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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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Myanmar

Thousands in Myanmar still have received no aid three weeks after Cyclone Nargis

While Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been able to get urgently needed food and other items to approximately 120,000 people living in the devastated Irrawaddy Delta region, huge challenges remain. Project Update - 27 May 2008
 
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Myanmar

More visas, expert staff and supplies still needed to cope with the huge needs of Cyclone Nargis survivors

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) activities continue on a large scale in the Delta region, with over 250 staff working there with a total of 36 medical teams. Project Update - 27 May 2008
 
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Myanmar

Overwhelming support for MSF relief effort after Cyclone Nargis

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) national staff are being sent to the Delta region from our other projects in Myanmar. Project Update - 23 May 2008
 
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Myanmar

Immediate and unobstructed escalation of relief operations required

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the Government of Myanmar to allow for an immediate scale-up of the relief effort and free and unhindered access of international humanitarian staff to the affected areas. Press Release - 16 May 2008
 
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Myanmar

Providing medical care, food and access to clean water in worst affected areas of Ayeyarwaddy Delta

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started distributing food and providing medical care to the people. Wells and water are in need of repair as they have been contaminated, leading to a number of cases of diarrhoea. Project Update - 9 May 2008
 
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Myanmar

MSF teams intensify emergency response, a first relief plane is due to land in Yangon

As Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) scales up and begins to see the extent and severity of the damage, the number of casualties, and people vulnerable to exposure, hunger, and disease, it is clear that a much greater response is urgently needed. Project Update - 9 May 2008
 
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Kenya

Kenya's new calm for displaced is complicated by the rainy season

While there are no accurate figures, many thousands of people are still living in camps for displaced people scattered around the country. Most fled their homes during the violence that followed Kenya's disputed election in December 2007, although some were displaced before that, due to land clashes and outbreaks of violence between different groups. Project Update - 18 Apr 2008
 
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South Africa

MSF provides essential health care to Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa

In December, 2007, MSF began providing essential health care to Zimbabwean migrants in the South African border town of Musina in Limpopo province, and in capital, Johannesburg. The Zimbabwean population in South Africa is estimated beyond the one million mark. Project Update - 7 Apr 2008
 
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Sudan

Human suffering in the shadows of Darfur

A visit to this region is like travelling far back in time, to the point when civilisation first began. Project Update - 28 Mar 2008
 
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Liberia

Lack of hospital care for children in focus as Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf visits MSF hospital in Monrovia

Island Hospital provides free care and is located in one of the poorest areas of Monrovia. It offers a range of paediatric care, including treatment of malaria, respiratory infections, HIV and tuberculosis, as well as care for victims of sexual violence. Project Update - 27 Mar 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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