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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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Kenya

Burn treatment following petrol tanker explosion in Kenya

For two and half intense months an MSF team cared for burn victims in Kenya's Rift Valley Province following the explosion of a petrol tanker, when 100 were killed and as many critically injured. Project Update - 17 Apr 2009
 
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Niger

In the midst of Niger's vaccination campaign, treatment is essential for those who contract meningitis

Although the meningitis epidemic that began in the Zinder region of Niger late last year shows signs of easing, the number of people affected remains high. Left untreated, meningitis is fatal in more than half of the cases.
In the Magaria district, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has just begun vaccinating more than 500,000 people, its mobile medical teams are ensuring that patients receive medication promptly. Claude Mahoudeau describes the teams' work. Although treatment draws less attention than vaccinating, it is critical to the effort. Project Update - 16 Apr 2009
 
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Haiti

Haiti's public health system failing patients

The Haitian government and international donors must not ignore critical gaps in medical services for impoverished Haitians.
 Press Release - 14 Apr 2009
 
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HIV/AIDS

MSF responds to World Health Organization's new HIV treatment guidelines

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new recommendations for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in developing countries, in line with the medical evidence and best practices. We outline the latest recommendations and our responses to them. Project Update - 12 Apr 2009
 
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Access to medicines

New malaria drug subsidy fails to ensure patients receive best treatment options - procurement policies must change

MSF is now calling on the Global Fund and the international organisations supporting the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria (AMFm) to revise the purchasing rules in order to prevent the risk of resistance developing to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). Press Release - 8 Apr 2009
 
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Colombia

MSF assists as newly displaced dramatically increase population of Colombian village

Following recent displacement of families around Dubasa River, in the Chocó region of northwest Colombia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is bringing medical care and water and sanitation support to the population. Project Update - 3 Apr 2009
 
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Project Update

MSF to vaccinate over four million people in West Africa for meningitis

While ensuring a quick access to treatment for the sick people, MSF is undertaking mass vaccination campaigns in Nigeria and Niger and is closely following the situation in other countries in the region. Project Update - 2 Apr 2009
 
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Chad

Battered trucks and donkey tracks - vaccinations in eastern Chad

Following an outbreak in eastern Chad, nurse Lenny Krommenhoek has spent five weeks as part of an MSF measles vaccination campaign in eastern Chad team. After her return, she writes about the enormous logistical challenges faced during her mission, and her very personal experience in this remote part of the world.
MSF is currently vaccinating children between six months and 15 years against measles. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, about 135,000 children have already been vaccinated in the district of Abéché. A campaign to vaccinate an additional 90,000 children in the neighboring Adré district at the Sudanese border is currently underway. Project Update - 1 Apr 2009
 
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China

People with drug-resistant tuberculosis neglected by governments

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned that many countries, particularly those that are classified by WHO as "high-burden", like China, South Africa or India, are not doing enough to provide treatment to patients in need. Press Release - 31 Mar 2009
 
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Sri Lanka

Without medicine or sanitation, situation in Vanni, Sri Lanka, deteriorates as heavy rains fall

With heavy rains pouring down in the last days, the situation in Sri Lanka's northern Vanni region has deteriorated further. Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned that watery diarhoea and respiratory infections will pose serious threats to the more than 150,000 civilians still estimated to be trapped in the area. Project Update - 26 Mar 2009
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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