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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 Response Measles Vaccination (Am Timan District)
Content Portal

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Chad - Distribution of hygiene and shelter kits to people displaced by Boko Haram attacks
Chad

Thousands of Nigerian refugees seek safety

Project Update 18 Mar 2015
 
Syria

Use of chlorine in an attack on a village in Northern Syria

Press Release 18 Mar 2015
 
Omar Al Balkhim, surviving the wounds of Syria
Jordan

Gallery: Omar Al Balkhim, surviving the wounds of Syria

Voices from the Field 18 Mar 2015
 
Syria

“Like an endless night – that’s getting darker and darker”

Voices from the Field 13 Mar 2015
 
Covered in the blood of those who risked their live - North Homs
Syria

Medical supplies “covered in the blood of those who risked their lives to get them here”

Voices from the Field 13 Mar 2015
 
Covered in the blood of those who risked their live - North Homs
Syria

Working underground – supporting Syrian doctors in besieged and intense conflict areas

Voices from the Field 13 Mar 2015
 
East Damascus, Syria - Voice from the Field
Syria

In a besieged hospital, sleeping and resting were an impossible luxury

Voices from the Field 13 Mar 2015
 
East Aleppo
Syria

Aleppo’s reality - Daily life under barrel bombs

Report 11 Mar 2015
 
Syria

Four years into the conflict, medical aid is paralysed by lack of access

Press Release 11 Mar 2015
 
Syria - Al Hassakeh
Syria

Unacceptable humanitarian failure

Op-Ed 11 Mar 2015
 
East Aleppo
Syria

Aleppo surviving on a fragile humanitarian lifeline

Crisis Update 10 Mar 2015
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Aleppo: Medical Aid Besieged

Report 10 Mar 2015
 
Regional Hospital of Katiola MSF supports gynecological
Côte d'Ivoire

Everyday life at MSF’s Katiola maternity centre

Voices from the Field 6 Mar 2015
 
International Women's Day
Women's health

“Because Tomorrow Needs Her” Explores Multiple Health Challenges Affecting Women

Press Release 6 Mar 2015
 
MSF new maternity in Kabul
Afghanistan

A unit for “kangaroo mothers” in Kabul

Voices from the Field 6 Mar 2015
 
Psychosocial care for survivors of sexual violence
Sexual violence

International Women's Day: Surviving sexual violence during adolescence

Project Update 5 Mar 2015
 
Psychosocial care for survivors of sexual violence
Honduras

International Women's Day: “It is terrible to see a patient—a 12 year-old girl—who has been abused by five or six m

Project Update 5 Mar 2015
 
HIV support group for adolescents
Zimbabwe

Stigma, confusion, silence: life as a young girl with HIV in Zimbabwe

Voices from the Field 5 Mar 2015
 
Lesotho, Family Planning
Photo Story

Gallery: Family Planning in Lesotho

5 Mar 2015
Photo Story
 
Central African Republic

From Bangui to Carnot: a year in CAR with MSF

Voices from the Field 5 Mar 2015
 
HIV/AIDS

International Women's Day: Medical and psychosocial support for teenagers with HIV

Project Update 4 Mar 2015
 
Ansongo, Mali
Mali

“Today, humanitarian aid is more necessary than ever in the north”

Voices from the Field 4 Mar 2015
 
Haiti - Leogane container hospital
Women's health

International Women's Day: Early pregnancy poses risks for mother and baby

Project Update 4 Mar 2015
 
Migrant Route Augusta Italy 2014
Italy

MSF assists migrants and asylum seekers rescued off Sicily

Project Update 4 Mar 2015
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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