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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

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

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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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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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Uganda

Malaria: living with a killer

"During the dry season we don't see so much malaria, but in the rainy season I can see up to 50 cases a day. Now the rainy season is starting here so I'm sure I will see many people with malaria."
Robert Aniku (25) MSF Clinical Officer, Uganda Project Update - 25 Apr 2007
 
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Burundi

More about malaria in Burundi

"In general, the implementation of ACT's is quite good in Burundi. ACT's are the official first-line treatment for malaria, and they are widely available," says Ria Temmerman, MSF Medical Coordinator in Burundi. But Burundi remains an exception, as most of the countries where malaria is endemic are only slowly providing ACT. Project Update - 25 Apr 2007
 
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Child mortality - Malaria photo series from Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone has one of the world's highest child mortality rates (282 out of every 1,000 children die before their fifth birthday) and much of this is due to malaria. In the hospital and five clinics in the Bo area where MSF works, two out of five consultations are related to malaria. Project Update - 25 Apr 2007
 
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Somalia

MSF is extremely concerned as tens of thousands of displaced fleeing violence in Mogadishu

Insufficient medical and sanitary response by aid actors hampered by access difficulties and precarious security situation in and around the capital city. Press Release - 24 Apr 2007
 
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Sudan

MSF regains access to some isolated communities in North Darfur

One of the main difficulties humanitarian organisations face in Darfur is to move around. Fighting and deteriorating security have prevented MSF and other organisations from reaching populations affected by the conflict in outlying areas. Project Update - 16 Apr 2007
 
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Thailand

MSF Press Teleconference: Thailand, Abbott, and the second-line AIDS crisis

Project Update - 13 Apr 2007
 
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Somalia

MSF is responding to cholera outbreaks in Somalia

Security conditions impede the operative capacity of MSF and the result is that these people do not have access to the necessary assistance. Since cholera was confirmed in Mogadishu on March 19, MSF has treated more than 800 patients. Press Release - 11 Apr 2007
 
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Sudan

MSF projects in Darfur

An overview of MSF projects throughout the Darfur region of Sudan. Project Update - 6 Apr 2007
 
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Germany

MSF at the G8 summit in Germany

Essential medicines and the G8 summit: Today's system of pharmaceutical research - based on intellectual property protection and high drug prices - fails to address the needs of people across the developing world. Project Update - 6 Apr 2007
 
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Somalia

Cholera outbreak in Somalia's Galgaduud region

"Right now, we do not know how many people are sick and dying in their homes. The majority of our patients are from Gal Hareeri town itself, but the team is also admitting some patients from surrounding villages." Project Update - 4 Apr 2007
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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