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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.

 
Journal article

“No patients, no problems:” Exposure to risk of medical personnel working in MSF projects in Yemen’s governorate of Amran

18 Feb 2014
Journal article
 
Drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) Colony 3. Donetsk Ukraine
Ukraine

The challenges of treating prisoners with Drug-Resistant TB

Voices from the Field 18 Feb 2014
 
Central African Republic

International efforts to protect civilians in Central African Republic failing to stop slaughter

Press Release 18 Feb 2014
 
Yemen - Hospital in Haradh
Yemen

MSF suspends activities in Ad Dhale following security concerns

Press Release 15 Feb 2014
 
Chad, Dozens of thousands of people have fled violence CAR
Chad

Tens of thousands of refugees from Central African Republic arrive

Project Update 15 Feb 2014
 
Chad, tens of thousands flee violence in CAR
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Refugee crisis hits Central African Republic’s neighbours as more flee violence

Project Update 15 Feb 2014
 
Journal article

Perspectives of refugees on returning to Somalia

14 Feb 2014
Journal article
 
Hebron_lives in confinement
Palestine

House arrest is a 'tradition'

Project Update 14 Feb 2014
 
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
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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