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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.

 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

Saada attacks wound dozens and kill at least 6, including ambulance driver

Project Update 22 Jan 2016
 
Besieged Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

At least 10 children killed and three wounded while walking back home from school in Taiz

Voices from the Field 21 Jan 2016
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF forced to close major humanitarian project in Mweso following abduction of staff

Press Release 20 Jan 2016
 
Besieged Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

Medical supplies reach hospitals in besieged Taiz

Statement 19 Jan 2016
 
Trapani Italy - refugee reception and mental health
Mediterranean migration

European policies dramatically worsened the so-called 2015 “refugee crisis”

Report 19 Jan 2016
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

Our patients and staff need to feel safe

Voices from the Field 18 Jan 2016
 
The Jungle, Calais
France

MSF continues to assist refugees in Calais

Project Update 18 Jan 2016
 
MSF assisting IDPs in Malakal & Wau Shiluk
South Sudan

Fighting in Malakal site leaves at least 18 dead, two of them MSF staff

Press Release 18 Jan 2016
 
Refugees in Kapise village, Malawi
Malawi

Waves of Mozambicans fleeing violence seek refuge in Malawi

Voices from the Field 18 Jan 2016
 
Syria

Five more starvation deaths in Madaya since humanitarian convoy arrival

Press Release 15 Jan 2016
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

The Ebola outbreak - a brief history

Project Update 14 Jan 2016
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - 14 January 2016

Crisis Update 14 Jan 2016
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

End of Ebola outbreak in West Africa: World must learn lesson for future outbreaks

Project Update 14 Jan 2016
 
France

MSF prepares new site for refugees in Grande-Synthe

Press Release 13 Jan 2016
 
Central African Republic

MSF launches vaccination campaign of unprecedented scale

Press Release 13 Jan 2016
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

MSF-supported hospital bombed in Yemen: death toll rises to six

Press Release 10 Jan 2016
 
MSF in Al Dhale and Taiz, Yemen. July 2015
Yemen

Struggling for oxygen inside the besieged Taiz Enclave

Project Update 8 Jan 2016
 
Syria

Siege and starvation in Madaya immediate medical evacuations and medical resupply essential to save lives

Press Release 7 Jan 2016
 
Ebola in Foya, Lofa county, northern Liberia
Haemorrhagic fevers

Antimalarial drug reduced patient mortality by 31%

Project Update 6 Jan 2016
 
France

New site required urgently for refugees in Grande-Synthe

Press Release 6 Jan 2016
 
Situation in Borno state, November 2016
Nigeria

MSF begins surgical activities in the city of Maiduguri, treating victims of a large attack.

Project Update 6 Jan 2016
 
Vaccination Gadzi
Central African Republic

MSF emergency team vaccinates 10,000 children against measles and pneumococcal disease

Project Update 4 Jan 2016
 
MSF Sicily screening arrival of rescued migrants, Pozzallo
Italy

MSF ends activities in Pozzallo reception centre

Press Release 30 Dec 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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