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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.

 
MSF first rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016
Mediterranean migration

MSF resumes Search and Rescue activities in the central Mediterranean

Press Release 24 Apr 2016
 
NFI distribution in Azaz district
Syria

Situation critical for tens of thousands displaced over 10 days

Voices from the Field 22 Apr 2016
 
IDPs in Sortoni camp
Sudan

Conditions in Sortoni camp, North Darfur leave 61,000 residents who fled Jebel Mara in danger

Project Update 22 Apr 2016
 
Ecuador Earthquake
Ecuador

MSF teams offer psychosocial support, distribute medicines in affected areas

Project Update 22 Apr 2016
 
Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Japan

MSF starts medical activities in the area of Minami-aso after Kumamoto Quake

Project Update 21 Apr 2016
 
India

Access Campaign: New threat against affordable medicines in trade negotiations with India and ASEAN

Press Release 21 Apr 2016
 
SLD_Zambia_Cholera-Vacci_03
Zambia

Kicking out cholera with a megaphone

Project Update 21 Apr 2016
 
Asbuli 2016
Ethiopia

Pastoral communities badly hit by the worst drought in 30 years

Project Update 21 Apr 2016
 
Ecuador Earthquake
Ecuador

People are very scared Many have had to leave their homes

Crisis Update 21 Apr 2016
 
Asbuli 2016
Ethiopia

Risk of food insecurity

Project Update 20 Apr 2016
 
Centre Hospitalier Kabinda (Bureau SIDA- MSF Kinshasa)
HIV/AIDS

Fight against HIV doomed to fail without urgent focus on West and Central Africa

Report 19 Apr 2016
 
MSF HIV Testing Clinic's in Conakry
HIV/AIDS

7 things you may believe about HIV/AIDS that turn out to be wrong

Project Update 19 Apr 2016
 
Azaz district, Aleppo governorate
Syria

More than 100,000 people trapped in northern Syria by renewed fighting

Press Release 18 Apr 2016
 
Moria Reception Centre in Lesbos, Greece
Greece

As a doctor, I feel outraged

Voices from the Field 15 Apr 2016
 
DRC Mweso North Kivu July 2011
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF to resume medical humanitarian assistance in the Mweso health zone after 4 months absence

Press Release 15 Apr 2016
 
Jordan

Patients testimonies from the reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman

Project Update 14 Apr 2016
 
Samos island, Greece
Greece

Will they kill us here in Europe?

Voices from the Field 13 Apr 2016
 
Demenagement camp de Grande-Synthe
France

Update on relocation of migrant camp in Dunkirk

Project Update 13 Apr 2016
 
Idomeni
Greece

MSF treats hundreds after Greek-FYROM border violence

Project Update 10 Apr 2016
 
Zambia, cholera vaccination in Lusaka
Zambia

Largest ever oral cholera vaccination campaign underway in Lusaka

Press Release 9 Apr 2016
 
Drugs, medical material, shelters and NFI sent to Syria
Syria

Despite cease fire catalogue of horror continues in besieged areas

Project Update 7 Apr 2016
 
South Sudan - Pibor violence and looting
South Sudan

MSF issues open letter on nationwide lack of essential medicines

Statement 7 Apr 2016
 
Cholera response on and around lake Chilwa
Photo Story

A cholera response among fishing communities on and around Lake Chilwa

4 Apr 2016
Photo Story
 
Kunduz Hospital Aftermath - 14 Oct 2015
Kunduz hospital attack

This is my story

Voices from the Field 3 Apr 2016
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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