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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

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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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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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Access to medicines

Countries obstructing COVID-19 patent waiver must allow negotiations to start

A small number of wealthy countries continue to block a waiver on intellectual property rights on COVID-19 tools, preventing wide-scale production that could save more lives. Press Release - 9 Mar 2021
 
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Ethiopia

People in Tigray “are suffering from a lack of medical care”

Following violence, the crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia continues, with people in camps for the displaced - and those in rural areas - lacking food and access to medical care. Project Update - 5 Mar 2021
 
Self-care: Different People
Women's health

Practicing self-care: empowering women to manage their own health

For International Women's Day, we explain how we empower women and girls around the world to practice self-care, by taking charge and managing their own health. Project Update - 4 Mar 2021
 
The growing impact of the conflict in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

Displaced by violence, people in Cabo Delgado arrive in more mental than physical pain

Years of conflict and continual attacks on villages in Cabo Delgado province, in northeastern Mozambique, take a severe mental health toll on people, who are forced to flee. Interview - 4 Mar 2021
 
Emergency North East Syria: Civilians Fleeing Offensive Ras al-Ain
Syria

A decade of war in Syria: 10 years of increasing humanitarian needs

War has now been raging in Syria for 10 years. We outline the increasing humanitarian needs of millions of Syrians over the course of the war and our efforts to respond to them. Project Update - 3 Mar 2021
 
Al Hol Camp - Eastern Al Hasakah Governorate
Syria

MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing

The security and safety situation in Al-Hol camp, northeastern Syria, has deteriorated, with more than 30 people - including MSF staff - killed since January. Press Release - 2 Mar 2021
 
Butembo and its surroundings, the new epicentre of the outbreak
DRC Ebola outbreaks

MSF responds in North Kivu to twelfth Ebola outbreak in DRC

Following a new outbreak of Ebola in DRC - the country's twelfth - MSF teams are responding in communities in North Kivu province, the site of the newest outbreak. Project Update - 25 Feb 2021
 
Transfer of burns patients
Haiti

Staff forced to transfer burns hospital patients following Port-au-Prince violence

Violent clashes around the MSF burns centre hospital in Drouillard, a neighbourhood of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, have forced staff to transfer patients for their safety. Project Update - 25 Feb 2021
 
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Central African Republic

People, medical facilities hit during violence in southern CAR

Post-election violence in Central African Republic is continuing to have an impact on people, this time in the southern city of Bambari, when people and medical facilities were hit with bullets. Project Update - 22 Feb 2021
 
Palestine: The invisible mental health crisis plaguing the West Bank
Palestine

“In Israel, you’re 60 times more likely to have a COVID vaccine than in Palestine”

Matthias Kennes, an MSF medical adviser in the West Bank, Palestine, writes of the searing inequalities he's witnessing on COVID-19 vaccination between the occupied territory and Israel. Opinion - 22 Feb 2021
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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