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Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

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How we work

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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 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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Sri Lanka

Without medicine or sanitation, situation in Vanni, Sri Lanka, deteriorates as heavy rains fall

With heavy rains pouring down in the last days, the situation in Sri Lanka's northern Vanni region has deteriorated further. Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned that watery diarhoea and respiratory infections will pose serious threats to the more than 150,000 civilians still estimated to be trapped in the area. Project Update - 26 Mar 2009
 
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Central African Republic

MSF aids population in northern 'triangle of violence' in Central African Republic

Since the end of February, regions in northern Central African Republic (CAR) have witnessed renewed fighting between a rebel group and the national army, and between other armed groups present in the area. Project Update - 6 Mar 2009
 
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Greece

MSF reinforces activities in the temporary settlement of Patras, Greece, following yesterday's destructive fire

"We are deeply concerned about the critical condition of this population. These people have come to this country from very far away, having fled in order to survive. Yesterday's devastating fire has made this population ever so vulnerable," said Giorgos Karagiannis, MSF head of mission of the project for undocumented migrants in Greece. Press Release - 22 Jan 2009
 
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Access to medicines

JAMA study shows food supplements can significantly reduce rates of deadliest form of malnutrition

The results of an eight-month trial showed that those children who had received the energy-dense fortified ready-to-use food had a 58 percent lower chance of suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Press Release - 20 Jan 2009
 
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Italy

Migrant workers in Calabria suffering intolerable living and working conditions

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) again asks that the President of the Calabrian region and the local authorities carry out immediately emergency measures, such as installing toilets, showers, and drinking water services and to strengthen the health services for the migrant workers. Press Release - 18 Dec 2008
 
Guinea

Civilian prisoners in Guinea prison suffer malnutrition, exposure to TB, in appalling conditions

MSF launched a short nutritional and medical response in the Guéckédou civilian prison to treat an alarming medical and nutritional situation. Project Update - 26 Nov 2008
 
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Pakistan

Ibrahim Younis at the Balochistan, Pakistan, earthquake

Ibrahim Younis, an MSF Emergency Coordinator, arrived three days after the earthquake which occured on October 29 in Ziarat District, Pakistan, and stayed two weeks in the Ziarat area as an MSF Emergency Coordinator. Project Update - 21 Nov 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF team travels to Dungu, DRC, three days after attacks on the town

Three days after rebels of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) attacked the town of Dungu on November 1, an MSF team went to assess the impact of these events on the population and the nature and severity of the needs; the team also sought to confirm if the security conditions could allow MSF to return on site soon. Project Update - 10 Nov 2008
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

A desperate, dangerous situation in the DRC - a volunteer's description

Helen O'Neill is an Operational Advisor with emergency medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and recently returned after having worked with the MSF teams in the Kivu region of northeastern Congo. She describes the situation on the ground. Project Update - 3 Nov 2008
 
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Greece

MSF ends emergency intervention in Lesvos island, Greece

During a press conference held in Athens, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced the closure of its four-month emergency intervention in the detention center for migrants of Lesvos (Mytiline) urging the authorities to assume their responsibilities and provide medical care and human living conditions for the migrants. Press Release - 30 Sep 2008
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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