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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.

 
Venezuelan migrants and refugees in northern Brazil
Brazil

Venezuelan migrants left without healthcare, shelter and services

Project Update 14 Dec 2021
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Casualties arrive en masse at MSF hospital following an airstrike in Idlib

Press Release 13 Dec 2021
 
Northeast Syria COVID-19 | Hassakeh Hospital Mr. Ali Testimony
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 5 - May to September 2021

Report 8 Dec 2021
 
Coatzacoalcos, Mexico
Photo Story

A year in pictures 2021

8 Dec 2021
Photo Story
 
Catatumbo (Colombia)
Colombia

Humanitarian needs persist on Colombia and Venezuela border

Press Release 7 Dec 2021
 
Dadaab, Kenya - Landscape
Kenya

Urgent solutions needed for refugees as camps set to close

Press Release 6 Dec 2021
 
An aerial view of Dagahaley camp
Kenya

In search of dignity: Refugees in Kenya face a reckoning

Report 6 Dec 2021
 
Patients in Vodiane
Ukraine

Volunteers help fellow villagers access healthcare in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine

Project Update 3 Dec 2021
 
Treating the COVID-19 Second wave
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

In an unequal world, our response to COVID-19 cannot be one size-fits-all

Opinion 3 Dec 2021
 
Access to water in Southern Madagascar
Climate emergency

A failure of ambition on climate action will amplify humanitarian needs

bmj.com 3 Dec 2021
 
Ma Sabai waiting for appointment
Myanmar

Myanmar: Political turmoil threatens HIV care

MSF Asia Pacific. 1 Dec 2021
 
Sarah*: Patiente VIH Habitante Kinshasa
HIV/AIDS

DRC: People are still dying unnecessarily from HIV

Project Update 1 Dec 2021
 
A. Prun Kumar
World AIDS Day

Why are people living with HIV still dying of AIDS?

Opinion 1 Dec 2021
 
Al-Wahda hospital
World Health Assembly

Pandemic preparedness and response: some lessons learnt

Statement 30 Nov 2021
 
Story of a Syrian family on board
Mediterranean migration

The father who faced the sea so his sons might go to school

Voices from the Field 26 Nov 2021
 
Annette Souffrant with her three children at the mobile clinic
Haiti

Thousands stranded and exposed as insecurity worsens in Port-au-Prince

Project Update 24 Nov 2021
 
Barsalogho IDP camp
Burkina Faso

Healthcare centre burnt down amid surge of violence in Foube

Project Update 23 Nov 2021
 
Floodings in South Sudan - aerial images
South Sudan

Lacklustre humanitarian response leaves people dangerously exposed in Bentiu floods

Press Release 23 Nov 2021
 
Ibtisam Hashim, midwife, Nablus hospital, West Mosul
Iraq

Mosul: A city recovering from war

Voices from the Field 19 Nov 2021
 
Turquesa River
Panama

Violence and danger for people crossing Panama’s Darien jungle

Interview 19 Nov 2021
 
Women and girls prevented from having a safe abortion
Safe abortion care

Putting patients first for safe abortion care

Interview 18 Nov 2021
 
Floodings in South Sudan - aerial images
South Sudan

Third year of severe floods leaves nearly 800,000 people struggling

Crisis Update 17 Nov 2021
 
Rescue 3 - Rotation 5
Mediterranean migration

Ten more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route

Press Release 17 Nov 2021
 
Pink October campaign in Bamako
Mali

Three questions on the challenges of treating cancer in Mali

Interview 11 Nov 2021
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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