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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 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

Novartis challenges pro-health patent law

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis heads to the Indian Supreme Court today in New Delhi, in a final bid to undermine a key public health safeguard in Indian patent law specifically designed to prevent drug companies from abusive patenting practices which keep medicine prices high. If successful, the move would have a devastating impact on access to essential medicines across the developing world, according to MSF, which relies on affordable generic drugs produced in India to carry out its work in 68 countries. Press Release - 11 Sep 2012
 
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Syria

MSF donates medical supplies to Syrian Arab Red Crescent

As conflict in Syria reaches critical levels, MSF has donated a cargo of relief items and medical supplies – including surgical and first aid kits – to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent in Damascus. Statement - 10 Sep 2012
 
Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, December 2011
Afghanistan

MSF treats victims of bomb blast in Kunduz

Following a major explosion today in the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, more than two dozen people arrived at a surgical hospital run by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Thirteen people who suffered severe blast injuries were dead on arrival at the hospital. Press Release - 10 Sep 2012
 
Malnutrition and Malaria Guidan Roumdji Niger
Niger

Malaria strikes during a food crisis

Since the beginning of the rainy season, MSF teams are faced with a massive influx of children suffering from malnutrition and malaria. The heavy rains, which started in July, have destroyed crops and grain reserves, making an already desperate food situation worse. The rains have also led to a proliferation of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Project Update - 10 Sep 2012
 
Lebanon - Syrian refugees facing the hardship of winter
Lebanon

Fleeing the violence in Syria: Syrian refugees in Lebanon

While Lebanon has absorbed tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria in recent months, many people are living in overcrowded conditions, suffering psychological distress, are fearful for their safety, and are unable to afford medical care, said the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a report released today. Report - 7 Sep 2012
 
Lebanon - Syrian refugees
Lebanon

Syrian refugees living in fear and uncertainty

While Lebanon has absorbed tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria, many people are living in overcrowded conditions, suffering psychological distress, are fearful for their safety, and are unable to afford medical care, said MSF in a report released today. Press Release - 7 Sep 2012
 
DRC. Emergency intervention in Miniova and Kalungu (South Kivu)
Democratic Republic of Congo

Multiple conflicts increase humanitarian needs

MSF has expanded its emergency medical programmes in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in response to increasing humanitarian needs in the region. An MSF emergency intervention is recently started in the unofficial Muganga I camp 20 km west of the provincial capital Goma, where around 17,500 people have spontaneously settled and are living in inhumane conditions. Project Update - 7 Sep 2012
 
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About MSF

Médecins Sans Frontières to receive 2012 J.William Fulbright prize for international understanding

The Fulbright Association will present its 2012 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The award, a $50,000 prize, will be received with a speech by Dr Unni Karunakara, International President of MSF. Press Release - 6 Sep 2012
 
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India

Bayer attempting to block affordable patented drugs

German pharmaceutical company Bayer is attempting to overturn a ground-breaking compulsory licence issued by India which has allowed more affordable generic versions of a cancer drug to be produced in the interest of public health. The issue of India’s first compulsory licence is a potential watershed for affordable access to patented medicines. MSF has criticised Bayer for the move. Press Release - 3 Sep 2012
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF emergency team responds to Ebola outbreak

An emergency team from MSF is responding to an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Isiro, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). So far nine people have died, only one of whom has been confirmed by lab tests as having Ebola. Twelve more people are suspected to have the disease – one has been admitted to the treatment centre in Isiro. Project Update - 23 Aug 2012
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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