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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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Ukraine

After six years, MSF hands over its HIV/Aids programme

Diagnosed with HIV that mostly leads to AIDS: for many still a dead sentence. Unacceptable! Especially since treatment is possible, enabling the patient to continue a valuable life in dignity. This is the reason why MSF started working in Ukraine. Project Update - 26 Oct 2005
 
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Guatemala

Work to treat polluted waters after Hurricane Stan

As the flood waters subside, polluted wells, stagnant waters and basic health issues surface. Some areas are endemic to malaria and dengue fever and preventative measures are being put into place. Project Update - 25 Oct 2005
 
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Access to medicines

MSF urges WTO to re-think access to life-saving drugs now

MSF is urging Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the WTO, to investigate if the measures in place now actually work to increase access to essential drugs, in a world where new medicines become patentable everywhere. Project Update - 24 Oct 2005
 
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India

MSF team of three intervenes after ethnic clashes in Assam

This weekend, MSF sent a team of three people to Assam, a state in the far eastern part of India where a violent ethnic conflict is going on between the Karbi and Dimasi peoples. Project Update - 23 Oct 2005
 
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Mental health

Mental health support to Asian quake survivors: 'People haven't fully grasped the full impact of it.'

Less than a week after the Asian earthquake on October 8, MSF offered psychosocial care to traumatized survivors in northern Pakistan, the area worst hit by the disaster. In several tented camps in Muzaffarabad and neighboring Charakpura people have started to share their experiences with two MSF mental health experts.
Marise Denault, a social worker and mental health specialist, explains the situation. Project Update - 21 Oct 2005
 
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India

In the aftermath of Hurricane Stan, a village has become cemetery

Today the Guatemalan community of Panabaj is nothing more than an enormous expanse of dry, silent mud. Jutting out are some tree branches, houses and church rooftops. The few remaining signs of the village that bore the brunt of a mud avalanche brought on by Hurricane Stan. Project Update - 19 Oct 2005
 
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Guatemala

Hurricane Stan leaves long term water problems for affected villages in Guatemala

Following Hurricane Stan that hit Guatemala and El Salvador from October 4 to 9, MSF has made assessment of needs in the affected areas by land or helicopter in all affected areas of Guatemala. After a first emergency response providing water and basic aid-kits, MSF is consolidating activities with water and sanitation focus and epidemiological monitoring, especially in areas of high risk of malaria and dengue, which are also the most affected areas. Project Update - 17 Oct 2005
 
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Pakistan

Asia earthquake: 'We are treating everything that you could possibly treat under these conditions'

MSF Project Coordinator Jan Peter Stellema and his team were dropped off in Lamnian by helicopter on Wednesday and immediately set up three tents to accommodate a basic health care unit. The village has been entirely destroyed by the earthquake and cannot be reached by road so far. His account was via satellite phone. Project Update - 16 Oct 2005
 
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Natural disasters

MSF activities one week after the Asian earthquake

One week after the Asian earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale struck with an epicentre in the Pakistan controlled Kasmir region, MSF is providing medical assistance to survivors in six locations in Pakistan, the country worst hit by the disaster. Project Update - 15 Oct 2005
 
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Natural disasters

Hurricane Stan floods coastal Guatemala

Hurrricane Stan struck Guatemala last week with torrential winds and rain battering the coast and inland from October 4 to 9. Some 1,5 million people were directly affected Project Update - 14 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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