en ع
Back to main menu

About us

Who We Are

Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

Learn more
How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

Learn more
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.

Learn more
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.

Learn more

What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

View all topics Activities by country

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.

View all countries

MSF Websites

A Global Network
Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
Other Sites
View Resource Centre
MSF Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
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.

GO TO SITE
War in Gaza:: find out how we're responding
Learn more
7467 Results
 
msf-placeholder
Zimbabwe

Health of Zimbabwean migrants at risk after raid at Johannesburg Methodist Church

Although basic health care is granted to all in South Africa, including undocumented migrants, lack of information and fear of arrest and deportation hinders Zimbabwean migrants' access to health care. Press Release - 5 Feb 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Somalia

MSF is shocked and outraged by attack on our team in Somalia

MSF suspends international staff presence.
Link to the MSF biographies Press Release - 1 Feb 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Somalia

MSF activities in Somalia - December 2007

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has worked continuously in southern and central Somalia for more than 16 years and is currently providing medical care in 11 regions in the country: Bakool, Banadir, Bay, Galgadud, Hiraan, Lower Juba, Middle Juba, Mudug, Middle Shabelle, Lower Shabelle and Puntland. Project Update - 31 Jan 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Niger

New York Times: Instant Nutrition

Malnutrition can be fatal. Every year, it contributes to the death of five million children under the age of 5. But more of the same kind of food aid impoverished countries now receive will do nothing to reduce these deaths. We need to focus on the food quality, not just the quantity. Project Update - 31 Jan 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Democratic Republic of Congo

Cholera spreads in several cities in Katanga province

'Disease of the poor' strikes at the heart of DRC's richest city.
Cholera hotspots are multiplying in several cities of Katanga, a mining province in southwest Democratic Republic of Congo. In Lubumbashi and Likasi, MSF emergency teams are treating patients and providing support to improve the treatment centres' ability to respond. Press Release - 29 Jan 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Somalia

MSF aid workers involved in serious incident in Kismayo

Project Update - 28 Jan 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Somalia

Three MSF aid workers killed in fatal incident in Kismayo

The exact circumstances of this fatal incident are not yet clear, but for the moment our priority is to take care of those most affected by this tragedy, in particular the families of the victims. Press Release - 28 Jan 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF increases role as cholera outbreak picks up speed in the DRC

MSF is now focusing its efforts in order to limit the spread of the epidemic, while aware that it could not be contained in time due to the lack of adequate resources deployed by authorities for the poorest population of this rich mining city. Project Update - 25 Jan 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Kenya

Innovative measures to ensure AIDS and TB treatment during Kenya's post-election violence

Special times call for special measures and 290 patients have missed their appointments in the first two weeks of the year. A free hotline has been set up and advertised in newspapers countrywide. MSF hopes to reach patients who are at risk of interrupting their treatment. Project Update - 24 Jan 2008
 
msf-placeholder
Kenya

Severe and indiscriminate violence sweeps across Nairobi slums

People have been victims of armed civilians increasingly organised in groups that perpetrate indiscriminate violence - with knives, machetes and sometimes axes - against the population as a whole. Our teams have witnessed severely wounded people, with lacerated bodies and mutilated limbs or head. Project Update - 24 Jan 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.

Learn more