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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)
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a thousand people in transit on their way to Cameroon victims of attacks
Central African Republic

Extreme violence and tensions in Carnot

Project Update 14 Feb 2014
 
Journal article

Drugs for the Poor, Drugs for the Rich: Why the Current R&D Model Doesn’t Deliver

14 Feb 2014
Journal article
 
Pakistan Behind The Headlines
Pakistan

Crossing mountains to reach a hospital

Project Update 11 Feb 2014
 
Displaced families walking from Bentiu to Leer, South Sudan.
South Sudan

Insecurity in Leer has devastating consequences for those hiding in the bush

Project Update 11 Feb 2014
 
Central African Republic

"We saw the ugly consequences of the fighting every day"

Voices from the Field 10 Feb 2014
 
MSF’s emergency teams distributes high energy food to displaced people on the road from Bentiu to Leer.
South Sudan

The day MSF left Bentiu

Voices from the Field 7 Feb 2014
 
Measles Outbreak, Conakry, Guinea 2014
Guinea

MSF vaccinates 400,000 children against measles

Press Release 7 Feb 2014
 
inflatable hospital in Tacloban
Philippines

Specialised mental health treatment to target survivors of Haiyan

Voices from the Field 7 Feb 2014
 
Tacloban slum
Philippines

Three months on from typhoon Haiyan

Project Update 7 Feb 2014
 
Patient story in Bangui community hospital
Central African Republic

MSF condemns continued attacks against civilians

Press Release 7 Feb 2014
 
Journal article

Clinical Access to Bedaquiline Programme for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis

6 Feb 2014
Journal article
 
CAR.BOUCA.VIOLENCE
Central African Republic

Rain does not wash the blood away (Part II)

Voices from the Field 6 Feb 2014
 
CAR.BOUCA.VIOLENCE
Central African Republic

Rain does not wash the blood away (Part I)

Voices from the Field 6 Feb 2014
 
Journal article

Reaching out to the forgotten: providing access to medical care for the homeless in Italy

5 Feb 2014
Journal article
 
Hôpital Communautaire de Bangui
Central African Republic

"This was my most difficult mission”

Voices from the Field 5 Feb 2014
 
IDP Camp Tomping South Sudan
South Sudan

"Living in impossible conditions"

Voices from the Field 5 Feb 2014
 
DRC Mweso North Kivu July 2011
Democratic Republic of Congo

Providing mental healthcare in North Kivu

Project Update 4 Feb 2014
 
Thousands of Muslims flee Central African Republic
Central African Republic

Fleeing Bossangoa

Project Update 3 Feb 2014
 
Journal article

Collecting data on sexual violence: what do we need to know? The case of MSF in the Democratic Republic of Congo

2 Feb 2014
Journal article
 
Journal article

The polio eradication campaign: time to shift the goal

31 Jan 2014
Journal article
 
Juba displaced camp clinic 2014 JAN
South Sudan

MSF staff and patients forced to flee Leer Hospital amidst ongoing insecurity

Statement 31 Jan 2014
 
IDP Camp Tomping South Sudan
South Sudan

What we need to save lives in South Sudan

Voices from the Field 30 Jan 2014
 
Violence in CAR. Bangui
Central African Republic

MSF expands emergency activities amid worsening violence

Project Update 30 Jan 2014
 
Cholera in Kamanyola, Bukavu, DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treats 690 people for cholera in Bukavu

Project Update 28 Jan 2014
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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