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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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MSF Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

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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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Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

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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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Southern Africa Medical Unit

SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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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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Manson Unit

The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF.

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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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Panay Island
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: "People are in need of everything"

Esther Sterk, MSF doctor, describes the first days of MSF’s work and her initial impressions of the situation. Voices from the Field - 15 Nov 2013
 
Occupied Minds - Occupied Palestinian Territory
Palestine

Occupied Minds - Night incursions in Hebron

Project Update - 14 Nov 2013
 
CAR
Central African Republic

9,000 children vaccinated against measles, polio in Gadzi

MSF staff have vaccinated 9,000 children against measles and polio in Central African Republic. The campaign is part of on-going medical humanitarian efforts by MSF to offer lifesaving healthcare – including treatment for malnutrition – to people who otherwise have access to little or no basic medical care. Project Update - 7 Oct 2013
 
Emergency intervention in the Transit camp of Bubukwanga
Uganda

MSF increases assistance to refugees fleeing violence in DRC

MSF is providing urgently needed medical care and water and sanitation in western Uganda, following an influx of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing insecurity in North Kivu, DRC, in mid-July. Project Update - 27 Aug 2013
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Thousands suffering neurotoxic symptoms treated in hospitals supported by MSF

Three hospitals in Syria's Damascus governorate that are supported by MSF have reported that they received approximately 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms in less than three hours on the morning of Wednesday, August 21, 2013. Press Release - 24 Aug 2013
 
South Sudan

Fear and rainy season keep people from seeking care in Pibor

Fear and floods are keeping people from seeking assistance in Pibor county, in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. Around 90,000 people are still missing, hiding in fear in the bush. Some 28,000 people are accounted for, but few of these people are receiving the assistance they need. Project Update - 20 Aug 2013
 
PCV Vaccination Campaign in Yida Camp
South Sudan

Global vaccination community turns its back on getting new vaccines to refugee children

MSF starts first use of pneumococcal vaccine in South Sudan Press Release - 8 Aug 2013
 
South Sudan

Medical needs urgent for 100,000 people as violence continues in Jonglei

Project Update - 1 Aug 2013
 
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Chad

MSF treats wounded in Tissi after renewed clashes in Darfur

MSF is responding to a fresh wave of violence that has broken out in some areas of Sudan’s Darfur region along the border with Chad. Project Update - 1 Aug 2013
 
Emergency intervention in the Transit camp of Bubukwanga
Uganda

MSF provides emergency assistance to Congolese refugees

Ruben Pottier, MSF's head of mission in Kampala, Uganda provides an update on MSF's work in a transit camp near Bundibugyo, where 20,000 people are staying, and along the border, where refugees have settled. Interview - 29 Jul 2013
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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