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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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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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Pediatric healthcare in Abs Hospital
Yemen

Alarming numbers of Yemeni children suffering from malnutrition

MSF is seeing increasing numbers of dangerously malnourished children in Abs Hospital, Yemen, as the situation in the war-torn country worsens every day. Project Update - 16 Dec 2021
 
Venezuelan migrants and refugees in northern Brazil
Brazil

Venezuelan migrants left without healthcare, shelter and services

As hundreds of Venezuelan migrants arrive daily in Roraima state, Brazil, they find themselves in precarious conditions, often sleeping rough without access to basic services. Project Update - 14 Dec 2021
 
Catatumbo (Colombia)
Colombia

Humanitarian needs persist on Colombia and Venezuela border

After three years of providing care, Médecins Sans Frontières is handing our projects over and calling for a stronger aid response for thousands of families on the border. Press Release - 7 Dec 2021
 
Floodings in South Sudan - aerial images
South Sudan

Lacklustre humanitarian response leaves people dangerously exposed in Bentiu floods

Humanitarian agencies, the UN and the South Sudanese government must urgently scale up their response to devastating floods which have left thousands displaced. Press Release - 23 Nov 2021
 
Turquesa River
Panama

Violence and danger for people crossing Panama’s Darien jungle

Medical coordinator Guillermo Gironés, recently returned from Panama, describes the horrific levels of violence and danger that migrants crossing the Darien jungle face on their route north. Interview - 19 Nov 2021
 
Floodings in South Sudan - aerial images
South Sudan

Third year of severe floods leaves nearly 800,000 people struggling

Some of the worst floods in decades have left hundreds of thousands of people across northern South Sudan in urgent need of assistance. Crisis Update - 17 Nov 2021
 
Emergency department at Tabarre hospital
Haiti

Shortages of fuel, water threaten medical care in Haiti

As tensions and armed conflict escalate in Haiti's capital, shortages of fuel, transportation and drinking water are putting medical facilities and patients at risk. Press Release - 10 Nov 2021
 
Haiti - Earthquake response in Les Cayes 07
Haiti

Two months after the earthquake, health needs remain high

Two months on from the 14 August quake in Haiti, which destroyed infrastructure and injured thousands, the number of people with earthquake-related and other medical needs remains high. Project Update - 15 Oct 2021
 
Northeast Syria COVID-19 | Raqqa Hospital Medical Care
Syria

Worst wave yet of COVID-19 in northern Syria overwhelms health system

The already-struggling health system in northern Syria has been hit hard by the most severe wave of COVID-19 yet. Healthcare facilities and humanitarian organisations are struggling to cope with the extent of this new wave. Press Release - 13 Oct 2021
 
Detention Centres - Tripoli, Libya
Libya

Medical care resumes in Tripoli detention centres

Three months after we suspended our work in detention centres in Tripoli, Libya, over safety fears, our teams have returned to providing medical care to detained people after an agreement from Libyan authorities. Project Update - 29 Sep 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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