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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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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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Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

“I’d never before seen the level of casualties I saw in Saada. The scale of wounded was extreme.”

“I’d never before seen the level of casualties I saw in Saada. The scale of wounded was extreme,” says Michael Seawright, former MSF Project Coordinator in Yemen. Voices from the Field - 27 Jan 2016
 
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Palestine

“You shot an innocent person and destroyed a whole family’s life.”

This month, Occupied Minds looks at how checkpoints, restriction of movements, are affecting the life of the Palestinian population. Annas was 23 years old and the fourth in a family of eight siblings living in Hebron city in the West Bank. He was the manager of the family's shoe business and responsible for looking after their income. On 7 November 2013 he was killed by an Israeli soldier while crossing a checkpoint by car. Voices from the Field - 26 Jan 2016
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

"They didn’t realise that the missile had hit the hospital itself."

"The border with Saudi Arabia is only half an hour away so everyone here is used to the sound of bombs and rockets," says Teresa Sancristoval, Head of MSF’s emergency desk, about the 10 January attack on Shiara hospital. "Knowing it had hit somewhere nearby, they set about preparing for mass casualties. What they didn’t realise was that the missile had hit the hospital itself, and soon they would be treating their own colleagues and patients.” Voices from the Field - 25 Jan 2016
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

Health facilities under attack - MSF wants answers

MSF medical activities in Yemen have come under attack four times in less than three months, each incident more serious than the last.“Four of our medical facilities have been attacked in four months in Yemen and Afghanistan,” Press Release - 25 Jan 2016
 
Seeking malaria treatment around Aweil, South Sudan
Disease prevention

Five epidemics to watch

Five diseases with the potential to become epidemics in 2016 are being highlighted by MSF. “We know that thousands of lives will be at risk in the year to come. Press Release - 25 Jan 2016
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

Saada attacks wound dozens and kill at least 6, including ambulance driver

Yesterday afternoon (loca time), 21 January, the ambulance service of the MSF-supported Al Gomhoury Hospital in Saada governorate, Yemen, was hit by an airstrike, killing one Ministry of Health staff member. Project Update - 22 Jan 2016
 
Besieged Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

At least 10 children killed and three wounded while walking back home from school in Taiz

Michele Trainiti, MSF project coordinator in Taiz, Yemen, reports on an incident that took place on 19 January. At least 10 children killed and three wounded while walking back home from school. Voices from the Field - 21 Jan 2016
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF forced to close major humanitarian project in Mweso following abduction of staff

MSF announces the closure of its project in Mweso, Masisi territory, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, after armed actors attacked one of our convoys and abducted two of our staff members from 15-16 December 2015. “We’ve been forced to take this painful decision because our staff cannot continue to work in a situation where they are targeted or attacked,” says Annemarie Loof, MSF Operational Manager in Amsterdam. Press Release - 20 Jan 2016
 
Besieged Taiz - Yemen
Yemen

Medical supplies reach hospitals in besieged Taiz

MSF has successfully delivered two truckloads of essential medical supplies to the the besieged area of the city of Taiz, in southern Yemen. “During war, people have a right to medical care. Blocking people from health care should never be used as a military tool," says Karline Kleijer, MSF’s emergency manager for Yemen. Statement - 19 Jan 2016
 
Trapani Italy - refugee reception and mental health
Mediterranean migration

European policies dramatically worsened the so-called 2015 “refugee crisis”

A new report titled “Obstacle Course to Europe” details the humanitarian consequences of Europe’s actions and explains how Europe’s walls forced MSF and other humanitarian organisations to radically scale up activities at the entry points of Europe. Report - 19 Jan 2016
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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