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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.

 
Trapped in Moria
Greece

Moria is in a state of emergency

Open Letter 17 Sep 2018
 
Trapped in Moria
Greece

Self-harm and attempted suicides increasing for child refugees in Lesbos

Press Release 17 Sep 2018
 
TB treatments yield promising results in the Chechen Republic
Tuberculosis

Open Letter to J&J: Calling for affordable access to critical TB drug bedaquiline

msfaccess.org 17 Sep 2018
 
MSF protest against sofosbuvir patent in Munich
Hepatitis C

MSF response to ruling in Gilead sofosbuvir patent hearing at European Patent Office

Access Campaign . 14 Sep 2018
 
Physiotherapy at SICA hospital, Bangui
Photo Story

Restoring body and mind through physiotherapy

14 Sep 2018
Photo Story
 
Ebola outbreak in Magina
DRC Ebola outbreaks

With a new Ebola outbreak, we knew we had to act fast

Voices from the Field 13 Sep 2018
 
Journey to Valencia Spain
Mediterranean migration

The Aquarius Aquarium

msf-crash.org 13 Sep 2018
 
Out of Darkness- fighting Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C

MSF calls for end to Gilead’s hepatitis C drug monopoly

Press Release 11 Sep 2018
 
Condemned to drown at sea or be locked up in Libya
Mediterranean migration

Refugee Libya shipwreck survivors condemned to drown at sea or face arbitrary detention

Project Update 10 Sep 2018
 
Ebola Treatment Center (ETC) in Mangina
DRC Ebola outbreaks

North Kivu: MSF treats 65 Ebola patients in first month

Project Update 7 Sep 2018
 
Sexual violence in Bangui
Central African Republic

“The tip of the iceberg”: Stream of patients offer glimpse into scale of sexual violence

Project Update 7 Sep 2018
 
Tripoli damaged building
Libya

Evacuation of refugees and migrants out of Libya is urgently needed

Press Release 7 Sep 2018
 
Catching Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria
Photo Story

Catching mosquitoes to fight malaria

7 Sep 2018
Photo Story
 
Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in Bikoro
DRC Ebola outbreaks

New Ebola outbreak declared in North Kivu

Project Update 5 Sep 2018
 
Mexico Migrants Report 2017
Mexico

Abductions and violence, the price to pay to cross Mexico

Project Update 3 Sep 2018
 
CAR - Mar 2017
Central African Republic

Suffering mounts as armed groups return to Bambari

Project Update 31 Aug 2018
 
Libya: detention centres in Tripoli
Libya

Conflict in Tripoli puts lives in danger, demonstrating that Libya is not a place of safety

Press Release 31 Aug 2018
 
Cali – Enforced disappearances
Colombia

Suspended grief

Project Update 30 Aug 2018
 
Palestine

MSF statement regarding the death of a staff member in Gaza

Statement 29 Aug 2018
 
Displaced persons in Tin Hama
Mali

“People arrived exhausted; they ran out of water and food during the journey”

Project Update 27 Aug 2018
 
Monsoon Season Kutupalong/Balukhali Refugee Camp
Rohingya refugee crisis

One year on, Rohingya refugees live in dire camps, facing an uncertain future and legal limbo

Project Update 24 Aug 2018
 
Rohingya in Bangladesh: Lives on Hold
Rohingya refugee crisis

A Rohingya story in Malaysia: “We are always under threat of being arrested”

Voices from the Field 24 Aug 2018
 
Kedida
Ethiopia

Nearly one million displaced people in urgent need of assistance

Project Update 23 Aug 2018
 
Rohingya in Bangladesh: Lives on Hold - ABU AHMAD First Person P
Rohingya refugee crisis

Abu Ahmad: “I always have so many worries; worries about the future.”

Voices from the Field 23 Aug 2018
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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