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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

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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

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Mesoamerican endemic Nephropathy (MeN) a humanitarian crisis in Guatemala
Guatemala

Fighting chronic kidney disease in southern Guatemala

Project Update 11 Aug 2022
 
Mozambique: Inside MSF’s relief items kits distributions to newly displaced people in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Tens of thousands of people displaced by conflict in need of essential items in Cabo Delgado

Voices from the Field 11 Aug 2022
 
Emergency Medical Aid (EMA) for new arrivals in Samos, Greece
Greece

Fear, beatings and forced returns for people seeking safety on Greek island of Samos

Project Update 9 Aug 2022
 
Violent practices against migrants
Hungary

Alarming violence occurring at Hungary-Serbia border

Press Release 4 Aug 2022
 
North Kivu: displaced communities are losing hope as M23 crisis drags on
Democratic Republic of Congo

Hundreds of thousands at risk without food, shelter or healthcare in North Kivu

Project Update 3 Aug 2022
 
Rotation 13 - Rescues 1-6
Mediterranean migration

High risk of more deaths in the Mediterranean over lack of search and rescue operations

Press Release 3 Aug 2022
 
MSF Emergency Centre in Turgeau
Haiti

Dozens of people hit by stray bullets as fierce violence flares up again in Port-au-Prince

Press Release 29 Jul 2022
 
The journey to reversing the curve
HIV/AIDS

MSF at AIDS 2022

Project Update 28 Jul 2022
 
Medical consequences of the violence in Port-au-Prince
Haiti

People continue to suffer amongst extreme violence in the heart of Haiti's capital

Project Update 28 Jul 2022
 
This baby was born by emergency caesarean section, Nablus Hospital, West Mosul
Iraq

MSF in Iraq annual report 2021

Report 27 Jul 2022
 
Making of participatory video
Chad

Co-designing health programmes with the community in Chad

Project Update 27 Jul 2022
 
MSF provides medical and mental health services in H2 area, Hebron, West Bank
Palestine

Palestinians in Hebron suffer from lack of healthcare and psychological distress

Project Update 25 Jul 2022
 
Hepatitis E vaccine
South Sudan

South Sudan implements world-first outbreak response vaccination campaign for hepatitis E

Press Release 21 Jul 2022
 
In Ukraine, MSF Works in Partnership with Local Groups
Ukraine

“Together we can do so much more”: Partnering with local organisations in Kharkiv and throughout Ukraine

Project Update 18 Jul 2022
 
MSF ambulance at Mamfe Distric Hospital
Cameroon

MSF closes project bases in Kumba and Mamfe in South-West Cameroon

Statement 18 Jul 2022
 
Gaza: reconstructing lives after amputations
Photo Story

Gaza: Reconstructing lives after amputations

18 Jul 2022
Photo Story
 
Four Years On: dehumanisation of Rohingya people continues
Myanmar

Ten years in dire conditions perpetuates severe mental health problems for Rohingya

Project Update 14 Jul 2022
 
Medical consequences of the violence in Port-au-Prince
Haiti

Thousands of people trapped by deadly armed clashes in Cité Soleil

Press Release 13 Jul 2022
 
Mozambique: Three new developments in the crisis in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Three new developments in the Cabo Delgado crisis

Project Update 11 Jul 2022
 
MSF teams witness overwhelming needs of migrants in Mexico’s northern border cities
Mexico

More assistance urgently needed for people arriving in Mexico’s northern border cities

Press Release 11 Jul 2022
 
MSF mobile healthcare supports a rural town in Ukraine
Ukraine

Supporting healthcare in a rural town in Ukraine

Project Update 8 Jul 2022
 
Nutritional crisis in northwest Nigeria
Nigeria

Out of sight: the neglected malnutrition crisis which threatens thousands of children’s lives

Press Release 7 Jul 2022
 
City of Mosul
Iraq

Mosul: A slow road to recovery for the city of two springs

Project Update 7 Jul 2022
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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