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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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Pakistan

Goods distribution in Pakistan quake region

In a race against the clock, an MSF team works through the villages in the area - actually a series of houses scattered along the steep sides of the valley - to identify the families where the needs are most urgent. Project Update - 23 Nov 2005
 
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Pakistan

Risk of a second wave of mortality in Pakistan

"Winter is already there and as it progresses, roads will become even less passable. To say the least, the environment is hostile for emergency assistance. Given the information currently available, MSF is planning to stay at least for the winter and probably longer."
 Project Update - 21 Nov 2005
 
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Pakistan

Safdar Chok becomes first 'health-care village' in the heart of Pakistan earthquake region

To ensure that patients treated at the district hospital and their families have proper housing before winter comes in the earthquake affected areas of Pakistan, MSF has built small camps inside the town of Mansehra, where winterized tents, health infrastructure, and medical care are provided. Safdar Chok, the first of these 'health-care villages', opened its doors during the second week of November. The second village opened on November 15. Two more are under construction. Project Update - 21 Nov 2005
 
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South Africa

MSF worried about the security situation in Equatoria

Medical relief teams evacuated from the Yambio region, after a UN
compound had been burnt and looted during violent clashes. Press Release - 18 Nov 2005
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF finds catastrophic health situation in the DRC, in spite of political transition

Excess mortality, absence of medical care, and exclusion from care for a majority of patients where it does exist: Although peace has returned to much of the DRC, the health situation of the Congolese people today remains alarming. Far from improving, it has worsened in certain regions of the country, as MSF highlights in its latest report, 'Access to healthcare, mortality and violence in the DRC'. Press Release - 15 Nov 2005
 
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Tuberculosis

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: no tools to properly treat people

The very costly and complex treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is only accessible to a very small minority of the millions of people with the disease worldwide. What is worse, those who have started taking the medicine are subjected to devastating side effects, and barely half of them end up recovering. Project Update - 15 Nov 2005
 
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Pakistan

'We will continue to struggle with enormous challenges'

Providing aid under these circumstances means that you have people queuing up in front of the MSF warehouse because they see that you are loading tents on a truck. You would tell them: "Sorry, these tents are meant for a particular village where people have lost everything." But the desperate people will reply: "Why don't you give me a tent." And there will be no doubt that they also deserve one.
An interview with MSF emergency coordinator Vincent Hoedt Project Update - 4 Nov 2005
 
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Ethiopia

Kala azar complicates HIV/AIDS treatment in Humera

The MSF project in Humera is the only programme in Ethiopia, and one of very few in the world, which is treating people co-infected with kala azar and HIV. As such, it is breaking new ground in terms of developing the best medical approach for tackling the problem. Project Update - 28 Oct 2005
 
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HIV/AIDS

MSF hands over Ukraine HIV/Aids programme

After a presence of six years in the Ukraine, the international medical aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is now handing over its HIV/Aids programme to the Ukraine Ministry of Health and national NGOs as LifePlus, Alternativa, UNITAS and Time to Live. Press Release - 27 Oct 2005
 
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Uganda

Security concerns in northern Uganda

MSF in Uganda has reduced the movement of international and national staff due to a series of security incidents in the north of the country. Contrary to some media reports, in the 20 camps offering basic health care services to the displaced, all clinics are functioning as usual. Project Update - 27 Oct 2005
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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