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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
Content Portal

Latest

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

 
MSF AWD ward in Kebridahar 2017
Ethiopia

Thousands hit by outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea during worst drought for decades

Project Update 24 Apr 2017
 
From Misrata to Tripoli
Libya

From Misrata to Tripoli, a first-hand account from Dr Tankred Stoebe

Voices from the Field 24 Apr 2017
 
Journal article

MSF publishes study on the accuracy of HIV rapid diagnostic tests

20 Apr 2017
Journal article
 
SMC and vaccination in the north of Mali
Mali

"There is a crisis overlap in northern Mali"

Voices from the Field 20 Apr 2017
 
Nigeria: Searching for aid after fleeing the fighting
Photo Story

Searching for aid after fleeing the fighting

19 Apr 2017
Photo Story
 
Nigeria, Banki, March 2017
Nigeria

As refugees flee violence, others are forcibly returned

Press Release 19 Apr 2017
 
Nigeria, Banki, March 2017
Nigeria

Testimonies of forced return

Voices from the Field 19 Apr 2017
 
Nigeria-Rann_March-2017
Nigeria

“Falling sick in Rann is almost a death sentence”

Voices from the Field 19 Apr 2017
 
Bria Hospital
Central African Republic

“Our paediatric hospital had to suddenly function as an adult trauma centre”

Voices from the Field 13 Apr 2017
 
CAR - Mar 2017
Central African Republic

Civilians pay the price of renewed, brutal fighting

Press Release 13 Apr 2017
 
Outdoors support clinics, Thaker. Leer, South Sudan
Photo Story

Delivering healthcare to a population displaced and in danger in Leer county

12 Apr 2017
Photo Story
 
Providing care to displaced communities, Tikrit district, Iraq.
Iraq

“We walked all night, staying away from roads for fear of being caught”

Project Update 11 Apr 2017
 
NFI distribution
Syria

A family returns to a village battered by war

Voices from the Field 11 Apr 2017
 
NFI distribution
Syria

Instability in the south

Project Update 11 Apr 2017
 
Landslides in Mocoa, Colombia
Colombia

MSF provides medical and psychosocial assistance to people affected by the landslide in Mocoa

Project Update 10 Apr 2017
 
Measles Vaccination in Conakry
Guinea

Battling a large-scale measles epidemic

Press Release 7 Apr 2017
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

The Politics of Fear

co.uk 6 Apr 2017
 
Candelaria Lanusse, MSF health adviser for Yemen
Yemen

"The war is taking a very high toll on the civilian population"

Voices from the Field 5 Apr 2017
 
Syria

Khan Sheikhoun victims have symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical substances

Statement 5 Apr 2017
 
Mosul : Civilians caught in crossfire
Iraq

The patients we receive are the “lucky ones”

Voices from the Field 4 Apr 2017
 
Journal article

Describing the toll of war on health in absentia

3 Apr 2017
Journal article
 
Zummar Maternity / IPD - March 2017
Iraq

Stabilising emergencies in a pocket of safety

Project Update 3 Apr 2017
 
North Syria, Jan 2017
Syria

Explosive devices have deadly impact on people fleeing or returning home

Report 2 Apr 2017
 
MSF intervention in Banki, Borno State, Nigeria , July 2016
Nigeria

Case Study on humanitarian response in North-east Nigeria

Emergency Gap. 1 Apr 2017
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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