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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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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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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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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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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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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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Violence in Port-au-Prince
Haiti

Violence and threats by police force MSF to suspend activities in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area

As of 20 November, MSF will stop admissions and transfers to our five medical facilities in Haiti's capital following threats from police officers. Press Release - 20 Nov 2024
 
Girl Skull X-Ray
Conflict in Sudan

One in six war-wounded patients at south Khartoum hospital are children

Children account for 1 in 6 of war-wounded patients who arrive at Bashair Teaching hospital in south Khartoum, Sudan. Press Release - 19 Nov 2024
 
Sumy city bombings 03
War in Ukraine

MSF provides medical support following Russian strike in Sumy

Following Russian airstrikes in north-east Ukraine, MSF teams have responded by providing medical care. Press Release - 18 Nov 2024
 
Conflict in Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

Testimonies and statements from our social media on the Gaza-Israel war

A curation of testimonies and statements from our @MSF account on X, formerly Twitter. Project Update - 18 Nov 2024
 
MSF Patient Mr Yurii is focusing on balance exercises, 53 Years Old.
Ukraine

Providing holistic care to Ukraine’s war injured

In Cherkasy hospital in central Ukraine, MSF is working with the Ministry of Health to provide war-wounded patients with physiotherapy and psychological support. Project Update - 18 Nov 2024
 
Leon Safari, a 36-year-old displaced person from works as pump operator
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF again calls for urgent water and sanitation response in North Kivu displacement camps

MSF warns of the consequences of unsanitary conditions and life-threatening shortages of clean water in North Kivu's camps for displaced people. Press Release - 18 Nov 2024
 
Situation in north Gaza
Gaza-Israel war

In Gaza, all the components of a society have been destroyed

Isabelle Defourny, President of MSF France, and Christopher Lockyear, MSF Secretary General, describe a clear pattern of unimaginable violence in north Gaza, Palestine. Op-Ed - 15 Nov 2024
 
Treatment decision algorithms
TACTiC – Test, Avoid, Cure Tuberculosis in Children

TB treatment decision algorithms: promising early data highlight their added value in diagnosing children

Every three minutes, a child succumbs to tuberculosis, a curable disease if diagnosed in time. Can new treatment decision algorithms improve the diagnosis of TB in children? Project Update - 15 Nov 2024
 
MSF support of burnt patients in September explosion
Haiti

MSF outraged by police attack on ambulance and execution of patients in Haiti

At least two patients have been executed and MSF staff attacked by police and members of a self-defence group in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Press Release - 13 Nov 2024
 
Malaria surge in Aweil State Hospital
Malaria

Alarming spike in admissions of children with malaria at Aweil state hospital

MSF is concerned about the alarming numbers of children suffering from malnutrition admitted to Aweil state hospital in Northern Bahr El-Ghazal state, South Sudan. Press Release - 12 Nov 2024
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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