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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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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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Refugee population in Andeamboukane, Mali
Mali

Fleeing violence in Niger, refugees in Mali remain vulnerable

Following waves of violence in a region where the Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso borders meet, thousands of people have fled their villages in Niger. MSF is providing healthcare to the displaced living in Mali. Project Update - 9 Mar 2020
 
Deir Hassan Camp
Syria

People in northwestern Syria forced to move as frontlines move

As frontlines in northwestern Syria move, people are displaced and having to move multiple times to find safety. Dr Mustafa Ajaj describes the situation among the displaced people he’s treating. Voices from the Field - 2 Mar 2020
 
Measles: Rashida cares for her baby
Measles

“These children shouldn’t be sick” – tackling measles in Rohingya refugee camps

MSF is responding to an outbreak of measles, a disease that's easily preventable with a vaccine, among Rohingya refugees - particularly children - in camps in Bangladesh. Project Update - 19 Feb 2020
 
Humanitarian distribution
Syria

People in Idlib race to flee airstrikes as safe area shrinks

Weeks of bombing by the Syrian government and their Russian allies, combined with a ground offensive that is pushing west in the last rebel-held province, Idlib, in northwest Syria, has forced 900,000 people to flee in miserable winter conditions.
 Project Update - 19 Feb 2020
 
MSF has started an intervention for the outbreak of COVID-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Providing materials, engaging communities in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak

MSF has sent medical equipment to a hospital in China, and teams are providing infection prevention information to people in Hong Kong, in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Project Update - 14 Feb 2020
 
Rho IDP site, Northeastern Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo

The forgotten people of Ituri

Intra-communal violence in Ituri province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has forced 300,000 people to flee their homes. Many have settled in camps, living in dire conditions. Photo Story - 14 Feb 2020
 
MSF has started an intervention for the outbreak of COVID-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF update on COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak

Read more on what we know about COVID-19 coronavirus, including how contagious and dangerous it is, and how to prevent from becoming infected with coronavirus. Project Update - 14 Feb 2020
 
On the road to Metuge
Mozambique

Invisible conflict has very real consequences for people in northern Mozambique

MSF is working in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, where a little-known conflict and very few organisations working on the ground results in poor access to healthcare for people. Voices from the Field - 13 Feb 2020
 
Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz
Central American migration

Escaping violence into danger – no way out for Central American migrants

A new MSF report shows violence at home is a key push factor for many in Central America to make the dangerous journey north to the US, while exposing the devastating effects that the criminalisation of migration is having on people. Press Release - 11 Feb 2020
 
Kambe IDP site - Ituri - DR Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo

Displaced by community violence, living in dire conditions in Ituri province

Intra-community violence in northeastern DR Congo's Ituri province has forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes, settling in camps of makeshift shelter, with little access to food, water or safe sanitary conditions. Project Update - 7 Feb 2020
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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