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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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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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India

Flood waters challenge logistics of providing care to victims of India's floods

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor and field coordinator Siju Seena, who has been dealing with the medical activities of MSF in Araria and Supaul districts, India, gives an overview of the situation in Chunni camp (Supaul) and looks into the challenges of providing humanitarian aid in the flood-hit areas. Project Update - 26 Sep 2008
 
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Haiti

Increased access to health care in Gonaïves

A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team continues to support the Raboteau Health Center in Gonaïves where more than 1,000 consultations have been carried out to date. Project Update - 17 Sep 2008
 
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Haiti

Ongoing needs in hurricane-damaged Haiti

Fourteen days after Tropical Storm Gustav made landfall, followed by Tropical Storm Hanna and then Hurricane Ike last week, many areas are still inaccessible in devastated Haiti, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is doing its best to access these areas to provide adequate care to affected populations and to monitor the health situation. Project Update - 11 Sep 2008
 
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Somalia

Unacceptable security risks oblige closure of MSF clinic in Mogadishu

Despite this closure, MSF continues to deliver vital health care services in and around Mogadishu and throughout central and southern Somalia. Project Update - 2 Sep 2008
 
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Myanmar

Three months on, basic healthcare and increasing psychological assistance in Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis response

As the emergency phase comes to an end, MSF expects to hand over all Nargis-related programmes by the end of the year. Project Update - 18 Aug 2008
 
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Myanmar

Needs of survivors remain critical two months after Cyclone Nargis

It has been two months since Cyclone Nargis devastated entire communities, killed thousands, and destroyed the lives of thousands more, but the needs facing survivors remain critical. Project Update - 4 Jul 2008
 
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Kenya

Terrorised population in desperate need of assistance

Mount Elgon is a volcano in the western part of Kenya, on the border with Uganda. This area has been the scene of violent clashes since mid-2006. Tens of thousands have been displaced, and people remain in great need and in suffering. Project Update - 23 Jun 2008
 
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Myanmar

MSF hiring and training national staff for emergency response in Myanmar

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been able to respond quickly and efficiently to the needs of victims of Cyclone Nargis, but given the scale of the disaster and the specific skills required for such a response, MSF has hired and trained dozens of additional doctors, nurses, logisticians, and water and sanitation officers. Project Update - 12 Jun 2008
 
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Myanmar

One month after Cyclone Nargis: Hope and despair

One month after Cyclone Nargis devastated the Irrawady Delta in Myanmar, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are still encountering villages where survivors live in dire conditions and have not yet received any significant aid. Project Update - 4 Jun 2008
 
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South Africa

Relocation process exacerbates trauma of displaced people in South Africa

The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today expressed alarm at the process of relocation imposed on the people displaced by recent violence in Johannesburg. Press Release - 2 Jun 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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