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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
Content Portal

Latest

Discover all our latest news, stories and publications. Use the filter to get to the content you're looking for.

 
Syrian Exodus
Syria

Chapter One: “Fear is inside your body, like an illness”

Project Update 20 Dec 2013
 
Italy

MSF calls for temporary closure and evacuation of migrants centre in Lampedusa

Press Release 20 Dec 2013
 
10 years in DRC - MSF CH
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF's decade of medical action

Voices from the Field 20 Dec 2013
 
Syria

Syrian Exodus: A disappointed Syrian living in Athens

Project Update 20 Dec 2013
 
Cleaning wells in Guiuan
Philippines

"We must still be vigilant"

Voices from the Field 19 Dec 2013
 
First baby born in Tacloban Hospital
Philippines

Specialised care for mothers and babies in devastated Tacloban

Voices from the Field 19 Dec 2013
 
NFI distribution
Philippines

MSF helps villagers rebuild their homes after typhoon Haiyan

Project Update 19 Dec 2013
 
Iraq - Medical care for Syrian crossing the Iraqi Kurdistan border
Syria

Urgent need for cross-border aid

Press Release 18 Dec 2013
 
Emergency Philippines - Nov 2013
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: Challenges to deliver aid persist

Voices from the Field 18 Dec 2013
 
Treating MDR-TB in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Sept 2013
Tajikistan

Children with tuberculosis must not be neglected

Project Update 17 Dec 2013
 
Street scenes in Aleppo
Syria

MSF calls on all parties to end targeting of schools and hospitals

Press Release 17 Dec 2013
 
IDPs in Bossangoa
Central African Republic

Bossangoa remains tense as MSF teams provide emergency medical care

Voices from the Field 17 Dec 2013
 
Treating MDR-TB in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Sept 2013
Tuberculosis

Improving paediatric TB care in Tajikistan

Report 17 Dec 2013
 
Community Hospital in Bangui
Central African Republic

MSF still responding to emergencies 10 days after violence breaks out

Project Update 17 Dec 2013
 
Mpoko camp, Bangui Airport
Central African Republic

MSF providing emergency care at Bangui airport

Project Update 13 Dec 2013
 
Syrian Refugees Harmanli Bulgaria
Bulgaria

MSF provides essential aid to Syrian refugees facing harsh winter

Voices from the Field 13 Dec 2013
 
Central African Republic

UN must urgently and radically change its humanitarian response

Press Release 12 Dec 2013
 
IPD - Airport Bangui CAR
Central African Republic

The aid world has failed the people of the Central African Republic

Statement 12 Dec 2013
 
IPD - Airport Bangui CAR
Central African Republic

Open letter to the UN humanitarian system

Open Letter 12 Dec 2013
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

"Hospitals don't even have the most basic of medicines"

Voices from the Field 11 Dec 2013
 
Inflatable hospital set up in the compound of Bethany hospital, Tacloban.
Philippines

I will call her Hope

Project Update 11 Dec 2013
 
Emergency Trauma Surgery in Al Ramtha Governmental Hospital.
Syria

MSF treats hundreds of victims of civil war in emergency programme in Jordan

Project Update 10 Dec 2013
 
Journal article

Data Sharing in a Humanitarian Organisation: The Experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

10 Dec 2013
Journal article
 
Project Update

MSF calls for scale-up of ‘viral load’ monitoring to improve HIV treatment outcomes in developing countries

Press Release 10 Dec 2013
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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