AIDS and all other activities in Kachin, Shan and Yangon but concerns remain

Press Release 1 Mar 2014
 
Journal article

Infection control in households of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients co-infected with HIV in Mumbai, India

1 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
Journal article

Measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo: an urgent wake-up call to adapt vaccination implementation strategies

1 Mar 2014
Journal article
 
Tomping Camp, South Sudan
South Sudan

Extremely poor living conditions in Juba camp for the displaced

Project Update 28 Feb 2014
 
HIV care in Myanmar
Myanmar

MSF concerned about the fate of thousands of patients after being ordered to cease activities

Press Release 28 Feb 2014
 
Cameroon - CAR refugees in Garoua-Boulaï
Cameroon

Deplorable living conditions for CAR refugees

Press Release 28 Feb 2014
 
In Gore refugees who fled violence in CAR
Central African Republic

CAR Refugees in need of emergency food aid

Press Release 28 Feb 2014
 
MSF provides emergency care to wounded in Leer
South Sudan

Medical care under fire in South Sudan

Press Release 26 Feb 2014
 
South Sudan

Violence 'jeopardising MSF work'

In the Media 26 Feb 2014
 
Journal article

Reflections on a decade of delivering PMTCT in Khayelitsha, South Africa

26 Feb 2014
Journal article
 
South Sudan

"The operating table had been burned, the fridges were melted"

Voices from the Field 26 Feb 2014
 
N'Djamena, Chagoua: transit center for CAR refugees
Chad

Thousands of CAR refugees flee to N'Djamena

Project Update 26 Feb 2014
 
Afghanistan

Between rhetoric and reality: The ongoing struggle to access healthcare in Afghanistan

Report 25 Feb 2014
 
Drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) Colony 3. Donetsk Ukraine
Ukraine

MSF continues to reinforce its emergency teams

Project Update 25 Feb 2014
 
Afghanistan

The ongoing struggle to access healthcare in Afghanistan

Press Release 25 Feb 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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