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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.

 
Situation in Borno state, November 2016
Nigeria

I kept telling the team “it’s all about food”

Voices from the Field 11 Nov 2016
 
Journal article

Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises

11 Nov 2016
Journal article
 
Yemen

Record number of babies born on hospital’s one-year anniversary

Project Update 10 Nov 2016
 
MSF delivers $17m to Pfizer to get them to drop the price of the pneumonia vaccine
A Fair Shot

World Pneumonia Day Call-A-Thon today!

Campaign 9 Nov 2016
 
Greece

Providing mental healthcare to stranded asylum seekers

Voices from the Field 9 Nov 2016
 
Bangassou - multi antigen vaccination campaign.
Access to Healthcare

The reality of pneumonia

Voices from the Field 9 Nov 2016
 
Syria

It has taken four years and 20 surgical operations to repair the damage

Voices from the Field 8 Nov 2016
 
October on board of Dignity I
Photo Story

October - A merciless month on the Mediterranean

4 Nov 2016
Photo Story
 
Play Therapy in Tajikistan
Tajikistan

Stories from MSF's paediatric TB projects

Project Update 4 Nov 2016
 
MSF Chagas project in Aiquile, Bolivia
Bolivia

MSF develops an information system for exterminating the bugs that transmit Chagas

Project Update 4 Nov 2016
 
The boy who lost his memory
Syria

Severe shortages in east Aleppo put children’s lives at risk

Project Update 3 Nov 2016
 
Bangassou - General context 2016
Central African Republic

Great humanitarian need, little international attention

Project Update 1 Nov 2016
 
Lake Tchad Crisis: Responding to the humanitarian consequences of violence (Extreme North Cameroon)
Lake Chad Crisis

Lake Chad: Years of Forgotten Crisis

Medium.com 31 Oct 2016
 
Syria

Patients trapped in east Aleppo suffer lack of specialist care

Project Update 31 Oct 2016
 
MSF Clinic In Jérémie, Haiti
Haiti

Deteriorating health status in hurricane-affected provinces

Project Update 27 Oct 2016
 
Third day of Calais Dismantlement
France

Authorities failing to ensure care and protection for unaccompanied minors from Calais ‘Jungle’

Project Update 27 Oct 2016
 
Nonyanyiso Baloi - MSF Treatment For TB in South Africa.
Photo Story

Treating drug resistant TB in the Western Cape

26 Oct 2016
Photo Story
 
25 People Found Dead & 246 Rescued By MSF
Mediterranean migration

29 people found dead by MSF search and rescue ship Bourbon Argos

Press Release 26 Oct 2016
 
Boost Hospital, Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Many of those who left were in critical need of treatment

Voices from the Field 26 Oct 2016
 
Nonyanyiso Baloi - MSF Treatment For TB in South Africa.
Access to medicines

MSF reports on use of the new tuberculosis drugs bedaquiline and delamanid

Press Release 25 Oct 2016
 
Nonyanyiso Baloi - MSF Treatment For TB in South Africa.
South Africa

I'm doing everything I couldn't do before

Voices from the Field 25 Oct 2016
 
MSF TB Treatment in Mumbai, India
Photo Story

"Providing comprehensive treatment for patients with tuberculosis"

25 Oct 2016
Photo Story
 
First day of Calais Dismantlement
France

Dismantlement of the Calais ‘Jungle'

Project Update 25 Oct 2016
 
MSF TB Treatment in Mumbai, India
India

Renewed hope with new drugs

Project Update 25 Oct 2016
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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