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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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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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Côte d'Ivoire

Another attack against civilians in Ivory Coast 'confidence zone'

"Armed men broke open our door. We all escaped through the window and tried to hide in the forest. Then my baby started to cry and the armed men began shooting in our direction. My baby was hit by a bullet and killed." Project Update - 7 Jun 2006
 
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Indonesia

Focus on major surgery cases, goods distribution and mental health care as MSF teams continue at Indonesian earthquake zone

Several hundred patients are being cared for in a hospital parking lot. Project Update - 6 Jun 2006
 
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Indonesia

MSF mobilises to complement Indonesian relief efforts

In the rural areas, MSF is carrying out mobile clinics to identify unmet needs, treat basic wounds and offer other basic medical care. A psychologist offers counseling to patients with psychosomatic complaints. Project Update - 1 Jun 2006
 
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Indonesia

Local response has been quick but gaps still remain in the aftermath of the Indonesian earthquake

"The threat of a volcanic eruption from nearby Mount Merapi meant that national emergency services were already on stand-by in the area and were able to mobilise immediately. Nevertheless, there are still gaps in the care being offered, and some people continue to wait in the rain without shelter, food or basic survival items." Project Update - 31 May 2006
 
CRENIs and ambulatory feeding center

International Financial Report 2005

Annual Report - 30 May 2006
 
Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontières in the forgotten crisis of Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical care in Somalia since 1986. This document provides a closer look at MSF’s efforts to alleviate the desperate medical situation Somalis continue to endure; a dramatic situation that receives little attention from the international media. Report - 30 May 2006
 
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Indonesia

Rain and power blackouts hamper aid delivery at Indonesian earthquake zone

MSF teams are identifying the best areas where care for the wounded can be provided. A team has visited the seven most damaged districts in Bantul area and found that local health structures are in need of medical supplies, medical staff and tents to house patients. Project Update - 30 May 2006
 
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Access to medicines

WHA passes breakthrough resolution hailed by MSF as 'crucial first step' towards global R&D framework that meets health needs

The medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the breakthrough agreement on essential health research and development (R&D) reached by the World Health Assembly (WHA). Press Release - 29 May 2006
 
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Indonesia

First MSF teams to Indonesia earthquake

MSF is present in Yogyakarta with a team of two (a nurse and a logistician) who were brought in from a cholera project in Wamena (Papua). Today (Sunday), two psychologists from the project in Sigli (Aceh province, Sumatra), two doctors from Jakarta, and a complete surgical team from Banda Aceh will join the team in Yogyakarta. Project Update - 28 May 2006
 
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Child health

Upsurge of violence harming civilians in southern Sudan

"We are concerned about the growing number of violent incidents," says MSF co-ordinator Cristoph Hippchen. "This means humanitarian assistance to the people of Upper Nile and Jonglei, already far below what is needed, will be even less now." Press Release - 23 May 2006
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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