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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

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

 
Idomeni after the closing of the border
Greece

"Help us to find a safe path"

Voices from the Field 3 Mar 2016
 
Fighting in Malakal, South Sudan
South Sudan

MSF condemns outrageous attack in UN protection site in Malakal

Press Release 2 Mar 2016
 
"RETURN TO ABUSER" - Family and Sexual Violence Papua New Guinea
Photo Story

Cycles of abuse and gender based violence revealed in Papua New Guinea

1 Mar 2016
Photo Story
 
"RETURN TO ABUSER" - Family and Sexual Violence Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Return to Abuser

Report 1 Mar 2016
 
Northern Yemen, Oct15-Feb16
Yemen

Practising medicine under fire

Voices from the Field 26 Feb 2016
 
Hepatitis C in Mumbai
India

Patent challenge hearing on Gilead hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir starts in India

Project Update 26 Feb 2016
 
Iraq - Domiz Syrian refugee camp
Iraq

Seven months in an endless race to provide access to aid

Voices from the Field 25 Feb 2016
 
Calais' Jungle
France

Refugees face ‘slow death’ in Calais' Jungle

Voices from the Field 25 Feb 2016
 
Batangafo - NFI distribution
Central African Republic

MSF distributes relief item kits to fire-displaced families in Batangafo

Project Update 25 Feb 2016
 
Malnutrition and malaria in Manono health zone
Democratic Republic of Congo

Children who survived measles are now suffering from malnutrition and malaria

Project Update 24 Feb 2016
 
Kyrgyzstan - Decentralized care for TB patients
Project Update

Developing countries hit with high price for important new tuberculosis drug

Press Release 24 Feb 2016
 
Assistance for refugees in Serbia
Mediterranean migration

EU Migration Crisis Update - February 2016

Project Update 24 Feb 2016
 
CAR - Slideshow: Multi-antigenes Vaccination campaign - 04
Vaccination

High vaccine prices hamper immunisation efforts in Africa, but are missing from agenda of key vaccination conference

Press Release 24 Feb 2016
 
South Sudan

MSF compound looted, medical teams treating wounded amid fighting in Pibor

Project Update 24 Feb 2016
 
On the Greek / Macedonian Border at Idomeni
Greece

Thousands stranded as new arbitrary border restrictions expose refugees to violence

Crisis Update 23 Feb 2016
 
WAJIR, KENYA: MSF warns of future cholera spike
Kenya

MSF warns of future cholera spike if poor water and sanitation conditions in Wajir are not urgently addressed

Project Update 22 Feb 2016
 
MSF-supported hospital in northern Syria destroyed in attack
Syria

Our bombs are smarter than yours

Opinion 22 Feb 2016
 
Malakal Camp, South Sudan
South Sudan

73 wounded treated in Malakal PoC after new fighting erupted on Thursday

Crisis Update 19 Feb 2016
 
Treating MDR-TB in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Sept 2013
Project Update

MSF statement on a donation of TB drugs from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Project Update 19 Feb 2016
 
Dr. Joanne Liu
Syria

Statement by Dr Joanne Liu International President of Médecins Sans Frontières

Speech 18 Feb 2016
 
MSF-supported hospital in northern Syria destroyed in attack
Syria

Civilians under relentless attack

Project Update 18 Feb 2016
 
MSF-supported hospital in northern Syria destroyed in attack
Syria

Report documents war wounded and war dead in MSF-supported medical facilities in Syria

Report 17 Feb 2016
 
Refugee camp in Samos, Greece
Greece

Looking after refugees in transit

Project Update 17 Feb 2016
 
Conditions in Kapise village, Malawi
Malawi

Humanitarian standards not reachable for more than 5,800 Mozambican refugees in Kapise camp

Voices from the Field 17 Feb 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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