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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

A Global Network
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.

 
Malnutrition in Chad
Chad

Recurring malnutrition, a silent epidemic devastating the country

Project Update 15 Sep 2016
 
Access to medicines

The naked truth

Project Update 14 Sep 2016
 
Seeking malaria treatment around Aweil, South Sudan
Access to medicines

MSF urges governments to set medical research policies that align with people’s health needs

Press Release 13 Sep 2016
 
hospital in Paoua
Central African Republic

Providing guidance to ensure high quality care

Voices from the Field 13 Sep 2016
 
New arrival on Aquarius
Mediterranean migration

A very normal birth in dangerously abnormal conditions

Project Update 12 Sep 2016
 
Niger: NFI distributions in Toumour
Niger

MSF assists hundreds of newly displaced people in eastern Diffa

Project Update 9 Sep 2016
 
Besieged Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

Healthcare at breaking point

Voices from the Field 9 Sep 2016
 
Greece: MSF mobile clinics with midwifes and psychlogist in Elliniko camp (Athens)
Greece

Everyone here is very confused; we do not know what to expect

Voices from the Field 9 Sep 2016
 
Ramtha hospital after Jordan/Syria border closure
Jordan

You are so close, yet so very far because you are unable to reach those in need

Voices from the Field 9 Sep 2016
 
Portrait of Mustafa
Syria

We cannot go and leave our people behind; we do not have the right to leave them alone

Voices from the Field 9 Sep 2016
 
Damage in al Daqaq hospital
Syria

We are under attack almost every day; life has become almost impossible

Project Update 9 Sep 2016
 
Nigeria

Malnutrition is the biggest problem in Bama

Voices from the Field 7 Sep 2016
 
South Sudan

Patient story - Nyajuba

Voices from the Field 5 Sep 2016
 
Solar panels on roof Shamwana hospital Congo DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

Lights off... and on again! Solar energy for a sustainable Shamwana

Project Update 5 Sep 2016
 
Book

Saving Lives and Staying Alive

5 Sep 2016
Book
 
Haiti

Much work remains to improve access to healthcare

Project Update 1 Sep 2016
 
Paediatric department of CRUO, Haiti - following nurse Fleur Riemersma, 16-18 Oct 2015.
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MSF Paediatric Days

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Health promotion in the VVF (Fistula) camp of Shamwana
Democratic Republic of Congo

Vesico vaginal fistula camp living with dignity in solidarity

Project Update 31 Aug 2016
 
MDR-TB Project Yerevan
Medical resource

MSF Medical Product Qualification Scheme

MSF medical resource 30 Aug 2016
 
Journal article

The Ebola clinical trials: a precedent for research ethics in disasters

30 Aug 2016
Journal article
 
Dignity rescue operation, 29 August
Mediterranean migration

MSF assists in rescue of 3,000 people in a single day

Press Release 30 Aug 2016
 
Mental health Khanaqin camp, Iraq
Iraq

Mental health and war trauma in Iraq

Project Update 29 Aug 2016
 
MSF intervention in Alaback, Niger
Niger

Floods leave hundreds of families homeless with increased risk of disease

Project Update 26 Aug 2016
 
DRC: Malaria outbreak now under control, MSF withdraws from Haut-Uélé province
Malaria

Malaria outbreak now under control, MSF withdraws from Haut-Uélé province

Voices from the Field 26 Aug 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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